SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s population distribution continues to tilt heavily toward the Seoul metropolitan area, with the gap between urban and rural populations reaching an all-time high in 2024, according to government data released on January 3, 2025. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s population statistics show that the metropolitan area, [...]
OXFORD, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In 2006, renowned British demographer David Coleman, now 78 and an emeritus professor at Oxford University, made a stark prediction at a UN population forum: South Korea could become the first nation to face population extinction. Meeting at his Oxford home on December 28, Coleman reflected on his earlier warning, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s healthcare and biomedical industry technologies are assessed to be at 80% of the level of the United States, the global leader in the field, with an estimated two-year gap to reach parity. This was revealed in a report published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans aged 50 and older expect to retire at an average age of 67 and consider themselves to have entered old age by 69, according to a new survey by the National Pension Research Institute. The study, released on December 31, also found that a monthly income of 1.92 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Korean workers hold a pessimistic outlook on their workplace conditions for 2025, according to a survey released on December 31 by civic group Workplace Gapjil 119 and polling firm Global Research. The survey, conducted among 1,000 workers aged 19 and older between December 2 and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A national environmental health study has revealed that South Korean infants and toddlers have slightly higher concentrations of plastic-softening chemicals in their bodies compared to adults, though the levels remain well below international safety guidelines. The findings, released on December 30 by the National Institute of Environmental Research, come from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A new government survey has revealed that short-form content has emerged as the most popular type of mobile viewing among South Korean consumers, as smartphone usage continues to rise while traditional TV viewing declines. The Korea Communications Commission and the Korea Association for ICT Promotion released their “2024 Broadcasting Media [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) —The Korea Railroad Corporation (Korail) announced on Friday that its real-time train location service was ranked the top offering of 2024 in a public poll. The service allows passengers to track the current location and estimated arrival time of all trains on a dedicated map in real time. The poll, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Telemedicine consultations in South Korea reached a cumulative 11 million cases in 2024, reflecting a growing reliance on remote healthcare services for non-urgent conditions, according to the Remote Medical Industry Council (RMIC), a consortium of telemedicine platform companies. The RMIC reported that remote consultations were most commonly used for mild [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s newspaper industry has seen a decline in average revenue per outlet and per employee, highlighting challenges in a rapidly shifting media environment, according to the 2024 Newspaper Industry Survey released by the Korea Press Foundation on December 30. As of the end of 2023, the average revenue per [...]