SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cases officially deemed as child abuse incidents in South Korea grew 21.7 percent in 2021 from a year ago amid an increase in reports to authorities for intervention, a government report showed Wednesday. According to an annual welfare ministry report submitted to the National Assembly, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 6 in 10 South Koreans believe the current COVID-19 situation to be serious, a poll showed Tuesday. A research team from Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health conducted a nationwide survey of 1,000 South Koreans men and women over 18 years of age, 59.2 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — After narrowing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the wage gap between employees of large companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is showing signs of expanding again due to the rapid recovery of large companies’ wage growth rate. The wage level of SMEs in proportion to that of large companies [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean metaverse users, which plunged after the lifting of social distancing rules earlier this year, started increasing again in late July. According to Mobile Index, the big data analysis unit of local data tracker IGAworks, the number of domestic weekly active users (WAU) for the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of startups in South Korea fell nearly 5 percent in the first half of the year due mainly to a plunge in new real estate businesses, government data showed Wednesday. A total of 696,000 new companies were set up in the country in the January-June period, down [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s expenditure on processed food consumption grew approximately 18 percent during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, a public institution survey analysis showed Tuesday. According to the state-run Rural Development Administration (RDA), the country’s estimated spending on processed foods totaled 47.1 trillion won last year, up 18.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of young South Korean adults who age out from orphanages are facing extreme difficulties, with some even committing suicide, a government report said Monday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs reported that 50 percent of 3,104 orphans being discharged from facilities have thought about committing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — As the government has decided to nurture digital talent, there is inequality in digital literacy depending on a family’s economic situation among middle and high school students, a survey showed Monday. The Seoul Education Research & Information Institute conducted a survey of 13,141 middle and high school students in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Greenhouse gas emitted during the production of face masks may reach up to 1,000 tons per day, a government report said Monday. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission conducted a survey of 1,215 people, who said they used one new face mask every 2.3 days on average. Supposing there are [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s rice paddy area inched down 0.7 percent in 2022 from last year as farmers opted to grow other crops due to falling prices of the staple grain, data showed Tuesday. The country’s rice cultivation area came to 727,158 hectares — slightly more than half the size of [...]