SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of adolescents treated for gambling addiction spiked last year as they spent more time at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. Rep. Kim Do-eup of the ruling People Power Party released the statistics from the state-run Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service that showed [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Local businesses saw their first-quarter sales continue to rise but at a slower pace than three months earlier amid growing economic uncertainty at home and abroad, central bank data showed Thursday. A total of 20,120 corporations subject to external audits posted a 17 percent rise in their combined sales [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s car exports rose 19.1 percent in May from the previous year on the back of global popularity of eco-friendly cars, data showed Wednesday. Outbound shipments of automobiles stood at 182,869 units last month, compared with 150,894 units a year earlier, according to the data from the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported job additions for the 15th consecutive month in May as economic recovery momentum has been extended despite heightened global uncertainty, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.49 million last month, up 935,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of farm and fisheries products rose more than 16 percent in the first five months of this year on brisk overseas demand for Korean food, data showed Tuesday. Outbound shipments of agricultural and fisheries goods came to US$5.19 billion in the January-May period, up 16.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — About 6,500 workers with disabilities legally earned less than the minimum wage last year, a report said Tuesday. The report from the Korea Labor and Society Institute found a total of 6,547 workers were excluded from the minimum wage rule as of August 2021. Their average monthly wage was [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 5,000 people were apprehended for alleged stalking over the five months since South Korea’s first anti-stalking law went into force, police data showed Monday. A total of 5,248 people were detained for alleged stalking, with 3,039 of them indicted, over the five months since the law took [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s leading tech firm, was the world’s 22nd-largest company in terms of market capitalization, down seven notches from a year earlier, data showed Sunday. According to the list of the global top 100 companies released by London-based accounting company PwC, the tech giant was the [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners withdrew more money than they injected into South Korea’s stock markets for the fourth straight month in May amid worries over economic slowdowns in major countries and the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine, central bank data showed Thursday. Net foreign money outflows from the main bourse, [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 7 in 10 large South Korean companies are allowing their employees to work from home even after the government removed most anti-coronavirus curbs over a month ago, a poll showed Wednesday. The survey of the country’s leading 100 firms by sales, taken by the Korea Enterprises Federation [...]