SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages between South Koreans and foreign spouses fell to a record low last year as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted people’s cross-border movements, data showed Monday. The number of multicultural marriages came to 16,177 last year, down 34.6 percent, or 8,544, from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of fishery products grew 20.5 percent on-year in the first 10 months of this year, data showed Sunday. Outbound shipments of fishery products reached US$2.24 billion during the January-October period, compared to $1.86 billion tallied a year earlier, according to the data by the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 94 percent of South Koreans consider the climate crisis “serious,” but only half believe the issue is connected to human rights, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey of 1,500 people commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission, 80.4 percent responded that they are interested in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than four out of 10 North Koreans are suffering from undernourishment, a recent U.N. report showed, as the impoverished country struggles from chronic food shortages. According to the report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 10.9 million people, or 42.4 percent of North Korea’s total population, were [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of nonwage workers, such as the self-employed, in South Korea inched down 0.4 percent in 2021 from a year earlier amid the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Thursday. There were 6.61 million unsalaried workers as of August, down 292,000 from the same period in 2018, according to [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans outside the labor force edged down 0.6 percent from a year earlier amid signs of an economic recovery, data showed Thursday. The number of non-economically active people, or those who have no willingness to work, came to 16.76 million as of end-August, down 106,000 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea hit a record high in September, led by solid demand for food delivery services and electronics goods amid the resurgence in COVID-19 cases, data showed Wednesday. The value of online shopping transactions stood at 16.2 trillion won (US$13.7 billion) in September, up 17 percent [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s large companies have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 9 percent over the past two years in an effort to cope with global environmental regulations, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. The volume of greenhouse gases emitted by 197 big businesses in Asia’s fourth-largest economy came [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign direct investment (FDI) pledged to the country has surged more than 5,000 times in 60 years, which helped play a key pillar of now Asia’s fourth-largest economy, the industry ministry said Tuesday. In 1962, a local carmaker reported receiving US$3 million in foreign investment, the first of its [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of registered vehicles in South Korea grew nearly 2 percent this year to near 25 million, with that of eco-friendly cars topping 1 million units, government data showed Monday. Car registrations came to 24.78 million units as of end-September, up 1.7 percent from the end of last [...]