SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s per-capita electricity use hit an all-time high in 2018 as the country was gripped by the worst-ever heat wave, data showed Monday. The country’s electricity use per person came to 10.2 megawatt hours (MWh) last year, up 3.3 percent from the previous year and a new record, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s direct purchases from foreign countries rose 31 percent in 2018 from a year earlier on rising consumer demand for cheaper and higher quality products, customs data showed Monday. South Korean shoppers bought a total of US$2.75 billion worth of foreign goods directly via overseas Internet shopping malls [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 South Koreans used the Internet last year, with Internet usage growing among senior people, a poll showed Sunday. According to the poll conducted on 59,970 people belonging to 25,000 households by the Ministry of Science and ICT in 2018, 91.5 percent of South Koreans used [...]