SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — In a recent study conducted by the Korea National University of Education’s Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, it was found that a concerning number of children between the ages of 3 and 5 were introduced to digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, TVs, and laptops before they even turned 24 months [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The perception that children should look after their parents is quickly disappearing, a report showed Sunday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs conducted a survey of 7,865 households, in which only 21.4 percent believed that children should be responsible for looking after their parents. Another 29 percent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Children continue to fall victim to abuse every year but most victims return to the family member responsible for the abuse, even after it has been reported, data showed Monday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare revealed that 37,605 cases of child abuse were reported in 2021, an increase [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Children raised by parents with higher incomes will earn higher incomes themselves, indicating that socioeconomic status may be inherited, a study showed Sundy. Lee Ji-eun, a senior researcher at the Korea Labor Institute, and Jeong Se-eun, an economics professor at Chungnam National University analyzed the Korea Labor & Income [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — About six out of 10 South Korean parents enjoy playing video games with their children, a survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted last year by the Korea Creative Content Agency, 59.3 percent of the 1,028 respondents with school-age children said they play video games with their children [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior couples living together have higher satisfaction in life than those living with their children or alone, a recent study showed. 52.9 percent of senior couples were “satisfied” with their lives, followed by 47.3 percent of seniors living with their children and 42.6 percent of those living alone in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Only four out of 10 South Korean children and teenagers think the country is a good place to live, a survey showed Thursday. According to the online survey conducted with the participation of 1,000 Koreans between 10 to 18 years of age by the nongovernment organization Save the Children, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — While the number of patients visiting emergency rooms at general hospitals has dropped since the pandemic began, the proportion of those who have passed away within seven days of visiting emergency rooms has spiked. A recent study by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs showed that a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — As children have fewer opportunities to write manually, many of them are ending up with ‘ugly’ handwriting. A 46-year-old elementary school teacher surnamed Jeong is shocked every time she grades the students’ homework because of bad handwriting, even for a 1st-grade elementary school student. “It becomes a habit for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of parents in South Korea were found to rely heavily on smartphones or tablet computers when tending to young children while carrying out daily tasks at home, a poll showed Saturday, a development that reflects the country’s growing smartphone addiction problem among young people. In the poll [...]