SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Insurance companies in South Korea are increasingly competing over children’s insurance plans. About 60 percent of the children’s insurance market, currently sized at 4 trillion won (US$3.05 billion), is dominated by non-life insurer Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co., industry sources said. As of May, the company has sold [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting as early as 2025, all children in South Korea will likely be allowed to enter elementary school one year earlier, according to an education ministry report Friday. Reporting this year’s key policy plans to President Yoon Suk-yeol, the ministry said it will soon begin full-fledged discussions on lowering [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 40 percent of teenagers from multicultural families enroll in university, raising concerns that they are falling into the ‘low-education’ trap, a survey showed Monday. The Ministry of Gender and Equality conducted a nationwide survey of 15,000 multicultural households, in which only 40.5 percent of teenagers (age 9 to [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of the “princess set” sold at Daiso, a localized version of a dollar store of the United States, is sweeping across the country after celebrities were seen wearing them. Actress Han So-hee posted an Instagram photo of herself wearing earrings and necklaces laden with pink gems at [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The percentage of students quitting high school has dropped over the last three years but more students have quit elementary and middle schools, a survey showed Tuesday. The Ministry of Gender and Equality said 56.9 percent of teenagers who have dropped out of public school either by quitting, refusing to [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of children come home after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and close to a half of them enjoy less than two hours of free time, a recent survey showed. The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union conducted an online survey of 1,841 children in 4th to 6th grades, [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea celebrates the centennial anniversary of Children’s Day, heightening concerns allude to stricter standards that are being forced upon children in the cultural sphere, including movie theaters and concert halls. Parents complain that it is too much to disallow children from making noise at movie theaters, especially [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant number of children believe that people are discriminated against based on their gender or wealth in South Korea, a survey showed Wednesday. The Korean Teachers and Educational Workers Union conducted a survey of 1,841 children from 4th to 6th grade, 64.7 percent of whom believed that there [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1 in 5 children in South Korea said they are unhappy, citing pressure to do well at school as the biggest reason, a survey showed Thursday, as the country marked Children’s Day. According to the poll conducted by the health ministry and the National Center for the Rights [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of children aged nine and below have been infected with COVID-19, health authorities said Saturday. The accumulated number of infected children in the age bracket had reached 1,887,337 as of Saturday, according to Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. That translates into nearly 50,190 out of every 100,000 [...]