SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The average commuting time for South Korean workers is over 70 minutes per day, but those in the wider Seoul area need to spend nearly 10 more minutes each day to commute, the statistics agency said Friday. The national average commuting time came to 73.9 minutes in 2024, while [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study conducted by Statistics Korea in partnership with SK Telecom has revealed distinct commuting patterns among South Korean workers, with notable differences based on gender and age. The study, combining statistical registration data with SK Telecom’s telecommunication mobile location and movement information, offers new insights into the nation’s [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol made his first commute to work by motorcade Wednesday, an unusual spectacle that followed his relocation of the presidential office. Yoon left his private home in southern Seoul at 8:21 a.m. and arrived at his office in the central district of Yongsan at 8:34 a.m. The [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol expected to commute to the new presidential office in central Seoul from his private home for about a month after his inauguration while his official residence is renovated, officials said Sunday. Yoon has decided to remodel what is now the foreign minister’s residence into his official [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Union workers of a bus company in Goyang, west of Seoul, went on strike Tuesday after wage talks with management broke down. Myungsung Transportation’s more than 270 buses on 20 lines, including those linking Seoul and the satellite city in Gyeonggi Province, stopped operations. The union and management failed [...]