SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — People who are highly confident about their life after retirement commonly have more than five channels of income set up for post-retirement life, a survey showed Thursday. A research unit of South Korea’s asset managing giant Mirae Asset Financial Group conducted a survey of 2,000 office workers in their [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ trust in society has worsened over the past decade, and they are highly discontent with the level of the country’s social unity, a report said Wednesday. The report, based on a survey of 3,667 adults taken in June and July last year, showed that South Koreans rated [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Perhaps in line with recent allegations outlining the role of major South Korean conglomerates in the current political scandal, a survey by Edelman Korea revealed that the level of confidence in business among Koreans ranked the lowest among 28 key global players that included the U.S., China, and Japan. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A majority of Koreans were found to think “lowly” of their job. According to Saramin, a local job search platform, 52.3 percent of 1,504 surveyed respondents felt this way. The figure was the highest for employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (57.2 percent), followed by mid-sized companies (44.7 percent), [...]
WONJU, South Korea, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The demoralizing truth that Korea suffers the highest suicide rate among OECD member nations (2015) or in the world (according to JTBC) is no secret. Last year, Korea was shamed with the shocking statistic that 25.8 out of 100,000 Korean citizens decided to take their own life. [...]