SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — High-income families with children attending middle or high school spend as much money on private education as they do on food and housing, data showed Sunday. Based on data from Statistics Korea, households in the top 20 percent of income brackets spend an average of 1,002,000 won (US$766) per [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Five cars from the Hyundai Motor Group have been named the best cars for families by an American media outlet. According to the list of the 2023 best cars for families evaluated in nine categories by the U.S. News & World Report, Hyundai Motor Co.’s Santa Fe and Tucson [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — About half of the Korean households that have concerns, worries, and conflicts pointed to the health of family members as the biggest cause of conflict, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey conducted jointly by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and Seoul National University of [...]
SUWON, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The families of comfort women are urging the government to enact a special law to prevent historical distortion and absurd statements. Comfort women is a euphemism used to refer to those who suffered under Japan’s military brothel system before and during World War II. On Tuesday, the families of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s gender ministry said Monday that it will push forward with a plan to have unmarried couples living together recognized as official families. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family noted that the 4th Healthy Family Basic Plan (2021-2025) includes measures to enable the formation of families in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Families are being torn apart as the government is imposing stricter social distancing policies following the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in August. Currently, a majority of hospitals are refusing to allow family members to visit the intensive care unit. Even in regular wards, only one guardian is [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of one-person families continued to rise last year, accounting for nearly 30 percent of all households in South Korea, amid the fast-spreading trend of people remaining single, government data showed Saturday. Households consisting of a single member totaled 5.85 million in 2018, compared with 5.62 million the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A system will be implemented in which the prosecution will provide financial help to families who have difficulty making ends meet due to the arrest of the head of their household. The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office said Monday it has prepared an emergency welfare support related system and it is [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of married couples in South Korea earned dual incomes in 2018, data showed Tuesday, a sign that many South Koreans are continuing to work after marriage to support their families. The number of double-income households reached 5.67 million as of October 2018, accounting for 46.3 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of families in South Korea are feeling less responsible for supporting their children until they are married. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), analyzing the change in views among married women on their responsibility of raising a child from 2003 to 2018, said [...]