SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Families with three or more minor children will soon enjoy priority immigration processing at major airports across South Korea, including Incheon International Airport, as part of the government’s latest efforts to combat the country’s declining birth rate. The new fast-track service, set to begin in June, is among several measures [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biotech, pharmaceutical, and healthcare companies are ramping up efforts to address the country’s low birth rate by introducing expanded family-friendly policies, including enhanced parental leave, financial incentives for childbirth, and workplace childcare support. According to industry sources on Sunday, Kakao Healthcare has begun offering free continuous glucose [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – With the Covid-19 pandemic waning in South Korea, a government survey has found that most aspects of teenagers’ daily lives, including relationships with friends and family as well as school experiences, are undergoing positive changes. Adolescents have reported spending significantly more time confiding in their parents about their concerns, sharing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – In the past 30 years, the number of children born to each family in Korea has decreased by half, and the number of people living alone has more than doubled in the past 20 years, according to a recent report. On Sunday, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced the [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The elderly with dementia are cared for mainly by their daughters rather than sons, adding that those in their 50s account for the largest share of caregivers, a study showed Sunday. As part of her Master’s thesis, Kim Da-mi, a student at Hanyang University’s Graduate School of Nursing, conducted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — When South Koreans talk about family online, they tend to share different types of information via social media channels, a government report said. The state-run Korean Institute for Healthy Family analyzed 26,994,344 data records uploaded on four social media channels from January 2017 to June 2022. In terms of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Gender, Equality and Family on Thursday announced plans to support various forms of family, including single-person households. The plan seeks to provide hospital escorts and emergency care services for single-person households through local family centers, and ensure a child’s rearing expenses are paid for. There are 244 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — As the government has decided to nurture digital talent, there is inequality in digital literacy depending on a family’s economic situation among middle and high school students, a survey showed Monday. The Seoul Education Research & Information Institute conducted a survey of 13,141 middle and high school students in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of households comprised of non-family members like friends or partners is on the rise, data showed Monday. Statistics Korea reported that the number of non-family households nationwide jumped by 11.6 percent in the last 12 months, amounting to 472,660 households. Non-family households are comprised of five people [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle-aged individuals living alone are less satisfied with their lives than those who live with family members. Professor Hong Seong-pyo from the Catholic University of Korea and professor Lim Han-ryeo from Seoul National University conducted a survey of 1,378 middle-aged, single-person households over 40 years of age and 6,382 [...]