SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Children’s Day was first conceived of in 1923 by a group of Korean students and social leaders. Chong-hwan Pang, a children’s writer, helped popularize the holiday. It was designated as a national holiday in 1970. The government made May 6 a temporary holiday this year in an effort to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that Korean teenagers spend an average of an hour and half with their parents, while they wish they could spend more time with each other. Even the hour and half was often spent watching TV together. IKEA, a multinational furniture company from Sweden, conducted an online survey [...]
“I think there’s no need to live if I didn’t have family. It was my family that supported me when I was going through a four-year slump, which felt like an endless rut at the time. I met my husband and decided not to quit when I was thinking of retiring from golf. I am [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey said the conventional idea of the eldest son living with his old parents is almost disappearing. According to a recent survey by the Planned Population Federation of Korea on 1,466 married men and women, 44.6 percent of respondents said “It is better for parents to live apart from their [...]
Urban vs. Rural Living from Buzzle People inhabit different parts of the world and lead different types of lives. Their lifestyles change across the various regions on Earth and so do their mentalities. The resources available in their regions, the plant and animal life that is native to their area have a direct impact of [...]