SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) - The average crime rate for foreign residents in South Korea is lower than Korean citizens, but the rates for murder and robbery are higher, a public entity under the justice ministry said Friday. The IOM Migration Research and Training Center (MRTC) recently released a report on its analysis of all [...]
South Korea’s national image is heavily affected by its cultural content, especially food and K-pop, a survey showed Saturday. (Image : Yonhap) SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s national image is heavily affected by its cultural content, especially food and K-pop, a survey showed Saturday. It also demonstrated the need for South Korea to [...]
SEOUL, Feb.1 (Yonhap) – South Korea plans to introduce an omnibus account system for foreign traders to help boost their convenience in trading stocks on the Korean bourse, the financial regulator said Sunday. The envisioned program is also expected to help get its stock market included on the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) advanced market [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea last year caused duty-free purchases made by foreigners to decline, despite overall sales going up thanks to solid rise in outbound travelers, data showed Wednesday. Sales to foreigners inched down 0.6 percent on-year to US$5.41 billion, the Korea [...]
Foreign residents in Seoul are satisfied with the services and accessibility of the municipal government’s support centers for them, a survey showed Sunday. (Image : Jirka Matousek / flickr) SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) - Foreign residents in Seoul are satisfied with the services and accessibility of the municipal government’s support centers for them, a survey showed Sunday. According to a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign investors have been in a selling binge of local stocks as they reduced risky bets ahead of a looming U.S. rate hike, market watchers said Thursday. Offshore investors offloaded 243 billion won(US$207 million) worth of shares traded on the main KOSPI market on Wednesday, extending their selling spree [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A foreigner who was homeless has met a lonely death. However, neither his nationality nor his identity were able to be verified, making it hard to go through the normal procedures after death. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Mr. ‘Tomas’, a foreigner assumed to be in his 60s, [...]