SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 70 percent of seniors over 60 years of age still work to make an income and live separately from their children, a survey showed Wednesday. The biennial poll released by Statistics Korea showed that 72.5 percent of South Korean seniors picked themselves or their spouse as a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that self-employed individuals operating their own business as the head of a household make less income than the labor income earned by household members, likely due to a severe slump in the market for self-employed work. The research center under the Korean Confederation of Trade [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The flu vaccination rate for teenagers in higher income households is significantly higher than their counterparts in lower income households. A joint research team from the Seongnam Central Hospital and the Uijeongbu Eulji Medical Center analyzed the results of a health behavior study conducted online in 2017 by the [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Older people were more likely to have suffered a decrease in income due to the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed Thursday. In the survey conducted on 16,244 workers in 537 professions from August to November, 35.8 percent said they earned less in 2020 due to the economic fallout from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans are jumping into the food delivery business as cases are being reported of delivery personnel earning high incomes. Experts estimate that there are now more than 400,000 ‘food delivery bikers’ in South Korea to cope with spiking demand for food delivery following the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — At first glance, the world of YouTubers looks splendid as they earn decent incomes by uploading content of their choice. A deeper look, however, shows that income polarization is deepening. According to data released by the National Tax Service, the number of YouTubers who received business income from domestic [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 7 in 10 millennials believe buying a home is necessary, but most don’t have high enough incomes to do so, a recent study showed. Mirae Asset Investment and Pension Center conducted a nationwide survey of 700 men and women between 25 and 39 years of age, 70.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that roughly 4 in 10 smokers in South Korea decided to quit smoking after experiencing deteriorating health. The Korea Health Promotion Institution conducted an online survey of 1,031 male and female adults between the ages of 20 and 65 nationwide, 44.5 percent of whom picked [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey showed that the severity of cancer at the time of initial diagnosis differs by the patient’s income. All.Can Korea, a civic group devoted to tackling inefficient environments for treating cancer, conducted a survey of 495 cancer patients, 38.1 percent of whom had their first tumor discovered [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Subcontractors and freelancers saw their incomes drop by an average of 69.1 percent in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Monday. The labor ministry said it conducted a partial survey of the nearly 1.7 million workers who received emergency employment relief funds from the state [...]