SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Most fourth-grade students at elementary schools own a smartphone and 16 percent of them are addicted to smartphones or the internet, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted a nationwide survey of 1.2 million students including fourth-graders from elementary schools, first-year students from middle [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean students at high risk of addiction to smartphones and the internet increased last year on extended online classes at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a government survey showed Sunday. According to the annual survey of 1.27 million fourth, seventh and 10th graders nationwide by [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government is increasing the budget for its newly revamped Internet addiction prevention initiative by 55 percent this year, with expenditures expected to reach a total of 147 billion won ($12.8 million). With a budget of 147 billion won dedicated to tackling problematic Internet use on both mobile [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – When you google the keywords ‘Internet’ and ‘to be famous’, you come across approximately 500 million search results related to the theme. It is impossible to type the phrase ‘to be famous,’ without seeing suggestions pop-up, like ‘how to be famous on Instagram,’ ‘how to be famous on Facebook,’ [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Information Society Agency held a ceremony for the first batch of graduates for the Internet addiction counseling program. The successful graduate from the program who has completed the program and passed the test will be given a certificate to practice as a counselor. The graduates will be hired in Internet [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 26 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the results of the “Survey of Internet Addiction 2013” conducted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the National Information Society Agency, one in every four Korean teenagers has a high risk of smartphone addiction. A total of 11.8 percent of the respondents [...]