SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Office workers and students who had been enjoying indoor, solitary hours when social distancing measures were still in place during the pandemic are now worried about giving up that lifestyle. Those with introverted personalities, in particular, are beginning to feel more frustrations. “I was always able to use the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The “MZ generation” is a Korean term refers to millennials and Generation Z but a recent smartphone usage analysis showed that the lifestyle of the two groups is distinctively different. Local pollster Open Survey conducted on an online survey of 600 millennials and 600 people from Generation Z, which [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Grandma style’ is becoming a new trend among millennials. The so-called ‘halmennial,’ a new term that combines a Korean expression for ‘grandma’ with millennial, is becoming a new keyword of the generation as they become more intrigued by the retro style of life. Searching for the term ‘grandma food’ [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The growing ubiquity of non-face-to-face online lectures resulting from the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic turns out to have had a negative impact on the lifestyle habits of high school students in South Korea. Anyang Arts High School in Anyang, south of Seoul, conducted a survey of all of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are not fully able to use their leisure time despite having more time on their hands thanks to the 52-hour workweek, a poll showed Friday. Macromill Embrain surveyed 1,000 people between the ages of 19 and 59, 70 percent of whom said they had more time off, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors with a healthy lifestyle tend to have stronger immunity than younger people engaging in less healthy practices. The Dongnam Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences in Busan revealed the results of a test measuring the immunity level of six cancer patients and 36 ordinary participants for a month. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Garosu-gil, a short stretch of road that was once a gathering place for fashionistas, is now attracting a younger crowd including millennials and Generation Zers (Gen Z for short) who are out to seek new fads. Millennials make up the population who were born between the early 1980s and [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — “Fine dust has changed the lifestyle of Koreans completely,” claims an analytical report based on big data released by Innocean Worldwide, an advertising agency. The report states that worsening air pollution has changed all six categories closely related to people’s lives: clothing, food, home, car, leisure, and beauty. The [...]
DAEGU, Mar. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of the city of Daegu now have a much healthier lifestyle compared to a decade ago, according to a new survey. The survey conducted by the Daegu Metropolitan Government revealed the smoking rate among adults in the region fell from 25.5 percent to 20.8 percent over the last 10 [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumption of cheese and butter has increased steadily in South Korea in recent years as a growing number of people consume Western food, data showed Wednesday. Consumption of cheese rose to 140,769 tons last year from 132,593 tons in 2015, 117,827 tons in 2014 and 107,558 in 2013, according [...]