SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — During the pandemic era, people worldwide have been sleeping slightly longer while the overall quality of sleep has deteriorated, the South Korean tech giant said Tuesday, citing its recent study. Samsung Electronics Co. conducted a survey of Galaxy Watch smartwatch users worldwide from January 2018 to June 2021, which [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans have been suffering from mental illnesses following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, primarily office workers, a report said Tuesday. Rep. Choi Hye-young of the Democratic Party referred to a National Health Insurance Service report that more than 4 million people visited hospitals [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate spiked and depressive symptoms spread in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down outdoor activities, a government report said Tuesday. The research institute under Statistics Korea reported on Tuesday that the obesity rate in 2020 was 38.3 percent, up by 5 percentage points from the previous [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the government’s decision to fully lift the outdoor mask mandate from Monday, past experience indicates that the change in the government’s mask-wearing policy is unlikely to have a big impact on mask output. According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, the nation’s facial mask output stood [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea should prepare to gradually end COVID-19 emergency response system in a step toward the people’s return to normalcy amid a moderate declining trend of the virus, an adviser said Friday. South Korea reported 51,874 new COVID-19 cases, including 348 from overseas, earlier in the day, bringing the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the government’s introduction of digital sexual crime eradication measures in 2020, the number of such crimes grew sharply due to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Korean regulator said Thursday. According to data from the Korea Communications Standards Commission, the number of digital sexual crime report [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 6 in 10 South Koreans believe the current COVID-19 situation to be serious, a poll showed Tuesday. A research team from Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health conducted a nationwide survey of 1,000 South Koreans men and women over 18 years of age, 59.2 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines have seen a shrinking number of employees since the COVID-19 pandemic, many of whom left their jobs after struggling with long-term leave. Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s national flag carrier, had 17,555 employees on its payroll as of earlier this year, down by 430 people [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus pandemic, which has roiled markets since 2020, may be hurting the finances of South Korea’s state pension fund, a report said Sunday. The National Pension Research Institute reported that the number of marriages dropped to 214,000 in 2020, down 10.7 percent from 2019. In 2021, there were [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — While South Koreans are now less exposed to the risk of depression and anxiety following the end of social distancing measures, those who are considering suicide has gone up proportionally since the pre-COVID era. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a nationwide survey of 2,063 adults in June, [...]