SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hate crimes are on the rise in South Korea following the coronavirus outbreak, a study showed Monday. A paper recently published in the Korean Journal of Public Safety and Criminal Justice analyzed 31 hate crimes that occurred between 2006 and December 2019 and 39 hate crimes that occurred between [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Card spending in South Korea rose more than 10 percent in 2021 from a year earlier amid the coronavirus pandemic, industry data showed Friday. Spending made with credit, debit and prepaid cards stood at about 977 trillion won (US$811 billion) last year, up 10.3 percent from the same quarter [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The ratio of the self-employed and other nonwage workers in South Korea touched an all-time low in 2021 amid the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy had 6.52 million unsalaried workers as of the end of December last year, marking the 23rd consecutive year of decline, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent statistics show that the number of criminal trespass cases has declined for residential houses but increased for unmanned stores due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to an analysis of the big data on 850,000 clients by security solution provider S-1 Corp., the number of criminal [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Drug smuggling caught by South Korea’s customs agency hit a record high last year as trafficking via non-contact delivery means shot up amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. The Korea Customs Service said it confiscated a total of 1,272 kilograms of drugs in 2021, up 757 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The changes in government policy against COVID-19 have influenced consumption patterns. Sales of hangover helpers and travel kits rose by 28.4 percent and 22.6 percent, respectively, in November of last year, following the introduction of the government’s ‘With Corona’ policy, according to the convenience store chain CU. In contrast, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Curbs on business operation hours have resulted in the biggest shrinkage in the “consumption of in-person services” among various antivirus measures introduced to combat the coronavirus pandemic, an internal central bank report showed Monday. The report suggests that easing a curfew on business operations while imposing a stricter ceiling [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean adults who participated in lifelong education programs run by educational facilities such as schools, universities, for-profit private academies and lifelong education centers declined last year, primarily due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a survey conducted jointly by the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of 10 self-employed people in South Korea are considering closing their businesses due to sluggish sales amid the long-enforced strict social distancing rules during the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey of 500 people operating restaurants, retail and other service businesses by the [...]
SUWON, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The protracted COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a major change in teaching methods, leading to an increase in the number of teachers applying for voluntary retirement. According to the Gyeonggi Province Office of Education, the number of teaching faculty (teachers, vice principals and principals) at the public schools within [...]