SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Forty-five South Koreans, including one with U.S. nationality, have escaped Israel and safely arrived in neighboring Egypt, amid heightening tensions from the armed conflict between Israel and Iran, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. They passed through the border via a land route on Monday afternoon (local time) by a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of middle class South Koreans see themselves as members of the lower class, a report said Thursday. NH Investment & Securities Co. conducted a survey of 1,140 South Korean adults, which showed that this year’s median income for a four-person household stood at 5.12 million won [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean babies born in 2019 are expected to live more than 83 years, data showed Tuesday, amid improved public awareness about health and better medical systems. Life expectancy at birth averaged 83.3 years last year, six months longer than a year earlier, according to the data compiled by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans, in general, tend to react more sensitively to the expressions of hatred on the grounds of political orientation or place of birth, rather than those on account of race or religion. Prof. Lee Seung-sun from Chungnam National University and Dr. Choi Jin-ho from Hanyang University conducted a [...]
PYEONGTAEK, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the main gates leading to a U.S. base in South Korea will be named after a South Korean for the very first time. U.S. Forces Korea reportedly plans to change the name of the main gate leading to Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, from ‘Dongchang-ri [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic groups urged the foreign ministry on Monday to more actively demand Spain work to verify the truth behind the recent death of a South Korean woman in Madrid and apologize for what they called a “man-made” tragedy. Lee Ji-hyeon, 32, died in the Spanish capital on Dec. 20 [...]