SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A single-person household is the most common type of living arrangement in South Korea, data showed Wednesday. Data released by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety showed 8.77 million single-person residence registrations, accounting for 39 percent of the total number of 22.7 million. The second most common type [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that the population in Seoul has continued to age, while smaller-unit families were also on the rise. An data analysis of 42,687 Korean residents over the age of 15 and 2,500 foreigners living in Seoul indicated that the average age of the head of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Tech website Techpinions said in April that the average iPhone user unlocks his or her screen about once every 10 minutes, or roughly 80 times a day. So which day is most popular when it comes to smartphone use? Mobile application Cash Slide revealed Monday that people use their [...]
SEJONG, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Microdata refers to information from a basic original database that’s created based on statistics and analytical studies, for which input errors and invalid data have been corrected to offer a better user experience. According to Statistics Korea, the total usage of microdata provided by the institution from December 2015 to [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Youth employment may have improved numerically last year but job stability has not as most of the obtained jobs were either short-term or menial, a study indicated Friday. An analysis by Park Jin-hee at the Korean Employment Information Service said 68,000 more people in their 20s were employed last [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – 4 out of 100 South Koreans subscribed to life insurance policies died from suicides, the biggest cause of death for those in their teens to 30s, an institute’s tally showed Tuesday. A close study of life insurance payments in the 2012-2014 period showed that of 177,706 deaths of policyholders, [...]
SEJONG, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of women getting married without a job or while they were still students has declined sharply over the past 10 years. Experts say the phenomenon is caused by the bad economy, which forces both spouses to work for a living. According to Statistics Korea, 102,915 women got [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In order to strengthen its customized statistics service in line with the “Government 3.0” era, Statistics Korea will reorganize its structure and establish an office devoted to big data analysis. With the reorganization, the national statistics office will transform its Information and Service Bureau into a Statistics Data Hub [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Statistical Office said on October 30 it would hold a three-day academic camp “Love Sharing Classroom for Numbers” for 35 children from 12 elementary schools near Daejeon and surrounding area in the youth camp in Mt. Bohyeon. The camp was organized as part of the government agency’s [...]