SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Majority of yet-to-marry men and women are against virtually all traditionally accepted notions about marriage, from financial arrangements to having children and divorcing, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Seventy-nine percent of the men and 72.3 percent of the women disagreed with the conventional idea that men finance [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 75 percent of female public workers and public schoolteachers used childcare leave after having their first child, but less than half of their counterparts working at private companies did so, a study said Tuesday. The gap was even wider between female workers hired in permanent positions (46.9 percent) [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists are the biggest shoppers in Seoul by spending an average of more than 2 million won (US$1,730) per person on purchases, a think tank survey on foreign shopping in the country’s capital said Thursday. According to the outcomes of the poll of 1,045 foreign tourists who visited [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The CJ E&M Research Center and the UnivTomorrow Research Laboratory for the Twenties revealed Tuesday a report that takes a close look at dating trends among Korean men and women in their twenties. The report, titled ‘Dating White Paper for Korea’s Youths in their 20s, was compiled after surveying [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – With flextime working arrangements becoming increasingly popular in Korea, Yuhan-Kimberly is an example of a company that has successfully implemented flexible work hours. A year after its adoption, the company’s revenue has increased by more than 10 percent, and college students now rank it as one of the most [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Male workers in their 40s were under the most work-related stress among all age and gender groups in South Korea, while work itself was the largest source of their stress in 2014, a report showed Wednesday. According to the report based on a survey of 195,666 workers who underwent [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly half of all South Koreans consume digital news on their smartphones, topping the list of 26 countries studied, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the Korea Press Foundation (KPF) that released the Korean version of the survey, “Digital News Report 2016,” by Reuters Institute for the Study of [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 85 percent of South Korean people aged 60 or older watch TV every day, doing so almost twice as much as people aged less than 20, according to a survey released Thursday by a state-run think tank. The survey, conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute, [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed that South Korean mothers send their kids to English classes before the children turn five years old on average. Yoon’s English School, a company that runs a chain of English language academies across the country, conducted a survey between May 25 and 29 with the participation [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – On May 19, the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) reported that according to a three-year “Korean Media Panel Survey” conducted between 2013 and 2015, the frequency of use of newspapers, magazines, and books dropped by more than 50 percent after admission into college among the 177 survey participants. [...]