HONG KONG, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, Institutional Investor Research (II Research) announced the results of their 11th Annual Asia Executive Team survey, revealing Asia’s leading CEOs, CFOs, Investor Relations Officers, and Investor Relations programs that best uphold corporate governance standards and facilitate investment into their company. A total of 116 companies attained a published position [...]
SINGAPORE, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) - Premier global nutrition company, Herbalife Nutrition, unveiled findings from its 2021 Asia Pacific Young Entrepreneurs Survey today, which found that 72% of Generation Zs and Millennials in Asia Pacific aspire to have their own businesses. The survey showed that almost 9 out of 10 (87%) respondents believe that the best age [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 65 percent of teachers, parents and students were positive about more in-person learning in the second half, a survey showed Thursday, as the Ministry of Education gears up for bringing all children back to their classrooms full time. The survey conducted by the ministry on 1.65 million [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – 89 percent of South Koreans use social media, with the country surpassing Taiwan to rank second in terms of social media usage around the world, data showed Wednesday. Market researcher DMC Media reported that according to a survey conducted by global consulting firm We Are Social Singapore, 89.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the burgeoning interest in cryptocurrencies in South Korea, a majority still believe that investing in the digital currencies is speculative and without substance. Four Seoul-based pollsters — Embrain Public, KSTAT Research, Korea Research International Inc. and Hankook Research — conducted a survey of 1,008 male and female adults [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 2 in 3 teenagers don’t believe in the need to get married. Last year, the state-funded National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 5,740 middle and high school students from across the country, 59.9 percent of whom believed that they don’t need [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — About 38 percent of college student athletes have been required to follow strict curfews and other restrictions on their personal life, while about 32 percent have been forced by seniors to wash, clean and run errands, the state human rights watchdog said Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission of [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies pointed to the difficulty in securing professionals as the biggest hurdle preventing them from adopting artificial intelligence (AI), a local think tank said Monday. The state-run Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade recently conducted a survey of 283 companies, with 53 percent of them choosing [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A substantial number of South Korean elementary, middle and high school students no longer think that marriage is an obligation. ChildFund Korea, a Seoul-based charity organization for children with mental and physical disabilities, conducted a survey of 708 elementary, middle and high school students. Only 16.7 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans felt less happy last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, with women, young adults, the elderly and low-income citizens affected the most, a state-run think tank’s survey showed Tuesday. According to an annual survey on 8,336 adults by the Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA) from September [...]