SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — One third of South Koreans were found to skip breakfast, according to a recent study, as the ‘no-breakfast’ population has almost tripled over the last 20 years. According to data from the 2018 National Health and Nutrition Survey released on Sunday, the proportion of South Koreans who skip breakfast [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of male smokers in the country halved in the last 20 years, but there has been a steady rise in the use of e-cigarettes, a national survey showed Sunday. The 2018 National Health and Nutrition Survey and the 2019 Youth Health Behavior Survey showed that one in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of unemployed moms in South Korea want to find work to better cover living and education-related expenses for family members, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 56.6 percent of the respondents said they want [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the findings from its annual global sleep survey in a report, “The Global Pursuit of Better Sleep Health”. The survey, executed each year in recognition of World Sleep Day (March 15), surveyed adults [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 South Koreans voted in favor of using atomic power, a survey showed Wednesday, amid the Moon Jae-in government’s nuclear phase-out policy. The survey was conducted on 1,000 people aged over 19 to study public opinion on the government’s nuclear policy, the Korea Nuclear Society (KNS) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of abortions estimated to have been performed in South Korea stood at around 50,000 in 2017, sharply down from the past as more women use birth control, a report said Thursday. According to the report by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, the abortion rate [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 2.9 percent of South Korean single women regard marriage as necessary, a figure far lower than their Chinese counterparts, a survey showed Wednesday. In contrast, 19.4 percent of Chinese women consider marriage necessary, according to the survey of 411 and 413 single women aged 25-34 and living in [...]
MAHWAH, N.J., Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, today announced it has released its 2018-2019 Global Application and Network Security Report, in which survey respondents estimate the average cost of a cyberattack at $1.1M. For those organizations that calculate (versus estimate) the cost of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 20 percent of South Koreans regard themselves as unhappy, according to a recent survey. The Korea Development Institute queried 2,000 participants in a survey, with 20.2 percent of the respondents saying that they felt unhappy in the past, as well as in the present, and don’t expect [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey revealed that 81.4 percent of the South Korean public saw the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics as a “success”. The economic effects of the Games were calculated to be 41.6 trillion won in terms of productivity and added value, while having induced employment for 232,000 people. This is [...]