SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean adults appear evenly divided over whether to legally ban the slaughter of dogs for meat, according to a poll released Friday. The survey of 501 Koreans older than 19 by local pollster Realmeter showed that 44.2 percent endorsed the enactment of a new law prohibiting the killing [...]
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Between shopping for gifts, preparing your home for guests, finding the perfect outfit, and prepping holiday meals, many people don’t have the time to enjoy the holidays. In fact, according to a recent survey commissioned by Amazon and conducted online by The Harris Poll, nearly four [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Less than half of South Koreans think marriage is a necessity as the country struggles with an alarmingly low birth rate and more people getting married later, data showed Tuesday. The survey of 39,000 people over 13 years of age, by Statistics Korea, revealed 48.1 percent saying they want [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a recent national survey on civil rights focusing on senior citizens, 7 out of 10 young and middle-aged adults said they expected to encounter economic hardship during the rest of the lives. This is in sharp contrast to senior citizens, more than half of whom responded saying [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than eight in 10 South Koreans favor the increased use of renewable energy on the grounds that it is clean and inexhaustible, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,003 South Koreans across the nation, 86.2 percent of respondents said they are in favor of the [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Skybox® Security, a global leader in cybersecurity management, has released the results of a global survey conducted by Osterman Research, Understanding Security Processes and the Need to Automate. The survey, which includes responses from 465 senior security leaders at large enterprises in the U.S., EMEA and APAC,* reveals [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a new survey, only 2 out of 10 children and young adults think that unification between South and North Korea is necessary. This is according to the National Youth Policy Institute, which surveyed 1,392 students in middle school grades 1 to 3 and high school students in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of salaried employees in South Korea work on the weekend despite the country’s push to help workers strike a balance between work and their personal lives, a poll showed Friday. According to the survey of 2,004 office employees by job search portal operator JobKorea Corp., 53.8 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven out of 10 South Koreans believe young people in the country are unhappy, and six out of 10 think elderly people are also depressed, a poll showed Thursday. The survey conducted on 2,000 adults nationwide by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) and [...]
RESTON, Va., Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has released its 17th annual survey report, the GMAC 2018 Corporate Recruiters Survey report, and findings indicate that MBA hiring remains strong. Overall, 81 percent of responding companies plan to hire MBA graduates in 2018. Among all respondents globally, 52 percent of companies [...]