SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 3 out of 10 teenagers view marriage as essential, less than half the rate from a decade ago, a report showed Wednesday. The National Youth Policy Institute surveyed 7,718 elementary, middle and high school students nationwide from May to July and only 29.5 percent said marriage is essential. [...]
MUJU, South Korea, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A 15-year-old boy said he wishes he could turn the clock back to before he began gambling, as he has been staying in the remote rural village of Muju for a treatment program after losing more than 100 million won (US$76,934) to gambling. The middle schooler, who [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study conducted by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) looked at emergency room visits for poisoning that happened over the course of a year, from June 1 last year to May 31 of this year, and revealed some alarming trends. Researchers queried data from 15 emergency [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers who watch cooking or eating shows online are more likely to have an unhealthy diet than those who do not, a survey showed Sunday. A survey conducted by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency covered 60,000 middle and high school students from 800 schools nationwide. It found [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of teenage drug offenders more than octupled in South Korea last year compared with about a decade earlier, a minor opposition party said Friday. Teenagers apprehended for using drugs totaled 481 last year, jumping more than eight times from 58 in 2013, the Justice Party said, citing [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A considerable number of teenagers typically go to movie theaters to watch films more than twice a month, a survey showed Thursday. The Korea Film Council conducted a survey of 412 teen members of multiplex cinema chain CGV, and 29.6 percent of whom said they visit movie theaters twice [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Internet usage time among teenagers in South Korea has doubled since the pre-pandemic era, with the increase largely attributed to the spread of contactless modes of engagement, a report said Thursday. In the survey of 2,700 teenagers aged between 10 and 18 conducted by Gallup Korea, elementary and middle [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Only four out of 10 South Korean children and teenagers think the country is a good place to live, a survey showed Thursday. According to the online survey conducted with the participation of 1,000 Koreans between 10 to 18 years of age by the nongovernment organization Save the Children, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Abuse of opioid medications like painkillers, anorectics and anesthetics is spreading among South Korean teens and 20-somethings. Rep. Kang gi-yun of the People Power Party referred to a report from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety showing that there were 61,087 prescriptions for fentanyl patches issued to those [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of teenage drug offenders has almost doubled over the past three years, but drug education has been given to less than 4 percent of students during the same period, a lawmaker said Friday. Teenagers accused of using drugs totaled 309 last year, up from 164 in 2019, [...]