SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers bought more liquor and cigarettes from convenience stores last year, data showed Thursday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) collected statistical data from 60,000 middle and high school students, in which their level of access to cigarettes grew from 67 percent to 74.8 percent and liquor [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — As an increasing number of teenagers are spending long hours playing video games in the pandemic era, the risk of addiction has doubled among them. The Korea Creative Content Agency reported Tuesday that the gaming population among all teenagers between 11 and 19 years of age grew from 77.1 [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean teenagers spend about an hour and a half on average when they participate in a sports activity, a survey showed Thursday. The average monthly frequency of their participation in sports activities stood at 9.6 times, according to the survey conducted of 2,238 teenagers by the National Youth [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 1 in 5 of South Korean teenagers have participated in open chats, a primary source of online grooming, or luring minors through the internet to sexually illicit businesses, a report said Thursday. An “open chat” is a KakaoTalk feature which allows you to join special interest groups with a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — As the age of eligibility for joining political parties is being reduced to the age of 16, schools are showing both excitement and concern. A new bill was passed at the National Assembly on Tuesday, effectively reducing the age of eligibility for joining political parties from the age of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of teenagers who have received help from youth counseling welfare centers related to suicide or self-harm has quadrupled over the past five years. The Korea Youth Counseling and Welfare Institute reported that 238 youth counseling welfare centers across the country provided counselling services for 87,458 cases of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than two thirds of teenagers feel disappointed or lose confidence because of school grades, a civic group said Thursday. World Without Worries About Private Education conducted a survey of 241 elementary, middle and high school students in which a majority of 166 people (68.9 percent) reported feeling disappointed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers accounted for a quarter of offenders recently caught by police over allegedly supplying sexually exploitative materials across the internet, authorities said Wednesday. The cyber crime division of the National Office of Investigation said 1,625 alleged offenders were rounded up during its special crackdown campaign period against offenses connected [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1,200 teenagers have fallen victim to online sex crimes so far this year, an elevenfold jump from 2018, government data showed Wednesday. The number of teenage victims rose sharply from 111 in 2018 to 1,268 this year, according to the gender ministry data released by Rep. Yang [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Car accidents involving unlicensed teenagers soared by 34 percent between 2018 and 2020, road traffic data showed Thursday. According to a Korea Road Traffic Authority report submitted to Rep. Kang Deuk-gu of the ruling Democratic Party, teenagers caused 833 accidents last year while driving without a license, a sharp [...]