SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean teens are refusing to take the change when paying for public transportation because it is ‘too embarrassing’. A 15-year-old teenager surnamed Lee said she has almost never taken any change when paying for a bus ride. “A single pack of snacks at a convenience store costs over [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenagers regard one’s ability as the most important criterion for distributing rewards, a study indicated Thursday. The report published by the Korea Educational Development Institute surveyed about 500 students from a total of three middle and high schools about their perception of fair distribution. They were presented with various [...]
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 [...]