SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of working women in Seoul have more than one job for economic reasons, a survey showed Wednesday. The Seoul Metropolitan City Government and the Seoul Women’s Development Institute jointly conducted a survey of 1,247 working women between 20 and 59 years of age who live in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national gender equality level improved for the fifth straight year in 2019, as more women were appointed to senior government posts and committees, a government report showed Thursday. The country’s gender equality index stood at 73.6 out of 100 in 2019, inching up 0.5 points from the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Women in Seoul spend nearly four times more hours on housework than men, a city government report showed Tuesday. According to the 2020 Seoul gender statistics report, girls and women aged 15 or older spent 2 hours and 26 minutes on household chores every day, which was about 3.6 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The average age when South Korean young women experience their first period has dropped by five months over the past 15 years, a recent study revealed. Researchers from Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital studied the average age of women who had experienced their first period among 351,006 women between [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that South Koreans prefer a woman with an oval face, wide forehead and small lips. The female face shape preferred by South Koreans turned out to be different from the one preferred by Paraguayans. A joint research team from the Catholic University of Korea Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 6 in10 South Korean women in their 20s and 30s feel unsafe in the streets at night, while only 10 percent of men in the same age group said likewise. Women in their 20s felt most uncomfortable in the streets at night (58.7 percent) among all age groups. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle-aged men are consuming too many calories, while women in their 20s typically consume less energy than they need. The Ministry of Health and Welfare published a report Wednesday on calorie consumption categorized by age and gender. The report, based on a study led by the Korean Nutrition Society, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment shock that has come about with the coronavirus pandemic has hit women harder than men. Statistics Korea reported a 28.8 percent increase in the number of unemployed women last month (427,000) compared to the same period in the previous year, an unprecedented rate not seen since July [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Months into the coronavirus pandemic, protective masks have become an everyday necessity. While many people are struggling with the inconvenience and restrictions that the pandemic era has created, some people point out that they don’t have to care about their looks since they spend most of their day at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean women who freeze their eggs for the chance to have a baby of their own later is increasing. Oocyte cryopreservation, more commonly known as egg freezing, is a method of preserving a woman’s fertility so she can try to have children at a later date. [...]