SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Poverty and low educational attainment are significantly delaying young South Koreans’ transition into adulthood — from employment to leaving home to marriage — while also deepening psychological distress, according to a government-funded study released Tuesday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs analyzed data from more than 1,200 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Colorectal cancer, long considered a “Western disease,” is surging in South Korea, particularly among people in their 20s and 30s, where cases are growing at an annual rate of about 4 percent. A new study has identified Western-style eating habits as a major driver of the trend. A joint [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 560,000 young South Koreans have remained jobless one year after their graduation, data showed Thursday, while nearly half of them have been searching for jobs to no avail for over three years. According to the data from Statistics Korea, the number of employed youths, people aged 15-29 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — 6 out of 10 young Koreans have experienced an “open run” — a Korean term for the sprint to get into a store or other type of business to buy or sign up for the products or services of their choice, a poll showed Tuesday. Lotte Members, the membership [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — For Kim Na-yeon, a 26-year-old college student, North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is a timeworn issue that has dragged on for as long as she has been alive, and that she has little interest in. That’s why, when the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean [...]
Seoul, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Who do you think are the main victims of voice phishing? You would be very wrong if you thought the elderly were most susceptible to being deceived. The younger demographic tend to be the main targets of tele-financial fraud, if anything, and they also tend to be the offenders. [...]