WASHINGTON, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. special envoy for global youth issues will travel to Korea’s southeastern city of Busan this week to attend the first-ever trilateral youth leadership program involving people from South Korea, the United States and Japan, the State Department said Tuesday. Abby Finkenauer plans to visit Busan from Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The yearly number of drug offenders surpassed the 20,000 mark for the first time last year, driven by increases among young people and women, a report showed Wednesday. A record high of 27,611 people were apprehended for drug-related offenses last year, marking nearly a 50 percent increase from the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul, long hailed as a global metropolis, is rapidly shrinking, battered by low birth rates and an aging populace. Over the past two decades, the city has lost over 600,000 residents, with one in five people leaving the districts of Nowon, Dobong, and Gangbuk. As projections indicate that Seoul’s population [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The gender ministry is set to launch an official survey on isolated and reclusive teens for the first time starting Tuesday as part of efforts to identify such groups and come up with support measures. Isolated teenagers refer to those without someone to rely on in case of emergencies, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A staggering 43 percent of patients who visited emergency rooms after attempting suicide in South Korea last year were under 30 years old, including teenagers and those in their 20s, according to a government survey released on Tuesday. The “2023 Survey on Suicide” by the Ministry of Health and Welfare [...]
JEONJU, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Ask Im Chung-sik, a 48-year-old resident of Jeonju, if he considers himself a “youth,” and his answer typifies the blurred boundaries around the definition. “Does that even matter at my age?” replied Im, who is approaching the “ji-cheon-myeong” – the traditional age at 49 when one is said to gain [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – In a bid to help teenagers with drug addiction recover their daily lives and foster self-reliance, the South Korean government plans to pilot the country’s first residential treatment camps in the latter half of this year. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the state-run Korea Youth Counseling [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study conducted by the Korea Youth Policy Institute revealed that more than 4 out of 10 young Koreans between the ages of 19 and 34 have avoided medical visits despite being ill, citing reasons such as busy schedules and concerns over medical expenses. The survey, which involved 4,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s on-year employment grew at a slower pace in 2023 as the number of newly employed fell in the manufacturing sector and among young people, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people rose 327,000 in 2023 from a year earlier, or 1.2 percent, to come to 28.41 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent study, the number of emergency room visits related to self-harm or disengagement from the world has increased by 1.8 times in the past decade. This rise has been particularly pronounced among teenagers, highlighting the need for improved mental health care for the younger generation. The Korea [...]