SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of adolescents treated for gambling addiction spiked last year as they spent more time at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. Rep. Kim Do-eup of the ruling People Power Party released the statistics from the state-run Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service that showed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The planned expansion of the government’s COVID-19 vaccine pass system to include 12- to 18-year-olds will be implemented in March as scheduled, a government agency said Monday, despite a Seoul court’s recent decisions to rein in the vaccine pass mandate at educational facilities. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure [...]
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. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the third-highest ratio of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a report showed Monday. The average monthly number of NEET people aged 15-29 in the country is estimated at 1.56 million in the January-October [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately one-fifth of Seoul youths have been exposed to digital sex crime risks, according to a Seoul city government survey Tuesday. In the survey on 4,012 students in Seoul aged between 12 and 19 conducted in July, 21.3 percent said they have been exposed to the risks of digital [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly one out of three middle and high school students in South Korea mulled suicide over the past year due to academic burden, a survey showed Monday. In a poll of 5,669 middle and high school students conducted by the state-run National Youth Policy Institute from July to October [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent years, youth dramas or youth romance series have not been the pick of many South Korean TV viewers, who think such series are boring and prefer R-rated melodramas or romantic thrillers, like “The World of the Married” (2020). Now, however, the latest youth shows “Record of Youth” [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 17 percent of young students in South Korea are addicted to the internet and smartphones, a government survey suggested Tuesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family released the result of its survey of teenagers’ internet and smartphone usage, conducted on 1,331,441 fourth graders of elementary schools and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Life satisfaction has fallen sharply among young South Koreans in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak, a survey showed Saturday. According to the poll of 1,055 youths nationwide conducted from July 1-21 by the Korea Youth Foundation, their life satisfaction index turned out to be 4.14 points on a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The average South Korean youth gets seven hours and 18 minutes of sleep per night, one hour short of the average in developed countries, a survey showed Monday. More than half of them suffer from sleep deprivation, mostly due to study and internet surfing. The state-funded National Youth Policy [...]