It‘s a trend that began a few years ago that movie theaters are visited by broader age groups, but now middle-aged people in their 40s and 50s are the main consumer group of cinemas.The advance ticket reservation rates of the three local box-office hits -- “Tower,” “Les Miserable” and “Life of Pi” -- were the highest among viewers aged 40 or over, Maxmovie, a leading online movie ticket reservation site, said Monday.　For the Korean disaster film “Tower,” which exceeded 4 million in attendance as

A number of cases of elderly people living alone being found dead in the south of the country have led to calls for the government to come up with measures to tackle the problem. A police officer from Suncheon police department found an unidentified 89-year-old woman’s body in an electric pad in her home. The police assume that the woman died from hypothermia three to four days previously. It was revealed that the woman had lived off of a 95,000-won ($90) old-age pension and didn’t qualify for b

Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation said it was considering limiting one in six subway cars to women as a measure to prevent crime. The plan has been suggested as a measure to stop the increasing number of sexual harassment incidents on the subway. The number of reported incidents almost tripled to 1,313 in 2011 compared to 466 in 2008, according to the National Police Agency.Several Japanese subway lines run women-only subway cars. Since 2000, Keihan Railway has operated them during morning

Korea’s public spending on family benefits in 2009 amounted to 1.01 percent of its gross domestic product, the lowest among 34 OECD countries according to OECD Family Database. The statistics cover financial support for families and children in cash, service and tax benefits. The average for OECD members stood at 2.61 percent.Korea recorded 0.04 percent in cash benefits, 0.77 percent in service benefits and 0.20 percent in tax benefits. The OECD average for each criterion was 1.41 percent, 0.94