Roughly 80 percent of major dating app users in South Korea are men, but women use the services for nearly twice as long as their male counterpart, a report showed Sunday. The most popular dating app here was Tinder, where 84.2 percent of the users were men, according to local consumer data analysis service Wise App. Among other popular applications, Wippy users were 78.8 percent men, Glam was 86.1 percent men, and 9.
Scarcity of rental homes
This is no time for policymakers to praise themselves
Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki said last week that many people have benefited from revised rental and tenancy laws. During an economic ministers meeting, he said that far more people have continued to live in their rental homes by paying slightly increased deposits and monthly rental fees since the new laws took effect a year ago.
However, leasing costs have soared, with rentals becoming far more difficult to find. Dual prices have been formed between new and renewed contracts, and home lease-related disputes surged. If the government s top economic policymaker turns his face away from such a harsh reality and sees only what he wants to see, that is irrational and irresponsible.