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- [Special report] S. Korean youth values health and financial stability the most
- The narrative about the grim reality facing South Korean young people was launched by “The 880,000 Won Generation,” a book authored by Woo Seok-hun and Park Gwon-il in 2007. The...
- Jan.1,2020 19:28 KST
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- [News analysis] Talk of China’s looming economic crisis
- A lot of talk has been going around about a crisis that is poised to erupt out of China. There are two reasons for this. One is that crises have often tended to occur in emergin...
- Dec.31,2019 19:26 KST
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- [Interview] S. Korean sisters devote lives to orphans in Ecuador
- 786 Seoljang Road, Janghowon Township, Icheon, Gyeonggi Province. The Community of Jesus Christ is a “very small” order located in the middle of a field. Unlike other convents m...
- Dec.30,2019 10:13 KST
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- 75% of younger S. Koreans want to leave country
- Young South Koreas, between the ages of 19 and 34, feel more anxious about life than the older generation, a new study has found. And even among the younger generation, the leve...
- Dec.30,2019 09:56 KST
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- N. Koreans expected to life spans shorter than S. Koreans by 12-13 years
- On average, North Koreans are expected to live for 12 or 13 fewer years than South Koreans, a new report finds, while North Korea’s population is just half the size of the South...
- Dec.30,2019 09:49 KST
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- Seniors expected to comprise 49.6% of S. Korean household heads by 2047
- Over 40% of household heads in all South Korean cities and provinces apart from Sejong will be 65 or older by 2047 as societal aging continues, a report predicts. Sejong, home t...
- Dec.30,2019 09:42 KST
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- [Special series] If Korean youth were 100 people
- “If the World Were a Village of 100 People” is a book by the Japanese translator Kayoko Ikeda based on an essay by Donella Meadows, an environmental scientist specializing in de...
- Dec.29,2019 18:25 KST
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- S. Korean government to allot US$86 bln to public, private investments
- Given doubts about whether South Korea’s economic growth rate will even reach 2% for 2019, the government has decided to focus all its efforts on engineering an economic rally n...
- Dec.29,2019 18:17 KST
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- Japanese ordnance factory within Camp Market to be converted to historical/cultural space
- A Japanese army ordnance factory within Camp Market is poised to undergo environmental cleanup efforts and redevelopment into a history and culture park following the return of ...
- Dec.29,2019 18:06 KST
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- [Special report] S. Korea’s perception of youth exclusively applies to university students
- “Waste” can be defined as the vain or prodigal consumption of one’s time or goods. That’s pretty much how Han Su-jeong (pseudonym), 23, an office worker, thought of university. ...
- Dec.27,2019 19:16 KST
