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[Graphic News] Online shopping hits record high

The total value of online shopping in South Korea hit a record high in May, government data showed, in the latest sign that a growing number of people are using computers and mobile devices to buy m...

July 11, 2019
Business
[Graphic News] Games led sharp growth in Korea‘s cultural exports in 2017

South Korea’s exports of cultural goods jumped about 47 percent year-on-year in 2017, led by games, K-pop and publishing, an official survey showed. The combined overseas sales in nine culture and...

July 10, 2019
Culture
[Graphic News] Cocaine production hit new record in 2017: UN

Global cocaine production reached an all-time high in 2017, breaking the previous year’s record by 25 percent, the UN drugs and crime agency said in its annual report, as production soars in post-co...

July 9, 2019
World News
[Graphic News] France has lowest levels of trust in vaccines globally

France has the lowest levels of trust in vaccines globally, according to the world’s biggest survey on public attitudes toward health and science. A third (33 percent) of French people do not agre...

July 8, 2019
World
[Graphic News] Japan resumes commercial whale hunting

Japan began its first commercial whale hunts in more than three decades on July 1, brushing aside outrage over its resumption of a practice that conservationists say is cruel and outdated. The hun...

July 7, 2019
World News
[Graphic News] Number of museums to rise to 1,310 by 2023

The number of museums, including art galleries, in South Korea will increase by 16 percent over the next five years under a government proposal to make representative cultural infrastructure more ac...

July 4, 2019
Culture
[Graphic News] France’s Mirazur crowned world’s best restaurant

France’s Mirazur restaurant - whose Argentine chef Mauro Colagreco draws inspiration from the sea, the mountains and his own garden - was crowned the world’s best by an influential trade list. The...

July 3, 2019
World
[Graphic News] Health care, cosmetics exports surge

South Korea’s health care and cosmetics exports surged to $14.6 billion last year, the result of solid demand, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said. Outbound shipments of drugs, medical equipme...

July 2, 2019
Business
[Graphic News] DMZ: World’s last Cold War frontier

Where is it? The 4-kilometer-wide DMZ runs for 250 kilometers across the Korean Peninsula, around 50 kilometers north of Seoul and 200 kilometers south of Pyongyang. At its center is the Milit...

July 1, 2019
North Korea
[Graphic News] Average spending by foreign tourists in S. Korea tumbles in Q1

Average spending by foreign tourists visiting South Korea has decreased to a level last seen 10 years ago, data showed. According to the data from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and t...

June 27, 2019
Travel
[Graphic News] World population to reach 9.7 billion in 2050: UN

The world’s population is expected to climb to 9.7 billion in 2050 from 7.7 billion today, with the population of sub-Saharan Africa doubling, a United Nations report said. The population could th...

June 26, 2019
World
[Graphic News] S. Korean brands again sweep J.D. Power’s US initial quality survey

South Korean brands again demonstrated the best initial quality among 32 automotive brands sold in the United States, according to an annual ranking by researcher J.D. Power, with about half of the ...

June 25, 2019
Automode
[Graphic News] No. of nuclear warheads worldwide declines

The overall number of nuclear warheads in the world has declined in the past year but nations are modernizing their arsenals, a report said. At the start of 2019, the United States, Russia, Britai...

June 24, 2019
World News
[Graphic News] Iceland still world’s most peaceful country

The world has become slightly safer for the first time in five years but it remains “considerably less peaceful now than a decade ago,” a think tank said. The 2019 Global Peace Index ranked Iceland ...

June 23, 2019
World News
[Graphic News] Messi sports world’s highest earner

Lionel Messi was the world’s highest-paid athlete in 2018, Forbes reported June 11. The soccer star raked in $127 million in the year via salary and endorsement deals. That put Messi ahead of longti...

June 21, 2019
World News

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