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[Graphic News] S. Korea 4th easiest in world to do business

South Korea ranked No. 4 among the easiest places in the world to do business, according to the “Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create” report released by the World Bank. New Zealand was No. 1,...

Dec 10, 2017
World Business
[Graphic News] A day in Seoul in numbers

Dec 7, 2017
Social affairs
[Graphic News] Online shopping purchases continue to rise

Purchases made via the internet and mobile devices in South Korea continued to rise in October, as the use of smartphones has fully caught on with local consumers, government data showed. Transact...

Dec 6, 2017
Business
[Graphic News] Which Asian country contributes most to UN’s budget?

Asian countries contributed almost 25 percent of the UN’s regular budget, with Japan contributing the most in the region, followed by China, Australia, South Korea and India, according to the latest...

Dec 5, 2017
World
[Graphic News] World suffers massive data hack

The 2016 data hack on 57 million Uber riders and drivers is among the biggest ever thefts of online users’ personal information. Here are some previous cases: In 2013, Yahoo was hit by hackers ...

Dec 4, 2017
World Business
[Graphic News] Car accidents, damage from senior drivers increasing

The number of car accidents caused by senior drivers more than quadrupled over the past 10 years, according to data. The accident tally for private drivers from the Korea Insurance Development Ins...

Dec 3, 2017
Social affairs
[Graphic News] Beijing tech hub beats Silicon Valley to be No. 1

Beijing’s Zhongguancun has unseated San Francisco’s Silicon Valley as the top technology hub in the world, according to a report by the US-based business resource company Expert Market. Zhongguanc...

Nov 30, 2017
World Business
[Graphic News] Jeff Bezos becomes world‘s richest person

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is now the world’s richest person, with a net worth of over $100 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 and since his hu...

Nov 29, 2017
World
[Graphic News] Catholics rise in Asia and Africa, decline in Europe

The statistical yearbook of the Vatican registers an overall increase of 1,285 million of baptized Catholics in 2015, with 49 percent living in the Americas. In five years, Catholics in Asia, and ...

Nov 28, 2017
World
[Graphic News] Copenhagen ranks as world’s smartest city

Copenhagen is found to be the ultimate smart city with Singapore trailing close behind in second place, according to the 2017 Smart Cities Index produced by European parking app EasyPark, The Dani...

Nov 27, 2017
World
[Graphic News] Myeongdong ranks 8th most expensive retail street in world

South Korea's Myeongdong has been ranked world’s 8th most expensive retail district with annual rents at $914 per square foot, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s 2017 Main Streets Across the World r...

Nov 26, 2017
World Business
[Graphic News] Korea tops PISA scale in collaborative problem-solving

South Korean youths scored the highest in terms of their collaborative problem-solving abilities at the Program for International Student Assessment 2015 test among 51 member countries of the Organi...

Nov 23, 2017
Education
[Graphic News] Over 19m people internally displaced in Asia

The most internal displacements are recorded in China, with 7.4 million people displaced in their own country due to conflict and disasters, followed by the Philippines (5.9 million) and India (2.4 ...

Nov 22, 2017
World
[Graphic News] Seoul 7th most popular city in 2016: data

Seoul ranked the seventh most popular city among foreign travelers in 2016, according to a report by financial services corporation Mastercard. The South Korean capital city moved up three notches...

Nov 21, 2017
World
[Graphic News] 32 qualifiers for 2018 World Cup

32 countries have booked their place for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, after Peru beat New Zealand last week to guarantee the final spot.

Nov 20, 2017
Soccer

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