The Korea Herald

[News Focus] 22 civil servants at Government Complex Sejong infected with COVID-19

Social affairsMar 12, 2020

Of South Korea’s 18 ministries, 12 are headquartered in Sejong, including the Ministry of Economy and Finance (four ministries are located in Seoul, one in Gwacheon and one in Daejeon). Other public ...
[Exclusive] Jeju’s international schools to make up for COVID-19 delay through online learning, Saturday classes

EducationMar 10, 2020

SEJONG -- One of the major concerns amid the COVID-19 panic in South Korea is how it will affect the academic calendar for students in elementary school through high school. Considering the delayed s...
[News Focus] Sejong residents on alert after string of COVID-19 reports

Social affairsMar 8, 2020

Prugio City -- a studio apartment building in Eojin-dong, where one COVID-19 patient lived before moving to North Gyeongsang Province -- is attempting to track down all residents who rode the elevato...
[News Focus] South Korea’s population dips by 6,800 in 3 months

Social affairsMar 5, 2020

Daegu and contiguous North Gyeongsang Province are the nation’s seventh- and sixth-largest areas -- whose collective number of residents came to 5.09 million and accounted for 9.8 percent of the tota...
[News Focus] Compared with other OECD nations, Korea has far fewer doctors, nurses, per 1,000 people

Social affairsMar 3, 2020

Among English-speaking countries, Australia ranked 12th with 3.68 whereas New Zealand ranked 16th with 3.33. The UK ranked 24th with 2.85 and Canada 25th with 2.76. The US was in 26th place with 2.61...
[News Focus] Korean won loses ground to major currencies

EconomyMar 1, 2020

“There is no doubt that investors want safety assets like dollars in this sort of situations. Nonetheless, the won’s depreciation against the yuan is somewhat reflecting Korea’s low-key countermeasur...
[News Focus] Employment falls in almost all age groups

EconomyFeb 27, 2020

SEJONG -- The tight hiring market has been a point of contention over the past two or three years, though the Moon Jae-in administration has continued to express a strong commitment to job creation a...
[News Focus] Korea’s gender gap set to widen

Social affairsFeb 25, 2020

“Generally -- based on genetics research on boy’s higher probability among newborns across the globe -- Korea also sees boys slightly outnumber girls in childbirth. In addition, preference for sons i...
[News Focus] Will President Moon change major foreign and economic policies during remaining 2 years?

PoliticsFeb 23, 2020

Domestically, economic affairs have been the Moon government’s Achilles’ heel since the third quarter of 2018, when his approval rating started its downward slide. The figure is now around 40 percent...
[News Focus] Number of de facto jobless up 440,000 in 2 months

EconomyFeb 20, 2020

Compared with two months earlier, the number of de facto unemployed Koreans surged by 440,000 in January from 3.14 million in November. The extended jobless rate, which reflects the people who are u...
[News Focus] Korea’s household debt surges 100% in a decade

EconomyFeb 18, 2020

Eased rules and record-low rates were regarded as a historic opportunity for all -- ordinary households, houseless households and multiple-home owners. They rushed to commercial banks for taking out ...
[News Focus] Pessimists outnumber advocates over Moon in most areas

PoliticsFeb 16, 2020

By sex, the portion of advocates and pessimists were 42 percent vs. 50 percent among men, while the figures among women were 46 percent vs. 47 percent. By generation, the gap was the highest among t...
[News Focus] Overseas Korean food fairs to entice palates

IndustryFeb 13, 2020

Jakarta will mark the third venue of the event, scheduled for July 9-12, amid Korean policymakers’ effort to make inroads into the largest market. Indonesia has the world’s fourth-largest population ...
[News Focus] South Korea to face critical shortage of soldiers

DefenseFeb 11, 2020

It fell to 26 months during the first year of the Kim Young-sam administration (1993), after being untouched for a decade. The term was cut again to 24 months under the Roh Moo-hyun administration i...
[News Focus] Korea’s economy underperforms among emerging nations

EconomyFeb 9, 2020

While Korea reported the lowest growth in a decade in 2019 since it stood at 0.8 percent in 2009, local and foreign analysts are also not upbeat about the nation’s economy this year. J.P. Morgan, Ba...