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[Graphic News] Inter-Korean summits

[Graphic News] Singapore has fastest 4G in Asia-Pacific

Singapore has the fastest 4G network in the Asia-Pacific region, followed by South Korea and Australia. Singapore is also the fastest 4G, also known as Long Term Evolution, country in the world, a...

September 17, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] Worldwide gun deaths reach 250,000 yearly

A new study finds gun deaths worldwide total about 250,000 yearly. And the United States is among just six countries that make up half of those fatalities. The findings are from an analysis of glo...

September 16, 2018
World News
[Graphic News] Yanolja most popular accommodation app in S. Korea

Yanolja was identified as the most popular South Korean accommodation and flight-booking application among Android smartphone users, recent data showed. According to data compiled by industry trac...

September 13, 2018
Business
[Graphic News] Thai Airways ranks best economy-class airline

Thai Airways took the top spot as the best economy-class airline in the world, according to the Skytrax’s annual “Best Airlines in the World” ranking for 2018. Airlines based in Asia dominated the...

September 12, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] George Clooney is highest paid actor

George Clooney topped an annual list of the world’s highest-paid actors, mainly due to the sale of his tequila company. The 57-year-old earned an estimated $239 million between June 2017 and June ...

September 11, 2018
Entertainment
[Graphic News] Depression rate rises 16% in 5 years

The number of South Koreans treated for depression last year rose 15.8 percent from five years before, government data showed. Some 681,000 patients were treated for depression last year, up from ...

September 10, 2018
Health
[Graphic News] Hong Kong topples New York to become city with most ultrarich people

New York is no longer home to the biggest number of ultrarich people, as it has been overtaken by the rising tide of wealth in Asia. Hong Kong has surpassed the Big Apple as the city with the high...

September 9, 2018
World
[Graphic News] S. Korea's fruit imports reach record high in 2017

South Korea's fruit imports reached record-high levels last year on the strength of growing demand for greater variety in food choices, customs data showed. The country imported 834,000 tons of fr...

September 6, 2018
National
[Graphic News] Voice phishing on the rise in S. Korea

South Korea reported 98,391 voice-phishing incidents between 2014 and June of this year, according to data submitted to Rep. Lee Jae-jung by the National Police Agency. The number of voice-phishin...

September 5, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] Rice paddies down in 2018

Rice paddies in South Korea declined 2.2 percent this year compared to last year, as farmers opted to grow other crops, according to data. Data compiled by Statistics Korea showed that the rice cu...

September 4, 2018
National
[Graphic News] Victims of school violence in Seoul on the rise

The number of student victims of school violence in Seoul increased 24.5 percent from a year earlier to 11,425 this year, according to a survey. More than 92 percent of 700,343 students, ranging f...

September 3, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] About 94% of Korean adults have experienced YouTube: survey

About 94 percent of Korean adults have used YouTube directly or indirectly via other routes, a survey showed. A media research center of the Korea Press Foundation canvassed online 1,218 adults ac...

September 2, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] Vietnam's Danang top summer vacation destination

Vietnam's city of Danang was the most popular summer vacation destination among Koreans this year, a shift from last year's preference for cities in Japan, according to an online shopping mall. Fl...

August 30, 2018
Travel
[Graphic News] S. Korea seeks to increase defense budget 8.2% next year

The South Korea government announced that it will raise its defense budget 8.2 percent on-year in 2019, the largest expansion since 2008. The Ministry of National Defense said it has proposed a bu...

August 29, 2018
Defense

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