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[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
[Graphic News] S. Korea's population edges up 0.3%

South Korea’s total population rose slightly last year, but elderly people continued to outnumber children amid a rapid aging trend and a record-low birthrate, a national census showed. A total of...

August 28, 2018
National
[Graphic News] South Korean beer exports to China surge

South Korea's beer exports to China more than doubled in 2017 from the previous year, but exports of other alcohol dropped steeply, industry data showed. South Korea shipped $50.2 million worth of...

August 27, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] 32 killed in 88 gun accidents, crimes since 2012

The number of accidents and crimes involving guns totaled 88 over the past seven years in South Korea, resulting in 32 deaths, a ruling party lawmaker said, citing police data. Gun crimes and acci...

August 26, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] SK hynix boasts sharpest growth among chipmakers

SK hynix, South Korea's No. 2 chipmaker, posted the sharpest growth in sales among the world's top 15 players in the first six months of 2018, industry data showed, with Samsung Electronics maintain...

August 23, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] Overseas visitors spend 5.66 nights on average in Seoul

The number of nights that foreign guests stayed at hotels and other accommodations in Seoul averaged 5.66 in the first half of the year, with 55.3 percent of them visiting the South Korean capital f...

August 22, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] S. Korea 7th-largest consumer of energy in 2017

South Korea's energy consumption last year ranked seventh in the world, and showed one of the fastest paces of increase, data from a foreign consulting firm showed. South Korea consumed 534 terawa...

August 9, 2018
World News
[Graphic News] Germany is top beer producer in EU

Last year, 41 billion liters of beer containing alcohol were produced in the European Union. Two-thirds of the beer containing alcohol produced in the EU came from six member states. With produc...

August 8, 2018
World News
[Graphic News] Huawei overtakes Apple to become world's No. 2 smartphone maker, Samsung still No. 1

China-based Huawei overtook Apple to claim the No. 2 spot in the global smartphone market in the second quarter of the year, according to International Data Corp. South Korean consumer electronics...

August 7, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] Number of fake banknotes plunges to 18-year low in H1

The number of counterfeit South Korean banknotes detected in the first half of the year fell to an 18-year low. According to the Bank of Korea, a total of 330 counterfeit bills were found during ...

August 6, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] Miami named world's priciest Airbnb city

Miami and Boston took the top two spots in the average daily cost of lodging in private dwellings for the second straight year, according to Bloomberg index. Airbnb owners asked for $205 a night a...

August 5, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] Terrorism soars in Europe

Terrorist attacks on European targets more than doubled last year, Europe's police agency said, warning that the risk of more unsophisticated attacks by the Islamic State group "remains acute." La...

August 2, 2018
World News

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