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Nearly half of LGBTQ youth aged 13 to 24 in America seriously considered committing suicide last year, according to a survey released. The poll of nearly 34,000 people was conducted by The Trevor Project, a non-profit that works to prevent suicide among young people in the LGTBQ community. This annual survey “demonstrates that rates of suicidal thoughts have trended upward among LGBTQ young ...
[Interactive] US leadership’s approval jumps to 59% in S. Korea
World
May 20, 2022
The United States’ approval rating in South Korea jumped at one of the steepest rates among Asian countries in 2021, a poll showed. The approval rating of US leadership in South Korea climbed to 59 percent last year from 30 percent a year earlier, according to Gallup. The increase marks the second highest among 33 Asian countries where the poll was conducted between April 2021 and January 20...
[Interactive] Norway now best place to be in pandemic
World
May 7, 2022
Even as a new omicron wave gathers speed in some parts of the world, most countries are pushing ahead with reopening travel and easing restrictions in a bid to move past the COVID-19 era. In March, Norway claimed the No. 1 spot in Bloomberg’s COVID Resilience Ranking. After scrapping all of its travel restrictions, the country scored the highest among the 53 economies ranked with the most Vacc...
[Interactive] Half of call center workers had suicidal thoughts due to poor labor conditions
National
Apr 30, 2022
Almost half of call center workers have thought about taking their own lives due to poor labor conditions and extreme emotional labor, a state human rights watchdog survey showed. In the survey of 1,996 call center people conducted by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea from August to October, 48 percent said they thought of killing themselves and 30 percent said they had the thought...
[Interactive] National brand positively impacts foreign buyers’ purchases of Korean goods
Business
Apr 23, 2022
Nearly 7 in 10 foreign buyers think that South Korea’s national brand is having a positive impact on their purchases of products from Asia‘s fourth-largest economy, a poll showed. According to the survey of 213 foreign buyers, 72.9 percent of the respondents replied that their imports of South Korean goods have been affected positively by the country’s national brand. Slightly over 25.4 perc...
[Interactive] Pro baseball's popularity in steady decline: poll
Sports
Apr 16, 2022
The popularity of professional baseball in South Korea is in decline, especially among people in their 20s, the exact demographic that teams are trying to attract, a national poll showed. Gallup Korea released results of its survey of 1,004 South Koreans aged 18 or older from March 15-17. And only 31 percent of the polled said they had at least some interest in the Korea Baseball Organizatio...
[Interactive] Beyond the controversy: Disabled Protestors’ Cry for Unfulfilled Promises
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[Interactive] S. Korea’s coffee imports hit new high in 2021
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Apr 9, 2022
South Korea’s imports of coffee surged more than 24 percent to hit a new all-time high in 2021 on its growing popularity here, data showed. The value of the country's coffee imports stood at $916.5 million last year, up 24.2 percent from the previous year, according to the data from the Korea Customs Service and industry sources. It marks the first time that South Korea’s coffee imports have...
[Interactive] 53.7% oppose Yoon's plan to relocate presidential office
National
Apr 2, 2022
More than half of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 44 percent support the idea, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the poll of 500 adults, conducted by pollster Realmeter on Tuesday, 53.7 percent said the presidential office should remain at Cheong Wa Dae, and 44.6 percent said they back the reloc...
[Interactive] Grain import prices soar 47% over 2 years
Business
Apr 2, 2022
South Korea’s import prices of grain has jumped nearly 50 percent over the past two years to a near nine-year high amid the prolonged coronavirus pandemic, data showed. Prices of imported grains came to $386 per ton in February, up 26 percent from a year earlier and 47.4 percent from two years earlier, according to the data from the Korea Customs Service and industry sources. The February pe...
[Interactive] Instant noodles rank 1st in food output in 2020
Business
Apr 1, 2022
Instant noodles captured the top spot in production among food products in South Korea in 2020 on a surge in exports amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed. The output of instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, stood at 1.93 million metric tons in 2020, up a whopping 231 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. Ramyeon’s ranking in te...
[Interactive] Monthly salary of wage workers up 3.6%
National
Apr 1, 2022
The average monthly salary of wage earners rose 3.6 percent on-year in 2020 from a year earlier despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a government report showed. South Korean wage workers earned a monthly average of 3.2 million won ($2,669) in December 2020, up from 3.09 million won a year earlier, according to the report from Statistics Korea. The figure for workers with large companies stood at 5.29...
[Interactive] 7.1% of US adults identify as LGBT
World
Apr 1, 2022
The proportion of US adults identifying as LGBT has increased to a high of 7.1 percent, double the figure from 2012 when Gallup first started measuring it, reflecting a generational shift, the polling firm said. Gallup asks Americans whether they personally identified as straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual, as part of the demographic information it ...
[Interactive] Apartment purchases by young people hit record high last year: data
코리아 헤럴드
Mar 4, 2022
The proportion of apartments bought by people in their 30s or younger reached an all-time high last year amid “panic buying” over soaring housing prices, data showed. The buyers in this age group accounted for 31 percent of the country’s total apartment sales in 2021, up from 29.2 percent in 2020, according to the data compiled by the Korea Real Estate Board. The agency began compiling the rela...
[Interactive] S. Korean performing arts scene sees revenue jump nearly 80% in 2021
코리아 헤럴드
Mar 4, 2022
The local performing arts scene saw its revenue soar nearly 80 percent in 2021 from a year earlier, thanks to eased social distancing rules and a rising vaccination rate, data showed. The combined revenue of 12,000 theatrical plays, musicals, classical concerts and other performances reached 307.1 billion won ($258.1 million) last year, according to the data by the Korea Performing Arts Box Offi...
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