Articles by Nam Kyung-don
Nam Kyung-don
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[Graphic News] Internet banking use grows 7% in H1
South Koreans’ use of internet banking services grew 6.9 percent in the first half of this year from six months earlier as customers preferred financial services through mobile devices, central bank data showed. The daily use of online banking services, including mobile banking, reached 18.82 million cases in the January-June period, compared with 17.61 million in the second half of last year, according to the data from the Bank of Korea. The value of daily transactions through inter
Business Oct. 4, 2022
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[Graphic News] 630 suicides reported among elementary to high schools students over past 4 years
A total of 630 elementary to high school students took their own lives over the past four years, due mainly to family feuds, an Education Ministry report showed. According to the report submitted to Rep. Kim Byong-wook of the People Power Party, 388 high school students died by suicide between 2018-2021, followed by 216 middle school students and 26 elementary school kids. Family feuds and parental abuse were the reason behind 196 of the suicide cases reported, followed by unknown reasons
National Sept. 30, 2022
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[Graphic News] Modern slavery on the rise as crises fuel poverty: UN
The number of people forced to work or in a marriage against their will has surged in recent years to around 50 million on any given day, the UN's International Labor Organization said on upon releasing its modern slavery report. Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and climate change have led to unprecedented disruption to employment and education while exacerbating extreme poverty and forced migration, the agency said. Compared to the last count for the year 2016, the nu
World Sept. 29, 2022
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[Graphic News] S. Koreans grow more skeptical of NK’s denuclearization: survey
Nine out of 10 South Koreans are skeptical about the possibility of North Korea abandoning its nuclear program, a survey showed, amid a prolonged impasse in inter-Korean relations and denuclearization talks. According to a poll of 1,200 adults by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, 92.5 percent responded with skepticism, the highest percentage since the annual survey began in 2007. The number of respondents that supported South Korea’s nuclea
North Korea Sept. 27, 2022
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[Graphic News] Samsung, SK hynix lead global NAND flash sales in Q2: report
South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK hynix were the biggest NAND flash sellers in the world in the second quarter, an industry report showed. According to Taiwan-based market analyst firm TrendForce, Samsung's NAND flash sales during the April-June period reached $5.98 billion, with its global market share at 33 percent, down 2.3 percentage points from the previous quarter. NAND flash is a type of non-volatile storage technology that does not require power to retain data. (Yo
World Business Sept. 26, 2022
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[Graphic News] 10.5 million-plus kids worldwide lost parents, caregivers to COVID-19: study
More than 10.5 million children worldwide have lost parents or caregivers, and 7.5 million-plus have lost one or both parents from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by JAMA Pediatrics. The sobering statistics are far above previous estimates and still climbing. And they could underscore potentially devastating, long-term consequences for children, including “institutionalization, abuse, traumatic grief, mental health problems, adolescent pregnancy, poor educational outcomes, a
World Sept. 23, 2022
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[Graphic News] Global golfers aim to ‘shock the world’ at Presidents Cup
An American squad with 11 of the world's 18 top-ranked players is ready for the Presidents Cup, which begins on Thursday (local time), as huge favorites for a ninth consecutive victory over a depleted Internationals line-up. Top-ranked Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, No. 4 Patrick Cantlay, fifth-ranked Tokyo Olympic champion Xander Schauffele and multiple major winners Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and Collin Morikawa lead the 12-man US team into Quail Hollow. They face an International
Golf Sept. 22, 2022
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[Graphic News] Processed food consumption up 18.4% throughout pandemic: RDA
South Korea’s expenditure on processed food consumption grew approximately 18 percent during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, a public institution survey analysis showed. According to the state-run Rural Development Administration, the country’s estimated spending on processed foods totaled 47.1 trillion won ($33.7 billion) last year, up 18.4 percent from 39.8 trillion won in 2019. The estimates were compiled through analysis of the RDA's household annual spending surveys c
National Sept. 21, 2022
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[Graphic News] Seven decades of reign
Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne in 1952, but her formal coronation took place on June 2, 1953, making her the longest serving among Europe’s current monarchs.
World Sept. 20, 2022
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[Graphic News] Number of startups drops 4.7% in H1
The number of startups in South Korea fell nearly 5 percent in the first half of the year due mainly to a plunge in new real estate businesses, government data showed. A total of 696,000 new companies were set up in the country in the January-June period, down 4.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Startups. The number of newly established real estate companies sank 18.9 percent on-year, with that of hospitality bu
National Sept. 19, 2022
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[Graphic News] ‘Snowdrop’ most talked about K-drama on Twitter in 2022
“Snowdrop,” a romance drama TV series starring Jung Hae-in and Jisoo of Blackpink, has been the most talked about K-drama in the world across the social media platform Twitter so far in 2022, the company said. According to Twitter, “Snowdrop,” which aired on JTBC from December of last year to Jan. 30, was the most tweeted K-drama show from Jan. 1 to Aug. 18, followed by tvN‘s “Twenty Five Twenty One” and “Business Proposal” of SBS at seco
World Sept. 16, 2022
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[Graphic News] S. Korea's fertility hits record low in 2021
South Korea’s total fertility rate hit a record low last year as the number of childbirths continued to fall, data showed, underscoring the country’s gloomy demographic situation. The country’s birthrate - the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime - came to 0.81 child in 2021, down from 0.84 the previous year, according to data from Statistics Korea. It was the lowest since the statistics agency began compiling related data in 1970. Last year also marke
National Sept. 15, 2022
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[Graphic News] S. Korea ranks 9th among nations with trade surpluses with US in H1: data
South Korea was ranked ninth among countries with trade surpluses with the United States in the first half of the year, as Asia‘s fourth-largest economy recorded strong on-year growth in shipments to the US during the period, US government data showed. According to the Department of Commerce, South Korea’s trade surplus with the US during the January-June period amounted to $21.67 billion, up 86.9 percent from a year ago. The trade surplus grew as South Korean shipments to the
World Business Sept. 14, 2022
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[Graphic News] School violence increases as classes return to normal: survey
Following the return to in-person classes, violence in schools has increased this year, a government survey showed. In the survey by the Education Ministry, 1.7 percent of students said they suffered violence in schools in 2022, up 0.6 percentage point from last year, when most schools shifted classes online due to COVID-19. The number is 0.1 percentage point higher than in 2019, before the pandemic. About 3.21 million students, or 82.9 percent of the total, from fourth grad
National Sept. 13, 2022
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[Graphic News] Monthly K-pop album sales top 10m for first time
Monthly sales of K-pop albums surpassed a combined 10 million for the first time in July thanks to the continued expansion of the global fandoms of idol groups, a market tracker said. According to Kim Jin-woo, head researcher of Circle Chart, which reports accumulated sales and streams, combined sales of the nation’s top 400 physical albums reached 10,827,324 copies in July, a 40.2 percent jump from the previous month. It marked the first time that monthly sales have topped 10 millio
K-pop Sept. 9, 2022
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