[Graphic News] 1 in 5 Seoul households live with a pet: data

　One in 5 households in Seoul have a pet and the number of homes that have embraced cats is on the rise, data showed.　Some 20 percent of the surveyed households said they were living with a pet as of 2018, compared with 18.8 percent in 2014, according to data from the Seoul Metropolitan Government.　The survey was conducted in September last year on 20,000 households in the city. The poll had a margin of error of 0.47 percentage point and a 95 percent confidence level. 　The number of households w

Social AffairsNov. 27, 2019

[Graphic News] ASEAN members

ASEAN stands for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The political and economic community comprises 10 member countries.

WorldNov. 24, 2019

[Graphic News] S. Korea ranks among top OECD member countries in treatment of cancer: data

　South Korea ranks as one of the leading members among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in the treatment of cancer, medical data showed.　The 2019 Health at a Glance report released by the Paris-based organization said Asia’s fourth-largest economy had the highest five-year survival rate for colorectal, rectal and stomach cancers among the 32 member states checked, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which examined the data, said.　The cancer survival rate, which is

TechnologyNov. 21, 2019

[Graphic News] Over half of Americans favor Trump impeachment: poll

　A slim majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office for his controversial Ukraine actions, according to the first poll after the launch of public hearings in the US Congress.　Fifty-one percent of those asked said they think Trump should be tried and convicted in the US Senate, while another 6 percent favor impeachment but not removal, according to the ABC News-Ipsos poll released.　That appeared to represent an increase from before the hearings

World NewsNov. 20, 2019

[Graphic News] Global market size for luxury goods and jewelry

　According to Euromonitor International, global luxury goods sales reached $954 billion in 2017 and the global market grew 5 percent in 2018 across most segments.　Luxury cars sales accounted for almost 53 percent of all global luxury goods sales. This proportion grew over the reviewed period, and is expected to continue increasing to 2022.

World BusinessNov. 19, 2019

[Graphic News] Number of Chinese tourists dips 41% over 3 years on THAAD row

　South Korea suffered a tumble of about 41 percent in the number of visiting Chinese tourists over the past three years, since its decision to deploy an advanced US missile defense system here, according to a recent report.　A total of 4.79 million Chinese travelers visited South Korea in 2018, down 40.6 percent from 8.07 million two years prior, according to the report from the Federation of Korean Industries.　In contrast, the number of Chinese tourists to Japan surged 31.4 percent to 8.38 milli

NationalNov. 18, 2019

[Graphic News] S. Korea recaptures No. 1 spot in shipbuilding orders

　South Korea recaptured the top spot in global shipbuilding orders last month, industry data showed, on the back of its dominance in the liquefied natural gas carrier market. 　In October, local shipyards, led by Hyundai Heavy Industries, won orders totaling 1.29 million compensated gross tons to build 17 ships, accounting for 86 percent of the orders placed around the globe, according to London-based Clarkson Research Services, the world’s leading provider of data for the shipping and ship

IndustryNov. 17, 2019

[Graphic News] N. Korea ranks 193rd out of 195 countries in ability to cope with epidemic

　North Korea ranks 193rd out of 195 countries in terms of its ability to prevent, detect and respond to an epidemic, a recent global health security index showed.　The impoverished North scored 17.5 points in the index compiled by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a US-based nonprofit organization, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, coming higher than only two countries -- Equatorial Guinea and Somalia.　The global average was 40.2 points.　Meanwhile, South Korea ranked 9th in the index

North KoreaNov. 14, 2019

[Graphic News] Shenzhen, Beijing lose out to Chengdu as China’s best performing city

　Chengdu, the capital of China’s southwestern province Sichuan, overtook technology hub Shenzhen to top the Milken Institute’s 2019 index of the nation’s best-performing cities.　This is the third time that Chengdu, best known internationally for its pandas, has been ranked first since the list began in 2015. 　The index incorporated nine indicators for the period up to 2017, including employment and wage growth, the growth in gross regional product per-capita, and foreign direct

World NewsNov. 13, 2019

[Graphic News] Over 800 North Koreans have defected to S. Korea this year

　Over 800 North Koreans have defected to South Korea so far in 2019, government data showed, indicating their annual figure will be similar to that recorded a year earlier.　A total of 828 North Koreans defected to the South during the January-October period, according to data provided by the Unification Ministry handling inter-Korean affairs.　At the current rate, the annual number of North Koreans settling here is expected to be similar to 1,137 registered last year. (Yonhap)

North KoreaNov. 12, 2019

[Graphic News] No. of China’s ‘unicorn’ startups exceed US for first time

　China now has more privately held startups valued by investors at over $1 billion than the US, a report said.　There were 206 Chinese firms out of a global total of 494 ultravaluable startups - known as unicorns - in June 2019, according to the research firm Hurun Report.　This makes China the country with the largest number of unicorns in the world, with the US coming in second with 203 such companies.　According to Hurun, China is home to the world’s three most valuable unicorns - Alibaba

World BusinessNov. 11, 2019

[Graphic News] Number of temporary workers rises 13.1% in 2019

　The number of temporary workers in South Korea rose 13.1 percent on-year this year, with such positions also accounting for a rising percentage of the total, government data showed.　A total of 7.48 million workers were nonregular workers, part-timers or outsourced laborers as of August 2019, up about 870,000 from a year ago, according to the data from Statistics Korea.　They accounted for 36.4 percent of the country’s 20.55 million salaried employees.　In 2018, temporary workers accounted f

Social AffairsNov. 10, 2019

[Graphic News] 5G smartphone users’ monthly data use hits record high in Sept.

　Users of smartphones running on fifth-generation networks used a record amount of data in September, data showed, amid growing demand for mobile content.　The combined amount of data used by South Korean users of 5G mobile devices reached 87,928 terabytes, according to the data released by the Ministry of Science and ICT.　Since the number of 5G subscribers totaled 3.46 million that month, the figure translates to 25.97 gigabytes per user. A two-hour high-definition movie file has around 2 gigaby

IndustryNov. 7, 2019

[Graphic News] Protests around the world in Oct.

　The past weeks have seen a wave of protest movements erupt in countries worldwide.　The high cost of living, limits on civil liberties and government corruption have sparked major demonstrations.　Here is an overview of the main demonstrations around the world that started last month and others that are ongoing. (AFP)

World NewsNov. 6, 2019

[Graphic News] 130 million children under 5 have died since 2000

　More than 15,000 children under the age of 5 die every day in the developing world, with huge disparities in death rates between countries, according to a detailed assessment of childhood mortality.　From 2000 to the end of 2017, 123 million newborns, infants and toddlers perished in 99 low- and middle-income countries, which account for more than 90 percent of under-5 deaths, the study found.　Globally, under-5 mortality has declined by almost half since 2000, from nearly 10 million to 5.4 milli

World NewsNov. 5, 2019

[Graphic News] Stanford most innovative university in world

　For the fifth year running, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard topped Reuters’ ranking of the world’s most innovative universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries. 　Stanford holds onto its top spot year after year because it produces a steady stream of innovations that are cited by other researchers in academia and private

Social AffairsNov. 4, 2019

[Graphic News] Third of S. Koreans prescribed narcotics in past year: data

　A third of South Koreans were given prescription narcotics in the past year, as more people received comprehensive medical checkups, government data showed.　More than 17.8 million people received drugs like propofol and zolpidem, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said, citing some 107 million pieces of data collected from July 2018 through June this year.　The drug safety agency said pain killers, sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs were the most common types prescribed by doctors, with women ma

TechnologyNov. 3, 2019

[Graphic News] Website defacements rise in 2019

　The number of website defacements in South Korea has increased in 2019 from a year earlier, an opposition lawmaker said.　Rep. Shin Yong-hyeon of the minor opposition Bareunmirae Party said webpage-related hackings, including the stealing of confidential information and injection of malicious code, numbered 501 cases as of August, compared with 567 for the whole of 2018.　The lawmaker cited findings submitted by the Korea Internet & Security Agency for a parliamentary audit.　She said the numb

NationalOct. 31, 2019

[Graphic News] 9 in 10 K-pop fans want to visit South Korea: poll

Nine in 10 K-pop fans would like to visit South Korea in the future, a survey showed, highlighting K-pop’s positive impact on the tourism sector.In a survey of 12,663 people from 111 countries who identified themselves as K-pop fans, 89.8 percent of the respondents said they would like to visit the country, according to the Korea Tourism Organization.The survey showed BTS was the most popular group followed by EXO, Super Junior and Big Bang. (Yonhap)

K-popOct. 30, 2019

[Graphic News] Norway tops rankings for women’s quality of life

　Norway and Switzerland are the best countries for women and Yemen and Afghanistan the worst, according to research.　While women’s quality of life has improved in some 60 countries, it has deteriorated in Yemen and other war-torn nations, research organizations Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security and Peace Research Institute Oslo concluded. 　The researchers looked at 167 countries since 2017, when the first Women, Peace and Security Index was compiled, wei

World NewsOct. 29, 2019