All posts tagged "oecd"

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    South Korea’s gender wage gap widest among OECD nations

    (Yonhap) South Korea topped the list of wage gap between men and women among advanced countries with the gender pay gap hardly narrowing over the past decade, data showed Monday. According to the data compiled by the...

    • Posted August 4, 2014
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    The average Korean drinks 9.16 liters of alcohol each year

    The average Korean drinks 9.16 liters of pure alcohol per person each year, roughly the equivalent of 100 bottles of beer or 60 bottles of soju, the latest research says. The research, released Thursday by the Korea...

    • Posted June 20, 2014
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  • Actresses Jung Da-yeon and Choi Jin-shil are just two of many celebrities who took their own lives. (Korea Times file)
    Korea’s suicide rate triples OECD average

    Korea has by far the highest number of suicides among 34 members of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to its annual report. The OECD report for 2011 showed that the rate of suicide in Korea was 33.3...

    • Posted November 23, 2013
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  • A governmental research revealed that Koreans consume an average of 8.9 liters or 124 bottles of soju per year. (Korea Times file)
    Korea’s alcohol consumption lower than OECD average

      The average Korean consumes 8.9 liters of alcohol annually – equivalent to 124 of the usual 360 ml bottles of soju (20% alcohol by volume), or 356 of the larger 500 ml cans of beer (5%...

    • Posted November 21, 2013
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