All posts tagged "report"

  • South Korean soccer fans react after Russian soccer team scored a goal against South Korea during  the group H World Cup soccer match between Russia and South Korea, at a public viewing venue in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea’s younger generation not so proud of heritage

    By Yoon Ja-young The country’s younger generation is not as proud of their Korean identity as their parents are. They also have less trust in the government and conglomerates. According to the latest “Korea Social Trends 2015″...

    • Posted December 15, 2015
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    S. Korea becoming most rapidly aging country in the world

    By Brian Han In South Korea, 80 percent of people view a rapidly growing aging population as a “major problem” according to the latest report by World Bank. Those concerns are valid across Asia, which happens to...

    • Posted December 9, 2015
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  • An office in the Gangnam district in Seoul, South Korea (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea ranks 115th in world for gender equality: report

    By Brian Han For a country that’s seen exponential economic growth in the last half century, South Korea seems to sometimes lag in social development. The most recent evidence of that comes from a 2015 World Economic...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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    Obama: Some of CIA’s harsh methods were ‘brutal’

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that some of the tactics described in a Senate report on harsh CIA interrogations were “brutal,” ”wrong” and “counterproductive,” but that releasing the information was an important step in...

    • Posted December 9, 2014
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    S. Korea’s economy to grow 3.8 pct in 2015 according to OECD report

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s economy is expected to grow 3.8 percent in 2015 on the back of the government’s efforts to boost it through fiscal stimulus and monetary policy easing, a report by a leading international...

    • Posted November 25, 2014
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