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WEB5 days ago · Credit delinquencies soar among young Koreans amid rising rates, inflation. The number of people in their 20s falling into credit delinquency — missing loan repayments — has increased, largely due to high interest rates, soaring prices, and difficulties in finding jobs, according to an opposition lawmaker, Monday.
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WEBKoreaTimes. -2. -1. 0. +1. +2. The popular veteran K-pop girl group KARA will release a new song in July, marking its return 1 year and 8 months after the release of its 15th-anniversary special album 'Move Again' in November 2022, its agency RBW said. First deaf priest in Asia earns doctorate in theology in US.
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WEBAnother victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery dies, leaving 8 survivors. A victim of Japan's sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II has died, a civic group said Saturday, bringing down the number of officially registered surviving victims to eight.
Korea explores 3,500m-thick glacier in Antarctica with homegrown …
WEBMar 5, 2024 · Courtesy of KOPRI. Korea successfully explored a 3,500-meter thick glacier in Antarctica using a radar system developed by domestic technicians as part of its efforts to foster research capabilities on responding to climate change, the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) said Tuesday. The research team, led by KOPRI scientist Lee Joo-han ...
Nearly 40% of older adults in Korea mired in poverty
WEBMar 11, 2024 · The relative poverty rate of adults aged 65 and older stood at 38.1 percent that year, up 0.5 percentage points from a year earlier, according to a report released Monday by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Statistics Korea. The relative poverty rate refers to the ratio of people with an income below 50 percent of the median income.
Koreans cry foul over deepening polarization in post-COVID era
WEBOct 31, 2021 · With pandemic-caused polarization emerging as a social problem, the government decided to add 60 trillion won to the 160 trillion won initially allocated to contain this economic disparity by 2025 under the Korean New Deal 2.0, one year after the introduction of the original plan. In the upgraded plan, the …
South Korea's technological superiority challenged by North …
WEBJan 3, 2024 · North Korea has weaponized cyberspace and disrupted the South with ceaseless clandestine cyber operations. Its cyberattacks took various forms. North Korea steals valuable, sensitive data, encrypts data to make it inaccessible and destroy assets through unauthorized access. Cyberattacks are becoming a …
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