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Aug 21, 2019 World Business

[Graphic News] Samsung No. 2 patent holder in US in 2018

Samsung Electronics ranked second in terms of the number of patents filed in the United States last year, a report by a US patent association showed. Samsung registered 5,836 patents in the US la...

[Graphic News] Korea's coal consumption up in 2018, bucks global trend

South Korea’s coal consumption increased last year, bucking the global trend for reducing carbon emissions, a report showed. South Korea consumed 88.2 million tons of oil equivalent, a unit of ene...

Aug 20, 2019
World Business
[Graphic News] Seat occupancy on flights to and from Japan drops over trade row

The number of air passengers on routes between South Korea and Japan dipped during the peak summer vacation season amid an escalating bilateral trade spat, government data showed. The passenger lo...

Aug 19, 2019
Business
[Graphic News] Korean card spending on Japanese goods halves in a month

South Koreans’ credit card spending on Japanese products has halved over the past month amid an escalating trade row between the two countries, government data showed. Many Korean consumers began ...

Aug 18, 2019
Business
[Graphic News] Serena still highest-paid woman in sports

US tennis superstar Serena Williams topped Forbes magazine’s list of the highest-paid women in sports for the fourth straight year. The business publication calculated that the 23-time Grand Slam ...

Aug 15, 2019
Sports
[Graphic News] Arsenal signs Nicolas Pepe for record fee

Arsenal announced the signing of winger Nicolas Pepe from French side Lille in early August for a club-record fee reported to be 80 million euros ($87 million). The deal for the 24-year-old Ivory...

Aug 13, 2019
Soccer
[Graphic News] Applicants for Korean language test surpass 300,000

The annual number of applicants for the state-run Test of Proficiency in Korean surpassed 300,000 for the first time last year, its administrator said. A total of 329,224 people across 76 countries ...

Aug 13, 2019
Education
[Graphic News] Exports of cultural contents rise 8.4% in 2018

South Korea’s exports of cultural contents increased 8.4 percent in 2018 from the previous year to $9.55 billion, a government report showed. Last year’s growth came after annual average growth of 1...

Aug 11, 2019
Economy
[Graphic News] Netflix tops 1.8m users in S. Korea: data

The number of South Korean users subscribing to the US video-streaming platform Netflix has nearly tripled on-year to surpass the 1.8 million mark, latest industry data showed. Netflix is estimate...

Aug 8, 2019
National
[Graphic News] 34% of Korean adolescents have thought about suicide: poll

Nearly 34 percent of South Korean adolescents have thought about killing themselves because of academic pressure, a recent survey showed. The grim finding came in the National Youth Policy Institu...

Aug 7, 2019
Social affairs
[Graphic News] Cigarette sales down 0.6% in H1

Sales of cigarettes in South Korea edged down 0.6 percent in the first half of 2019 from a year prior, data showed, amid an anti-smoking campaign and higher prices. South Korean smokers purchased ...

Aug 6, 2019
Health
[Graphic News] S. Korea’s electronics output ranks 3rd in 2018

South Korea’s electronics output was the world’s third largest in terms of value last year thanks to brisk sales of memory chips, an industry report showed. The total production of the electronics...

Aug 5, 2019
World Business
[Graphic News] Huawei still No. 2 smartphone seller despite US sanctions, Samsung No. 1

Huawei Technologies remained the No. 2 global smartphone vendor in the past quarter despite tough US sanctions imposed on the Chinese technology giant, market trackers said. The Chinese firm manag...

Aug 4, 2019
World Business
[Graphic News] South Korea’s coffee market to reach W6.8tr

The size of the South Korean coffee market will reach 6.8 trillion won ($5.76 billion) by the end of this year, according to a report released by the Hyundai Research Institute. Koreans, aged over...

Aug 1, 2019
National
[Graphic News] Smuggled drugs down 41% in H1

Drug smuggling detected by the South Korean authorities dropped sharply in the first half of 2019, customs data showed, although illegal attempts to smuggle drugs continue to rise. A total of 86.8...

Jul 31, 2019
National

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