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May 24, 2018 World Business

[Graphic News] Europe car sales speed up in April

Car sales in the top European markets rose sharply in April, statistics showed Thursday, confounding fears that a slowdown in the eurozone's recovery might put the brakes on the continent's vehicle ...

[Graphic News] Annual salaries of top 30 firms rise 2.6% in 2017

The average annual salaries of employees at South Korea’s top 30 listed companies grew in the mid-2 percent range in 2017, with the growth rate for women nearly twice that for men. According to jo...

May 23, 2018
Business
[Graphic News] Air pollution kills over 480,000 Europeans a year: report

Air pollution causes more than 480,000 premature deaths across Europe each year despite “slowly” improving air quality on the continent, the EU’s environment authority said. Data collected at moni...

May 22, 2018
World News
[Graphic News] Plastic planet

More than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics have been produced since the 1950s, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances. As of 2015, humans had generated 8.3 billion t...

May 21, 2018
World
[Graphic News] 68% of world population will live in urban areas by 2050: UN

Sixty-eight percent of the world‘s population will live in urban areas by the year 2050, the United Nation said Wednesday, up from the current 55 percent. The UN report predicted an extra 2.5 bill...

May 20, 2018
World News
[Graphic News] Under the hammer: Record art auctions

A stunning nude that is the largest painting produced by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani sold for $157.2 million in New York on Monday, becoming the fourth most expensive work of art sold at auctio...

May 17, 2018
Arts&Design
[Graphic News] Seoul ranks 10th best city for university students

South Korean capital Seoul has been named the 10th best city in the world for university students, according to a report from the QS Best Student Cities Ranking. London overtook last year’s top-pl...

May 16, 2018
World News
[Graphic News] Record-low number of children adopted in 2017

According to data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, local courts in Korea granted permission for 863 children to be adopted both in the country and abroad in 2017, down from 890 a year earlie...

May 15, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] China's Xi Jinping is world's most powerful person

Chinese President Xi Jinping has emerged as the world's most powerful person, according to Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people. Russian President Vladimir Putin ranked second, while U...

May 14, 2018
World News
[Graphic News] Indians most eager for self-driving cars

There is widespread interest about autonomous vehicles in India, Malaysia, China and South Korea, according to a survey by IPSOS in selected countries. The poll results show that 58 percent of glo...

May 13, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] Over 9,000 victims suffered from past governments' blacklists of artists

Nearly 9,300 artists or groups were unjustly excluded from state support or even illegally inspected under the past two conservative administrations for political reasons, a civilian-government fact...

May 10, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] S. Korea's medical spending grows fastest among OECD members

According to a report from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, medical spending in South Korea jumped by an annual average of 6.8 percent from 2005 to 2015 The growth rate during th...

May 9, 2018
Health
[Graphic News] India's Modi twice as popular on Facebook as Trump

US President Donald Trump may rule the roost on Twitter, but he lags far behind Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook, according to a study. Modi is by far the most followed world leader...

May 8, 2018
World
[Graphic News] US, China and Saudi biggest military spenders in 2017

Global military spending rose in 2017 to its highest level since the Cold War, with the United States, China and Saudi Arabia topping the list, a Swedish research institute said. The Stockholm Int...

May 7, 2018
World
[Graphic News] The world's leading newspapers of history

How many issues a newspaper has published reflects the print media's history. Global newspaper giant the New York Times boasts a long history and reputation. But there are few newspapers in Korea...

May 3, 2018
World

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