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[Graphic News] S. Korean webtoon market jumps to top W1tr in sales

[Graphic News] S. Korean webtoon market jumps to top W1tr in sales

BusinessJan 14, 2022

The South Korean webtoon industry saw its combined sales top 1 trillion won ($843.6 million) for the first time in 2020, government data showed. The total sales of the local web-based comic market amounted to 1.05 trillion won in 2020, up 64.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the data by the Culture Ministry and the Korea Creative Content Agency. It is the first time that the annual...

[Graphic News] 7 out of 10 S. Koreans see China as biggest threat: poll

NationalJan 13, 2022

Seven out of 10 South Koreans chose China as the biggest security threat to their country among the neighbors, excluding North Korea, a survey showed. According to a survey by the state-run Korea Institute of National Unification on 1,006 adults, 71.8 percent of the respondents picked China as the biggest threat to the nation, followed by Japan with 21.1 percent and the United States with 6.3 ...
[Graphic News] Number of workers taking parental leave up 3.7%

NationalJan 12, 2022

The number of South Korean workers who took time off to take care of their children rose 3.7 percent in 2020 from a year earlier amid more government support for parental leave, government data showed. A total of 169,345 workers took parental leave to take care of their children in 2020, up 6,089 from the previous year, according to the preliminary data from Statistics Korea. The figure was ...

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