On Oct. 1, Indonesian police fired tear gas after violence broke out at a soccer match in Malang, East Java province, sparking a mass panic which drove the crowd toward stadium exits, causing a deadly crush which left at least 125 people dead.

World Oct. 5, 2022

　South Koreans’ use of internet banking services grew 6.9 percent in the first half of this year from six months earlier as customers preferred financial services through mobile devices, central bank data showed. 　The daily use of online banking services, including mobile banking, reached 18.82 million cases in the January-June period, compared with 17.61 million in the second half of last year, according to the data from the Bank of Korea. 　The value of daily transactions through inter

Business Oct. 4, 2022

　A total of 630 elementary to high school students took their own lives over the past four years, due mainly to family feuds, an Education Ministry report showed. 　According to the report submitted to Rep. Kim Byong-wook of the People Power Party, 388 high school students died by suicide between 2018-2021, followed by 216 middle school students and 26 elementary school kids. 　Family feuds and parental abuse were the reason behind 196 of the suicide cases reported, followed by unknown reasons

National Sept. 30, 2022

　The number of people forced to work or in a marriage against their will has surged in recent years to around 50 million on any given day, the UN's International Labor Organization said on upon releasing its modern slavery report. 　Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and climate change have led to unprecedented disruption to employment and education while exacerbating extreme poverty and forced migration, the agency said. 　Compared to the last count for the year 2016, the nu

World Sept. 29, 2022

　Nine out of 10 South Koreans are skeptical about the possibility of North Korea abandoning its nuclear program, a survey showed, amid a prolonged impasse in inter-Korean relations and denuclearization talks. 　According to a poll of 1,200 adults by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, 92.5 percent responded with skepticism, the highest percentage since the annual survey began in 2007. 　The number of respondents that supported South Korea’s nuclea

North Korea Sept. 27, 2022

　South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK hynix were the biggest NAND flash sellers in the world in the second quarter, an industry report showed. 　According to Taiwan-based market analyst firm TrendForce, Samsung's NAND flash sales during the April-June period reached $5.98 billion, with its global market share at 33 percent, down 2.3 percentage points from the previous quarter. 　NAND flash is a type of non-volatile storage technology that does not require power to retain data. (Yo

World Business Sept. 26, 2022

More than 10.5 million children worldwide have lost parents or caregivers, and 7.5 million-plus have lost one or both parents from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by JAMA Pediatrics. The sobering statistics are far above previous estimates and still climbing. And they could underscore potentially devastating, long-term consequences for children, including “institutionalization, abuse, traumatic grief, mental health problems, adolescent pregnancy, poor educational outcomes, a

World Sept. 23, 2022

　An American squad with 11 of the world's 18 top-ranked players is ready for the Presidents Cup, which begins on Thursday (local time), as huge favorites for a ninth consecutive victory over a depleted Internationals line-up. 　Top-ranked Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, No. 4 Patrick Cantlay, fifth-ranked Tokyo Olympic champion Xander Schauffele and multiple major winners Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and Collin Morikawa lead the 12-man US team into Quail Hollow. 　They face an International

Golf Sept. 22, 2022

　South Korea’s expenditure on processed food consumption grew approximately 18 percent during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, a public institution survey analysis showed. 　According to the state-run Rural Development Administration, the country’s estimated spending on processed foods totaled 47.1 trillion won ($33.7 billion) last year, up 18.4 percent from 39.8 trillion won in 2019. 　The estimates were compiled through analysis of the RDA's household annual spending surveys c

National Sept. 21, 2022

　Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne in 1952, but her formal coronation took place on June 2, 1953, making her the longest serving among Europe’s current monarchs.

World Sept. 20, 2022

　The number of startups in South Korea fell nearly 5 percent in the first half of the year due mainly to a plunge in new real estate businesses, government data showed. 　A total of 696,000 new companies were set up in the country in the January-June period, down 4.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Startups. 　The number of newly established real estate companies sank 18.9 percent on-year, with that of hospitality bu

National Sept. 19, 2022

　“Snowdrop,” a romance drama TV series starring Jung Hae-in and Jisoo of Blackpink, has been the most talked about K-drama in the world across the social media platform Twitter so far in 2022, the company said. 　According to Twitter, “Snowdrop,” which aired on JTBC from December of last year to Jan. 30, was the most tweeted K-drama show from Jan. 1 to Aug. 18, followed by tvN‘s “Twenty Five Twenty One” and “Business Proposal” of SBS at seco

World Sept. 16, 2022

　South Korea’s total fertility rate hit a record low last year as the number of childbirths continued to fall, data showed, underscoring the country’s gloomy demographic situation. 　The country’s birthrate - the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime - came to 0.81 child in 2021, down from 0.84 the previous year, according to data from Statistics Korea. 　It was the lowest since the statistics agency began compiling related data in 1970. Last year also marke

National Sept. 15, 2022

　South Korea was ranked ninth among countries with trade surpluses with the United States in the first half of the year, as Asia‘s fourth-largest economy recorded strong on-year growth in shipments to the US during the period, US government data showed. 　According to the Department of Commerce, South Korea’s trade surplus with the US during the January-June period amounted to $21.67 billion, up 86.9 percent from a year ago. 　The trade surplus grew as South Korean shipments to the

World Business Sept. 14, 2022

 Following the return to in-person classes, violence in schools has increased this year, a government survey showed.  In the survey by the Education Ministry, 1.7 percent of students said they suffered violence in schools in 2022, up 0.6 percentage point from last year, when most schools shifted classes online due to COVID-19. The number is 0.1 percentage point higher than in 2019, before the pandemic.  About 3.21 million students, or 82.9 percent of the total, from fourth grad

National Sept. 13, 2022