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Understand the shifts in Korean news and culture through data, comparisons, and context.
A guide to reading dataA plain-language explanation of what the 3.4% won settlement share in the Bank of Korea's finalized 2025 statistics is actually a share of. It also covers why the 2.7% and 3.4% shown in the table differ from the 0.8 percentage point change the Bank of Korea published, and how to keep the offshore won settlement system's target schedule apart from actual usage.
We separate the two ways of counting the welfare ministry's budget, and correct the denominator of the national debt ratio to nominal GDP. We hold back judgment on why the ratio falls until the official GDP assumption can be checked, and we found no confirmed evidence that the future response fund caused the ₩106 trillion rise in debt.
Korea's National Pension Service raised its domestic stock target from 14.9% to 20.8% and put off the rule-based selling. Meanwhile the actual share a securities firm estimated came down from 31.1% on June 22 to 26.3% on July 8. Here is how to read those apart, including where the 28.8% limit carried in reports comes from.
By TRM Labs' count, $643 million (66%) of the $972 million lost to hacks in the first half of 2026 was linked to North Korea. VOA's $609 million and 55%, citing Blockaid, is a separate count with a different base. The $789 million and 74% for private-key theft are that side's figures too.
Squeezed between US pressure and Iran's war warning, South Korea is weighing sending 150 troops to the Strait of Hormuz — the route for 70% of its oil imports. Here's the dilemma in numbers.
We separate the two ways of counting the welfare ministry's budget, and correct the denominator of the national debt ratio to nominal GDP. We hold back judgment on why the ratio falls until the official GDP assumption can be checked, and we found no confirmed evidence that the future response fund caused the ₩106 trillion rise in debt.
Justice minister nominee Kim Seung-won sent a text in 2021 asking regulators to speed up a drug trial approval. Five years on, that message is the flashpoint of his September 15 confirmation hearing.
We confirmed the presidential office's request for a re-nomination, and the August 18 nomination of Son Bong-gi, from the presidential office briefing. In plain words, provision by provision: which law covers candidate recommendation, nomination, the National Assembly's consent and the confirmation hearing.
NCT 127's 10th-anniversary album 'BLINGY' sold 940K copies in week one, ending a million-seller streak — yet it topped iTunes in 10 countries and swept Hanteo's US, Japan, and China charts.
