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Understand the shifts in Korean news and culture through data, comparisons, and context.
A guide to reading dataSqueezed 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.
