Nepal's flood has killed 633 and left 9 Korean workers missing for four days. Why a glacier collapse, not an earthquake, is now a warning for Korea's overseas builders.
South Korea added 7 counties to its rural basic income pilot, paying 150,000-200,000 KRW a month, as the farm population fell below 2 million for the first time.
Separate major warehouse fires across operators from one company’s incidents. A guide to matching populations, periods and denominators, with corrections to our earlier article.
South Korean borrowers in their 20s now carry an average mortgage balance of ₩203.94 million, crossing ₩200 million for the first time even as lending tightened everywhere else. Here's what the Bank of Korea data reveals — and the statistical trap behind it.
After 111 days and Korea's first full strike in a decade, Hyundai's union got a wage deal. Here's what the 2.3 trillion won in losses actually bought.
We split the $350 billion into $200 billion of investment and $150 billion of shipbuilding cooperation investment, and worked out what a cap of $20 billion a year actually means. On September 7, 2026 the Ministry of Trade and Industry said the Encinal project had not been confirmed.
Korea's 2026 tax reform raises the property-tax exemption to 1.4bn won for owner-occupiers, cuts it to 900m won for absentee owners. The data, history and fight behind the split.
South Korea's household debt hit a record ₩2,019.8 trillion in Q2 2026, its biggest quarterly jump in 19 quarters. The data behind the debt-fueled stock bets and the central bank's rate dilemma.
BIGBANG's digital single 'BiiiG' swept Korea's four major charts within an hour of its 20th-anniversary release. We compare the record against 'Still Life' (2022).
KDI raised South Korea's 2026 growth forecast to 3.2% in 3 months on a chip boom — but new-jobs forecast fell from 170,000 to 110,000. The numbers, explained.
