Trump put North Korea's arsenal at 57 warheads for the first time, expecting to meet Kim Jong Un this year — but dropped 'denuclearization.' What the silence signals, per SIPRI data.
South Korea's pension market hit 554 trillion won in Q2 2026, with banks' share falling to 50.8% as brokerages near 30%. The data behind the shift, and why now.
South Korea's fertility rate jumped from a record-low 0.72 in 2023 toward 0.9 in 2026. Is this birth rate rebound a real turnaround — or a demographic mirage?
South Korea's driest reservoirs in decades were hit by record hourly rainfall just ten days later. The numbers behind Korea's 'climate whiplash' — and what comes next.
President Lee Jae-myung's Liberation Day speech proposed peace talks to replace Korea's 73-year armistice. Here's why this attempt differs, backed by data.
South Korea's 2026 AI budget jumped 211% to ₩10.1 trillion. As President Lee's Liberation Day speech leans into an 'AI top-3' vision, we checked the numbers.
Korea unveiled a housing plan on Aug. 13 adding 230,000+ homes and doubling household loan quotas, as Seoul's jeonse prices rose six times faster than a year ago. Here's whether it can actually cool the market.
Korea's exports hit a record $21.3B in early August, and 46.8% of it was chips alone. Here's the data behind how a share once in the low 20s doubled in two years — and why the boom itself is a red flag.
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.
South Korea's youth employment rate has fallen for 26 straight months to 43.9%. Here's why, and whether the government's new jobs plan can reverse it.
