South Korea in 2024 saw 242,334 babies born, marking the first increase in the annual figure since 2015, as the country struggles to improve its plummeting birth rate that is among the worst in the ...

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South Korea in 2024 saw 242,334 babies born, marking the first increase in the annual figure since 2015, as the country ...

In December 2024, the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) revised the 2024 growth target to 6.0-6.5%, expecting ...

The government has little to show for the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on pro-natal policies over nearly two decades ...

Prasanth Katam, an insurance analyst at GlobalData, noted that South Korea’s economy grew by only 1.4% in 2023, which ...

Citing data from the Institute of International Education in the US and South Korea’s Ministry of Justice, the report’s authors noted that international students from the US have grown “eight-fold” ...

The Dec. 29, 2024, plenary session of the Eighth Party Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was presented as a grand ...

Japan, South Korea, and China face critical economic challenges in 2025, from trade tensions to structural shifts.

On 8 October 2023, Hezbollah began raining rockets and drones down on northern Israel in solidarity, it said, with its ...

Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s population held elections in 2024, and voters' message was often: “You’re ...