- Senior citizens over the age of 65 have increased by 40% in the past six years, but their medical expenditures have increased 300%.
- The Bank of Korea is revamping its statistics, using 2005 as a base year instead of 1970, because a lot has changed since 1970.
- Hyundai Motors union agrees to a wage freeze this year, with no strike.
- One-member households (that's me!) make up one-fifth of all households in South Korea.
- A report by the Ministry for Health, Welfare, Family Affairs, and Muggle Relations says that one newborn will generate 1.2 billion won in his/her lifetime.
- Production at the Kaesŏng Industrial Complex rose in October.
- Bickering may doom the Korean-American research center to be set up at UC Riverside and named after Colonel Young-oak Kim.
- Here's an Orange County Register article on the high-safety Korean-made railway cars being imported by Metrolink.
- South Korea is being invited for the first time to a NATO meeting, owing to it being part of the coalition in Afghanistan.
- Budget carrier Jin Air is launching its first international flight, to Bangkok.
- According to a survey, South Korean social life revolves too much around close friends and family at the expense of wider social movements. Another survey says South Koreans take too many surveys.
- With 57.1% of cancer patients surviving beyond five years, the South Korean health ministry says this is the highest in the world. It's nice to see Korea is number one at things other than sidewalk-based motorcycle-on-pedestrian auto accidents and spitters per square kilometer.
- The government is launching a presidential panel aimed at social cohesion, headed by former PM and acting president, Goh Kun.
- A study finds that unemployed men (i.e., those who can't use work as an excuse for not doing housework) don't do much housework.
- Half of all South Koreans plan to travel abroad in 2010. Half of all Americans may go to another state.
- Seoul Metro will operate the new light-rail between Pusan and Kimhae starting in April 2011.
- President Lee Myungbak says that public transportation is the key to fighting climate change.
- Loads of dinosaurs are waiting to be discovered in rich layers of sediment across an area spreading from Mongolia to the Korean Peninsula.
- In exchange for $1.2 billion in aid, Cambodia has returned twenty Uighur asylum-seekers to China.
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