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Number of people employed in Korea up 310,000 in July
The number of people in Korea's workforce was up 310-thousand in July compared to the same month last year. (According to Statistics Korea Wednesday, this marks an increase of over 300,000 workers a month for six straight months, thanks to a pickup in the manufacturing sector.) (Korean) "The manufacturing...
2017-08-09 10:00:56 KST -
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Number of employed in Korea up 310-thousand in July
The number of people in South Korea's workforce was up 310-thousand in July compared to the same month last year, mainly due to a pick up in the manufacturing sector. According to Statistics Korea Wednesday, the employment rate increased slightly to 61-and-a-half percent. The unemployment rate stood at three-poin...
2017-08-09 07:03:07 KST -
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Tuesday's market roundup
Now for the market wrap, Wall Street ended lower on Tuesday after those explosive late-afternoon comments from President Trump on North Korea prompted a last-minute selling spree as investors fled for safety. With that, the three major indexes dipped with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down zero-point-one-f...
2017-08-09 04:35:21 KST -
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Verdict of class action lawsuit against Kia Motors unveiled next Thursday
The verdict of Korea's biggest wage class action lawsuit will be unveiled next Thursday after it was first filed in 2011. Some 27-thousand labor union members sued Kia Motors a corporate cousin of Korea's largest automaker Hyundai Motor for withholding overtime pay and bonuses. The focus of the case, is on whethe...
2017-08-08 15:40:33 KST -
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Worldwide semiconductor capital spending to grow in 2017, but shrink by 2019: Gartner
Global capital spending in the semiconductor industry is forecast to jump more than ten percent on-year in 2017, to nearly 78 billion dollars. Market research firm Gartner said the investment growth rate, which is one-point-four percent higher than previously forecast, is due to shortage of NAND flash memory chips...
2017-08-08 11:52:50 KST -
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Gov't pinpoints slowdown in industrial output for shaky recovery path
Despite a nine-month increase in exports, Korea's economic recovery is not as solid as it seems after a dip in production in the mining and manufacturing sectors. That's according to a report released by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance on Tuesday which says production in the mining and manufacturing ...
2017-08-08 11:52:50 KST -
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Monday's market roundup
Now to the market wrap-- Wall Street ended higher on Monday, as the Dow Jones industrial average edged up to its ninth-record closing high in a row, while the S&P 500 finished a little higher to a new record high with consumer and tech sector gains offsetting losses in the energy sector. The Dow rose zero-point-on...
2017-08-08 04:28:03 KST -
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S. Korea's gasoline, diesel consumption at record high in Q2
Korea consumed record amounts of gasoline and diesel in the second quarter this year, partly because of falling oil prices and partly due to the start of the summer holiday season. According to data from the Ministry of Trade Industry and Energy, from April to June, consumption of gasoline reached an all-time high o...
2017-08-07 15:25:30 KST -
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Hyundai, Kia outpace Ford in U.S. hybrid car market in July
Sales of Korean hybrid cars outpaced American models in the U.S. for the first time in more than two years last month. U.S. market tracker Hybrid-Cars-dot-com says Hyundai Motor and its corporate cousin Kia Motors sold nearly 5-thousand units in July raising their market share to 17-percent. The sales bump was fu...
2017-08-06 12:29:48 KST -
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Japanese auto brands topped imported car sales in Korea in July
Japanese automobiles were Korea's imported cars of choice last month. The Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association says Japanese auto brands like Lexus, Honda and Mazda accounted for 22-and-a-half percent of all imported car sales in July. This means their market share has more than doubled since 2014, ...
2017-08-05 15:45:03 KST -
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Korea's trade surplus with China dwindles in 2016
A report by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy released on Friday shows the country's trade surplus with China recorded 37-point-5-billion U.S. dollars in 2016, a drop by 40-percent from three years earlier. Moreover, the ratio of Korea's trade surplus to bilateral trade volume inch...
2017-08-05 09:19:46 KST -
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New high tech air conditioners dominate the Korean market
Nowadays, customers shopping for an air conditioner aren't satisfied with simply having a cool breeze blow at them. Many of them actually want to cool their spaces without any breeze at all. That wish came to fruition last year, when Samsung launched its wind-free air conditioner. 5 years of R&D culminated in a ...
2017-08-04 15:25:32 KST
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