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More well-educated Korean women choose to get remarried: data

The number of well-educated South Korean women who got married for the second time rose 9.4 percent last year from a year earlier, a government report showed Friday.The number of women aged between 35 and 59 with a bachelor's degree or above who remarried last year amounted to 8,982, up 773 from the previous year, according to the state-run statistics agency. Currently, Korea's total population stands at around 50 million.The number of such people has been on the sustained rise since 2008 when it totaled 7,228, the agency said.As more highly-educated women enter the workforce in South Korea, getting divorced or re-married has become more accepted. Previously, it was mostly considered taboo for women to do so in the traditional Confucian Korean society, experts say.The portion of remarried women with higher education accounted for 15.9 percent last year of the country's total cases of remarriage, up from 11.5 percent in 2008, according to the data.According to a separate data set, the number of divorced couples came to 114,300 in 2012, almost unchanged from 114,000 tallied for the pre

May 17, 2013

Woman jailed for stabbing husband to death after quarrel

An Incheon court sentenced a woman to three years in prison for assaulting and killing her husband in a quarrel.The 46-year-old Kim stabbed her husband, a 52-year-old Yoon, at 8:45 p.m. on March 1 after a fight in Seo-gu in Incheon, east of Seoul, and he died instantaneously.The quarrel broke out over Yoon’s plan to visit his brother in the southern island of Geoje-do and he tried to smash a can of buthane gas. He proceeded to strangle his wife when she fought back and stabbed him.The court said while the Kim did not have a criminal record and the incident broke out while the husband was drunk, she refused to admit to her actions, thus leading to the sentence in prison.

May 17, 2013

N. Korea thought to have 200 mobile missile launchers

North Korea could have as many as 200 mobile missile launchers, a report showed Friday, nearly double the number previously estimated by Seoul authorities.According to the report submitted to the U.S. Congress by the Pentagon, North Korea appears to have accumulated up to 200 so-called transporter erector launchers (TEL), including up to 100 for short-range Scud missiles, 50 for medium-range Nodong missiles and 50 for long-range Musudan missiles, the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) said.South Korea's military and intelligence authorities previously estimated that the communist country appeared to possess a maximum of 94 mobile launchers.It is the first time that South Korea or the U.S. has made public the number of North Korean TELs in an official document."The U.S. report shows that North Korea is bent on expanding its missile program despite its continued economic difficulties," said Kim Sung-kurl, a researcher at KIDA. "It is especially focused on certain asymmetric areas that can pose a threat to South Korea and U.S. forces stationed in the South."It also ap

May 17, 2013

Gold demand drops 13% to 3-year low

Gold demand dropped 13 percent to the lowest in three years in the first quarter as record exchange-traded product sales by investors outweighed a surge in buying from China and India, the World Gold Council said.Global demand fell to 963 metric tons in the quarter, from 1,107.5 tons a year earlier, the London-based industry group said today in a report. Record jewelry demand in China helped push the country’s total consumption above India, last year’s top buyer.Retail investment and jewelry demand in both nations jumped a combined 23 percent in the quarter. While central-bank purchases fell 5.2 percent, they totaled more than 100 tons for the seventh straight quarter.Prices that rallied as much as sevenfold in the past 12 years entered a bear market last month as inflation failed to accelerate and as equities climbed on mounting optimism that the U.S. will lead a global economic recovery.Some investors’ loss of faith in gold as a protection of wealth is being reflected in ETP holdings that have declined every month this year. About 75 percent of the ETP sales were

May 17, 2013
Gold demand drops 13% to 3-year low

S. Korean show expected longevity of 81 years

South Koreans have an expected longevity of 81 years, making it the 17th longest among 194 countries of the World Health Organization (WHO).According to a WHO 2013 health report, those born in South Korea in 2011 can expect to live an average of 81 years, 77 for males and 84 for females.When compared to estimates in 1990, the average longevity has increased by nine years from 72 and one year from the 80 last year.The level of longevity was similar to those in Austria, Finland, Germany and Greece. It was longer than the average of 80 years in high income countries, the WHO report said.The average longevity among the 194 member countries was 70 years ― 68 for males and 72 for females. Japan and Switzerland had the highest longevity of 83 years.

May 17, 2013

Kim Jong-un has 2 daughters

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un now has two daughters, probably with different women, according to a source in Beijing. His older brother Kim Jong-chol apparently has a son, the Chosun Ilbo said in a report.The source said Kim Jong-un's wife Ri Sol-ju gave birth to a baby girl late last year. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who visited Pyongyang in February this year, said Ri talked mostly about her "beautiful baby daughter." The North Korean leader's first child, also a daughter, was reportedly born in 2010. The source said the mother was probably not Ri. "Ri Sol-ju performed on stage in 2010 as a member of the Unhasu Orchestra when Kim Jong-un became the father of his first child," the source said. "In North Korea, it is unthinkable for a pregnant first lady to perform on stage." Kim is believed to have married Ri in 2009, but she only emerged as the official first lady in July 2012. Kim Jong-chol's son was born in 2010, around the same time his younger brother had his first daughter. "North Korea’s recent imports of luxury European baby products included goods for both baby

May 17, 2013
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