Woojin Chung and Monica Das Gupta, "Why is Son Preference Declining in South Korea? The Role of Development and Public Policy and the Implications for China and India" (Paper present- ed at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, March 29-31, 2007)....
Seoul— South Korea's overall birth rate hit a record low of 0.72 in 2023, and with that figure projected to fall even further in 2024, some Korean businesses have started offering remarkably generous incentives to convince their workers to become parents. "The declining fertility rate lead...
Primarily found in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range in the Russian Far East, with small populations in China and possibly North Korea, this species has adapted to the cold, harsh environment of the taiga, with its thick fur and layer of fat providing insulation against freezing temperatures. Adul...
Huayou has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with POSCO Future M, a South Korean manufacturer of cathode and anode materials, and the local government for the two companies to invest in a JV in Pohang City, eastern South Korea's North Gyeongsang Province, announced the company on May...
The Shell outlook emphasised a range of drivers that have helped stabilise the LNG market in 2023 including the modest Chinese economic recovery, weak European demand and energy savings, high gas inventories in Europe and Asia, and strong nuclear generation in France, Japan and South Korea. Shell...
early 1970s, has long occupied an important position,is one of the world's major shoe-making base, In 1990 its highest record of the export reached $ 4.3 billion,But later lost its price competitive advantage in just a few years, exports declining year by year,Korea shoe industr [...
Multilateral lenders like the IMF have had successful interventions in the past, including South Korea (1997), Mexico (1995), and working with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) in Colombia from1999-2001. China has also successf...
The combination of declining availability of high quality resources and increasing population tended to leave these civilizations with little margin for dealing with the bad times that can be expected to occur by chance. In many cases, such civilizations collapsed after disease epidemics, a military...
However, a person's knowledge and ability to more effectively utilize their intelligence can increase with age, typically from ages 20 to 50, after it which it starts declining. IQ itself is a relative measure in comparison with one's peer age group and doesn't usually change. The average ...
"The pain may be caused by QS-21, one of the immune-boosting ingredients in Shingrix," a GSK Korea official said while explaining the reason. Shingrix is a subcutaneous injection that combines an “immune booster”' with a “non-living antigen,” and the pain may be caused by QS-21, ...