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December 2011
2,737 Number of North Koreans who defected to South Korea in 2011.
US$ 50,000 Price to clone a deceased pet dog in Korea.
12 AM to 6 AM Scheduled times where online video games are unavailable to players under 16 in Korea.
US$ 1.17 billion Amount of overseas direct assistance provided by South Korea per year.
November 2011
430,000 units Number of handsets imported to North Korea in 2010.
71% Percentage of South Korean students who enter universities.
62% Percentage of women aged 25-54 participating in the workforce.
79% Number of Korean employees who expect to be working at the same company next year.
October 2011
3.6% Projected growth for the Korean economy in 2012.
18.2% Growth in online commercial transactions in the third quarter of 2011.
809,000 Number of mobile phone users in North Korea.
954 billion dollars Korea¡¯s trade volume in 2011.
September 2011
4.3% Consumer inflation in Korea in September.
3.6% SERI¡¯s growth forecast for 2012.
-5% Drop in the KOSPI index on October 4, 2011.
August 2011
4.8% Growth in Korea's industrial output in August.
$3.77 billion Korea's current account surplus in July.
$401.3 million Korea's current account surplus in August.
600% Increase in US beef exports to South Korea over the past four years.
July 2011
3.3% Korea's unemployment rate in June.
58% Share of the service sector in the Korean economy.
10 trillion won Projected increase in domestic consumption and exports from the 2018 Winter Olympics
June 2011
$53.5 billion Korea's exports to the EU in 2010.
$12 billion Projected increase in Korea's exports to the EU after the FTA.
4.3% The most recent project inflation rate for the Korean economy from the IMF
146% Ratio of household debt to disposable income in Korea.
May 2011
4.4% Annual average increase in Korea's food price index for 2000-2010.
3.7 % Korea¡¯s unemployment rate in April, 2011.
34% Share of Africa¡¯s population that is now ¡°middle class¡±.
35% Share of?US?smart phone users that begin using their phones before getting out of bed.
April 2011
16 trillion to 25 trillion Yen Estimated damages from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.
4.7% Rise in Korea¡¯s consumer price index in March.
$298.6 billion Korea¡¯s foreign exchange reserves in March.
100 won per liter SK Energy¡¯s proposed three month cut in oil prices .
March 2011
20,000-368,000 Drop in the number of US jobless claims for the last week of February.
$102.05 Price of a barrel of oil as of March 5, 2011.
$75.1 billion Combined wealth of the richest 70 members of China¡¯s National People¡¯s Congress.
-3.9% Decline in Korea's KOSPI index in 2011.
February 2011
55.6% Increase in Korean household debt since 2000.
1,105 Current won dollar exchange rate.
1,120 Average won-dollar exchange rate for January 2011.
3% Increase in US credit card debt in December.
January 2011
40 minutes Travel from Incheon International Airport to downtown Seoul after the opening of the new airport rail line.
4.5% The Bank of Korea's 2011 growth forecast for Korea.
0.6% Growth in the Korean consumer price index for December. This was significantly higher than original projections of 0.4%.
37 Times The scale of South Korea's gross national income compared with North Korea's.
2,450 Goldman Sach's projected value for the KOSPI index by the end of 2011.
December 2010
6% Number of IMF voting shares extended to emerging markets at the G20 Seoul Summit
$600 billion Scale of quantitative easing measures initiated by the US Federal Reserve
45.02 points 1 day decline in Korea's KOSPI index on the morning after the North Korean attack on Yeongpyeong Island
42.06 points Recovery in the KOSPI index by the closing of the same day
$29.7 billion Current account surplus for Korea in 2010
October 2010
288,345 Properties on the US market lost to foreclosure in the July-September quarter
32% New smartphone purchasers who bought an Android equipped phone
36,000 ($32.29) The average price of a 10kg bag of cabbage in Seoul's Garak Market
982 million The total cost to process the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy as of September
15,600 The estimated cost of a 24 kilowatt-hour battery pack for an electric car
16.7 billion The total annual cost of flight delays for US travelers
93% China's share of production of the world's rare earth minerals
4,050 Average number of text messages sent by girls aged 13-17 per month; equivalent to eight text messages an hour
August 2010
3 to 5.2 million Barrels of oil estimated to have been leaked into the Gulf of Mexico
232 million Internet addresses remaining out of the total 4 billion under the current IPv4 technology, according to expert estimates
$280 million Potential annual loss for North Korea due to Seoul¡¯s decision to halt commerce with its northern neighbor following the torpedo incident, according to a report
$45.8 billion Apple Inc.¡¯s cash reserves, according to quarterly results
$247 billion Apple Inc.¡¯s market capitalization, according to quarterly results
$1 trillion Total cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Congressional Research Service
July 2010
1/3 The proportion of Europeans who have never used the Internet, according to a recent EU study
$65 Mali¡¯s annual health expenditure per capita, according to the World Health Organization
$291,570 Average cost for a U.S. middle-income family to raise a child born in 2008 to age 18, according to a government estimate
438,000,000 Number of Chinese who will be 60 and older by 2050, leaving only 1.6 working-age adults for each elder.
$9,050,000,000,000 U.S. 10-year-budget deficit projection, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget
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