S. Koreans increase reliance on meal kits and food deliveries
Jul 30, 2021 23:38 pm UTC| Life Economy
South Koreas home meal replacement (HMR) market and the food delivery industry collectively grew more than twice from 12 trillion won in 2018 to 25 trillion won in 2021. The countrys HMR market reached 5 trillion won...
S. Korea's growing drinking-at-home culture pushes wine imports to record $236.9 million in H1
Jul 29, 2021 23:57 pm UTC| Economy Life
South Koreas wine imports reached an all-time high value of $236.9 million in the first half, up 110 percent year-on-year as more people drink at home due to the prolonged pandemic. The figure broke the previous...
S. Korea to allow sidewalk testing of self-driving robots
Jul 28, 2021 23:53 pm UTC| Life Economy
South Korea will allow businesses to test self-driving robots equipped with cameras on sidewalks. Self-driving robots, considered automobiles under local rules, were banned from running alongside pedestrians and could...
Can we cancel 'cancel culture'?
Jul 24, 2021 06:51 am UTC| Life
Alexi McCammonds journalism career was rapidly ascending. She was a political reporter for Axios and a fixture on cable news. Jeffrey Toobin was an award-winning lawyer-turned-journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker,...
Pandemic has teens feeling worried, unmotivated and disconnected from school
Jul 24, 2021 05:53 am UTC| Life
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, many U.S. teens were more worried about the disruption to their education than the possibility of getting sick. A May 2020 survey of high school students found that they reported...
Generation COVID: pregnancy, birth and postnatal life in the pandemic
Jul 18, 2021 10:43 am UTC| Life
What was it like to be pregnant, to give birth and to look after a baby in the middle of a pandemic? For this Insights article, photographer and researcher of visual cultures James Clifford Kent teamed up with...
Lego demands US gunmaker stop making pistols that look like its toys
Jul 16, 2021 23:54 pm UTC| Economy Life
Danish toymaker Lego had asked Utah-based gun company Culper Precision to stop producing pistols that look like it is covered with their famous multi-colored building brick. Lego claimed that Culper Precision agreed not...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight