empirical knowledge regarding East Asians’ consumption motives. By surveying a sample of 200 consumers from South Korea, an …

Since the early 1960s, South Korea has been going through a rapid fertilitydecline, along with its socioeconomic … totalfertility rate (TFR) of Korea has gradually declined to the level of lowest-low fertility.According to 2004 vital statistics …, the TFR for Korea was 1.16-below the lowest-lowfertility level of 1.3. Also, Korea's fertility rates have fluctuated and …

-reaching, they are poorly understood. Overweight and obesity have become a major public health problem in South Korea, along with its … Korea Health and Nutrition Survey, conducted in 1998 and 2001, and time series data, such as those on imports and prices … national health policies affect obesity in South Korea?; which factors among dietary intake, physical exercise, prices, income …

material flow accounting and related policies in Korea.The compiled national economy-wide material flow account by this project … reveal the trend of total material input and consumption during the past 15 years in Korea. Total volume of material input … in Korea under the OECD guidance, with identified weaknesses in the current statistics system, areas of concern and …

This paper focuses on the relationship between income inequality and state capacity in South Korea. Korea achieved …, income inequality in Korea increased dramatically. This change in income inequality is closely related to increases in …