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The Era of 1.16 Million One-Person Businesses: Becoming a Company All by Yourself
Over the past decade, the formula for starting a business was simple: you needed a team, investors, and an office. That formula is now quietly but rapidly breaking down. People who build, operate, and create billions of won in enterprise value entirely on their own are beginning to appear in official statistics.
이지영 기자 · 05/06/2026
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April 2026: The Boardroom in Motion — A Comprehensive Analysis of Global and Domestic CEO Succession Landscapes
박소유 기자 · 04/29/2026
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First-Grade Elementary Students Fall Below 300,000 for the First Time: The National School Map is Being Redrawn
이태민 기자 · 04/27/2026
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Chicken Headquarters Hit All-Time Highs While Franchises Face Negative Growth: The Two Faces of the Chicken Industry Through April 2026 Data
박소유 기자 · 04/23/2026
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The Pros and Cons of the Golden Age of Unmanned Stores: Growing Store Counts, Diverging Sales
김민경 기자 · 04/22/2026
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Shifting Global Patent Landscape — Comprehensive Analysis of 2025–2026 Patent Trends
Invisible technological boundaries are drawn in research institutes. [Image = AI-generated image] Amid global patent applications hitting all-time highs, patent competition in the AI semiconductor sector is intensifying. [As of 2026] South Korea's January patent applications hit an all-time high — A new phase led by AI. 2026 is off to a hot start.
박소유 기자 · 04/17/2026
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The Era of 51% in the Capital Region: Regional Korea is Disappearing
An apartment construction site in a new town in Gyeonggi Province, where dozens of cranes operate simultaneously. [Photo = Korea Business Review DB] Amid deepening population concentration in the greater Seoul metropolitan area, Gyeonggi Province is projected to be one of only two regions nationwide, along with Sejong, where the population will increase through 2052.
강지혜 기자 · 04/16/2026
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In an Era Without Jobs, Youth Choose Entrepreneurship
The government expanded its startup support budget to a record high in 2026, but the three-year survival rate for AI startups remains at just 56.2%. As the door to employment narrows, young people are knocking on the door of entrepreneurship. According to employment trends for March released by the National Statistics Office on April 15, 2026, the youth employment rate (ages 15–29) stood at 43.6%, down 0.9 percentage points from the same period last year.
류현진 기자 · 04/16/2026
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K-Cosmetics in the Global Market: Ranking 2nd in Exports with $11.4 Billion Today
Consumers of diverse nationalities explore Korean skincare products at a premium K-beauty store in Seoul. Exported to 202 countries as of 2025, K-beauty is rapidly expanding its global consumer base. [Photo = Korea Business Review DB] The Present of K-Beauty Told Through Numbers In 2025, the Korean cosmetics industry made history once again.
류현진 기자 · 04/14/2026
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Current Status of AI Adoption in Healthcare 2026: From Experiment to Execution, Crossing the Threshold
As of 2026, robot-assisted surgery AI has established itself as the application recording the highest market share in the global healthcare AI market. I. Healthcare AI Beyond the Tipping Point In 2026, healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer in the realm of pilot projects.
류현진 기자 · 04/10/2026
