Demographics of South Korea.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of South Korea, including population
density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and
other aspects of the population.
 The current population of the Republic of Korea is 50,704,971 as of Friday, March 3, 2017,
based on the latest United Nations estimates.
 South Korea population is equivalent to 0.67% of the total world population.
 81.9 % of the population is urban (41,511,797 people in 2017)

Source: Worldometers (www.Worldometers.info)

The population of South Korea represents 0.72 percent of the world´s total population which arguably
means that one person in every 140 people on the planet is a resident of South Korea
Unemployment Rate
South Korea's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 3.6 percent in January 2017, from
an upwardly revised 3.5 percent in December. The figure came above market expectations of 3.4
percent. Unemployment Rate in South Korea averaged 3.63 percent from 1999 until 2017, reaching an
all time high of 7.10 percent in June of 1999 and a record low of 2.90 percent in November of 2013.

Source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/south-korea/population

Employed person: The number of employed persons in South Korea decreased to 26402 Thousand in
January of 2017 from 26550 Thousand in December of 2016. Employed Persons in South Korea
averaged 23553.56 Thousand from 1999 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 26603 Thousand in
July of 2016 and a record low of 20275 Thousand in June of 1999.
Unemployed persons: The number of unemployed persons in South Korea increased to 982 Thousand
in January of 2017 from 942 Thousand in December of 2016. Unemployed Persons in South Korea
averaged 884.10 Thousand from 1999 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 1564 Thousand in June
of 1999 and a record low of 684 Thousand in September of 2002.

Labor cost: Labour Costs in South Korea increased to 138.70 Index Points in the third quarter of 2016
from 123.30 Index Points in the second quarter of 2016. Labour Costs in South Korea averaged 113.19
Index Points from 2008 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 149.70 Index Points in the first quarter
of 2016 and a record low of 91.30 Index Points in the second quarter of 2011.
Wage: Wages in South Korea increased to 3,480,465 KRW/Month in the fourth quarter of 2016 from
3,465,763 KRW/Month in the third quarter of 2016. Wages in South Korea averaged 2,987,463.61
KRW/Month from 2008 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 3,534,203 KRW/Month in the first
quarter of 2016 and a record low of 2,460,239 KRW/Month in the second quarter of 2008.

Age structure:
 0-14 years: 13.45% (male 3,535,137/female 3,315,510)
 15-24 years: 13.08% (male 3,515,779/female 3,146,084)
 25-54 years: 45.93% (male 12,008,399/female 11,379,261)
 55-64 years: 14.01% (male 3,521,569/female 3,611,481)
 65 years and over: 13.53% (male 2,918,156/female 3,972,796) (2016 est.)
A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide
insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is
distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male
and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along
the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the
population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international
migration trends.
Life expectancy at birth:
 total population: 82.4 years
 male: 79.3 years
 female: 85.8 years (2016 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
 total: 17 years
 male: 17 years
 female: 16 years (2013)
South Korea’s Education System

(source: http://ncee.org/what-we-do/center-on-international-education-benchmarking/top-performing-countries/south-korea-
overview/)

Literacy
 Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
 total population: 97.9%
 male: 99.2%
 female: 96.6% (2002)
Source: Central Intelligent Agency (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ks.html)

SCIENCE IN SOUTH KOREAN

The Republic of Korea is one of the leading global research nations. From its humble beginnings in the
1960s as a poor nation until today, Korea has made impressive progress in quality of research. Korea is
now a globally leading R&D power in areas of industrial research (IT, communication, transport, civil
engineering). The Korean Government also invests heavily in R&D and its numerous public research
institutes and universities constantly improve.
With strategic
promotion of
Convergence,
Health, Energy,
ICT, Materials
and Basic
Science fields,
POSTECH secures the research competitiveness
for the 21st century.
Strong 20 Project discovers and supports 20 main
research groups with growth potential and foster
them to become world-leading research groups
with global competitiveness. POSTECH selects 20
groups by evaluating their competitiveness,
academic excellence, commercialization
possibility and multidisciplinary and allocate 2~3
extra professor positions besides the department's
quota with financial support. With Strong 20
Project, POSTECH will secure global
competitiveness, foster research culture through convergence and actively attract national and industrial
big projects.
 Established in 1971, KAIST has garnered interest
for its achievements in leading the growth of
Korean’s science and technology industry, and has
developed into a prominent global research
university, attaining elevated standards and
receiving recognition throughout the world from
academic communities. In the future, KAIST will
strive to become trusted even more, respected by
South Korea and the world, and further its
development, particularly in the field of research
and
education. Starting in South Korea, KAIST will cross the five oceans and spread its influence
throughout all the continents, expanding its roots and absorbing/converging various academics and
cultures to create a fruitful and innovative future.
The 21st century’s economic paradigm has shifted
to a new value creation through convergence
beyond technical development and sophistication.
The convergence in science and technology is
located in the center of the innovation. Two
research divisions and seven centers under the
DGIST Convergence Research Institute
approaches their specialized fields with further
integration and in closer collaboration with various
scientific and technological fields.

Source: http://www.stofficeseoul.ch/science-and-technology/science-technology-in-korea/
Natural science

Simulation result for formation of inversion channel (electron density) and attainment of threshold
voltage (IV) in a nanowire MOSFET
 Triangle of U: The theory describes the
evolution and relationships between
members of the plant genus Brassica. It
was first verified in 1935 by Woo Jang-
choon.

The "triangle of U" diagram, showing the

genetic relationships between six species of
the genus Brassica. Chromosomes from each
of the genomes A, B and C are represented by
different colours.
Biomedical science

 Preventive HIV vaccine: SAV001-H is the first

preventive HIV vaccine using a killed or "dead version"
of HIV-1 virus and is the first genetically modified, whole-
killed vaccine to be approved for testing in humans. The
vaccine was developed by a Korean professor, Dr. Chil-
Yong Kang and his research team at Western
University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry in
Canada.
Various approaches for HIV
vaccine development

Structural diagram of gemifloxacin

  Gemifloxacin is a quinolone antibiotic for the treatment of acute bacterial exacerbation of
chronic bronchitis and mild-to-moderate pneumonia developed by LG Life Sciences in 2003.
 Balofloxacin, an orally active fluoroquinolone antibiotic, has been developed by Choongwae
Pharma in South Korea, for the treatment of urinary tract
infection (UTI).
Robotics
 HUBO, developed by the Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in
2004, is the world's second
walking humanoid robot.

Albert HUBO, the latest humanoid version of

the HUBO robots, can make expressive
gestures with its 5 separate fingers.
ManufacturerKAIST
Year of creation2005

 NBH-1, later known as MAHRU, is considered to

be the first network-based humanoid in the world
developed in March 2005 by professor Bum-Jae
Yoo and his research team from the Korea Institute
of Science and Technology (KIST).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_inventions_and_discoveries