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3 stories tagged “kosis”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Korea quietly rewrote 729 of its 2026 trade figures on 16 October. We kept the old ones.
Korea's official trade table is corrected in place, with no record of what it said before. Our daily snapshots caught the 16 October revision: eight months touched, March's surplus cut by $150 million, August's raised by $94 million.
28,244 falls: Korea's top workplace injury in 2024
Korea's Ministry of Employment and Labor tracks every reported workplace injury by cause. In 2024, simple falls and slips — not machinery, not falls from height — injured more workers than anything else. A second cause is catching up fast.
Korea's leading indicator has climbed for a year. Its coincident gauge has barely moved.
Statistics Korea's leading cyclical index rose every month for a year, 100.0 to 105.7, yearly growth doubling to 8.8%. The coincident gauge — the here-and-now — sat flat near 100. The forward signal is loud, the present quiet. Not advice.