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[cdninkorea]

I want to design a lesson around interesting statistics regarding Korea, but I haven't had much luck finding any; the ones at the National Statistics Office (NSO) are pretty dry; it's all things like the percentage of raw materials that account for imports in 2008.

I'm looking for things a little more exciting: stuff like the rate of divorce, pre-marital sex, travel abroad, and other things Koreans in their early 20s would want to discuss and learn about.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Jane]

Try the CIA fact book.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Look up South Korea.

[cdninkorea]

Fascinating! Thank you Jane.

[excitinghead]

I'm your man.

Rates of pre-marital sex and contraceptive use:
http://thegrandnarrative.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/why-korean-girls-dont-say-no-contraception-commercials-condom-use-and-double-standards-in-south-korea/

Korea's fertility rate, labor productivity, and why Korean women have to choose between kids OR a career:
http://thegrandnarrative.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/korea-as-a-social-laboratory-the-impending-depopulation-crisis/

Korea has the lowest number of working women of any developed country:
http://thegrandnarrative.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/for-every-birth-a-korean-career-dies/

More Korean 20-somethings are leaving home before marriage:
http://thegrandnarrative.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/how-many-unmarried-koreans-live-away-from-their-parents/

Why do Korean women wear more cosmetics than Western women? Do Cosmetics Sales really go up during a recession?:
http://thegrandnarrative.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/korean-cosmetics-during-the-downturn-not-to-be-taken-at-face-value/

Hope those help, and there's a lot more where those came from. Some of the ones about sex might be a bit awkward in a free-talking class though.