[Economy 365]

One out of four college students and job-seeking students are preparing to take public officials examinations.

Job Portal, Job Korea and Part Time Jobs Portal Alabama surveyed a total of 1,222 college graduates and college graduates who graduated from college earlier this year, and 25 percent of respondents said they are preparing for civil service examinations.

In addition, 60% of respondents answered that they intend to prepare for the civil service examination in the future.

57% of the respondents said they were preparing to take the 9th grade civil service examination or were willing to take the test, followed by 7th grade government officials 21% and firefighting and police officers 11%.

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Korea lost its first place in the Chinese import cosmetics market to Japan in the first quarter.

K-Beauty, which has been expected as a representative product of Hallyu, has been sluggish, and J-beauty has been experiencing rapid growth and is in crisis to take the lead of global competition.

According to the Korea International Trade Center's (ITC) survey, the Korea Cosmetic Industry Research Institute (KITA) said that in the first quarter, China imported the most cosmetics market by country, at 770 million dollars.

France ranked second with $ 730 million and Korea third with $ 720 million.

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Japanese car sales last month showed double-digit declines compared with the same month last year.

Considering the slight increase in import car sales during the same period, the boycott movement against Japanese export regulations has been influenced considerably.

According to the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association, new registrations of Japanese brand passenger cars decreased 17 percent from 2,674 last month.

In the imported car market, the share of 13.7% was 2 percentage points less than a year ago and 6.7 percentage points less than a month ago.