[Economy 365] The
scale of household loans for banknotes has exceeded KRW 1,000 trillion.
The Bank of Korea announced that the bank's household loan balance as of the end of February was 13 trillion won, an increase of 6 trillion won from last month.
Although the increase in credit loans declined, demand for housing-related loans was high due to Lee Lee and the rise in jeonse prices.
Mortgage loans, including cheonsei loans, increased by KRW 6.4 trillion in one month.
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result of a survey by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Intelligence Information Society, it was found that the proportion of people at risk of overdependence among domestic smartphone users reached 23.3%, an increase of 3.3 percentage points from last year.
The overdependent risk group is the combined number of the high risk group and the potential risk group.
The potential risk group refers to the stage where the control over smartphone use is weakened and problems begin to occur in daily life, while the high-risk group loses control over the use of smartphones, causing serious problems in daily life.
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In January, the number of men who took care of children or lived at home increased 30% from a year ago, reaching 194,000.
This is a 44,000 increase from a year ago.
Specifically, there were 11,000 men in charge of child-rearing and 183,000 men in charge of housekeeping.
The number of men in all age groups, from their 20s to 60 years old, who is dedicated to childcare and housekeeping, has increased, and especially in their 30s, the number of men dedicated to childcare and housekeeping has increased by 110% from a year ago, making the largest increase.
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Cell Biotech, a microbiome company, announced that it has applied for approval of the Phase 1 clinical plan of'PP-P8', a new drug candidate for colorectal cancer treatment, to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.
PP-P8 is a microbiome-based oral gene therapy that utilizes kimchi lactic acid bacteria living in the large intestine.