The number of international marriages between a citizen of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and a foreigner in 2018 rose 8.5 percent from a year earlier to 23,773, with Vietnamese brides taking the lion’s share.
The RoK ranked fifth in per capita energy consumption among member states of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2016, the RoK's news agency Yonhap reported.
Consumer prices of the Republic of Korea increased more than 1 percent in March on a rise in prices of agricultural goods and services, according to government data.
The Republic of Korea's industrial output declined in December from a month earlier on a slump in the auto-making and machinery sectors, the Yonhap news agency reported.
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