Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8.5 percent, is one of the very few European countries outperforming K...

Whether adolescent overweight/obesity is linked to socioeconomic status (SES) and fruit and vegetable (F/V) intakes has not been confirmed. We aimed to determine whether there is an association between SES and adolescent overweight/obesity and to test the mediating effect of F/V intakes. This cross-sectional study included the data of 63,111 adolescents extracted from the 2013 Korea Youth Risk ...

PURPOSE Suicide is the leading cause of death among Korean adolescents. This study investigates the cross- sectional relations of physical activity with suicidal ideation and attempts in adolescents, simultaneously considering previously reported risk factors of suicide such as depression, stress, and body image. METHODS This study used the 2007 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (KYR...

Objectives: This study investigated obesity adolescents in Korean. Methods: was a cross-sectional, secondary analysis using the 2021 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey data. Among 54,848 raw data, 53,445 were selected as participants. Results: It found that sex, school achievement, fast food intake frequency, sitting time other than weekend learning, and smartphone usage important individual fact...