Statistics Korea (SK) is responsible for

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South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

, and is part of Ministry of Economy and Finance. Statistics Korea generates population and household

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yearly (every 5 years until 2015). It also gathers analytic and administrative statistics.

References

External links

Official site, in Korean and English
Government agencies of South Korea

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