先進国の逆を行くのが韓国、今時増えてどうすんの? S. Korea sold record cigarettes in 2004 Sunday 30th January, 2005 (UPI) South Korea's National Statistical Office has said the country consumed record amounts of cigarettes and alcohol in 2004 Korean smokers averaged 488 packs of cigarettes each last year, while drinkers downed 86 bottles of soju, the most popular distilled liquor among Korean people. The National Statistical Office said the number of cigarettes shipped to domestic markets recorded 105.47 billion in 2004, up 22.4 percent from a year earlier. http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=06a17e6b1125f0a0
South Korea's Defense Ministry said Friday it will stop calling North Korea its "main enemy" South Korea began calling North Korea a "main enemy" 10 years ago, after North Korea threatened to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" in a dispute over the North's nuclear weapons program.
Critics, however, have condemned South Korea's changing attitude as coddling the Pyongyang regime, which is suspected of building nuclear weapons in defiance of international pressure while suppressing human rights of its hunger-stricken people.
28 January 2005 http://www.livescience.com/environment/050128_environment_ranking.html The 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) by environmental experts at Yale and Columbia Universities ranked 146 countries based on various factors, including past and present pollution, environmental management efforts, waste generation, greenhouse gas emissions, natural resources on hand, and the capacity to improve environmental performance over time. The report was presented Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) at the World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland http://www.yale.edu/esi/ http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/indicators/ESI/ http://www.yale.edu/esi/ESI2005_Main_Report.pdf 1 Finland 30 Japam 45 United States 53 Cuba 66 UK 120 Sierra Leon 121 Liberia 122 South korea ←あっはははは、シエラ・リオン、リベリア以下って・・・ 133 China The worst 146 North Korea←流石