Author: Seoul Reporter

Folks stroll in Tehran Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 15. West Asia Information Company through Reuters-YonhapDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The nationwide protests difficult Iran’s theocracy appeared more and more smothered Thursday, every week after authorities shut the nation off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown that activists say has killed not less than 2,637 individuals.The prospect of U.S. retaliation for the protesters’ deaths nonetheless hung over the area, although President Donald Trump signaled a doable de-escalation, saying the killing seemed to be ending. The White Home careworn that “all choices stay on the desk.”In the meantime,…

Korea’s long-running debate over a scarcity of docs exterior the Seoul metropolitan space is now centering on a brand new coverage concept: a so-called “regional physician system” that will require certified physicians to serve for a number of years in underserved areas and key specialties. Years of incentive funds, pilot initiatives and will increase in medical faculty quotas have to date didn’t ease the scarcity of physicians in emergency rooms, maternity wards and key specialties in smaller cities and rural counties. Well being authorities say a compulsory system is now wanted to keep up — or not less than stabilize…

Fashions have every day conversations with synthetic intelligence (AI) by way of TV utilizing the Genie TV AI agent. (Photograph courtesy of KT) TV is evolving past a easy content material viewing gadget right into a core platform for having every day conversations with synthetic intelligence (AI). This implies AI is establishing itself as a well-recognized presence and changing into an object of emotional connection. KT introduced these findings on Jan. 15 based mostly on evaluation of key phrase knowledge from Genie TV AI agent utilization. This evaluation was carried out because the variety of set-top bins…

Kim Dong-kwan, vice chairman of Hanwha Group, presents Hanwha’s marine decarbonization imaginative and prescient on the 2024 Davos Discussion board Annual Assembly. (Photograph courtesy of Hanwha Group) Kim Dong-kwan, vice chairman of Hanwha Group, unveiled the group’s zero-carbon marine imaginative and prescient on the 2026 Davos Discussion board Annual Assembly, emphasizing the necessity to  construct a clear power marine ecosystem with electrical propulsion ships. Kim disclosed the imaginative and prescient in a contribution to the official web site of the 56th Davos Discussion board Annual Assembly on Jan. 15, proposing the development of an electrical propulsion…

This display screen seize from a video posted on the X account of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Thursday, exhibits what the U.S. navy says is a pre-dawn motion to apprehend the Tanker Veronica within the Carribean Sea. The US has seized one other tanker within the Caribbean in its marketing campaign to manage oil leaving Venezuela, U.S. Southern Command stated Thursday. Marines and sailors apprehended the Tanker Veronica with out incident in a pre-dawn raid, the navy command liable for Central, South America and the Caribbean stated on social media, with a video exhibiting troopers rappelling onto a vessel’s deck.…

Semiconductor chips are seen on a printed circuit board on this illustration image. (REUTERS) The White Home stated on Jan. 14 that President Donald Trump could quickly increase tariffs on imports of semiconductors and their spinoff merchandise, a transfer drawing scrutiny for its potential impression on South Korean know-how giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, in addition to the nation’s shopper electronics producers. In keeping with the White Home, President Trump signed a proclamation imposing a 25% tariff on semiconductors which might be imported into the USA and subsequently re-exported to 3rd international locations, reminiscent…

This {photograph} taken on Tuesday in Toulouse exhibits screens displaying the emblem of Grok, a generative synthetic intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, the American firm specializing in synthetic intelligence and Elon Musk. Musk’s platform X introduced measures to stop its AI chatbot Grok from undressing photographs of actual individuals, following international backlash over its era of sexualized photographs of ladies and youngsters. AFP-YonhapNEW YORK — Elon Musk’s Grok retains entering into bother, and this time, extra of the world’s governments try to intervene.First launched in 2023, Grok is Musk’s try to outdo rivals resembling OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in…

Stacks of fifty,000 gained banknotes (BusinessKorea DB) South Korea’s cash provide edged down barely in November, reflecting a revision to financial indicators that excluded beneficiary certificates resembling exchange-traded funds from the M2 broad cash measure. Nonetheless, when these devices are included, market liquidity continues to rise sharply. In response to the “Financial Aggregates and Liquidity” report launched by the Financial institution of Korea (BOK) on Jan. 14, M2 measured on a median stability foundation and compiled according to Worldwide Financial Fund suggestions excluding beneficiary certificates totaled 4,057.5 trillion gained (roughly $2.76 trillion), down 1.9 trillion…

A mannequin of an LNG tanker is seen on this illustration taken Could 19, 2022. REUTERS POSCO Worldwide has finalized its participation within the U.S. Alaska liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) improvement venture price 64 trillion gained. The corporate has kicked off full-scale improvement by concurrently buying 1 million tons of Alaska-sourced LNG yearly whereas additionally enterprise capital funding. A senior POSCO Worldwide official mentioned on Jan. 14, “We plan to signal a remaining funding resolution (FID) contract for the U.S. Alaska LNG venture inside January-February.” FID is a stage the place all conditional contracts acquire authorized…

Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado walks on the day of a gathering with U.S. President Donald Trump on the White Home in Washington D.C., Thursday. Reuters-YonhapWASHINGTON — Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado involves the White Home on Thursday to debate her nation’s future with President Donald Trump even after he publicly dismissed her credibility to take over after an audacious U.S. army raid captured then-President Nicolás Maduro.Trump has raised doubts about his said dedication to backing democratic rule in Venezuela. His administration has signaled its willingness to work with performing President Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vp and,…