Author: Seoul Reporter

America’s busiest airports, together with these in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, had been set to face lots of of flight cuts beginning Friday because of the authorities shutdown, in keeping with an inventory distributed to the airways and obtained by The Related Press.The Federal Aviation Administration’s order to cut back air site visitors at 40 of the busiest airports throughout the U.S. contains areas throughout greater than two dozen states and is more likely to ripple far past these focused locations.With simply hours to go, airways had been scrambling Thursday to determine the place to chop, and…

Greater than 40 % of South Korea’s science and engineering professionals are contemplating or getting ready to maneuver abroad due primarily to monetary and analysis surroundings causes, a survey by the central financial institution confirmed Friday.In line with a Financial institution of Korea (BOK) survey of 1,916 grasp’s and doctoral diploma holders in science and engineering fields residing within the nation, 42.9 % mentioned they have been contemplating working abroad inside the subsequent three years.Amongst them, 5.9 % mentioned that they had already made detailed plans or have been present process interviews for abroad positions.By sector, bio, prescription drugs and…

The typical variety of spam textual content messages acquired by cellular customers in South Korea fell considerably within the first half of 2025 from a 12 months earlier, information confirmed Friday, as a part of the federal government’s broader efforts to curb unlawful messaging actions.In keeping with the info compiled by the Korea Media and Communications Fee, South Koreans acquired a median of three spam messages per thirty days in the course of the January-June interval, sharply down from 11 in the identical interval of 2024.The research, carried out collectively with the Korea Web & Safety Company, was primarily based…

The benchmark KOSPI fell greater than 3 p.c to drop under the 4,000-point mark throughout intraday buying and selling on Friday, pushed by sell-offs from international and institutional traders involved about U.S. synthetic intelligence (AI) bubble.As of 1:45 p.m., the KOSPI was buying and selling at 3,897.80 factors, down 3.19 p.c from the day prior to this’s shut. The index fell under the 4,000-point mark, a key psychological threshold it had final closed above on Oct. 27. The decline got here as international traders web offered greater than 270 billion gained ($185.3 million), whereas institutional traders offloaded over 250 billion…

Printed: 07 Nov. 2025, 14:51 Singer G-Dragon throughout a live performance in Macau [GALAXY CORPORATION]   The twentieth Busan Fireworks Pageant is about to be held at Gwangalli Seashore in Busan on Nov. 15, organizers mentioned Friday. This version is themed after the singer G-Dragon and can function AI know-how like holograms.   Songs from G-Dragon’s solo album “Übermensch” can be performed through the fireworks present.   One spotlight of the competition can be a brand new type of fireworks present utilizing holograms, developed with polarizing filter know-how. It was collectively created by Galaxy Company, an AI leisure tech firm…

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has achieved 83% of its annual order goal for industrial vessels after securing an order for 2 oil tankers. The corporate introduced on Nov. 7 that it has received an order for 2 oil tankers value 290.1 billion received from a North American shipowner. The vessels ordered will probably be delivered to the shipowner sequentially by January 2029. With this contract, Samsung Heavy Industries has secured a complete of $5.6 billion in orders this 12 months. Amongst these, industrial vessels account for $4.8 billion, attaining 83% of the goal of $5.8…

Hwang Sok-yong (MCST) Famend novelist Hwang Sok-yong, 81, has been awarded the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Advantage, the very best cultural honor bestowed by the Korean authorities, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Korean literature and its international attain.This 12 months, a complete of 17 cultural figures have been honored with Orders of Cultural Advantage throughout 5 grades: one Geumgwan, 4 Eungwan, 5 Bogwan, 4 Okgwan and three Hwagan.The Order of Cultural Advantage is the nation’s most prestigious state award for the humanities, offered to people who’ve made excellent contributions to the event of Korean tradition and the enrichment…

NEW YORK — The world’s richest man was simply handed an opportunity to develop into historical past’s first trillionaire.Elon Musk gained a shareholder vote on Thursday that might give the Tesla CEO inventory value $1 trillion if he hits sure efficiency targets over the following decade. The vote adopted weeks of debate over his administration document on the electrical automobile maker and whether or not anybody deserved such unprecedented pay, drawing heated commentary from small buyers to large pension funds and even the pope.In the long run, greater than 75 % of voters permitted the plan as shareholders gathered in…

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his spouse, Kim Keon Hee, have been set to seem in court docket Friday of their separate trials, the primary time each have appeared on the identical day since their arrests.Yoon is scheduled to attend one in every of his trials associated to his failed martial legislation imposition in December over his alleged try and hinder his detention by investigators in January and involvement in deleting safe telephone data from servers.Kim, the previous first girl, is standing trial for corruption and different costs, together with her alleged involvement in a inventory manipulation scheme and…

A Coupang supply automobile (Captured from YouTube) The Coupang Good friend Labor Union (Coupang Union), a union of Coupang’s instantly employed supply drivers, claimed on Nov. 7 that the Korean Confederation of Commerce Unions (KCTU)’s push to ban early morning deliveries “seems to be retaliation for the Coupang Union’s withdrawal from the KCTU.” In an announcement launched on at the present time, the Coupang Union argued, “The KCTU speaks as if banning early morning deliveries is totally crucial for staff, however when the Coupang Union was affiliated with the KCTU, they by no means as…