Author: Seoul Reporter

A nonetheless from movie ″Leaving Mother,″ a collaboration between Korean and Vietnamese manufacturing studios [SIDUS]   “Leaving Mother,” which opened domestically on Wednesday, is a Korean-Vietnamese co-production that took three years of collaboration between the 2 international locations’ movie studios, ranging from the story improvement section. It opened in Vietnam in August and drew 2.2 million viewers, turning into a field workplace hit.   Regardless of its chilling title, the movie is a heat, tearful journey. It follows a avenue barber named Hoan, performed by Tuan Tran, who cares for his mom Le Thi Hanh (actor Hong Dao), who has…

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off on its inaugural launch on the Cape Canaveral House Power Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 16, 2025. REUTERS House information facilities, which discuss with information facilities inbuilt outer area to maximise effectivity, have emerged as a brand new area of hegemonic competitors, with Korea launching full-scale countermeasures following the USA and China. In line with the science and know-how sector on Nov. 6, the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) plans to conduct analysis and improvement (R&D) mission planning analysis to safe core applied sciences for area…

    GU JA-OEK   The writer is a vp for innovation at Seokyeong College     Korea’s regional universities are going through a structural disaster. A declining school-age inhabitants, the focus of scholars in Seoul and the metropolitan space and the accelerating disappearance of rural communities have left many native universities unable to fill their quotas. Authorities efforts to reverse the pattern — together with expanded monetary support, specialization methods, and recruiting international college students — haven’t introduced a significant turnaround.   It’s time to ask a unique query: Why should universities exist just for folks of their 20s?…

US President Donald Trump and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea increase their glasses for a toast throughout a banquet hosted by South Korea held on the Hilton Resort in Gyeongju on Oct. 29, 2025. (Yonhap) Delays have arisen within the technique of drafting a doc on the end result of tariff and safety negotiations concluded at a South Korea-US summit on Oct. 29.Whereas Seoul initially expressed confidence {that a} reality sheet reflecting the settlement consequence would emerge inside “a few days,” almost every week has passed by with none additional updates. Authorities officers stated that whereas the drafting of…

Ok Shipbuilding’s shipyard in Jinhae District, Changwon Metropolis, South Gyeongsang Province (Photograph courtesy of Ok Shipbuilding Co.) Industrial vessels constructed at home shipyards shall be delivered with U.S. nationality for the primary time in historical past. Expectations are rising that calls from international transport corporations in search of to safe U.S.-flagged vessels to Korean shipbuilders will improve. It’s because vessels inbuilt Korea shall be permitted to move crude oil and liquefied pure fuel (LNG) alongside U.S. coastlines. In keeping with business sources on Nov. 6, Ok Shipbuilding will begin building work on two oil tankers to be…

Printed: 06 Nov. 2025, 12:44 Quickly-to-debut boy band LNGSHOT [MORE VISION]   Music producer Jay Park’s first Okay-pop boy band LNGSHOT launched a brand new mixtape titled “4shoboiz Mixtape” on Wednesday, warming as much as its official debut subsequent 12 months.   LNGSHOT — a four-member group composed of Louis, Ohyul, Woojin and Ryul, pronounced “lengthy shot” — launched the brand new compilation of eight tracks which were created by the members, in accordance with the band’s company Extra Imaginative and prescient.     The band additionally launched its personal on-line present, “4shoboiz Scene Dump,” which reveals the work means…

The air was chilly however the environment buzzy as a crowd of two,000 ladies streamed into a 3‑story constructing in Seoul’s stylish Seongsu‑dong on the primary day of November. They’d come for a gathering by no means earlier than seen in Korea: a good devoted to “bihon,” the motion that rejects heterosexual marriage and celebrates the selection to stay single.Regardless of an almost 70 % surge in single-person households over the previous decade, in keeping with the Korea Institute for Well being and Social Affairs, marriage is deeply ingrained as a social expectation, particularly for ladies, who typically face harsher…

  Na Sung-in   The creator is a music critic and director of the classical music model Poongwoldang.        Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), some of the influential composers of the early twentieth century, sought to show the contradictions of a world the place ecstasy and struggling coexist. By the eyes of an outsider, he embraced what was generally grotesque, generally distant from magnificence, as a result of it felt nearer to the reality. This was not solely his inventive lens but additionally his lived actuality. He was, in his personal phrases, a “triple outsider” — a Bohemian, an Austrian…

Zohran Mamdani greets the group at an Election Night time watch get together following his election as mayor of New York on Nov. 4, 2025. (AFP/Yonhap) Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Ugandan-born Indian American and self-described democratic socialist, has been elected the brand new mayor of New York Metropolis.US President Donald Trump has blasted his upstart political foe as a “communist” and threatened to slash federal funding for New York Metropolis, hinting that the US might face even worse political division going ahead.Political shakeups are likely to recalibrate a superpower’s international coverage, which might have main repercussions for Koreans. Whereas we’re…

Kim Seung-il, founder and CEO of Kkanbu Hen / Courtesy of Kkanbu HenKim Seung-il, founder and CEO of Kkanbu Hen, is within the highlight after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an attention-grabbing informal dinner assembly with the heads of two of Korea’s prime conglomerates at one of many rooster franchise’s shops in Seoul. Kim based Kkanbu Hen in 2006 by opening its first retailer in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The franchise fried rooster maker has since quickly expanded its presence with the opening of its fiftieth retailer in 2010. The quantity topped 200 in 2013, cementing its standing as one of…