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Officers from Switzerland’s largest telecom firm Swisscom and main banks go to the headquarters of Karrot situated in Seocho-gu, Seoul on Nov. 4. (Photograph courtesy of Karrot) International monetary firms are being attentive to Karrot, Korea’s main area people platform that began as a secondhand buying and selling platform. They choose that Karrot’s enterprise mannequin and technological capabilities, which have expanded from a location-based platform to life-style finance, promoting, and industrial district evaluation, supply many reference factors for various industries corresponding to finance and telecommunications. In keeping with the retail trade on Nov. 6, a…

Mannequin Moon Ga-bi has expressed anger over an AI-generated video that falsely depicts her son’s face.Moon mentioned on social media Wednesday that she shared a number of pictures from her each day life on Oct. 30, including, “They had been atypical moments between a mom and her youngster, however I’ve by no means revealed my son’s face in any photograph or video anyplace.”She continued, “Regardless of that, I found an account that had used my pictures with out consent to illegally create and submit an AI-generated video, as if I had publicly proven my son’s face and made official feedback.…

The road snaked across the COEX conference heart in Seoul’s upscale Gangnam district late final week, the place a whole bunch of avid gamers waited greater than three hours to step inside Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce Gamer Pageant. For a lot of, the primary attraction wasn’t the {hardware} shows or giveaways – it was NCSOFT Corp., the occasion’s sole developer, providing hands-on gameplay of Aion 2 and Cinder Metropolis, two unreleased titles powered by Nvidia’s latest graphics platform.The scene provided a glimpse into how the two-decade alliance between NCSOFT and Nvidia continues to push the boundaries of high-fidelity gaming.Aion 2, set…

‘I am not progressive or conservative — I am simply Park Jin-young,’ says co-chair of presidential committee on popular culture President Lee Jae Myung (fifth from left) poses for an image with Park Jin-young (fourth from left) and Tradition Minister Chae Hwi-young (second from proper), co-chairs of the Presidential Committee on Widespread Tradition Alternate, in the course of the committee’s launch ceremony at Kintex in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Oct. 1. (Presidential Workplace) When President Lee Jae Myung named Park Jin-young, the founding father of Okay-pop powerhouse JYP Leisure, a co-chair of a presidential committee on popular culture in September, some…

At 5 months pregnant, home helper Daisy* was kicked out of her Hong Kong employer’s dwelling one evening with out warning.Distraught and alone, the 32-year-old referred to as dwelling in Mindanao, the Philippines, crying over what had occurred to her.”It was in the midst of the evening. I felt so scared as I used to be pregnant and I had no household or pals right here I may flip to,” Daisy recalled.She had arrived in Hong Kong in 2023 to work for an area couple who had a seven-year-old son however fell pregnant final December after spending a vacation at…

The variety of multicultural marriages in Korea final 12 months reached its highest degree for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic, in keeping with information launched Thursday by Statistics Korea.The determine reached 21,450 final 12 months, up 1,019 or 5 % from 20,431 the earlier 12 months.Multicultural marriages had fallen sharply from 24,721 in 2019 to 16,177 in 2020 following the outbreak of COVID-19, and additional to 13,916 in 2021. The determine has since steadily recovered, surpassing 20,000 in 2023 and reaching 21,450 final 12 months.Nonetheless, complete marriages nationwide rose 14.8 % to 222,000 throughout the identical interval, a a lot…

The 2025 LX Cup Korea Ladies’s Baseball Championship, the nation’s solely corporate-sponsored ladies’s baseball event, will happen at LG Champion’s Park and Dream Stadium in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, beginning Saturday.Now in its fourth yr, the LX Cup is co-hosted and arranged by LX Group and the Ladies’s Baseball Affiliation Korea (WBAK). Launched in 2022, the event goals to increase the bottom of ladies’s baseball in Korea and supply gamers with better alternatives to develop their expertise.This yr’s version, which runs to Nov. 16, would be the largest within the event’s historical past, that includes 47 groups and over 1,000 gamers.…

The Korea Financial Each day hosted the ASK 2025 convention at Conrad Seoul on Oct. 29-30 The business actual property market within the US and Europe is displaying early indicators of a rebound, supported by restricted provide after a development slowdown throughout COVID-19 and easing borrowing prices, portfolio managers stated at ASK 2025 on Oct. 30.Workplaces, hit hardest by excessive rates of interest and pandemic-era social distancing, has begun to ship optimistic returns for the reason that first quarter of this 12 months after their valuations plunged by as much as 50% since 2022.“Now’s a compelling entry level for the…

The Baeksang Arts Awards’ indicators an MOU with the Korea Musical Theatre Affiliation to determine a brand new musical class on the annual awards ceremony. [BAEKSANG ARTS AWARDS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, HLL JOONGANG]   The Baeksang Arts Awards introduced that it’s going to set up a brand new class for stage musicals, beginning with subsequent 12 months’s 62nd awards ceremony.   The information comes as a part of a lately signed memorandum of understanding between HLL JoongAng, the organizer of the Baeksang awards, and the Korea Musical Theatre Affiliation, in line with the Baeksang organizing committee’s press launch on Thursday.  …

A Russian navy delegation has arrived in North Korea, the North’s state media reported Thursday, as Pyongyang and Moscow have been deepening navy cooperation.The delegation, led by Russian Deputy Protection Minister Viktor Goremykin, arrived in Pyongyang yesterday, in response to the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA). It didn’t disclose different particulars, such because the itinerary and the aim of the go to.He was welcomed by Pak Yong-il, vice director of the Basic Political Bureau of the Korean Individuals’s Military, and different navy officers.South Korea’s unification ministry mentioned the journey seems to be a reciprocal go to after Pak’s journey to…