Author: Seoul Reporter

Federal brokers stand guard after deploying tear gasoline as group members protest after federal regulation enforcement brokers had been concerned in a taking pictures incident, per week after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Wednesday. Reuters-YonhapMINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Rebel Act and deploy troops to quell persistent protests towards the federal officers despatched to Minneapolis to implement his administration’s huge immigration crackdown.The risk comes a day after a person was shot and wounded by an immigration officer who had been attacked with a…

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan (left) shakes palms with President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea throughout a go to to the Horyu Temple in Japan’s Nara Prefecture on Jan. 14, 2026. (Yonhap) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung wrapped up his two-day go to to Japan on Wednesday with a pleasant outing to the historic Horyu Temple with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Lee’s go to to Japan is being touted as having positioned South Korea-Japan shuttle diplomacy again on a wholesome trajectory, whereas additionally upgrading the extent of belief between the 2 nations. Nonetheless, a lot work stays to…

Yoon Suk-yeol, Kim Yong-hyun and 5 others on trial for his or her roles within the martial regulation disaster of Dec. 3, 2024, seem in Room 417 of the Seoul Central District Court docket for the ultimate listening to of their trial on Jan. 13, 2026. (courtesy of the Seoul Central District Court docket) Closing arguments for all main legal trials associated to Korea’s 2024 martial regulation disaster have concluded, with prosecutors finally requesting the dying penalty for former President Yoon Suk-yeol on costs of orchestrating and main an riot. Verdicts shall be reached for key defendants on trial for…

Samsung Electronics will collectively develop a next-generation garments dryer tailor-made to U.S. housing situations in collaboration with U.S. nationwide laboratories and universities. (Picture courtesy of Samsung Electronics) Samsung Electronics stated on Jan. 15 that its analysis mission on next-generation clothes-drying expertise has been chosen as an formally supported mission by the U.S. Division of Vitality. The South Korean tech big will lead the mission in collaboration with main U.S. analysis establishments, together with the nation’s largest nationwide laboratory. The mission goals to use high-efficiency moisture-absorbing supplies, referred to as desiccants, to garments dryers, enabling them…

A rendering of LSCMX LS Cable & System introduced on January. 15 that it’s going to make investments roughly 230 billion received in LSCMX, its manufacturing subsidiary within the central Mexican state of Querétaro, to ascertain an built-in manufacturing base for energy infrastructure and mobility elements focusing on the North American market. The core of this funding is to raise LSCMX from a easy manufacturing base into an ‘built-in hub for the Americas’ that merges its vitality and mobility companies. To this finish, LS Cable & System plans to considerably develop its current Busduct services…

Late taekwondo grasp Rhee Jhoon-goo / Korea Instances fileThe Abroad Koreans Company mentioned Thursday that late taekwondo grasp Rhee Jhoon-goo has been named abroad Korean of the month in recognition of his function in globalizing taekwondo and advancing Korea-U.S. sports activities diplomacy.Rhee, broadly thought to be the one who first established taekwondo within the U.S., helped elevate the martial artwork past self-defense right into a software for cultural trade, diplomacy and worldwide sports activities engagement.Born in 1932 in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, Rhee was first launched to taekwondo at age 16 by the Chung Do Kwan, one in all Korea’s…

KYIV — Devastating assaults on Kyiv’s vitality system over the previous week have left a whole lot of 1000’s within the chilly and darkish, as temperatures plunged nicely beneath freezing, sparking a disagreement between President Volodymyr Zelensky and the mayor over the plight of the capital’s residents.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan (left) shakes palms with President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea throughout a go to to the Horyu Temple in Japan’s Nara Prefecture on Jan. 14, 2026. (Yonhap) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s emphasis not solely on bilateral cooperation with Japan and trilateral cooperation with the US but additionally on trilateral cooperation with Japan and China throughout a current summit with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is being learn as a strategic option to strike a geopolitical stability and safe a secure place for South Korea with out permitting it to get caught…

The feedback come at a time when the won-to-dollar change charge threatens to interrupt 1,480 gained to the greenback US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and South Korean Minister of Economic system and Finance Koo Yun-cheol. (from X) US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shared a message stressing that the current depreciation of the gained was “not in keeping with Korea’s sturdy financial fundamentals.”With Bessent himself talking out because the US’ chief financial official at a time when the won-to-dollar change charge has not too long ago been threatening to cross the 1,480 line, many are watching to see the potential influence…

Supply: Reuters Huawei recorded the best cargo quantity in China’s smartphone market on an annual foundation final yr, returning to the highest place for the primary time in 5 years. This marks the primary time since 2020 that the corporate has overtaken Apple to reclaim the annual management place. Based on market analysis agency IDC on January. 15, Huawei shipped a complete of 46.7 million smartphones within the Chinese language market in 2025, recording a 16.4% market share. Whereas this represents a 1.9% lower in comparison with the earlier yr’s 47.6 million items (16.6% market share),…