Author: Seoul Reporter

Printed: 05 Nov. 2025, 11:38 Up to date: 05 Nov. 2025, 12:17 HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyuk seems on the Monetary Crimes Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Company in western Seoul on Sept. 15. [YONHAP]   Police questioned HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyuk for a 3rd time on Wednesday over suspicions of violating the Monetary Funding Companies and Capital Markets Act.   The monetary crime unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Company mentioned that it was questioning Bang as a suspect on Wednesday morning. It’s his third spherical of questioning, following two public summons in September.     Bang is…

LG Chem’s CI (PHoto courtesy of LG Chem) LG Chem is buying a promising new drug substance anticipated to create synergistic results with Fotivda (generic identify: tivozanib), a kidney most cancers remedy presently bought in the US. On Nov. 5, LG Chem introduced that Aveo, the corporate’s U.S. oncology enterprise unit, has signed an settlement with native biotech firm Hybar-Cell for world unique improvement and choice train rights for HC-5404, a Section 1 clinical-stage drug candidate. Beneath this settlement, LG Chem will straight conduct the upcoming Section 1b scientific trial and can determine whether or not to execute…

SAN FRANCISCO — Jeong Hwang-hah, the younger proprietor of Jilli SF, is bringing makgeolli — Korea’s centuries-old rice alcohol — to the guts of the Bay Space, bridging her background in tech with the rising recognition of Korean ingesting tradition in the US.After spending years within the tech business as a person interplay designer for Airbnb and a number of other synthetic intelligence (AI) corporations, the 28-year-old made a shift to hospitality this 12 months to launch Jilli SF, a San Francisco outpost of the favored Korean-inspired bar in Los Angeles.Her motivation was a deep love for Korean tradition and…

  Yu Ji-hoon   The creator is a analysis fellow at Korea Institute for Protection Analyses       U.S. President Donald Trump has signaled that Washington will approve Korea’s longstanding want to construct nuclear-powered submarines. For Seoul, buying submarines able to remaining submerged for prolonged durations, working removed from residence waters and shifting quickly with sustained endurance would mark a qualitative leap in army functionality. Past a easy enhancement of naval energy, nuclear-powered submarines might grow to be a core asset that helps Korea’s self-reliant protection and strengthens the mixed deterrence of the Korea-U.S. alliance.   The Jang Yeong-sil,…

Main fried hen franchise Genesis BBQ has expanded into its thirty third U.S. state with the opening of a brand new retailer in South Carolina.Its newest growth underscores the corporate’s continued progress throughout the southeastern United States. The transfer is a part of the corporate’s broader initiative to ascertain a presence in all 50 states.Two BBQ shops have opened in South Carolina — one in Indian Land and one other in Greenville. BBQ Hen’s Indian Land location is a 39.66-square-meter restaurant with 12 seats. Situated close to the border between North and South Carolina, the location is strategically positioned to…

emphasizes agentic AI’s potential in manufacturing. Chris Penrose, NVIDIA vp (Photograph courtesy of SK Telecom) Chris Penrose, NVIDIA vp, forecast the blooming of the manufacturing AI period via agentic synthetic intelligence (AI) and suggested that Korea must also pursue AI full-stack ecosystem cooperation in preparation for this improvement. In an interview performed via SK Telecom Newsroom on Nov. 5, Penrose said, “The subsequent large step within the AI business is the rise of agentic AI, which can evolve into AI that may perceive context, assume independently, make plans, and act autonomously by combining generative fashions…

Printed: 05 Nov. 2025, 13:59 Up to date: 05 Nov. 2025, 19:49 Comic Lee Kyung-kyu speaks to reporters at Seoul Gangnam Police Station in southern Seoul on June 24. [NEWS1]   Comic Lee Kyung-kyu has been fined for driving below the affect of prescription medicine, in line with court docket officers on Wednesday.   The Seoul Central District Court docket issued a abstract order final Friday, imposing a nice of two million gained ($1,400) on Lee for violating the Street Visitors Act.     Prosecutors filed the abstract indictment on Oct. 21, in search of the identical nice.   A…

The Korean webtoon business is at a vital juncture, aggressively pursuing the efficiencies of synthetic intelligence (AI) at the same time as creators resist the change citing severe authorized and moral dangers, in accordance with business consultants.This creativity-driven business is without doubt one of the quickest to really feel the consequences of the rising know-how. Webtoon creators, whereas involved that adopting the know-how will compromise their originality, additionally perceive that failure to embrace it may result in exclusion from the market.This rigidity was a key level of debate throughout the twenty fifth annual Manhwa Day ceremony on Nov. 3, the…

Printed: 06 Nov. 2025, 00:05 Audio report: written by reporters, learn by AI     Moon Hong-kyu   The writer is a principal researcher on the Korea Astronomy and Area Science Institute.        In early July, when daytime temperatures hovered round 33 levels Celsius in Korea, information of a brand new celestial object unfold rapidly on-line. The Worldwide Astronomical Union assigned it the short-term identify A11pl3Z. Its orbital eccentricity was calculated at 6.1; by comparability, a circle has an eccentricity of zero, and closed, hyperbolic Solar-bound orbits have an eccentricity larger than one. With an eccentricity of 6.1,…

KOSPI closed at 4,004.42 on Nov. 5, down 2.85% from the earlier session. (Captured from Yonhapnews TV) The home inventory market plunged under the three,800 stage on Nov. 5 as a consequence of heavy overseas promoting, then recovered above the 4,000 mark because of particular person investor shopping for. As foreigners engaged in profit-taking amid overvaluation considerations for large-cap shares together with Samsung Electronics (005930) and SK Hynix (000660), particular person buyers absorbed the promoting strain and considerably decreased the decline. SK Hynix, which fell as a lot as 8% throughout morning buying and selling, recovered…