Author: Seoul Reporter

An illustration emphasizing the significance of cybersecurity in work environments (Reuters) Warnings have emerged that hackers will broaden AI-powered cyberattacks subsequent yr, together with utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI) to duplicate executives’ voices and movies. Moreover, so-called “shadow brokers” — AI instruments put in with out firm data — are anticipated to emerge as new cyber threats. Google Risk Intelligence Group (GTIG) launched its 2026 Cybersecurity Outlook Report on Nov. 5, predicting that AI utilization in cyberattacks will set up itself as a brand new customary. GTIG warned that “in 2026, attackers will transfer past easy text-based phishing…

  Shin Hae-ryong   The creator is a professor at Chung-Ang College Graduate College of Public Administration and former chief of the Nationwide Meeting Price range Workplace.       Following a revision of the Authorities Group Act, the Ministry of Economic system and Finance might be break up in 2026 into the Ministry of Finance and Economic system and the Workplace of Planning and Price range. Beneath President Kim Younger-sam, the 2 ministries have been merged right into a single company. President Kim Dae-jung then separated them once more. They have been reunited throughout the Lee Myung-bak administration and…

Zohran Mamdani’s win within the New York Metropolis mayoral race comes after a trailblazing marketing campaign that resonated with left-leaning supporters far past the town shores.The democratic socialist, who centered his marketing campaign on insurance policies concentrating on affordability, didn’t draw back from highlighting his cross-cultural upbringing as an American Muslim of Indian descent born in Uganda. He thanked voters together with “Yemeni bodega homeowners,” “Senegalese taxi drivers,” “Uzbek nurses,” “Trinidadian line cooks” and “Ethiopian aunties” in his victory speech.

Universities are more and more forging strategic partnerships with {industry} and increasing into new educational fields to sharpen their model, bolster funding alternatives and meet evolving group wants, students collaborating within the QS Larger Ed Summit: Asia Pacific 2025 stated Wednesday.Throughout a dialogue session, titled “Elevating Native Roots to International Attain in Larger Schooling,” King Saud College Computational Arithmetic professor Abir Alharbi described how establishments can deepen their relevance by aligning with exterior companions and diversifying into rising disciplines.“You might be serving the group and on the identical time you might be additionally giving them the best data,” she stated…

North Korean chief Kim Jong-un stands for a photograph whereas visiting the headquarters of the eleventh Corps of the Korean Folks’s Military on Nov. 1, 2025. (KCNA/Yonhap) The Nationwide Intelligence Service mentioned on Tuesday that there’s a excessive likelihood {that a} US-North Korea summit will occur within the not-so-distant future.The service has reportedly concluded that North Korea could pursue a summit with the US someday round March of subsequent 12 months, across the time of South Korea-US joint army coaching workouts.Throughout an audit by the Nationwide Meeting’s Intelligence Committee on the NIS headquarters in Seoul’s Seocho District, officers from the…

Fears over journey to Cambodia, dubbed “Cambodia phobia” by South Korean media, following a sequence of rip-off scandals within the Southeast Asian nation have pushed Korea-Japan airfare to double because the area loses its attraction as a winter vacation vacation spot.A round-trip financial system ticket from Gimpo, Seoul to Haneda, Tokyo is now priced at round 700,000 received ($480), greater than double the 300,000 received three months earlier than, based on The Naver Flight, an air ticket platform. The bottom-priced round-trip fare from Seoul to Tokyo for depature in late November stood at 632,200 received on Monday, almost double the…

Pictures uploaded on mannequin Moon Ga-bi’s Instagram of her son [SCREEN CAPTURE]   Mannequin Moon Ga-bi requested folks to cease creating and spreading deepfake content material utilizing her son’s picture.   Moon shared just a few images of herself and her son on her Instagram account on Oct. 30. She didn’t reveal her kid’s face in any of the images or movies.     “Regardless of not having revealed the face of my little one, an unrelated on-line consumer had used my images with out permission to create and distribute unlawful content material, falsely suggesting that I had revealed my…

After weeks of relentless good points that made it the world’s best-performing main inventory index this 12 months, South Korea’s Kospi came upon Wednesday amid renewed jitters over a synthetic intelligence bubble, marking its steepest drop in three months.The benchmark Kospi index plunged 2.9% to shut at 4,004.42, after sinking as a lot as 6.2% intraday to set off a sell-side circuit breaker, generally known as a sidecar, which suspends futures buying and selling for 5 minutes to cease panic promoting. It marked the largest one-day fall since Aug. 1, when traders had been disenchanted by the Korean authorities’s tax…

  Kim Myung-hwa   The writer is a playwright and director.        Choi Chi-won (857-908), a Confucian scholar of late Silla (57 B.C.-A.D. 935), was born in Gyeongju. At age 12, he left for early research in Tang China, pushed by his father to move the civil service examination if he was to go overseas. To remain awake, he pricked himself with a needle whereas learning, finally getting into workplace. Throughout the Huang Chao Insurrection, he wrote the “Proclamation to Repress Huang Chao,” incomes acclaim as a author.   Korean President Lee Jae Myung, left, chats with Chinese…

MANILA, Philippines — Storm Kalmaegi has left a minimum of 85 folks lifeless with 75 others lacking within the central Philippines, many in widespread flooding that trapped folks on their roofs and swept away vehicles in a hard-hit province nonetheless recovering from a lethal earthquake, officers stated Wednesday.Among the many lifeless have been six individuals who have been killed when a Philippine air pressure helicopter crashed within the southern province of Agusan del Sur on Tuesday. The crew was on its method to supply humanitarian assist to provinces battered by Kalmaegi, the navy stated. It didn’t give the reason for…