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North Korean chief Kim Jong-un has inspected constructing websites for varsity provide and instructing software factories and reprimanded cupboard and training officers over delays within the building, state media reported Wednesday.Kim visited the websites the day gone by to examine building progress and tour the factories, emphasizing the significance of strengthening the fabric basis of the training sector and enhancing academic situations and the atmosphere, the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA) stated.The chief identified that the ruling get together had addressed the problem of strengthening the fabric basis for training at its plenary classes for a number of years, however…

SK Biopharmaceuticals’epilepsy therapy Cenobamate, accredited within the U.S. as Xcopri (Photograph courtesy of SK Biopharmaceuticals) SK Biopharmaceuticals’ epilepsy therapy new drug “Xcopri,” which generates annual gross sales of over 500 billion received in abroad markets together with america and Europe, has acquired approval as Korea’s forty first domestically developed new drug. This marks the primary case of a pharmaceutical product receiving home approval after first acquiring approval and proving its competitiveness by way of gross sales in america, the world’s largest market. The Ministry of Meals and Drug Security introduced on Nov. 3 that it has accredited…

Richard Teng, chief govt officer of Binance, in the course of the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, DC, U.S., on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty PicturesBinance CEO Richard Teng has dismissed claims that the cryptocurrency trade helped increase a Trump-backed stablecoin earlier than former CEO Changpeng Zhao acquired a presidential pardon.The claims in query relate to a $2 billion funding Binance acquired from Abu Dhabi’s state-owned funding agency MGX. The deal was settled utilizing USD1, a stablecoin created by the Trump household’s crypto enterprise, World Liberty Monetary. MGX’s funding and Binance’s subsequent itemizing of USD1 on its…

Musical actor Kim Jun-young, who not too long ago got here beneath scrutiny over allegations of visiting an unlawful leisure bar, is stepping down from all his present productions, his company stated Tuesday.HJ Tradition, Kim’s company, stated in an announcement, “We sincerely apologize to audiences and all events concerned for the priority brought on by current occasions relating to our artist Kim Jun-young. The actor will withdraw from all productions wherein he’s at the moment showing.”The company stated that the choice required cautious coordination with a number of manufacturing groups, including, “Because the actor was collaborating in a number of…

Samsung Electronics’ Sixth technology high-bandwidth reminiscence HBM4 and HBM3E are on show on the firm’s sales space arrange on the Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX) 2025 held at COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on Oct. 22. (Captured from JTBC) Samsung Electronics has exceptionally granted treasury share efficiency bonuses to key personnel in next-generation excessive bandwidth reminiscence (HBM) improvement. This was particular compensation for his or her contribution to growing the core chip 10-nanometer (nm; 1nm = 1 billionth of a meter) Sixth-generation DRAM (1c DRAM) for HBM4, which is the Sixth-generation HBM. Trade watchers say that seen outcomes at an important juncture…

HLB Group CI (Photograph courtesy of HLB Group) HLB Group (028300) has secured a strategic funding of $145 million (roughly 206.9 billion received) from UK-based international asset administration agency LMR Companions. The pharmaceutical group has secured a basis for steady new drug improvement by attracting international capital forward of resubmitting its liver most cancers drug “Rivoceranib” for U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. HLB and HLB Life Sciences introduced on Nov. 3 that they every held board conferences and authorised the funding attraction from LMR Companions. LMR Companions will situation bonds with warrants (BW) value…

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Demand for Gyeongju’s famed Hwangnam bread has surged following final week’s Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit within the historic metropolis, prompting the model on Tuesday to warn in opposition to resellers inflating costs and distributors passing off imitations as the unique.First made in 1939, the skinny, hand-pressed pastry stuffed with candy pink bean paste — named for an area neighborhood — is a signature specialty of Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province.Final week, President Lee Jae Myung offered freshly baked Hwangnam bread to Chinese language President Xi Jinping, with the message that he hoped Xi would “benefit from the style of Gyeongju.”On…

Printed: 19 Aug. 2025, 14:49 Up to date: 19 Aug. 2025, 21:13 The ″2025 HYBE Music Group Audition Pop-up: We Consider in You Offline Pop-up Retailer″ set to open in Tokyo [HYBE]   HYBE will maintain a pop-up retailer in Shibuya, Tokyo, from Aug. 27 to 30 to present Ok-pop followers a peek into what it will be prefer to turn into a trainee at Korea’s largest Ok-pop company.   The pop-up retailer, dubbed “2025 HYBE Music Group Audition Pop-up: We Consider in You Offline Pop-up Retailer,” will function reveals by eight HYBE subsidiaries which can be holding a joint audition:…

President Lee Jae Myung’s push to increase Korea’s authorized retirement age to 65 from the present 60 is rising as a political and financial battleground, pitting the ruling Democratic Social gathering of Korea (DPK) towards the conservative predominant opposition Individuals Energy Social gathering (PPP) and enterprise teams, market watchers stated Tuesday.Additional intensifying the decades-long concern is rising frustration from youthful voters, who’re more and more shedding job alternatives because of the safety of vested pursuits of older generations, compounded lately by the unfold of synthetic intelligence (AI).At stake is Korea’s youth employment and company productiveness, extremely more likely to be…