Author: Seoul Reporter

NH NongHyup Financial institution CEO Kang Tae-young visited the headquarters of Agribank in Hanoi on Friday for a gathering with the Vietnamese financial institution’s CEO Pham Toan Vuong to foster cooperation in finance and mutual progress enterprise alternatives, the Korean business lender stated Tuesday.The assembly throughout Kang’s enterprise journey to Vietnam was a part of efforts to strengthen the banks’ partnership with the Southeast Asian nation.The Agribank CEO reiterated the financial institution’s dedication to bilateral cooperation, saying the 2 have constructed a robust partnership since 2013 via numerous initiatives.“NongHyup and Agribank have been exchanging personnel, to not point out remittance…

Following the primary Korea-China summit underneath President Lee Jae Myung’s administration, expectations are rising that Beijing could lastly calm down its long-standing restrictions on Korean popular culture, generally known as the hallyu ban. On the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit dinner in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, on Oct. 31, Chinese language President Xi Jinping personally watched a efficiency by official promotional ambassador for the occasion G-Dragon, who’s making ready to open a significant exhibition in Hangzhou later this month, presumably changing into the primary cultural determine to learn from the thaw.In line with Chinese language cultural business sources on Monday,…

Key officers pose for a commemorative photograph on the contract signing ceremony for the “Kori Unit 1 Non-Managed Space Inner and Yard Facility Dismantling Challenge” held at Korea Hydro & Nuclear Energy’s Radiation Well being Institute in Seoul on Nov. 4. From left: Jung Cheol-sang, govt managing director of HJ Heavy Industries; Cho Seok-jin, govt vp of know-how at KHNP; Kim Jong-du, president of Doosan Enerbility; Jeon Ho-gwang, vp of KEPCO KPS. (Picture courtesy of Doosan Enerbility) Doosan Enerbility is starting the dismantling of Kori Nuclear Energy Plant Unit 1, Korea’s first business nuclear energy plant. The corporate introduced…

As Korea’s opera scene heads into the yr’s ultimate stretch, main corporations throughout the nation are unveiling high-profile productions that underline the rising ambition and scale of the nation’s opera corporations.From the Seoul Metropolitan Opera’s grand Fortieth-anniversary staging of Verdi’s “Aida” and Chung Myung-whun’s long-awaited return to “Carmen” in Busan, to Wagner’s monumental “Tristan und Isolde,” Puccini’s “Tosca” and Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” audiences are being supplied an distinctive lineup of operatic experiences to shut the season.‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ by Daegu Worldwide Opera PageantBecause the closing efficiency of the twenty second Daegu Worldwide Opera Pageant, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed…

South Korea on Tuesday unveiled a bundle to overtake its metal business, with government-backed plans for manufacturing cuts, a rise within the output of higher-grade specialty merchandise and associated subsidies, as world oversupply and Chinese language competitors put pressure on one of many nation’s core manufacturing sectors.As a part of the bundle, the federal government pledged 200 billion gained ($139 million) in analysis and growth funding to spice up high-value specialty metal manufacturing by 2030.The restructuring blueprint, unveiled by the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Vitality, urges home steelmakers to “voluntarily” implement aggressive measures to streamline oversupplied segments comparable to…

Samsung Electronics owes patent proprietor Pictiva Shows $191.4 million in damages for infringing two U.S. patents masking natural light-emitting diode expertise, a jury in Texas federal courtroom mentioned on Monday.Pictiva satisfied the jury that a variety of Samsung gadgets violate Pictiva’s patent rights in expertise for enhancing the decision, brightness and energy effectivity of OLED shows.Pictiva Managing Director Angela Quinlan mentioned in an announcement the decision “validates the power of the Pictiva mental property.”Samsung Electronics mentioned it could enchantment.”We intend to enchantment the decision associated to the 2 patents. We have now already filed a petition to invalidate the related…

For greater than a century, Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea has labored to make information about Korea accessible by means of its lectures, annual Transactions journal, excursions and the upkeep of a set of primarily English-language specialist supplies. The library started as a small assortment of books gathered primarily by missionaries and some different international residents in Seoul who needed to realize a deeper understanding of the peninsula. At a time when public libraries have been uncommon and college collections have been largely closed to outsiders, RAS Korea adopted the instance of the founding department in London, in addition to…

Kwak Jong-geun, the previous chief of the Military Particular Warfare Command, speaks at a Nationwide Meeting listening to on Feb. 4, 2025, relating to Yoon Suk-yeol’s martial regulation declaration. (Yoon Woon-sik/Hankyoreh) Throughout a gathering on Armed Forces Day final yr, then-President Yoon Suk-yeol stated he would “shoot and kill” political figures, together with the chief of the Individuals Energy Get together on the time, based on courtroom testimony by Kwak Jong-geun, the previous chief of the Military Particular Warfare Command. Throughout a listening to in Yoon’s rebel trial on the Seoul Central District Court docket on Monday, Kwak testified as a…

Printed: 04 Nov. 2025, 17:26 Musical actor Kim Jun-young [SCREEN CAPTURE]   Musical actor Kim Jun-young will withdraw from all present and upcoming productions following backlash over a social media submit that sparked allegations he had visited an grownup leisure institution, his company and manufacturing firm HJ Tradition introduced on Monday.    “We sincerely apologize for inflicting concern to audiences and business colleagues as a result of state of affairs involving our artist Kim Jun-young,” the company stated in an announcement posted on its official Instagram account on Monday. “Because the actor was concerned in a number of productions, we wanted…

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young prolonged his condolences Tuesday over the demise of Kim Yong-nam, former titular head of North Korea, saying in a message that he had contributed to the event of inter-Korean ties.North Korea’s state media stated earlier within the day that Kim, former chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme Individuals’s Meeting, died the day before today from a number of organ failure associated to most cancers. He had been battling colorectal most cancers since June final yr.”I categorical my condolences over the demise of Kim,” Chung stated in a message launched to the press on behalf…