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Fiction Commendation Prize winner Adelle Wee Xing Min / Courtesy of Adelle Wee Xing Min Among the many 5 winners of the 56th Trendy Korean Literature Translation Awards, Adelle Wee Xing Min stands out for her singular focus and dedication to literary translation.A Singaporean scholar on the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s (LTI Korea) Translation Academy in Seoul, Wee is an aspiring literary translator. Earlier than coming into the academy, she earned her grasp’s diploma in Korean-English translation from Ewha Womans College, following an undergraduate diploma in linguistics.Her dream of changing into a literary translator started modestly via fan translation…

Former home-run king Park Byung-ho is starting his teaching profession along with his outdated membership, the Kiwoom Heroes, the Korea Baseball Group (KBO) workforce introduced Tuesday.The 39-year-old, who retired after the 2025 season with the Samsung Lions, has been appointed chief coach for the reserve squad, marking his return to the franchise the place he loved probably the most profitable years of his profession.Drafted by the LG Twins in 2005, Park rose to prominence after a 2011 commerce to the Nexen Heroes — now Kiwoom — the place he turned one of many KBO’s most feared sluggers.Park nabbed the primary…

Workplace transactions within the Seoul Metropolitan Space reached 5.9 trillion gained ($4.1 billion) within the third quarter, surpassing 5 trillion gained for the second straight quarter, in keeping with Savills on Monday.The tempo of offers is predicted to push this yr’s whole to an all-time excessive, with a number of transactions anticipated to shut by yr’s finish, actual property analysts say.Demand for trophy belongings led transaction development as massive enterprise teams sought new headquarters amid renewed inflows of overseas capital.Restricted new provide within the space by way of 2028 is predicted to maintain rents agency, offsetting the influence of house…

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A plan by the Seoul metropolitan authorities to permit the development of a 142-meter constructing reverse Jongmyo Shrine — the royal Confucian shrine the place ancestral rites for Joseon Dynasty kings are nonetheless held — has drawn opposition from the Korea Heritage Service, which warned that the undertaking may diminish the positioning’s historic worth.Inbuilt 1395, Jongmyo enshrines the spirit tablets (tablets inscribed with the names of the deceased) of 49 Joseon Dynasty kings and queens. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage website in 1995 and is acknowledged because the oldest and most intact Confucian royal ancestral shrine, with its…

Daesung Group, an power and surroundings conglomerate, held the 2025 Daesung Haegang Science Discussion board in Seoul on Tuesday, highlighting the most recent biotechnology improvements within the period of synthetic intelligence (AI).Marking its eighth version this yr, the annual discussion board explored the theme “Bio-Innovation within the AI Period,” bringing collectively consultants and business leaders to share their insights on the convergence of AI and biotechnology and their future improvement trajectory.On the discussion board, Lee Sang-yup, vice chairman for analysis on the Korea Superior Institute of Science and Know-how, delivered a keynote speech below the title “AI for Organic Engineering.”…

Actor Ji Chang-wook is again with one other high-octane function — this time in Disney+’s upcoming motion sequence “The Manipulated,” the place he performs a person whose life is shattered by a false accusation. The sequence, which premieres Wednesday, guarantees a contemporary mix of suspense and emotional depth that units it other than its cinematic inspiration: “Fabricated Metropolis.”A press convention for “The Manipulated” befell on the Conrad Seoul on Monday with director Park Shin-woo and forged members Ji Chang-wook, Doh Kyung-soo, Kim Jong-soo, Jo Yoon-soo and Lee Kwang-soo in attendance. Directed by Park — identified for “White Night time,” “The…

OliX Prescription drugs CI (Photograph courtesy of OliX Prescription drugs) OliX Prescription drugs introduced on Nov. 3 that it’s going to take part in BIOEurope Convention 2025, to be held in Vienna, Austria, from Nov. 3-5 (native time), to pursue world expertise transfers and develop partnerships. BIOEurope is a number one world networking occasion for strategic alliances and partnering inside the world life science trade. Greater than 5,700 trade officers from over 3,000 firms throughout 60 international locations attend the occasion to debate varied types of open innovation similar to expertise transfers and funding collaborations. …

Park Junghae, “Frozen Tongue” by Park Jung-hae (Courtesy of the artist) The Hanwha Basis of Tradition will open a non-profit exhibition house, Area ZeroOne, in New York this week.Situated in Tribeca, one of many metropolis’s most vibrant cultural districts, the venue goals to function a worldwide platform and launchpad for rising Korean artists, in keeping with the muse on Tuesday. It’ll even be the primary exhibition house in New York straight run by a Korean business-run cultural basis.Opening on Friday, the inaugural exhibition, “Contours of Zero,” will showcase greater than 20 works by eight rising Korean artists exploring the intersection…

Former soccer participant Lee Chun-soo, who gained fame as a member of Korea’s 2002 World Cup squad and now runs a YouTube channel with 780,000 subscribers, has been accused of fraud involving tons of of thousands and thousands of received.In accordance with CBS No Minimize Information on Tuesday, the Jeju Provincial Police Company booked Lee on costs of fraud underneath the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Particular Financial Crimes. The case was transferred from the Seogwipo Police Station, the place a longtime acquaintance filed a grievance in opposition to Lee final month.The acquaintance, who described his relationship with Lee…