Author: Seoul Reporter

Zahra Rezaei, who misplaced her daughter Afagh Rastmanesh within the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, speaks to the Hankyoreh in Seoul on Oct. 27, 2025, throughout her go to to Korea to mark the third anniversary of her daughter’s loss of life. (Cho Hae-yeong/Hankyoreh) An excellent daughter who earned her grasp’s diploma in Iran earlier than she determined to pursue her doctorate overseas — that is how Zahra Rezaei, 60, remembered her daughter Afagh Rastmanesh, who died three years in the past within the tragic crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon space on Oct. 29, 2022. Rezaei remembers that though Afagh was accepted…

Actors Han So-hee, left, and Jeon Jong-seo attend an open discuss occasion for the movie “Mission Y” in the course of the thirtieth Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant on the Busan Cinema Middle in Haeundae District, Sept. 18. Yonhap The movie “Mission Y,” starring Han So-hee and Jeon Jong-seo, has gained the highest award within the competitors part on the tenth London East Asia Movie Pageant (LEAFF), incomes worldwide recognition for its artistry and path.Based on distributor Plus M Leisure on Monday, “Mission Y” acquired the Finest Movie in Competitors award on the competition, which ran from Oct. 23. The LEAFF…

Platform to host 100 Marvel, ‘Star Wars’ titles as shares bounce 28 % on information Marvel’s “Captain America” (left) and “Spider-Man” titles are coming to Webtoon as a part of new Disney partnership. (Disney/Webtoon) Webtoon Leisure, the US-based dad or mum firm of Naver Webtoon, struck a multiyear partnership with Walt Disney Co. to convey round 100 titles from Marvel, “Star Wars” and different Disney properties to its vertical-scrolling platform, the businesses introduced Wednesday.The partnership will launch variations of present comics for smartphone viewing in addition to authentic content material developed for the cellular format. The content material will seem…

Alex Karp, chief government officer of Palantir Applied sciences Inc., speaks in the course of the AIPCon convention in Palo Alto, California, US, on March 13, 2025.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty PicturesPalantir reported quarterly outcomes that topped analysts’ estimates and issued better-than-expected steering for the fourth quarter, attributing a lot of its power to synthetic intelligence. The inventory rose about 1% in prolonged buying and selling.Here is how the corporate did in comparison with LSEG estimates:Earnings per share: 21 cents adjusted vs. 17 cents anticipatedRevenues: $1.18 billion vs. $1.09 billion anticipatedPalantir, which builds analytics instruments for big corporations…

Busan Mayor Park Heong-joon and Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong met to debate strengthening trade and cooperation between Busan and Vietnam. (Picture supplied by Busan Metropolis Corridor) The Metropolis of Busan introduced on November 3 that Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong made an official go to to Busan on November 1, after concluding his schedule on the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Gyeongju. Throughout the official reception held on the ASEAN Tradition Home, Mayor Park Heong-joon expressed his gratitude, stating, “I’m grateful that following the go to of the Common Secretary of the Communist…

Amid fast social transformation pushed by applied sciences like synthetic intelligence (AI), Korea College emphasised that their internet hosting of the upcoming QS Greater Ed Summit will underscore Seoul’s emergence as a brand new hub of world greater schooling.“This summit will showcase that Korea’s instructional and cultural competitiveness has reached a very international stage,” stated Korea College President Kim Dong-one in a written interview with The Korea Instances. “It is going to additionally function a stage to declare Korea College’s management in shaping a brand new paradigm of upper schooling from the center of Asia.”Seoul was ranked No. 1 on…

Overseas Minister Cho Hyun speaks to the Nationwide Meeting’s Overseas Affairs and Unification Committee throughout an annual parliamentary audit of presidency businesses on Oct. 28, 2025. (Yonhap) In negotiations with the US, the Korean authorities has reportedly proposed together with US$150 billion in investments pledged by Korean firms within the US$350 billion US funding bundle that the Korean authorities is organizing. That proposal seems to replicate the choice for the EU’s private-sector strategy to tariff negotiations that Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed in a latest interview with the international press.“We informed [the Americans] that we may meet President Trump’s…

Revealed: 03 Nov. 2025, 10:06 Up to date: 03 Nov. 2025, 19:11 A scene from Netflix movie ″Okay-pop Demon Hunters″ [NETFLIX]   The soundtrack for Netflix’s hit animated movie “Kpop Demon Hunters” remained at No. 2 in its nineteenth week on Billboard’s important albums chart.   In response to a Billboard preview launched Sunday, the album ranked simply behind world pop star Taylor Swift’s newest studio album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” on the Billboard 200 for the fourth week in a row.   The soundtrack beforehand topped the chart twice earlier than ceding the No. 1 spot to Swift.…

    Kim Bong-ryeol   The creator is an architect and former president of Korea Nationwide College of Arts.        Las Vegas, lengthy identified for playing and grownup leisure, is reworking. Within the Nineties, about 80 p.c of tourists got here primarily to gamble. By the 2010s, that quantity had dropped under 50 p.c. Town is now repositioning itself as a family-friendly leisure vacation spot.   The MSG Sphere in Las Vegas, which opened in 2023. [KIM BONG-RYEOL]   To enchantment to a broader viewers, Las Vegas has hosted the NFL Tremendous Bowl, is pursuing a Main League…

A Coupang supply automobile (Captured from YouTube) The Coupang Companions Affiliation (CPA), which represents about 10,000 Coupang contracted supply staff, publicly opposed the Korean Confederation of Commerce Unions’ (KCTU) push for evening supply restrictions on Nov. 3. The CPA strongly criticized the KCTU’s declare as “armchair principle that ignores the voices from the sector.” In an announcement launched on Nov. 3, the CPA mentioned, “Whereas claiming that shedding staff is ‘homicide,’ they’re basically making an attempt to put off daybreak supply staff,” and criticized, “It’s not daybreak supply that ought to be abolished, however social dialogue.” …