Author: Seoul Reporter

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Financial system and Finance Koo Yun-cheol (second from proper) discusses overseas alternate market stabilization measures with main home export firms on the Authorities Advanced Seoul on the afternoon of Nov. 18. (Picture courtesy of the Ministry of Financial system and Finance) International alternate authorities have determined to work carefully with main export firms together with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix for alternate charge stability. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Financial system and Finance Koo Yun-cheol held a gathering with home export firms on the Authorities Advanced Seoul on…

A extensively used Web infrastructure firm stated that it has largely resolved a difficulty that led to outages impacting customers of all the things from ChatGPT and the web sport, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.At 10:40 a.m. EST, Cloudflare stated its engineers had been nonetheless mitigating some lingering points after they posted a repair for the outage, however that they had been persevering with to watch for any additional issues.Others platforms that skilled outages Tuesday included the social media website X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and the Moody’s credit score scores service. Moody’s web site…

A researcher in a Samsung Electronics chip cleanroom Samsung Electronics Co., a number one international reminiscence chipmaker, has secured two new shoppers for its newest 2-nanometer chip manufacturing know-how, profitable orders from two Chinese language cryptocurrency mining corporations.The transfer is anticipated to strengthen the South Korean tech big’s efforts to regain floor on foundry, or contract chipmaking, chief Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Firm Ltd., higher often known as TSMC.Samsung Foundry, the Korean agency’s contract chipmaking unit, has agreed to provide 2 nm ASIC chips for MicroBT and Canaan, the world’s second- and third-largest makers of bitcoin-mining rigs, individuals acquainted with the…

The homegrown streaming platform Tving is taking the native streaming service panorama in a daring new path, partnering with world leisure big Disney+ to launch an unprecedented triple-streaming bundle subscription. Tving introduced on Tuesday that it will likely be rolling out a brand new built-in subscription product, referred to as 3 PACK, which can permit customers to entry Tving, Disney+ and Wavve with a single membership.This marks Korea’s first tri-platform streaming service bundle, providing each world and native content material at as much as 37 % decrease than particular person subscriptions. Entry to all platforms is priced at 21,500 received…

This week, the OST for Netflix’s world animated hit KPop Demon Hunters as soon as once more showcased its exceptional endurance, holding agency at No. 3 on the U.S. album chart at the same time as Taylor Swift prolonged her dominant run at No. 1.Swift’s twelfth studio album The Lifetime of a Showgirl topped the Billboard 200 for a sixth consecutive week with 110,000 equal album models, pushing her profession complete to a report 92 weeks at No. 1—additional extending the longest reign ever by a solo artist.Simply behind her, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack slipped one notch from final…

Studio Lab’s GENCY STUDIO.  / Offered by Busan Metropolis Town of Busan (Mayor Park Heong-joon) introduced that 12 native corporations have gained ‘Innovation Awards’ and ‘Finest Innovation Awards’ forward of ‘CES 2026’, the world’s largest client electronics present to be held in Las Vegas, United States, in January subsequent 12 months. In line with town, this 12 months recorded the largest-ever variety of award recipients. The businesses that acquired Innovation Awards are 10 companies together with CIT Co., Ltd., Dataflare Co., Ltd., Two Palms Interactive Co., Ltd., Sharpen Acquired Co., Ltd., Imaginative and prescient…

The variety of newly enrolled international faculty college students in the US dropped 17 % this fall after the Trump administration made it tougher to acquire scholar visas, information launched Monday by the Institute of Worldwide Training exhibits.The figures, based mostly on a survey of greater than 825 faculties and universities, present one of many clearest views of the potential impact of measures President Donald Trump’s administration has taken that make it tougher for international college students to come back to the U.S.

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. plans to speculate 4 trillion received ($2.7 billion) in its home biopharmaceutical operations over the subsequent three years, becoming a member of a broader funding wave by the nation’s largest company teams following the current South Korea-US tariff settlement.Chairman Website positioning Jung-jin outlined the plan on Sunday at a gathering hosted by President Lee Jae Myung with the heads of the nation’s main conglomerates on the presidential workplace in Seoul. Addressing a gaggle that included the chiefs of Samsung, Hyundai Motor, SK, LG, HD Hyundai and Hanwha, Website positioning mentioned Celltrion will channel the brand new…

North Korean troops lay mines alongside the northern facet of the DMZ in 2024. (courtesy of the ROK Joint Chiefs of Workers) South Korea’s Ministry of Nationwide Protection has proposed holding navy talks with North Korea to replace indicators and border markers alongside the Army Demarcation Line (MDL) to stop clashes throughout the DMZ. The proposal appears to be an try and prime the pump for inter-Korean dialogue, which has come to an entire standstill, by discussing a relatively gentle concern on the working degree. The ministry’s director-general for protection coverage, Kim Hong-cheol, made an announcement on the proposal for talks…

Choi Seong-ah (from left), Daejeon Metropolitan Metropolis Deputy Mayor for Political Affairs, Economic system and Science, Mark Bentol, head of Airbus Analysis & Know-how (R&T) Program, and Lee Seon-hye, director of the Superior Protection-Civilian Innovation Help Division on the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Assets, pose for a commemorative picture on the Airbus Tech Hub Korea opening ceremony held in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon on Nov. 18. Airbus, Europe’s largest plane producer, is establishing a “tech hub,” a analysis and growth (R&D) base, in Daejeon to safe future applied sciences. Following Japan, the Netherlands, and Singapore, this would…