Author: Seoul Reporter

An house complicated is drawing criticism after notifying residents that compact vehicles can be penalized if parked in common parking areas, warning that autos could possibly be lined with robust adhesive stickers as enforcement.A put up titled “Discover banning compact vehicles from common parking areas at an house” appeared on the net discussion board Bobaedream on Nov. 13, displaying the discover issued beneath the title of the complicated’s administration workplace director. The announcement, posted final July, mentioned that “regardless of enough compact-only parking areas obtainable within the underground storage, some compact vehicles proceed to make use of common areas, resulting…

A Japanese lady in her 50s has been indicted with out detention for forcing a kiss on Jin of BTS throughout a public fan occasion final yr.The Seoul Japanese District Prosecutors’ Workplace stated that the suspect was charged Monday with indecent assault.She is accused of approaching Jin (actual title Kim Seok-jin) throughout a fan assembly held at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul’s Songpa District in June final yr, shortly after he accomplished his army service. She pressured a kiss on Jin’s cheek with out consent.Following the incident, a number of followers filed complaints by means of the Nationwide Petition System,…

A pharmacist shows a field of Mounjaro, a tirzepatide injection drug used for treating kind 2 diabetes made by Lilly. (REUTERS) The variety of new sufferers newly prescribed Eli Lilly’s weight problems remedy drug Mounjaro (generic title: tirzepatide) was discovered to be roughly thrice greater than that of competing product Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (generic title: semaglutide). With Mounjaro’s whole prescription quantity rising to just about the identical stage as Wegovy, analysts recommend {that a} generational change within the weight problems remedy market is quickly underway. Based on an weight problems drug prescription information as of October submitted by the…

Korea on Monday introduced that it has joined the Powering Previous Coal Alliance (PPCA), committing to shut 40 coal-fired energy vegetation by 2040.The announcement was made on the COP30 local weather summit in Brazil, making South Korea the second nation in Asia, after Singapore, to affix the coalition.Launched at COP23 in Germany in 2017, the PPCA goals to section out unabated coal energy, referring to vegetation that don’t use expertise to cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions.Korea, which has the world’s seventh-largest working coal energy capability, pledged to not construct any new unabated coal vegetation as a part of its membership.The…

President Lee Jae Myung (fourth from left on the entrance row) salutes towards the nationwide flag with attendees on the Korea-U.S. tariff negotiation follow-up public-private joint assembly held on the Presidential Workplace in Yongsan, Seoul on Nov. 16. From the second from the left within the entrance row are HD Hyundai Chairman Chung Ki-sun, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, President Lee, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hanwha Group Vice Chairman Yeo Seung-joo. From proper on the second row are Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun and Celltrion Chairman Website positioning Jung-jin. (Captured from KBS) Samsung Electronics will make investments…

Jang Dong-woo is beginning his days with an alarm — actually. He wakes up at 7 a.m. each day to add content material tied to alarm-themed promotions for his new solo album and monitor fan reactions.He has all the time been the loudest spark within the second-gen Okay-pop boy band INFINITE — the group’s kinetic rapper, dancer and resident stay wire, however on a cold Monday morning throughout an interview with The Korea Occasions at a restaurant in Seoul’s Yongsan District, he leaned ahead with the urgency of somebody who has rebuilt himself piece by piece.”This album is made out…

ABU DHABI — President Lee Jae Myung expressed his hope for stronger bilateral financial cooperation with the United Arab Emirates, saying that the nation might play a job as a “base camp” for South Korea’s efforts to forge and strengthen its financial footholds within the Center East.Lee made the remarks throughout a gathering with Korean residents within the UAE after he arrived within the nation earlier within the day for a three-day state go to. He’s set to have summit talks with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday.”As we have to make our (financial) inroads into Africa,…

Fifty years in the past, the newly established Gangnam District — in the present day a serious hub of Seoul’s economic system and tradition — was little greater than open fields and farmland.Now the district’s mayor, Cho Sung-myung was as soon as a neighborhood 18-year-old, rising up as the realm round him was being reshaped right into a bustling city panorama.Practically 5 many years later, having witnessed Gangnam’s transformation firsthand, Cho takes satisfaction in calling himself “a real Gangnam native” and is already waiting for what the subsequent 50 years may convey.“When Gangnam was first developed within the Nineteen Seventies,…

A U.S.-drafted U.N. decision endorsing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, set for a Safety Council vote Monday, has encountered stiff opposition from each Israel, which says it goes too far in envisioning a Palestinian state, and Palestinian organizations that say it doesn’t go far sufficient.

NH Funding & Securities headquarters constructing in Yeouido, Seoul (Photograph courtesy of NH Funding & Securities) NH Funding & Securities has internally finalized plans to increase its threat capital funding scale to roughly 2.4 trillion gained subsequent yr. This represents a rise of about 1 trillion gained in comparison with this yr’s 1.4 trillion gained. Following the growth of fairness capital to satisfy built-in administration account (IMA) authorization necessities, the corporate is continuing with full-scale funding execution. Analysts recommend this transfer aligns with monetary authorities’ coverage path towards increasing threat capital. NH Funding & Securities…