Author: Seoul Reporter

Adm. Daryl Caudle, the chief of US naval operations, speaks to the South Korean Ministry of Protection press corps in Seoul on Nov. 14, 2025. (pool picture) A prime US admiral mentioned it was a “pure expectation” that the nuclear-powered submarines that South Korea is slated to construct can be utilized to “counter China.” “With that kind of functionality, I feel america would count on that partnership — working as an alliance, collectively, to fulfill our mixed objectives on what america considers to be our pacing menace, which is China,” Adm. Daryl Caudle, the chief of US naval operations, instructed reporters…

Amazon’s lately unveiled satellite tv for pc web model “Leo.” The corporate has given an official identify to the enterprise beforehand often called “Mission Kuiper.” (Picture courtesy of Amazon) Amazon has finalized the identify “Leo” for its satellite tv for pc web service, beforehand identified by the codename “Mission Kuiper,” and ready for enterprise enlargement. This units the stage for a full-scale house battle between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ aerospace firm Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Leo leverages the profitable launch of Blue Origin’s Mars exploration rocket New Glenn. On Nov. 16 (native time), TechCrunch reported that Amazon…

Uni Development’s emblem (Picture courtesy of Umi Development) Umi Group and mid-sized building firm Umi Development, which funneled roughly 500 billion received price of condo building tasks to associates with no monitor report to be able to meet first-priority bidding {qualifications} for public land, will face sanctions from the Honest Commerce Fee. Firms that acquired help even included a non-affiliated company wholly owned by the second-generation heirs, who disposed of their shares in this non-affiliated firm with 11.7 billion received in inventory sale income in simply 5 years. Notably, the superb quantity of roughly 50 billion received represents…

A rail line in Poland was blown up Sunday in “an unprecedented act of sabotage,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated Monday, vowing to “catch the perpetrators.”The affected line hyperlinks Warsaw, the capital, to the jap Polish metropolis of Lublin and continues onward to Ukraine, and it has been used to ship support to Ukraine. With out particularly accusing Russia, Tusk related the obvious assault to the struggle in Ukraine.

An appellate court docket sentenced two Taiwanese nationals to suspended jail phrases Monday for illegally filming U.S. army plane throughout an air present in Might.The Suwon District Courtroom upheld a decrease court docket ruling of 1 1/2 years in jail, suspended by three years, for the 2 suspects, every of their 40s and 60s.”The photographs taken by the defendants have been all confiscated, making it unlikely they are going to be leaked externally,” the bench mentioned in its ruling. “Since their apprehension in Might, they’ve been held in custody for a while … possible giving them enough time to mirror…

Huge depressions within the Amazon rainforest left by gold mining are full of muddy water in Cachoeira, 230 kilometers west of Belém, Brazil, the place the UN local weather talks had been being held, as seen on Nov. 13, 2025. (Ock Kee-won/Hankyoreh) Because the UN local weather convention was happening with an emphasis on the significance of the Amazon rainforest because the “lungs of the Earth” — storing carbon whereas offering a habitat for numerous species — the forest itself was being burned, excavated and minimize down.Whereas host nation Brazil was stressing the necessity to shield the forest, the grim…

(Photograph courtesy of Shinsegae Group) E-mart, led by Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin, is conducting a serious overhaul of its liquor good order service “Wine Seize.” By year-end, the corporate will broaden pickup channels to incorporate not solely E-mart but in addition Merchants shops, whereas considerably broadening its product vary from wine and whiskey-centered choices to incorporate conventional Korean liquor and common alcoholic drinks. By means of this overhaul, E-mart goals to strengthen its competitiveness within the on-line liquor ordering–offline pickup market and actively seize demand for premium and uncommon liquors centered on the MZ technology, thereby growing…

President Lee Jae Myung arrived in Abu Dhabi on Monday on a three-day go to to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the primary cease of his four-nation tour of the Center East and Africa.Lee’s presidential aircraft was escorted by 4 UAE Air Power fighter jets because it entered the nation’s airspace in a ceremonial welcome for his state go to.On the primary day, Lee plans to go to the mausoleum of the UAE’s founding president, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and meet with Korean residents.On Tuesday, he’ll maintain summit talks with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and signal…

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the discharge of recordsdata associated to the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier resistance to such a transfer. Trump’s publish on his Reality Social got here after Home Speaker Mike Johnson stated earlier that he believed a vote on releasing Justice Division paperwork within the Epstein case ought to assist put to relaxation allegations that Trump had any connection to Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of underage ladies.”Home Republicans ought to vote to launch the Epstein recordsdata, as a result of…

The ruling bloc and Seoul Metropolis are clashing once more as the previous voices its opposition to the latter’s plan to determine a brand new memorial for the 1950-53 Korean Conflict at Gwanghwamun Sq. within the heart of the capital. Prime Minister Kim Min-seok stated Monday he would look into whether or not there have been any procedural or authorized flaws in pursuing the challenge.It was the ruling bloc’s newest criticism of initiatives led by Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, a distinguished Folks Energy Social gathering (PPP) politician who’s searching for one other time period in subsequent June’s native elections. Hypothesis…