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Printed: 10 Nov. 2025, 10:14 HUNTR/X from Netflix’s animated movie ″KPop Demon Hunters″ [NETFLIX]   The soundtrack for Netflix’s hit animated movie “Kpop Demon Hunters” remained at No. 2 in its twentieth week on Billboard’s primary albums chart.   Based on a Billboard preview launched Sunday, the album ranked simply behind international pop star Taylor Swift’s newest studio album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” on the Billboard 200 for the fifth week in a row.   The soundtrack beforehand topped the chart twice earlier than ceding the No. 1 spot to Swift.   The Billboard 200 ranks the preferred albums…

Korea is sending a particular envoy to Angola this week to attend celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s independence, the international ministry stated Monday.Kim Dong-chan, a retired diplomat and former ambassador to Angola, will participate within the commemorative occasion Tuesday (native time), the ministry stated in an announcement.Throughout his go to, Kim will ship a private letter from International Minister Cho Hyun to Angolan President Joao Lourenco.Korea and Angola have strengthened financial cooperation in recent times, with Korean corporations profitable a number of oil tanker orders from Angola, the continent’s second-largest oil producer.Angola gained independence from Portugal in…

LONDON — The top of the BBC and the British broadcaster’s high information government each resigned Sunday after criticism of the way in which the group edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.The BBC mentioned Director-Common Tim Davie and information CEO Deborah Turness had each determined to go away the company.Britain’s publicly funded nationwide broadcaster has been criticized for enhancing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021, earlier than protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington.Critics mentioned the way in which the speech was edited for a BBC documentary final yr was deceptive and lower out a piece the…

President Lee Jae Myung’s approval score rose for the second consecutive week, pushed by optimistic sentiment towards his diplomacy and financial insurance policies, a survey confirmed Monday.In keeping with the survey by Realmeter commissioned by a neighborhood information outlet, 56.7 % gave a optimistic evaluation of Lee’s job efficiency, up 3.7 share factors from the earlier week.Unfavorable evaluation of Lee fell 4.6 share factors to 38.7 %.Realmeter attributed the rise earlier final week to optimism surrounding Lee’s diplomatic actions and financial outlook following the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit, a bullish inventory market and his annual finances speech.The pollster stated…

A world synthetic intelligence (AI) occasion kicked off Monday in Seoul, showcasing the most recent tendencies and applied sciences within the AI sector, the Korea Worldwide Commerce Affiliation (KITA) mentioned.Co-hosted by KITA and DMK World, a tech-focused content material publishing firm, the AI Summit Seoul & Expo 2025 can be held for 2 days at Seoul’s COEX conference middle, bringing collectively over 70 firms within the expertise and AI sectors, together with Google Cloud, IBM and KT, in line with KITA.World leaders, together with Wen Sang, the co-founder of the AI agent Genspark, and Luc Julia, the chief scientific officer…

NPS Funding Administration headquarters (Courtesy of NPS) The Nationwide Pension Service, South Korea’s state-run pension scheme, is contemplating utilizing its annual tactical asset allocation (TAA) plan to boost the ceiling on home inventory investments, in keeping with folks conversant in the matter on Sunday. The potential transfer may give the nation’s largest institutional traders, which can also be the world’s third-largest pension fund, extra room to purchase native shares after this yr’s runaway bull market pushed it near its strategic limits.The NPS’s home fairness share has already exceeded 17% of whole belongings, surpassing its year-end goal of 14.9% and nearing…

Dramas set within the leisure {industry} have hardly ever drawn sturdy rankings. Many have explored relationships between stars and non-celebrities, but few have linked with viewers. The brand new tvN collection “Good to Not Meet You,” led by Lee Jung-jae and Lim Ji-yeon, is now trying to reverse that development.The collection, which premiered on Nov. 3, follows a disgraced actor and an leisure reporter locked in a battle of pleasure, details and shifting perceptions. Director Kim Ga-ram, identified for “Good Accomplice” and “Nonetheless,” teamed up with author Jung Yeo-rang, who created the hit drama “Physician Cha.”Different dramas corresponding to tvN’s…

A 13,000-TEU container service constructed and delivered by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries undergoes sea trials. (Picture courtesy of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries) HD Hyundai Heavy Industries introduced on Nov. 10 that it has signed a shipbuilding contract with Regional Container Traces, the world’s Twenty first-largest delivery firm by working capability, for 2 container ships. The contract is valued at a complete of 435.3 billion gained (roughly $299.65 million). The newly ordered ships are ultra-large 13,800-TEU-class vessels measuring 337 meters in size, 51 meters in width, and 27.3 meters in top. Specifically, a scrubber – an exhaust…

The most effective celebration in Seoul this weekend will not be in a nightclub — it will be on the underground warehouse of dbBOOKS, an importer, distributor and retailer of books printed in English.Twice a yr, dbBOOKS invitations readers into its warehouse for the Welcome to Our Warehouse (WOW) Household Sale.”What makes the Warehouse Sale/dbBOOKS particular to me is the unimaginable assortment of overseas books to select from and it is vitally inexpensive too,” stated Daniela, 30, from Austria. “Though you may order on-line anytime of the yr, going to the warehouse sale is a really enjoyable expertise, as you…

Midfielder Lee Dong-gyeong will miss Korea’s two upcoming pleasant matches because of a rib fracture he sustained throughout his membership match over the weekend.Ulsan HD FC of the Okay League 1 introduced Monday that Lee will want at the least 4 weeks of restoration after breaking a rib through the group’s 1-0 win over Suwon FC yesterday.With Ulsan having solely two extra matches left this season, Lee will possible miss the remainder of the yr and also will not be out there for the nationwide group for friendlies towards Bolivia on Friday and Ghana subsequent Tuesday.Lee damage his rib after…