Author: Seoul Reporter

Even in a chart battle dominated by Taylor Swift, Okay-pop refuses to fade from the highlight. The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack has locked instead at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 for 5 weeks working — a uncommon feat for an animated movie album.Billboard famous in its preview article that “the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack remained unmoved on this week’s tally,” confirming its regular chart efficiency.Holding the highest spot for a similar five-week stretch was Taylor Swift’s new album The Lifetime of a Showgirl, which continues its reign at No. 1.The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack had beforehand climbed to No.…

Korean unbiased cinema is attracting rising consideration abroad. Its cautious storytelling and expressive vary are incomes reward at prime festivals. But behind the brilliant highlight, long-standing challenges proceed to weigh on the trade.The movie “The World of Love” is having fun with a run of worldwide invites. It started with the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, adopted by picks and awards on the Pingyao Worldwide Movie Pageant and the Warsaw Worldwide Movie Pageant. It was additionally invited to compete on the Tokyo Filmex and the Hong Kong Asian Movie Pageant, exhibiting sturdy curiosity from world programmers. “The World of Love” follows…

A North Korea-linked hacking group has launched a brand new type of cyberattack that remotely controls Android smartphones and private computer systems (PCs) to delete key knowledge, together with pictures, paperwork and speak to data, a report confirmed Monday.The group, believed to be affiliated with Pyongyang-sponsored teams Kimsuky or APT37, infiltrated victims’ smartphones and PCs by malware distributed through KakaoTalk and stole account data for Google and main home IT providers, in accordance with the report by the Genians Safety Heart (GSC), a South Korean cybersecurity institute.They remotely reset the smartphones after utilizing Google’s location-based monitoring system to verify the…

  Jung Jin-woo, head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Workplace, solutions questions from lawmakers throughout a gathering of the Nationwide Meeting’s Laws and Judiciary Committee on Oct. 23. Jung submitted his resignation on Nov. 8. [YONHAP]   Prosecutors’ choice to drop an enchantment within the Daejang-dong growth scandal — regardless of jail sentences handed down within the first trial — has sparked intense backlash. Critics say the transfer is extremely uncommon and procedurally opaque.   Investigators and prosecutors on the trial crew initially agreed to enchantment and obtained approval from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Workplace. However the Supreme…

Actor Hwang Jung-min, middle, performs a twin function within the musical ″Mrs. Doubtfire″ throughout a press name efficiency on the Charlotte Theater in Songpa District, southern Seoul on Sept. 21. [YONHAP]   Large-screen stars are flooding again to the stage, from Hwang Jung-min in “Mrs. Doubtfire” to Kim Byung-chul in “Ready for ‘Ready for Godot,’” blurring the traces between Korea’s movie, tv and theater worlds.   “Failure makes you a traitor. Success makes you a revolutionary!”     This line from the 2023 movie “12.12: The Day” — delivered by the character Chun Doo-gwang, performed by Hwang — had audiences holding…

Printed: 10 Nov. 2025, 00:00 Audio report: written by reporters, learn by AI   President Lee Jae Myung speaks throughout a nationwide discussion board on science and expertise, held on the Nationwide Science Museum in Yuseong District, Daejeon, on the afternoon of Nov. 7. [NEWS1]   At a nationwide discussion board on science and expertise hosted by President Lee Jae Myung on Nov. 7, the federal government unveiled plans to domesticate and appeal to scientific expertise. A brand new “Nationwide Scientist Program” will choose 20 researchers subsequent yr and 100 inside 5 years, every receiving an annual analysis grant of…

Main holding corporations in Korea are racing to kind partnerships with massive tech companies, notably Naver, Kakao, and Samsung Electronics, to achieve an edge within the fast-emerging stablecoin market, in accordance with business officers, Sunday.The transfer, undertaken by KB, Shinhan, Hana and Woori, comes as home stablecoin transaction volumes have already exceeded 60 trillion received ($41.15 billion), regardless of the market not but being totally legalized.In response, monetary regulators are getting ready to submit a invoice regulating stablecoins to the Nationwide Meeting by the tip of 2025.Though discussions are ongoing, banks — the flagship enterprise items of the holding teams…

Singer Sung Si-kyung took the stage on the 2025 Incheon Airport Sky Competition on Sunday, telling followers he was nice regardless of latest information {that a} longtime supervisor had brought on him monetary hurt.Acting at Encourage Resort in Incheon’s Yeongjongdo, Sung stated, “I do know you’ve seen the stories, however I’m okay. I got here right here in good spirits to sing, so I hope you benefit from the present.”He added that some individuals appeared uncertain whether or not he would seem. “Possibly there was an possibility that I wouldn’t come in the present day. ‘What if he doesn’t present…

    Lee Ha-kyung   The creator is a senior columnist on the JoongAng Ilbo.        Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson as soon as stated, “Everybody has a plan till they get punched within the mouth.” New York Occasions columnist Thomas Friedman borrowed the road to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric in a column titled “Trump’s Scorching Mess of a China Coverage.” The Wall Road Journal wrote, “Beijing hit again, and it’s exhausting to see what the US gained from tariffs.”   Korean President Lee Jae Myung, rights, toasts U.S. President Donald Trump throughout a dinner occasion at…

Simply days after a tropical cyclone killed greater than 200 folks within the Philippines, one other storm — this one even stronger — made landfall within the nation’s northeast on Sunday night time.Tremendous Hurricane Fung-wong, recognized regionally as Uwan, is the nation’s twenty first topical cyclone this yr. The storm has already killed at the least two folks and greater than one million have been evacuated from its path. Hurricane energy winds had been already battering components of the nation earlier than the storm arrived.