Author: Seoul Reporter

GENEVA — An alarming streak of outstanding temperatures has put 2025 on target to be among the many hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations mentioned Thursday, insisting although that the pattern may nonetheless be reversed.Whereas this 12 months is not going to surpass 2024 as the most popular recorded, it’ll rank second or third, capping greater than a decade of unprecedented warmth, the UN’s climate and local weather company mentioned, capping extra.In the meantime concentrations of greenhouse gases grew to new report highs, locking in additional warmth for the longer term, the World Meteorological Group warned in a report…

The brand of MSCI  Morgan Stanley Capital Worldwide (MSCI) has newly included HD Hyundai Marine Answer (443060) and APR (278470) within the Korea index constituent shares and excluded Orion (271560). In response to the monetary funding business on Nov. 6, MSCI, a world inventory index calculation firm, introduced the November common evaluation outcomes on Nov. 5 (native time) and adjusted the Korea index constituent shares accordingly. With this adjustment, the variety of shares included within the MSCI Korea Index elevated from the prevailing 81 to 82 shares, including yet another. The index rebalancing will happen after…

SEOUL — Nationwide Safety Adviser Wi Sung-lac stated Thursday that Seoul would search to construct a nuclear-powered submarine domestically.”We plan to push a plan to construct it in South Korea,” Wi stated throughout a parliamentary session.Trump wrote on his social networking account final week that he had given Seoul approval to construct a nuclear-powered submarine, including it could be constructed on the Philadelphia shipyards in Pennsylvania.Wi stated it could be “unrealistic” to make facility investments within the Philadelphia shipyard for submarines or to ask Common Dynamics, a U.S. firm, to construct one for South Korea.He added that the federal government…

  Kim Gained-bae   The writer is an editorial author on the JoongAng Ilbo.        Rising house costs in Seoul’s Gangnam District are again in focus. The query is whether or not this may be solved. There isn’t any fast or easy repair. When such questions come up, it’s price returning to fundamentals. In economics, when demand will increase and costs rise, producers ramp up provide, which stabilizes costs once more.   Housing costs in Seoul recorded their highest month-to-month improve this yr for the reason that authorities’s Oct. 15 actual property measures, as condo complexes are seen…

WASHINGTON — U.S. Commerce Consultant Jamieson Greer indicated Thursday that ought to the Supreme Courtroom rule in opposition to President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, his administration could should difficulty tariff refunds that would exceed $100 billion in complete.Greer mentioned the problem throughout an interview with Fox Information, a day after the Supreme Courtroom held an oral listening to on the legality of Trump’s use of the Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs on America’s buying and selling companions, together with South Korea.Throughout the oral arguments, some conservative and liberal justices on the prime courtroom confirmed skepticism over…

The photograph exhibits Hyundai Motor’s Overhead Robotic-utilized AGV Physique Line the place unmanned transport autos (AGVs) transport automotive our bodies and robots set up completely different components in keeping with car fashions. (Picture courtesy of Hyundai Motor) Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. introduced on Nov. 6 that they held “eForest Tech Day 2025,” showcasing good manufacturing facility applied sciences at their Hwaseong and Ulsan vegetation. eForest Tech Day is an occasion the place manufacturing applied sciences developed by Hyundai Motor and Kia’s Manufacturing Options Division and their companions are shared, marking its sixth version this…

A nonetheless from movie ″Leaving Mother,″ a collaboration between Korean and Vietnamese manufacturing studios [SIDUS]   “Leaving Mother,” which opened domestically on Wednesday, is a Korean-Vietnamese co-production that took three years of collaboration between the 2 international locations’ movie studios, ranging from the story improvement section. It opened in Vietnam in August and drew 2.2 million viewers, turning into a field workplace hit.   Regardless of its chilling title, the movie is a heat, tearful journey. It follows a avenue barber named Hoan, performed by Tuan Tran, who cares for his mom Le Thi Hanh (actor Hong Dao), who has…

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off on its inaugural launch on the Cape Canaveral House Power Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 16, 2025. REUTERS House information facilities, which discuss with information facilities inbuilt outer area to maximise effectivity, have emerged as a brand new area of hegemonic competitors, with Korea launching full-scale countermeasures following the USA and China. In line with the science and know-how sector on Nov. 6, the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) plans to conduct analysis and improvement (R&D) mission planning analysis to safe core applied sciences for area…

    GU JA-OEK   The writer is a vp for innovation at Seokyeong College     Korea’s regional universities are going through a structural disaster. A declining school-age inhabitants, the focus of scholars in Seoul and the metropolitan space and the accelerating disappearance of rural communities have left many native universities unable to fill their quotas. Authorities efforts to reverse the pattern — together with expanded monetary support, specialization methods, and recruiting international college students — haven’t introduced a significant turnaround.   It’s time to ask a unique query: Why should universities exist just for folks of their 20s?…

US President Donald Trump and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea increase their glasses for a toast throughout a banquet hosted by South Korea held on the Hilton Resort in Gyeongju on Oct. 29, 2025. (Yonhap) Delays have arisen within the technique of drafting a doc on the end result of tariff and safety negotiations concluded at a South Korea-US summit on Oct. 29.Whereas Seoul initially expressed confidence {that a} reality sheet reflecting the settlement consequence would emerge inside “a few days,” almost every week has passed by with none additional updates. Authorities officers stated that whereas the drafting of…