Author: Seoul Reporter

At 5 months pregnant, home helper Daisy* was kicked out of her Hong Kong employer’s dwelling one evening with out warning.Distraught and alone, the 32-year-old referred to as dwelling in Mindanao, the Philippines, crying over what had occurred to her.”It was in the midst of the evening. I felt so scared as I used to be pregnant and I had no household or pals right here I may flip to,” Daisy recalled.She had arrived in Hong Kong in 2023 to work for an area couple who had a seven-year-old son however fell pregnant final December after spending a vacation at…

The variety of multicultural marriages in Korea final 12 months reached its highest degree for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic, in keeping with information launched Thursday by Statistics Korea.The determine reached 21,450 final 12 months, up 1,019 or 5 % from 20,431 the earlier 12 months.Multicultural marriages had fallen sharply from 24,721 in 2019 to 16,177 in 2020 following the outbreak of COVID-19, and additional to 13,916 in 2021. The determine has since steadily recovered, surpassing 20,000 in 2023 and reaching 21,450 final 12 months.Nonetheless, complete marriages nationwide rose 14.8 % to 222,000 throughout the identical interval, a a lot…

The 2025 LX Cup Korea Ladies’s Baseball Championship, the nation’s solely corporate-sponsored ladies’s baseball event, will happen at LG Champion’s Park and Dream Stadium in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, beginning Saturday.Now in its fourth yr, the LX Cup is co-hosted and arranged by LX Group and the Ladies’s Baseball Affiliation Korea (WBAK). Launched in 2022, the event goals to increase the bottom of ladies’s baseball in Korea and supply gamers with better alternatives to develop their expertise.This yr’s version, which runs to Nov. 16, would be the largest within the event’s historical past, that includes 47 groups and over 1,000 gamers.…

The Korea Financial Each day hosted the ASK 2025 convention at Conrad Seoul on Oct. 29-30 The business actual property market within the US and Europe is displaying early indicators of a rebound, supported by restricted provide after a development slowdown throughout COVID-19 and easing borrowing prices, portfolio managers stated at ASK 2025 on Oct. 30.Workplaces, hit hardest by excessive rates of interest and pandemic-era social distancing, has begun to ship optimistic returns for the reason that first quarter of this 12 months after their valuations plunged by as much as 50% since 2022.“Now’s a compelling entry level for the…

The Baeksang Arts Awards’ indicators an MOU with the Korea Musical Theatre Affiliation to determine a brand new musical class on the annual awards ceremony. [BAEKSANG ARTS AWARDS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, HLL JOONGANG]   The Baeksang Arts Awards introduced that it’s going to set up a brand new class for stage musicals, beginning with subsequent 12 months’s 62nd awards ceremony.   The information comes as a part of a lately signed memorandum of understanding between HLL JoongAng, the organizer of the Baeksang awards, and the Korea Musical Theatre Affiliation, in line with the Baeksang organizing committee’s press launch on Thursday.  …

A Russian navy delegation has arrived in North Korea, the North’s state media reported Thursday, as Pyongyang and Moscow have been deepening navy cooperation.The delegation, led by Russian Deputy Protection Minister Viktor Goremykin, arrived in Pyongyang yesterday, in response to the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA). It didn’t disclose different particulars, such because the itinerary and the aim of the go to.He was welcomed by Pak Yong-il, vice director of the Basic Political Bureau of the Korean Individuals’s Military, and different navy officers.South Korea’s unification ministry mentioned the journey seems to be a reciprocal go to after Pak’s journey to…

Vice minister for tradition, sports activities, tourism says he’ll ‘pursue insurance policies that replicate distinctive nature of gaming business’ Kim Younger-soo, vice minister for tradition, sports activities and tourism, takes half in a roundtable dialogue in Jung-gu, Seoul. (Tradition Ministry) The Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism on Thursday convened a roundtable with key figures from Korea’s gaming sector, addressing issues that the nation’s 52-hour workweek coverage — initially meant to curb overwork — has as a substitute fueled longer unpaid hours, amid the business’s demanding manufacturing cycles.Kim Younger-soo, vice minister of tradition, sports activities and tourism, met with…

WASHINGTON — In a parallel actuality, Donald Trump reigns as king, fighter pilot, and Superman, and his political opponents are forged as criminals and laughingstocks — an unprecedented weaponization of AI imagery by a sitting American president.Trump has ramped up his use of synthetic intelligence-generated content material on his Fact Social channel since beginning his second White Home time period, making his administration the primary to deploy hyper-realistic faux visuals as a core communications technique.Trump, no stranger to conspiracy theories and unfounded claims, has used the content material in his breathless social media commentary to glorify himself and skewer his…

The South Korean authorities on Thursday unveiled its proposal of chopping greenhouse gasoline emissions by at the least 50 p.c by 2035 from the 2018 degree.In a public listening to, the federal government unveiled two proposals for the nationally decided contribution (NDC) by 2035, one in every of which shall be submitted to the United Nations.The primary choice would require the nation to cut back its greenhouse gasoline emissions by a minimal 50 p.c and a most 60 p.c, whereas the second choice requires a barely extra formidable purpose of lowering emissions by a minimal 53 p.c and a most…

VAIV Firm will make full use of “profiling synthetic intelligence” (AI) as its subsequent development engine to drive international growth and a serious earnings rebound, its CEO Kim Kyeong-seo mentioned throughout a latest interview.Profiling AI helps customers to quickly entry summarized information of influencers or consultants with specialty in a sure space. The expertise is especially helpful for finding out details about many individuals in a brief time frame.The CEO of the AI analytics agency, listed on the tech-heavy Kosdaq, mentioned the corporate has discovered a serious enterprise alternative within the convergence of profiling AI and the worldwide magnificence business.VAIV…