Author: Seoul Reporter

The dying of a Japanese vacationer who was struck by a drunk driver in Seoul has sparked criticism in Japan over what many see as Korea’s lenient punishment for such offenses. A submit believed to have been written by a member of the sufferer’s household has drawn widespread consideration on-line, questioning whether or not robust penalties are attainable below Korean regulation.A social media consumer with the deal with abcz8756 wrote Tuesday, “In Korea, my mom and sister have been hit by a drunk driver. My mom died, and my sister is in [a] crucial situation.” The submit added, “I heard…

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 12 months, 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 develop the bottom of ladies’s baseball in Korea and supply gamers with better alternatives to develop their abilities.This 12 months’s version, which runs to Nov. 16, would be the largest within the event’s historical past, that includes 47 groups and over…

Korea posted a report present account surplus throughout the first 9 months of this yr, pushed by strong semiconductor and vehicle exports, the central financial institution mentioned Thursday.The nation’s cumulative present account surplus reached $82.77 billion from January by September, marking an all-time excessive for the cited interval, based on knowledge from the Financial institution of Korea (BOK).The determine compares with $67.23 billion recorded throughout the identical interval final yr.”Exports remained robust as semiconductors entered a supercycle, whereas vehicle shipments additionally carried out nicely because of market diversification past the US to Europe and different areas,” BOK official Shin Seung-chul…

Printed: 06 Nov. 2025, 10:51 Up to date: 06 Nov. 2025, 11:21 Actor Lee Si-young mentioned Nov. 5 she gave beginning to a daughter through a frozen embryo switch. [SCREEN CAPTURE]   Actor Lee Si-young introduced that she has given beginning to her second little one — a daughter — by way of in vitro fertilization (IVF) following her divorce earlier this 12 months.   On Wednesday, Lee shared a photograph on her social media account holding her new child child, writing, “I consider this can be a reward from God, and I’ll spend the remainder of my life making…

North Korea on Thursday denounced the most recent U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang as an indication of Washington’s hostile coverage, vowing to take correct measures to counter it with endurance.The North’s response got here because the U.S. introduced Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions on eight North Korean people and two entities for his or her involvement in laundering cash stolen via illicit cyber actions.The sanctions got here at the same time as U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed his want to meet with North Korean chief Kim Jong-un to renew stalled diplomacy with Pyongyang.Kim Un-chol, North Korea’s vice overseas minister…

  Protection Minister Ahn Gyu-back, left, and U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth overview an honor guard throughout a welcoming ceremony on the Ministry of Nationwide Protection in Seoul on Nov. 4, forward of the 57th Korea-U.S. Safety Consultative Assembly. [YONHAP]   Protection ministers of Korea and the US held the primary Safety Consultative Assembly beneath the Lee Jae Myung administration on Nov. 4 to debate key alliance points, together with the switch of wartime operational management (Opcon). The renewed push displays a convergence of objectives: the Trump administration’s need for allies to imagine larger duty for their very own protection…

RIO DE JANEIRO — When summer time warmth involves the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the pink brick and concrete that make up lots of the buildings lengthy after the solar has gone down. Luis Cassiano, who’s lived right here greater than 30 years, says he is getting frightened as warmth waves change into extra frequent and fierce.In poor areas comparable to Arara, those that can afford air con — Cassiano is one — cannot all the time depend on it due to frequent energy outages on an overloaded system. Situations had been so insufferable for Cassiano…

Korean Air stated Thursday it has been ranked one of many world’s high three airways within the 2025 USA Right now 10 Greatest Readers’ Alternative Awards for its enterprise cabin and in-flight companies.Within the U.S. awards, the Korean flag service ranked second for Greatest Enterprise & First Class, third for Greatest Inflight Meals and third for Greatest Cabin Crew, the corporate stated in a press launch.It marks the third consecutive yr the airline has ranked among the many high three in a number of classes, reaffirming its repute for distinctive service, premium consolation and culinary excellence, the corporate stated.Final yr,…

Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon introduces the hyper-personalized AI agent “Agent N” on the annual know-how convention DAN25 held at COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on Nov. 6. (Picture courtesy of Naver) Naver has unveiled its blueprint to evolve into an AI agent that integrates and operates all providers together with search, procuring, maps, finance, and content material. That is interpreted as a preemptive transfer concentrating on the AI agent period, much like how Naver launched forward of others through the web period. Moreover, the corporate will develop industry-specific bodily AI to reinforce the competitiveness of core manufacturing industries…

Singer Park Jin-young was appointed co-chair of the Presidential Committee on In style Tradition Trade. [NEWS1]   Singer Park Jin-young stated Wednesday that he determined to just accept the co-chair function of the Presidential Committee on In style Tradition Trade as a result of he “wished to do issues for the Okay‑pop trade that our firm can not do.”    Park, who based one of many largest Korean leisure companies, JYP Leisure, stated throughout a current look on MBC’s speak present “Radio Star” (2007-) that he accepted the function after “declining a number of instances.”     Though he presently serves…