Author: Seoul Reporter

TVXQ’s U-Know Yunho speaks throughout a press convention for his first full-length solo album, ″I-Know,″ in southern Seoul on Nov. 5. [YONHAP]   Past the glitz and glamor of present enterprise lies an arduous journey, one marked by quite a few sleepless nights behind the scenes. Few would know that higher than U-Know Yunho of Okay-pop legend TVXQ.   Now in his twenty second yr within the business, the singer is ultimately releasing his first full-length solo album, “I-Know,” which delves into the distinction between his onstage persona and his true self. The file is constructed across the idea of…

Shenzhen’s choice because the host metropolis for the 2026 Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit highlights Beijing’s dedication to openness and its ambition to showcase town’s innovation-driven progress on the worldwide stage.Saying the choice on the conclusion of the 2025 APEC summit in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, Chinese language President Xi Jinping described Shenzhen as “an vital window to China’s unwavering pursuit of a mutually helpful and win-win opening-up technique.”Set to happen in November 2026, it’s going to mark the third time China has hosted the summit, after it was held in Shanghai in 2001 and Beijing in 2014. Xi emphasised…

51st version opens with experimental work reimagining misplaced Korean cinema traditional “Pricey You, Unrelated” (SIFF) The 51st Seoul Unbiased Movie Competition will elevate its curtain with “Pricey You, Unrelated,” an experimental movie that reimagines Park Nam-ok’s 1955 traditional “The Widow,” and Korea’s first function directed by a lady.The opening work originated from an exhibition mission centered on Park and her sole surviving movie. Administrators Sohn Koo-yong and Lee Jong-su led the inventive endeavor, which picks up the place “The Widow” left off, filling within the misplaced denouement by way of their creativeness.”We had been requested to revive the lacking components…

Zhang Lei, founder and chairman of Hillhouse Funding, throughout the International Monetary Leaders’ Funding Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Bloomberg | Getty PicturesAsia-focused personal fairness managers are turning extra bullish on the world’s second-largest financial system, betting on Beijing’s drive for technological self-sufficiency and fast adoption to ship the subsequent part of development.Jean Eric Salata, chairman of EQT Asia, mentioned that the strategic priorities outlined in Beijing’s new five-year plan are poised to deepen China’s edge in superior manufacturing, bolster funding in know-how and synthetic intelligence, and enhance consumption.”I am really bullish on China —…

Police on Wednesday referred to as within the chairman of Ok-pop powerhouse HYBE to query him for a 3rd recognized time over allegations of unfair inventory buying and selling in reference to the corporate’s 2020 preliminary public providing (IPO).Bang Si-hyuk, the founding father of the leisure company, has been questioned over allegations that he misled buyers in 2019 by denying plans for an IPO and inducing them to promote their Hybe shares to a particular goal firm (SPC) linked to a non-public fairness fund he was related to.Bang is suspected of pocketing some 190 billion gained ($131.2 million) when the…

South Korean Protection Minister Ahn Gyu-back (proper) speaks at a joint press briefing with US Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth following the 57th Safety Consultative Assembly in Seoul on Nov. 4, 2025. (courtesy of the Ministry of Nationwide Protection) The protection chiefs of South Korea and the US agreed to finish by 2026 the second stage of functionality verification for the switch of wartime operational management, or OPCON, over Korean troops to Seoul on Tuesday throughout the 57th Safety Consultative Assembly on the Ministry of Nationwide Protection headquarters within the Korean capital.The association is anticipated to lend momentum to Korea’s push…

An LS Cable & System worker installs a busduct system. (Picture courtesy of LS Cable & System) LS Cable & System will provide high-capacity energy provide techniques to a world large tech firm’s synthetic intelligence (AI) knowledge heart. LS Cable & System introduced on Nov. 5 that it has signed a body contract to produce busduct to U.S. large tech Firm A for the subsequent three years. The provision goal firm is undisclosed as a result of supply contract phrases, however is understood to be a serious U.S. large tech firm. LS Cable & System was…

Singer and producer J.Y. Park / Korea Occasions fileVeteran singer and producer J.Y. Park will launch a brand new single titled “Comfortable Hour” on Wednesday, his company, JYP Leisure, mentioned.The observe marks his first new launch in a 12 months, following “Simple Lover.”J.Y. Park, whose actual identify is Park Jin-young, 53, is the founding father of JYP Leisure, one in every of South Korea’s main Okay-pop businesses. He additionally serves as co-chair of the Presidential Committee on Common Tradition Trade.Described as a country-pop music with a heat, soothing tone, “Comfortable Hour” options vocals by Park and singer Kwon Jin-ah, JYP…

Lee Chan-woo (middle), chairman of NH Nonghyup Monetary Group, and Yoon Byung-woon (second from left), CEO of NH Funding & Securities, amongst others, maintain up hand indicators saying the 108 trillion received help plan for productive and inclusive finance. (Photograph courtesy of NH Monetary Group) NH Nonghyup Monetary Group introduced on Nov. 5 that it could allocate 108 trillion received to productive and inclusive finance. Business observers word that following Woori Monetary and Hana Monetary, NH’s announcement of large-scale help measures signifies the fast unfold of the productive finance development. NH Nonghyup Monetary introduced it could set…

Hundreds of carnations on stage for LG Arts Middle’s twenty fifth anniversary “Nelken (Carnations)” (Picture by Oliver Look) When a choreographer dies, their artwork lingers within the recollections of those that moved with them, within the steps and actions handed down by generations of dancers, and turns into a part of the corporate’s repertoire.Proper now, few embody that course of as vividly as Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, an organization that continues to hold the legacy of its founder, the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, greater than a decade after her loss of life — this time with a brand new…