Author: Seoul Reporter

[ad_1] Recipients of the Inside Minister Award pose throughout a ceremony on the Korea Native Diplomacy Discussion board in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Tuesday. From left are Kim Bo-ha, an official at Daegu Metropolitan Authorities; Kang So-myung, an official at Gwangju Metropolitan Authorities; Son Eun-kyung, an official at Gimhae Metropolis Authorities; Inside Vice Minister Kim Min-jae, who introduced the awards; Lee Myung-kee, an official on the Governors Affiliation of the Republic of Korea; Lee Ye-ji, an official at Busan Technopark; and Kim Yun-hee, an official at Daejeon Metropolitan Authorities. Korea Instances photograph by Choi Joo-yeon [ad_2]

[ad_1] President Lee Jae Myung speaks to international media at Cheong Wa Dae in central Seoul, Wednesday. Joint Press CorpsMarking the primary anniversary of former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s abrupt declaration of martial regulation and the following nationwide disaster, President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday invited greater than 80 international correspondents to a press convention at Cheong Wa Dae in central Seoul.The press briefing, which started at 10 a.m. and lasted about 70 minutes, was open solely to reporters with international media retailers. Korean media had a separate alternative earlier within the morning for a 30-minute Q&A session, following Lee’s…

[ad_1] An digital buying and selling board at Hana Financial institution headquarters in central Seoul exhibits the benchmark KOSPI closing at 3,994.93 factors, Tuesday, up 1.9 % from the earlier session. YonhapThe Korean inventory market is drawing consideration over whether or not it can journey a “Santa Claus” rally, a seasonal year-end rise in equities, with each upside and draw back elements weighing in the marketplace, analysts mentioned Tuesday.As for upside growth, some analysts say the U.S. Federal Reserve’s extremely anticipated price reduce on Dec. 10 (native time) and positive factors in synthetic intelligence (AI) tech shares are anticipated to…

[ad_1] KM PHARMACEUTICAL brand KM Pharmaceutical’s quasi-drug kids’s toothpaste ‘New Pororo Tooth-brushing Pal Protected Toothpaste’ (pure strawberry taste) is being recalled as a result of issues over overseas materials contamination. The Ministry of Meals and Drug Security introduced that it obtained a ‘Quasi-drug Enterprise Operator Recall Plan’ from KM Pharmaceutical on Nov. 20 of final month and is continuing with a voluntary recall by the enterprise operator for the related product. The recall targets merchandise with manufacturing quantity CH31A and expiration date marked as August 30, 2026, with the recall cause being issues over overseas materials…

[ad_1] Park Jeong-min, left, and Hwasa / Captured from Blue Dragon Movie Awards Actor Park Jung-min is rising as one among Korea’s most influential cultural figures of 2025, driving a wave of acclaim that spans movie, publishing and even viral award present moments. A video of Park reacting to singer Hwasa’s efficiency on the forty sixth Blue Dragon Movie Awards has surpassed 7 million views, and when mixed along with his follow-up response clip, the whole simply exceeds 10 million views. As one touch upon the video places it, “Is anybody else nonetheless watching this on Dec. 1?”Singers historically take…

[ad_1] The Korea Forest Service shared Korea’s worldwide cooperation actions for stopping yellow mud and land degradation with taking part nations on the twenty third Committee for the Assessment of the Implementation of the Conference of the UN Conference to Fight Desertification. The Korea Forest Service introduced that it participated within the twenty third Committee for the Assessment of the Implementation of the Conference (CRIC) of the UN Conference to Fight Desertification (UNCCD) held in Panama Metropolis, Panama from December 1 to five, sharing Korea’s worldwide cooperation actions for stopping yellow mud and land degradation with…

[ad_1] The household of a Colombian man killed in a U.S. strike on a ship within the Caribbean filed a criticism Tuesday with the Inter-American Fee on Human Rights (IACHR), alleging america dedicated human rights violations in an “extra-judicial killing.” [ad_2]

[ad_1] President Lee Jae Myung solutions a reporter’s query after addressing the nation in a particular speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Dec. 3 martial regulation disaster on the presidential workplace in Seoul, Wednesday. YonhapPresident Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday expressed appreciation for the primary opposition get together’s cooperation in passing subsequent 12 months’s price range invoice earlier than the authorized deadline, calling the bipartisan deal an surprising transfer.On Tuesday, the Nationwide Meeting accredited the 727.9 trillion-won ($498 billion) price range after the ruling Democratic Occasion of Korea and the primary opposition Individuals Energy Occasion (PPP) reached a last-minute…

[ad_1] Dozens of flags fly above the group at a rally held on March 22, 2025, outdoors Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, calling for Yoon Suk-yeol to be deposed after his abortive self-coup in December 2024. (Yoon Woon-sik/Hankyoreh) The riot was stopped, however the spirit of the resistance to it lives on in Korea. Even after calm has returned to the general public squares that have been as soon as the websites of impassioned protests, many bizarre Koreans who took to the streets on Dec. 3 final 12 months to withstand former President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial regulation proceed to uphold…

[ad_1] ‘CKD-513’ Society for Neuroscience presentation poster. (Picture offered by Chong Kun Dang) Chong Kun Dang introduced on Dec. 3 that it introduced preclinical analysis outcomes for its degenerative neurological illness therapy candidate ‘CKD-513’ on the ‘2025 Society for Neuroscience Annual Assembly’ not too long ago held in California, United States. CKD-513 selectively inhibits HDAC6, an enzyme that disrupts materials transport inside axons by decreasing the steadiness of microtubules inside nerve cells. It’s a therapy candidate with a novel mechanism that instantly improves nerve cell operate by restoring microtubule stability and axonal transport. The drug is evaluated…