Author: Seoul Reporter

Click on right here for extra articles by Kormedi.com.As Korea enters kimjang season — the annual winter custom of getting ready massive batches of kimchi for storage — many households are as soon as once more gathering substances and chopping napa cabbage. Though fewer households make kimchi at dwelling at present, many Koreans nonetheless recall childhood reminiscences of family members and neighbors coming collectively for a full day of labor, then sitting all the way down to freshly made kimchi paired with steaming slices of boiled pork and seasonal oysters.Well being specialists say these basic pairings aren’t solely cultural staples…

On Oct. 7, a automobile touring on a highway in southern Hokkaido abruptly encountered a large determine. Earlier than the shocked driver might react, the creature stood upright and stared immediately on the car. It was a bear standing greater than two meters tall, with saliva dripping from its sharp enamel. It then charged at excessive pace, chasing the reversing automobile and hanging its hood with power. The panic-stricken driver sped away, and the bear reportedly chased the car for a ways.Though nobody was injured on this incident, residents are more and more alarmed that the bear not solely confronted…

A handwritten signal at a Korean restaurant declaring that it’ll not serve solo diners has stirred heated debate on-line, with most commenters criticizing the coverage however some arguing that enterprise house owners have the fitting to set their very own guidelines.The controversy started on Monday when a social media consumer posted a photograph of the signal on Threads, saying, “I circled after seeing this on the entrance.” The discover listed 4 “choices” for patrons consuming alone: “1. Pay for 2 servings, 2. Eat two servings, 3. Name a buddy, 4. Come again together with your spouse subsequent time.” A speech…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks about his firm’s robotics at GTC 2024, held in San Jose, California, in March 2024. (AFP/Yonhap) Nvidia’s pledge to provide South Korea’s authorities and companies with 260,000 of its cutting-edge graphics processing models, or GPUs, has heightened anticipation of the appearance of the so-called bodily AI period. This large inflow of synthetic intelligence chips could serve to dramatically elevate Korean AI expertise past software-centric AI and into bodily AI territory that entails robots, autonomous automobiles and sensible factories. On the identical time, this potential catalyst comes with varied challenges, similar to widespread job losses, employment instability and…

An aerial view of AutoLand Hwaseong situated in Ujeong-eup, Hwaseong Metropolis, Gyeonggi Province (Picture courtesy of Kia Corp.) Kia Corp. has began to function the Hwaseong EVO Plant, a devoted manufacturing facility for objective constructed automobile (PBV).  On Nov. 14, the corporate held a completion ceremony for EVO Plant East and a groundbreaking ceremony for EVO Plant West at AutoLand Hwaseong situated in Ujeong-eup, Hwaseong Metropolis, Gyeonggi Province. The occasion was attended by roughly 200 individuals together with authorities and native authorities officers reminiscent of Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, Minister of Commerce, Trade and Power Kim…

Actor Yun Mi-ra goes viral after overtly urging youthful actors to keep away from beauty procedures, delivering an unusually direct critique of Korea’s beauty-focused leisure tradition.The dialogue appeared in a video uploaded Thursday on her private YouTube channel, titled “Date with my son Half 2: Youth star Park Hyung-joon.” Within the clip, Yun meets her longtime junior colleague Park Hyung-joon for an informal outing. Seeing him, she instantly says his face appears to be like more healthy, prompting Park to reply that her look has “not modified in any respect.”Yun then shifts the dialog, saying, “Your face appears to be…

(Photograph courtesy of Kolmar Korea) Kolmar Korea introduced on Nov. 14 that it has been chosen as one of many “World’s Finest Corporations in Sustainable Progress 2026” by U.S. weekly journal TIME for 2 consecutive years. Kolmar Korea ranked 294th among the many high 500 world sustainable development corporations introduced by TIME and world market analysis agency Statista on Nov. 13. Whereas solely 10 Korean corporations have been chosen, down 13 from final yr, Kolmar Korea is the one cosmetics firm to rank for 2 consecutive years. The ultimate rating is decided by equally weighing scores for…

China’s efforts to blunt American maritime energy within the Pacific, a area the US has lengthy thought-about its area, obtained a significant enhance this month with the official launch of its third — and most superior by far — plane service, the Fujian.

President Lee Jae Myung pronounces the adoption of a reality sheet on agreements with the US from the press room of the presidential workplace in Seoul’s Yongsan District on Nov. 14, 2025. (Yonhap) On Friday, Korean President Lee Jae Myung personally introduced the very fact sheet summarizing agreements reached throughout two latest summits with US President Donald Trump.The actual fact sheet was launched round 16 days after Lee and Trump reached a deal within the two international locations’ long-running tariff talks in a gathering held alongside the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, on Oct. 29.“We’ve completed…

President Lee Jae Myung speaks to mayors, county leaders and district chiefs on his administration’s coverage goals on the Blue Home guesthouse on Nov. 12, 2025. (Yonhap) President Lee Jae Myung’s approval score inched as much as 61%, returning to the 60% vary for the primary time in over two months. Regardless of the latest political turmoil brought on by the nation’s appearing prime prosecutor’s controversial dealing with of a courtroom ruling on a corruption growth scandal linked to Lee, the president managed to see an increase in his ballot numbers. In keeping with the Nationwide Barometer Survey outcomes launched on…