Author: Seoul Reporter

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — South Korea and 43 different international locations referred to as Monday for “pressing” and “coordinated” actions to deal with technology-facilitated human trafficking instances, together with these linked to on-line scams, saying that they’ve worsened human rights and humanitarian challenges going through the world.The 44 international locations launched a joint assertion on the problem, which was delivered by South Korean Ambassador to the U.N. Cha Ji-hoon throughout a press occasion at U.N. headquarters in New York. Seoul led the efforts to subject the assertion amid issues over studies of on-line fraud instances in Cambodia that focused Korean residents.”Traffickers…

[ad_1] Deposed former President Yoon Suk-yeol takes the witness stand within the trial of his former prime minister, Han Duck-soo, on prices of revolt on the Seoul Central District Court docket on Nov. 19, 2025. (courtesy of the Seoul Central District Court docket/Yonhap) For days on finish, disgraced former President Yoon Suk-yeol has crammed the general public with anger and dismay every time he has taken the stand in his revolt trial and the trials of his alleged accomplices. In courtroom, Yoon has proven himself to be an inveterate coward, constantly denying that his declaration of martial regulation on Dec.…

[ad_1] An individual reads wished adverts at a job honest held in Daejeon, South Korea, on Nov. 19, 2025. (Yonhap) Statistics concerning youth employment and earnings point out that hiring has dropped to the bottom ranges seen since 2018, when related statistics started being compiled. The proportion of irregular staff has additionally risen to the best stage in 21 years. Because the inhabitants of younger working Koreans diminishes, corporations are more and more in search of to rent skilled staff whereas additionally delegating extra duties to synthetic intelligence. Amid such demographic and labor market adjustments, job insecurity continues to worsen for…

[ad_1] LG Electronics AI semiconductor chip ‘Alpha9’ (Photograph supplied by LG Electronics) LG Electronics will type a know-how alliance with main home on-device synthetic intelligence (AI) semiconductor corporations to concurrently develop a number of semiconductor chips for robots. This initiative goals to regain market management within the robotic vacuum cleaner sector, the place the corporate has misplaced floor to Chinese language rivals, whereas preemptively securing {hardware} competitiveness within the family humanoid market, which is about to grow to be the brand new battleground for the next-generation residence equipment business. In accordance with business sources on…

[ad_1] ANKARA — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a summit Monday and agreed to broaden financial cooperation within the protection, nuclear vitality, bio and different fields to deepen the 2 nations’ strategic partnership.In the course of the talks held on the presidential palace in Ankara, Lee described Turkey as a “brotherly nation” for having fought alongside South Korea in the course of the 1950-53 Korean Warfare, and expressed hope to strengthen the bilateral strategic partnership right into a extra “future-looking, mutually useful” relationship.He highlighted Turkey’s Altay primary battle tank program, based mostly…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Chinese language President Xi Jinping spoke by telephone on Monday to debate commerce, Taiwan and Ukraine, in line with the White Home and Chinese language officers, practically one month after the 2 males met in individual within the South Korean metropolis of Busan.Xi informed Trump within the telephone name Monday that Taiwan’s return to mainland China is “an integral a part of the post-war worldwide order,” in line with the Chinese language overseas ministry.A White Home official confirmed that the decision occurred on Monday morning however supplied no particulars of the decision.The dialog…

[ad_1] SEOUL — A U.S. Air Drive MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed into waters off South Korea’s western coast Monday, whereas conducting a routine mission, army officers mentioned.The drone went down close to Maldo-ri Island off the western metropolis of Gunsan, about 180 kilometers south of Seoul, in accordance with the officers.The U.S. eighth Fighter Wing primarily based at Kunsan Air Base in Gunsan mentioned the drone was concerned in an “incident” throughout a routine mission at round 4:35 a.m. “No accidents or injury to public property are reported in relation to this incident and it’s at present beneath investigation,” it…

[ad_1] President Lee Jae Myung provides a briefing on the joint reality sheet South Korea launched with the US on tariff and safety agreements, held on the presidential workplace in Seoul on Nov. 14, 2025. (Yonhap)   By Chung-in Moon, James Laney Distinguished Professor at Yonsei College“The ROK-US alliance has developed right into a genuinely future-oriented complete strategic alliance that covers nationwide safety, the financial system and cutting-edge expertise. The door is vast open for a renaissance within the ROK-US alliance that will likely be useful for each nations,” Korean President Lee Jae Myung mentioned on Nov. 14.Lee was sharing…

[ad_1] CXMT LPDDR5 picture. (Picture: Captured from Chinese language CXMT homepage) Till late final yr, the technique of Chinese language reminiscence corporations resembling ChangXin Reminiscence Applied sciences (CXMT) was ‘low-cost quantity offensive.’ They targeted on manufacturing older DRAM resembling Double Information Fee 4 (DDR4) at low costs for supply to mid-to-low-end PCs and smartphones. The ambiance modified because the Chinese language authorities started driving ‘premium DRAM improvement’ early this yr. Regardless of many evaluations that it was a ‘reckless transfer,’ Chinese language DRAM firm CXMT unveiled superior DRAM with efficiency much like Korean merchandise in simply…

[ad_1] The Nationwide Meeting plenary session is processing the partial revision invoice of the Commerce Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act (Yellow Envelope Regulation) on November 9, 2023.(Photograph: BusinessKorea DB) The core of the enforcement decree revision for the “Yellow Envelope Regulation” (amendments to Articles 2 and three of the Commerce Union Act) introduced by the Ministry of Employment and Labor on Nov. 24 is that if firms (authentic contractors) and subcontractor unions fail to succeed in an settlement on joint negotiations, the Nationwide Labor Relations Fee could have the authority to designate which subcontractor unions…