Author: Seoul Reporter

Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado greets supporters on Pennsylvania Avenue close to the White Home in Washington, Jan. 15, after assembly with President Donald Trump. AP-YonhapWASHINGTON — Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday throughout a White Home assembly, in a bid to affect his efforts to form her nation’s political future.A White Home official confirmed that Trump intends to maintain the medal.In a social media put up on Thursday night, Trump wrote: “Maria offered me along with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I’ve carried…

President Lee Jae Myung, heart entrance, poses for a photograph with leaders of the ruling Democratic Social gathering of Korea and 5 minor events throughout a luncheon assembly at Cheong Wa Dae, Friday. YonhapPresident Lee Jae Myung met with the leaders of ruling and opposition events on Friday to debate bipartisan cooperation and pending state affairs, Cheong Wa Dae mentioned.The luncheon assembly, held at Cheong Wa Dae, introduced collectively the leaders of the ruling Democratic Social gathering of Korea (DPK) and 5 minor events. Jang Dong-hyeok, the chief of the primary opposition Folks Energy Social gathering, didn’t attend the assembly.On…

Girls’s Bioscience Discussion board (WBF) President Yim Hyung-shin, left, and Lee Woo-kyun, chairman of the Moonsook Science Basis, pose after extending their memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the basis’s workplace in Seoul, Friday. Courtesy of WBFThe Girls’s Bioscience Discussion board (WBF) and the Moonsook Science Basis have reaffirmed their partnership to assist and foster excellent girls scientists by means of the Moonsook Saebyul Award.On Friday, the 2 organizations prolonged their memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the basis’s workplace in Seoul, confirming their dedication to collectively function the award and preserve a broader framework of cooperation. The renewed settlement builds on…

Officers work at a dealing room of Hana Financial institution in Seoul, Friday. YonhapThe Korean foreign money fell beneath the 1,470 received degree per U.S. greenback Friday, retreating after a single-session rebound amid broad greenback power and a weaker yen.The received was quoted at 1,473.6 received in opposition to the dollar at 3:30 p.m., down 3.9 received from the earlier session.The native foreign money had fallen for 10 consecutive buying and selling periods by means of Wednesday earlier than snapping the shedding streak Thursday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mentioned the received’s latest weak spot just isn’t consistent with…

North Korean folks participate within the opening ceremony of a photograph exhibition in Pyongyang, Monday, to mark the eightieth anniversary on Jan. 17 of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League’s basis, on this photograph revealed by Korean Central Information Company. Yonhap North Korea will stage large-scale occasions marking the eightieth anniversary of the founding of its largest youth group, state media reported Friday, in what’s seen as an effort to drum up youth loyalty forward of a key social gathering congress.Exemplary youth and military service members from throughout the nation arrived in Pyongyang the day prior to this to take part…

From left, actor-writer Cha In-pyo, Cs President Didier Beltoise, Samyang Meals Vice Chair Kim Jung-soo and The Black Label CEO Jeong Kyung-in pose for a photograph throughout the 2026 Korea Picture Awards at Westin Seoul Parnas in Gangnam District, Seoul, Thursday. Courtesy of Corea Picture Communication Institute Netflix’s international animated sensation “KPop Demon Hunters” took heart stage on the twenty second Korea Picture Awards held Thursday in Seoul, tying for 2 of the three high honors, highlighting how pop music, heritage and meals proceed to form Korea’s cultural presence on the worldwide stage. Organized yearly by the Corea Picture Communication…

A lady seems at her smartphone in a restaurant in Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 15. AP-YonhapBEIJING — In China, the names of issues are sometimes both ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A brand new, wildly widespread app amongst younger Chinese language folks is definitively the latter.It is known as, merely, “Are You Useless?”In an enormous nation whose younger individuals are more and more on the transfer, the brand new, one-button app — which has taken the nation by digital storm this month — is actually precisely what it says it’s. Individuals who stay alone in far-off cities and could also…

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol provides his remaining assertion throughout his trial on revolt prices stemming from his short-lived imposition of martial regulation on the Seoul Central District Courtroom, Jan. 13. Courtesy of Seoul Central District Courtroom Former President Yoon Suk Yeol is about to obtain a court docket ruling Friday on prices he obstructed investigators’ try and detain him final 12 months, the primary verdict on circumstances stemming from his 2024 declaration of martial regulation.Particular counsel Cho Eun-suk’s staff sought a 10-year jail time period for Yoon final month on obstruction of justice and different prices, saying the previous…

Kim Beom-su, Kakao founder and head of its Future Initiative Middle, visits the corporate’s onboarding program for newly employed staff at its synthetic intelligence campus in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday. The founder made a public look for the primary time after being acquitted of prices associated to alleged inventory value manipulation involving SM Leisure in October final 12 months. Courtesy of Kakao

SEMES PLP TEPAS 100 tools (Picture courtesy of SEMES Co.) Semiconductor tools firm SEMES Co. introduced on Jan. 16 that it has achieved the primary mass manufacturing in Korea of the TEPAS 100, a sorter tools for semiconductor panel degree package deal (PLP). The tools cuts uncooked materials packages into particular person items and inspects manufactured semiconductor chips, then types them into trays utilizing high-speed, high-precision sorting know-how. Its benefit lies within the skill to dry massive areas at excessive pace by making use of the corporate’s self-developed specialised know-how, the “Twister Blower” technique, through the washing…