Author: Seoul Reporter

SYDNEY — Turkey will host subsequent 12 months’s U.N. local weather summit whereas Australia will lead the convention’s negotiations amongst governments, underneath a compromise deal taking form in talks in Brazil, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioned on Thursday.The annual COP conferences are the world’s important discussion board for driving local weather motion. The compromise would resolve a stand-off between Australia and Turkey over who would stage COP31. Each bid in 2022 to host it and refused to face down.The 2 sides had been now near a deal that might see Turkey internet hosting COP31 as summit president, with a…

The ruling Democratic Get together of Korea (DPK) on Thursday urged North Korea to simply accept South Korea’s proposal for army talks aimed toward clarifying the Army Demarcation Line (MDL) to forestall doable clashes close to the inter-Korean border.The proposal got here as North Korean troopers — together with those that had been armed — have repeatedly, albeit quickly, crossed the MDL whereas working close to the border, comparable to clearing land or laying mines within the buffer zone.”North Korea ought to instantly reply to our calls,” Rep. Kim Byung-kee, the DPK’s ground chief, mentioned throughout a coverage coordination assembly…

GS Caltex, Korea’s second-largest refiner by gross sales, mentioned Thursday it has accomplished building of a serious palm oil refining facility in Indonesia, as the corporate expands its presence within the Asian biofuel market.A gap ceremony for the power, named AGPA Refinery Advanced (ARC), situated in an industrial complicated in Balikpapan, was held Thursday, with attendees together with Hur Sae-hong, chief govt officer (CEO) of GS Caltex, and officers from the Indonesian authorities.With an funding of round 260 billion gained ($177.2 million), the 300,000-square-meter refinery was constructed via a three way partnership with Korea’s POSCO Worldwide.The power can course of…

(Captured from Google web site) Google opened a brand new chapter within the AI supremacy competitors by unveiling its next-generation synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin Gemini 3 on Nov. 18 (native time). This mannequin is described not as a easy efficiency enchancment, however as an entry into clever brokers the place AI judges like people, reads context, and performs duties autonomously. Concurrently with the announcement, Google made the daring transfer of integrating Gemini 3 into its search service. This represents a direct problem to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which holds the highest place in AI market share. Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief…

Regardless of Korea’s ongoing field workplace hunch, the forty sixth Blue Dragon Movie Awards supplied a blueprint for survival, proving that a mixture of recent webtoon diversifications and top-tier inventive expertise can nonetheless captivate audiences.Held on Wednesday evening, the Blue Dragon Movie Awards are extensively thought to be being amongst Korea’s most prestigious movie honors.The clearest signal of a breakthrough got here from Naver Webtoon’s video subsidiary Studio N because the studio’s movie “My Daughter is a Zombie” secured the Viewers Alternative Award for Most Fashionable Movie, proving that highly effective authentic content material is displaying a brand new path…

North Korean chief Kim Jong-un has attended a ceremony to launch the primary trendy hospital constructed underneath the nation’s regional medical middle development plan, calling its completion in 9 months a “actual transformation.”Kim attended the inauguration ceremony for Kangdong County Hospital on Wednesday, the primary hospital accomplished underneath his ongoing growth push to construct factories and medical facilities throughout the nation to advertise regional growth, in keeping with the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA).”This can be a second … once we are seeing the primary entity of recent regional hospitals,” Kim stated in his speech through the ceremony. “Our battle,…

Park Jin-seob, who captained Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors to the Korean soccer title this fall, has been nominated for the league MVP award.The Korea Skilled Soccer League (Ok League) introduced nominees for main end-of-season awards on Thursday.For the MVP honor, Park shall be up towards Pablo Sabbag of Suwon FC and Lee Dong-gyeong of Ulsan HD FC.Primarily a middle again in earlier seasons, Park turned himself right into a defensive midfielder underneath new head coach Gus Poyet and helped Jeonbuk clinch their report tenth Ok League 1 title on Oct. 18 with 5 matches left to play. With Park serving as…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed laws Wednesday that compels his administration to launch information on convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political stress from his personal social gathering after initially resisting these efforts.Trump might have chosen to launch lots of the information on his personal months in the past.“Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ difficulty, which impacts them way over the Republican Get together, as a way to try to distract from our AMAZING Victories,” Trump stated in a social media put up as he introduced he had signed the invoice.Now, the invoice requires the Justice Division to launch…

The state arms procurement company has launched a 468.9 billion-won ($319.5 million) venture to improve the growing old fight and sonar methods of the 1,800-ton KSS-II submarines to step up its operational capabilities, officers mentioned Thursday.The Protection Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) held a gathering marking the launch of the event venture on the headquarters of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Gyeongsang Province.Below the plan, the company goals to switch the fight methods and towed array sonars of three KSS-II submarines with the most recent gear by 2033. They may also be newly geared up with mine avoidance sonars…

LG Electronics stated Thursday it has signed an settlement with Amazon.com to grant the U.S. e-commerce big a license to make use of its Wi-Fi applied sciences.The Korean tech big stated the settlement will enable Amazon to make use of LG’s Wi-Fi standard-essential patents for the U.S. firm’s synthetic intelligence (AI) speaker Alexa, together with different providers.Commonplace-essential patents consult with main applied sciences which might be important in producing standardized merchandise.”LG Electronics is presently beneath license negotiations with a number of world firms aside from Amazon for standard-essential patents associated to Wi-Fi expertise,” the corporate stated in a launch.LG Electronics…