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Arts Maybe Happy Ending: A robot love story that rewrote Broadway playbook

On an unremarkable evening in November 2024, inside the opulent Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, something quietly historic was taking place.A delicate...

Economy Trump’s tariffs are hitting exports, early Korean data show

The effects of President Trump’s new tariffs are starting to be felt across the world, preliminary South Korean trade data suggest, as Seoul p...

K-pop KAIST launches Korean rapper G-Dragon’s music into space

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) has launched the music and iris image of G-Dragon, a Korean rapper and singer-songw...

K-pop K-pop exports boom as end of Chinese K-wave ban looms large

Exports of Korean popular music, or K-pop, have seen a significant surge in recent months, driven by increasing demand from China and Japan, accordi...

Batteries Korea Zinc to export antimony to US

South Korea’s largest zinc smelter, Korea Zinc Inc., plans to export antimony to the US. This rare metal is a flame retardant for batteries ...

Business & Politics Hyundai's new CEO Munoz vows to proactively respond to Trump policy

LOS ANGELES – José Muñoz, the incoming chief executive of South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor Co., said on Thursday the co...

K-pop Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube

The music video for “APT.”, featuring girl group Blackpink's Rose in a duet with pop star Bruno Mars, has surpassed 300 million views on...

Korean startups Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to invest $5 mn in S.Korea’s Musicow  

US entertainment tycoon Jay-Z’s Roc Nation is expected to invest about $5 million in Musicow Inc., South Korea’s music copyright trading...

K-pop Blackpink Rosé’s APT. debuts at No. 8 on Billboard Hot 100

Blackpink Rosé's single APT. has debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, according to the music magazine Billboard on Tuesday.With the tit...

Construction HD Hyundai to show unmanned construction equipment tech

South Korea's HD Hyundai XiteSolution said on Thursday that it plans to hold a demo show with remote control (RC) models of construction equipment...

Culture & Trends Vinyl renaissance in Korea holds steady with diverse music tastes

Within just two hours of the opening of the 13th Seoul Record Fair last Saturday, the waitlist for new LP records reached 1,500. There were 20 new r...

K-pop Stray Kids to perform at 50th American Music Awards

K-Pop boy band Stray Kids will perform at the American Music Awards, a major music awards show in the United States.The American Music Awards announ...

Construction HD Hyundai affiliates participate in Mining Indonesia 2024

South Korea's HD Hyundai Construction Equipment Co. and HD Hyundai Infracore Co. announced on Wednesday that they participated in Mining Indonesia 2...

Robotics Samsung’s Ballie, LG's Q9 AI robots steal the show at IFA 2024

BERLIN – Ballie, the artificial intelligence-powered companion robot developed by Samsung Electronics Co., has come a long way since the South...

Artificial intelligence LG Uplus, SM Entertainment to launch AI Idols

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Sunday that it will team up with SM Entertainment Co. to develop content using generative artificial intellig...

K-pop NewJeans surpasses 5 billion cumulative Spotify streams

K-pop girl group NewJeans has surpassed five billion combined streams on Spotify, the world's largest music platform, its agency, Adore, announced o...

Banking & Finance Korean pension subscribers show ultra-low risk tolerance

South Korean pension plan subscribers prefer to protect their money rather than taking risks for capital gains despite the government's effort to en...

Real estate Korean commercial real estate market to show slow recovery in H2

South Korea’s commercial real estate market will post a slow recovery in the second half of this year due to rate cut delays and no big correc...

Food & Beverage Orion to collaborate with Vietnam on potato seed

South Korea’s Orion Corp. announced on Monday that it is strengthening its collaboration with the Institute of Agro-Biology, the Vietnam Natio...

Retail More luxury brands seek Korean market on sales surge

South Korea’s luxury goods market, estimated at around $7.1 billion, is experiencing a surge in demand led by affluent consumers in their 40s ...

Automobiles Hyundai Inster, Kia EV3, Genesis Neolun shine at Busan auto show

BUSAN – Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, on Thursday premiered the Inster, an all-electric crossover city car, the latest...

Electronics Galaxy Ring, new foldables set to steal the show at Samsung Unpacked Paris

Now it’s official. Samsung Electronics Co. is hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked summer event in Paris on July 10.Samsung picked Paris as the ve...

Food & Beverage Fried chicken chain bhc adds two more stores in Thailand

South Korean fried chicken chain bhc Chicken announced on Monday that it opened its fifth and sixth stores in Thailand.The number of stores has incr...

North Korea North Korea Sent Excrement Balloons. South Korea’s Response: Blasting BTS Hits.

SEOUL—After enduring days of balloon bombardment from the Kim Jong Un regime, South Korea countered with an airwaves assault of it...

Automobiles Innocean produces Hyundai Motor ad using GenAI

Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday that it launched three new digital campaigns...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor releases Casper Electric teaser images

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday released a teaser image of the electrified model of its first city sports utility vehicle (SUV) The Casper Electric.T...

Electronics Samsung unveils 2024 monitors at Summer Game Fest

Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its new 2024 monitor models at the largest North American game show Summer Game Fest, held at the YouTube Theater i...

Tech, Media & Telecom Southeast Asia, Korea Inc’s new IT outsourcing powerhouse

PHNOM PENH – South Korean technology companies grappling with prolonged software developer shortages are actively broadening their search for ...

Food & Beverage Lotte Chilsung Krush beer enters Mongolian market

South Korea's Lotte Chilsung Beverage announced on Friday that its beer brand Krush entered the Mongolian market. The company sponsored Davaida...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views

South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...