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EXO closes sixth tour in Seoul on day of capital's first snow
SEOUL, November 08 (AJP) - On the day Seoul recorded its first snow of the season, K-pop group EXO wrapped up its sixth solo concert tour at KSPO DOME, singing “The First Snow” before a sold-out crowd as winter arrived earlier than usual. Cold rain fell outside the venue in southern Seoul, where fans in padded jackets lined up under umbrellas hours before the 5 p.m. show. The Korea Meteorological Adm
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An becomes first to win 11 titles in back-to-back seasons
SEOUL, November 08 (AJP) - A sellout home crowd in Yeosu, on South Korea's southern coast, watched An Se-young become the first badminton player to win 11 titles in two straight seasons on Sunday. The world No. 1 beat Japan's Yamaguchi Akane in the women's singles final of the Korea Open. The victory was her 55th in a row. She has won 71 of 72 matches this year, a win rate of 98.6 percent, and h
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AI goes mainstream as 1 in 3 Koreans use ChatGPT
SEOUL, November 08 (AJP) - More than a third of South Koreans used ChatGPT on their phones in October, a sign that artificial intelligence chatbots have moved from novelty to a routine part of daily life. ChatGPT's mobile app recorded 18,762,276 monthly active users in South Korea last month, according to data released Sunday by Mobileindex, an app analytics service run by IGAWorks. That was in a countr
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World food prices slip on cheaper grains
SEOUL, November 07 (AJP) - Global food prices fell in October for the first time in four months as cheaper grains, meat and dairy products outweighed a sharp jump in sugar, South Korea's agriculture ministry said Saturday,
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Marine's wish brings troop concert back to Yeonpyeong
SEOUL, November 07 (AJP) - President Lee Jae Myung pledged Saturday to act on even the smallest wishes of South Korean troops, after a military concert returned to front-line Yeonpyeong Island for the first time in 15 years at a departing Marine's request. "I will listen to even the small wishes of the soldiers who defend this count
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Labor minister warns employers who put costs over safety
SEOUL, November 07 (AJP) - South Korea's labor minister on Saturday ordered zero tolerance for safety violations at workplaces hit by repeated fatal accidents, the Ministry of Employment and Labor said. Minister Kim Young-hoon summoned the h
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Hack at Mirae Asset Securities exposes data of 39,000
SEOUL, November 07 (AJP) - Hackers breached Mirae Asset Securities, one of South Korea's largest brokerages, in back-to-back attacks this week, leaking the account numbers of about 3,800 customers and the personal data of more than 35,000 employees, the company said on Saturday. The attackers hit a mobile-web lo
Is regulation best answer to Korea's teen social media addiction?
SEOUL, November 05 (AJP) - South Korea is mulling restrictions on children’s access to social media, joining a global push to shield young users from addictive feeds and harmful content. A country that once ordered teenagers off online games at midnight faces a déjà vu question over whether state intervention is the best answer. President Lee Jae Myung — himself an active social media user — instructed the Korea Media and Communications Commission (KMCC) at a Ca
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Chinese robots steal the Seoul show, Korea's work offstage
SEOUL, November 04 (AJP) - China came to Robo World 2026 to show what its robots can do. South Korea came to show what its robots will keep doing, hour after hour, on factory floors no crowd will ever see. Three Unitree G1 humanoids danced in step to "Abracadabra" by K-pop group Brown Eyed Girls, while a Unitree robot dog wandered between booths. Service robots with holographic displays and small screens rolled through the aisles. At Rainbow Robotics' booth, HUBO, the Einstein-fa
US midterm lays bare Korean chipmakers' exposure to AI politics
SEOUL, November 06 (AJP) - A US midterm vote half a world away hit the Seoul bourse and its biggest chipmakers hardest. Foreign investors fled, and local players are split on whether this is excess panic or a rightful correction. SK hynix tumbled 10.76 percent Friday after 9.46 percent a day earlier after sweeping Democrat win became evident. Samsung Electronics lost 6.35 percent on top of Thursday's 7.57 percent retreat. They had been hammered even before the election results on concerns
Qualcomm's AI shift could reshape Samsung chip ties
SEOUL, November 05 (AJP) - Qualcomm is redefining itself beyond the phone chips that built its name, pursuing growth in AI data centers and autonomous vehicles in a shift that could give longtime customer Samsung Electronics a larger role as a supplier. The U.S. chipmaker’s processors power Samsung’s premium Galaxy phones. Its expansion into AI infrastructure could, in turn, create demand for Samsung’s memory chips — although any new supply arrangements remain unconfirme
Korea’s school entrants shrink as births climb
North Korean missiles hit Ukraine energy site, Zelensky says
