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Nvidia's Huang wins top US science medal
SEOUL, October 10 (AJP) - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received the National Medal of Science, the highest U.S. honor for scientists and engineers, the White House said Thursday (local time). President Donald Trump presented the medal at the “Science: A New Golden Age&r
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Holiday crowds flock to Busan's stranded shark
SEOUL, October 10 (AJP) - Holiday crowds packed Busan's North Port on Saturday, the second day of a three-day Hangeul Day weekend, to catch a glimpse of Bukang, an endangered shark that has stayed in a narrow waterfront canal for 23 day
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Seoul's envoy to Kyiv returns home in POW row
SEOUL, October 10 (AJP) - South Korea’s ambassador to Ukraine, Park Ki-chang, returned to Seoul on Saturday morning, the Foreign Ministry said, two days after the government recalled him over Kyiv’s refusal to apologize for discl
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SK chief Chey visits Gwangju site, eyes faster fab build
SEOUL, October 9 (AJP) — SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said Friday SK hynix would move as quickly as possible on its planned Gwangju semiconductor base after inspecting the site, citing rapidly rising memory demand. Chey, making his first visit to the planned fab site at Gwangju Military Airport, said SK hynix had already brought forward the full buildout of its Yongin semiconductor cluster.
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Coupang restores services after overnight outage
SEOUL, October 9 (AJP) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang restored shopping, delivery and streaming services early Friday after an overnight system outage disrupted orders and logistics, with the company launching compensation for affected users and partners.
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Nuri-launched DaejeonSAT-1 makes contact on sixth attempt
SEOUL, October 9 (AJP) — South Korea’s DaejeonSAT-1 established two-way communication with a ground station on its sixth attempt after five failed contacts, with key satellite systems confirmed to be operating normally. The CubeSat made its first successful two-way contact at around 11:20 p.m. Wednesday and communicated again at about 12:46 a.m. Thursday, according to the Daejeon city government.
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Korea showcases hypersonic strike capability amid tensions with North
SEOUL, October 9 (AJP) — South Korea publicly showcased the successful first test of a domestically developed hypersonic glide vehicle amid heightened tensions with North Korea. President Lee Jae Myung observed Thursday’s test and called for the weapon’s rapid development and deployment before inspecting the Hyunmoo-5 high-power missile, according to Cheong Wa Dae.
South Korea rethinks military privileges as medals collide with fairness
SEOUL, October 08 (AJP) - Military service has long been one of South Korea’s most unforgiving tests of fairness, with disputes over who serves and who does not capable of ending public careers. Now the government is revisiting a decades-old system that allows selected athletes and artists to pursue their careers instead of entering regular military service, as a shrinking recruitment pool adds urgency to longstanding questions over privilege. Defense Minister Kang Shin-chul told a parli
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Silver glitters: stocks lift wealth of the gray in Korea, U.S., Japan
SEOUL, October 07 (AJP) — Older generations on both sides of the Pacific — seemingly the last to have enjoyed an era of abundant liquidity and cheap borrowing — are benefiting from asset inflation, helping fuel consumer spending this year despite geopolitical risks and elevated interest rates. In South Korea, investors aged 60 and older accounted for 40 percent of individual investors’ domestic stock profits in the first half despite representing less than a third of tra
Samsung's staggering profit windfall masks deepening business imbalance
SEOUL, October 08 (AJP) - It all began humbly in 1975, with women in protective head coverings bent over workstations assembling integrated circuits for LED wristwatches. More than half a century later, Samsung Electronics has become the world’s largest vendor of memory chips powering everything from smartphones to sprawling AI data centers and turning factory output into profits on a scale unprecedented among the world's technology companies. The scale of that transformation is capt
South Korea is a de facto abolitionist state – or is it?
SEOUL, October 07 (AJP) - Fifty-two people remain on death row, growing old under sentences the state has left unfulfilled for nearly three decades. Their average age is 58.7. Among them are serial killers Yoo Young-chul and Kang Ho-soon, who killed 20 and 10 people, respectively. As the World Day Against the Death Penalty approaches on Oct. 10, South Korea remains caught between its long suspension of executions and a public largely unwilling to abandon them. A September survey commissioned b
