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Drawing the hairline: Korea debates insuring hair loss SEOUL, June 19 (AJP) -Going bald is personal matter, except in South Korea. It is quickly turning into a political and social hot potato.
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Canada's submarine choice extends beyond hardware SEOUL, June 19 (AJP) - Canada's plan to acquire up to 12 new submarines is entering a decisive phase, but mounting concerns over labor shortages, industrial capacity and military interoperability suggest choosing a winning bidder may be the easiest part of the program.
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World Cup 26: Korea's fate hinges on match with South Africa SEOUL, June 19 (AJP) - South Korea's 1-0 defeat to Mexico was not fatal. But it exposed a weakness that Hong Myung-bo's side must fix quickly.
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World Cup 26: Korea's World Cup ritual finds a new home
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World Cup 26: Wave of red and faces of hope and disbelief
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Seoul seeks to reassure U.S. Congress over tighter OPCON oversight SEOUL, June 19 (AJP) - South Korea is actively explaining its wartime operational control transfer plan to the U.S. Congress after a Senate committee approved legislation that would strengthen congressional oversight of the process, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said Friday. -
Lee pitches phased North Korean nuclear plan to Trump SEOUL, June 19 (AJP) - Aiming to lower immediate geopolitical pressure on Pyongyang and prevent Washington from enforcing a rigid, all-or-nothing diplomatic denuclearization campaign, President Lee Jae Myung proposed a flexible, phased diplomatic framework to United States President Donald Trump. -
Korea's producer prices spike at fastest pace since pandemic SEOUL, June 19 (AJP) -Korea's producer price spiked 8.5 percent from a year earlier in May, the fastest annual increase since the pandemic peak in the summer of 2022. -
Iran opens Hormuz transit applications, paving way for 24 Korean ships SEOUL, June 19 (AJP) - Iran has begun accepting transit applications from vessels stranded inside the Strait of Hormuz under its agreement to end the war with the U.S.
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Many analysts see Iran, not Washington, as the strategic winner of the war SEOUL, June 18 (AJP) - President Donald Trump hailed the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding as a diplomatic victory that would prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons and restore stability to global energy markets. Many international relations scholars and security analysts see it differently. Several experts interviewed by AJP said the 109-day conflict ultimately strengthened Iran's strategic leverage, exposed limits to American military power and accelerated shifts already under by Lee Jung-woo
How US-Iran ceasefire will reshape Asia and global economy
The world breathed a collective sigh of relief this week when the United States and Iran agreed to a sudden ceasefire. The newly released 14-point Memorandum of Understanding officially hits pause on a highly explosive conflict, bringing quiet to the Middle East. However, when we look closely at the actual promises made on paper, the deal is quite shocking. The agreement requires the U.S. to immediately lift its naval blockade, unfreeze billions of dollars in restricted Iranian money, and allow
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Inside KF-21, a test pilot pushes Korea's indigenous fighter to its limits SEOUL, June 19 (AJP) - The moment can come low above the ground, when the aircraft is turning hard and the pilot's vision begins to fade. For Maj. Song Min-seok, a test pilot for South Korea's KF-21 Boramae fighter jet, one of the most demanding parts of the job is not flying fast. It is holding the aircraft at the edge of its limits long enough to finish the test — even as his body tells him to stop. "When you keep turning under G-force, blood moves down toward your legs an
Packaging bottleneck to decide winner in Korea's HBM4E race
SEOUL, June 18 (AJP) - SK hynix and Samsung Electronics are locking horns to seize an early lead in next-generation AI memory by shipping samples of their 12-layer HBM4E chips to major customers such as Nvidia for future data-center GPUs including Rubin Ultra. But as the race moves beyond raw memory performance, industry watchers say the real bottleneck may lie elsewhere: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s advanced packaging capacity. SK hynix said Wednesday it had shipped samples of
