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S. Korea denies Korea-owned tanker hit in Hormuz
SEOUL, September 02 (AJP) - A tanker struck by rockets in the Strait of Hormuz was not owned by South Korea's Sinokor Merchant Marine and had no Korean crew aboard, a South Korean shipping industry group said Wednesday.
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Consumer inflation rebounds above 3% in August
SEOUL, September 2 (AJP) - South Korea's consumer inflation rose above 3 percent last month, while core inflation climbed to 3.4 percent, the Ministry of Data and Statistics said on Wednesday.
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Korea's education race costs babies - study
SEOUL, September 02 (AJP) - South Korea's nascent fertility rebound could get a further boost if parents were freed from the country's relentless competition over children's education, according to an international study that puts a surprisingly large number on the demographic cost of the education arms race.
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Train tickets for Chuseok to go on sale this week
SEOUL, September 2 (AJP) - Early booking for train tickets for Chuseok or Korean Thanksgiving begins this week, KORAIL said on Wednesday. Tickets for KTX bullet trains and other trains for the country's biggest holiday, which falls from Sep. 24 to 27 this year, can be purchased online through KORAIL's website.
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Securities firms lead in six-figure salaries
SEOUL, September 2 (AJP) - Employees at South Korea's top 500 companies earned an average 54.99 million won (US$40,100) in the first half of this year, according to an analysis by corporate tracker CEO Score and released Wednesday.
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Police scandals test Korea's sweeping prosecution reform
SEOUL, September 02 (AJP) - South Korea carried out a sweeping reshuffle of senior police officials Tuesday, replacing 14 of the country's 18 regional police chiefs, as public distrust of police investigations deepens over a scandal on Jeju Island involving the false closure of missing-person cases.
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Humanoids can beat Bolt. The harder race starts on the factory floor
SEOUL, August 31 (AJP) - A humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 8.64 seconds at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games last week, nearly a full second faster than Usain Bolt's world record. Except that it kept going. Tiangong Ultra hurtled past the finish line, slammed into a padded barrier and crashed to the floor in a shower of sparks, leaving staff to rush in with fire extinguishers before the machine was carried away. Impressive as the machines are, much of humanoid robotics still ends w
by Kim Dong-young
Kazakhstan feels familiar. Family duty runs in reverse
SEOUL, August 28 (AJP) - Kazakhstan can feel unexpectedly familiar to a Korean visitor. Across Astana, there are faces that at first glance would not look out of place in Seoul. Dark hair, familiar facial contours and gestures of deference toward older people can create fleeting moments of recognition in a country separated from the Korean Peninsula by thousands of kilometers of mountains, desert and steppe. The sense of familiarity runs deeper around the family table. Younger people wait for
Korean jobseekers face an AI test with no rulebook
SEOUL, September 01 (AJP) - AI literacy is becoming the latest addition to the long list of so-called "specs" young South Koreans need to compete for already-scarce entry-level jobs. The problem is that employers themselves are still figuring out what they want. SK hynix is removing its traditional personal-statement questions from applications in the second half of this year. Instead, applicants will be asked to describe how they have used AI in projects, research and problem-solvin
U.S. EV plants may lay "golden eggs" for Korean battery makers
SEOUL, September 01 (AJP) - South Korea's battery industry, groomed to build on the EV boom, is hurriedly moving to ride a new power "golden goose" — data centers — anchored in the United States' drive to catch up with China in AI infrastructure. "Let data reign," U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed Monday. "The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,"
