US visa refusals raise concerns over bilateral alliance
SEOUL, October 29 (AJP) - The recent refusal of a U.S. visa to a senior South Korean lawmaker has raised fresh concerns about the bilateral alliance, with lawmakers across the political spectrum and a U.S. security expert offering sharply differing views on what the incident means for relations between the two allies. The controversy began on Wednesday when Rep. Jin Seong-joon of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), chairman of the National Assembly's National Defense Committee, disclosed that
by Lee Jung-woo
Guryong becomes no-man's land. What of those who called it home?
SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - A shantytown, others may call it. For those who stayed as their neighbors moved away, Guryong Village was home — a place where lives had taken root, however fragile the walls around them. By dawn Wednesday, fire had consumed swaths of the settlement tucked into Seoul’s affluent Gangnam district. It took nearly 13 hours to put out the flames. What would become of the lives they had uprooted was far less certain. One man in his 70s had been asleep after taki
AI boom boosts Big Tech earnings, but rising costs raise questions
SEOUL, October 30 (AJP) - America's tech giants are seeing a surge in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) computing, with cloud businesses gaining momentum at Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft. However, their massive spending on data centers and other infrastructure has raised questions about how quickly they can turn those investments into profits. The latest earnings from the three cloud providers, alongside Meta Platforms and chipmaker Intel, show how the AI boom is reshaping the techno
Samsung's HBM strides intensify AI memory race
SEOUL, October 29 (AJP) -The extraordinary third-quarter earnings of the world's three largest memory chipmakers suggest the artificial intelligence (AI) memory race is only heating up, with latecomer Samsung Electronics making rapid strides against frontrunner SK hynix and U.S. rival Micron Technology. The bigger question is how long the industry can sustain operating margins approaching 80 percent. The profitability is staggering. SK hynix delivered an operating margin of 79.7 percent in
Seoul vows firm response to DMZ mine blast, weighs Hormuz role
Samsung says tech edge still fragile despite record profits
South Korea's KF-21 flies with US Air Force jets for first time SEOUL, October 30 (AJP) - South Korea's domestically developed KF-21 fighter jet flew in formation with U.S. Air Force aircraft for the first time over the Yellow Sea, military officials said Friday.
LG CNS eyes US, Europe with modular data centers SEOUL, October 30 (AJP) - LG CNS will push its prefabricated modular data centers into North America and Europe as its first overseas AI data center, in Jakarta, nears completion next month.
Industrial output jumps 3% in September SEOUL, October 30 (AJP) - South Korea's industrial activity rebounded sharply in September as semiconductor and automobile production surged.
Korea's iconic father-figure actor Choi Bool-am dies SEOUL, October 30 (AJP) -Choi Bool-am, who lost his father as a boy but spent more than two decades teaching generations of South Koreans what a father could be through television, died Thursday in Seoul.
