K-pop super rookie NewJeans performs at Japan's music festival 'Summer Sonic'

SEOUL -- K-pop girl band NewJeans has performed in front of some 30,000 fans at Summer Sonic, a major music event held in Japan. The five-member band, debuted in July 2022, showcased 11 songs including Attention and Hype Boy for about 40 minutes. NewJeans was invited to the operator of Summer Sonic 2023 only after about a year of its debut, the band's agency said. This year's summer music festival took place at "Zozo Marine Stadium," a baseball stadium in Chiba on A

August 21, 2023

Police continues manhunt for bank robber in central city

SEOUL -- Police are continuing their manhunt for a bank robber who raided a Credit Union bank branch in the central city of Daejeon. It has been four days since the robber successfully pulled out a bank heist and ran away with some 39 million won ($29,039). South Korea had a detection rate for criminal actions of 81.2 percent in 2020. The detection rate for heavy offenses such as sexual assault, robbery, and homicide is more than 97 percent. Law enforcers are able to maintain high crime

August 21, 2023

Naver to unveil large language model AI application as counterpunch against global rivals

SEOUL -- Later this week, South Korea's largest web portal operator Naver will unveil the company's latest hyperscale AI solution in a bid to check global tech giants that develop large language model artificial intelligence-based solutions including Google and Microsoft. A large language model (LLM) is basically a smart computer program that understands and generates human-like conversations in text. Through machine learning, an LLM is smart enough to engage in conversations

August 21, 2023

President Yoon promises to upgrade trilateral security alliance with US and Japan

SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol agreed with leaders from the United States and Japan to upgrade the current security alliance at the trilateral summit meeting held at Camp David, the official U.S. presidential retreat near Washington, D.C. on August 18. The three leaders will meet at least once a year and build a real-time warning system for North Korea's missiles. "The cooperation between South Korea, the U.S., and Japan, which remained in regional alliance on t

August 21, 2023

Game publisher Nexon to adopt Samsung's video processing technology for third-person shooter game

SEOUL -- Major South Korean game publisher Nexon has become the world's first game publisher to adopt Samsung's "HDR10+," a video processing technology standard that can provide accurate and vibrant colors in real-time. The technology will be used for the game publisher's "The First Descendant," a third-person shooter game that incorporates role-playing features. While the previous HDR video technology processes images on the basis of a whole volume, HDR

August 21, 2023

S. Korea and US launch 11-day annual joint military exercise 'Ulchi Freedom Shield'

SEOUL -- South Korea and the United States have launched an 11-day annual joint military exercise called "UFS - Ulchi Freedom Shield" designed to fortify the combined defense posture and alliance response capabilities through various scenarios that simulate real war situations. According to the South Korean government on August 21, this year's war scenarios have gone through significant changes to focus on the joint field training exercise (FTX) that simulate upgraded N

August 21, 2023

SK On joins cathode plant construction project in Quebec with Ford and EcoPro BM

SEOUL -- SK On, the battery-making unit of South Korea's third-largest conglomerate SK Group, will build a cathode plant in Canada with its American partner, Ford, and EcoPro BM, a South Korean producer of core materials for secondary batteries. About $1.2 billion will be injected to build the factory set to start its operation in the first half of 2026. Along with anodes, cathodes are electrodes used to help the conduction of electricity through electrolyte materials. Cathode mate

August 18, 2023

Baby Shark creator to provide content for Indonesia's state TV network RTV

SEOUL -- The Pinkfong Company, famous for its children's YouTube mega-hit song "Baby Shark, has partnered with the operator of RTV, a major television network in Indonesia, to provide various movies and TV series. A total of 65 episodes will be broadcast in the Southeast Asian country with the world's fourth-largest population. Data released by Pinkfong showed that RTV has more than 90 percent of viewers across Indonesia. As of August 2023, the country had some 277 million

August 18, 2023

Presidential jet carrying President Yoon Suk-yeol lands on U.S. Air Force base for trilateral summit

SEOUL -- South Korea's presidential jet carrying President Yoon Suk-yeol has landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland near Washington D.C. on August 17 (local time). The South Korean president will meet United States President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a trilateral summit meeting on August 18. On the day of the South Korea-U.S.-Japan trilateral summit, President Yoon will move to Camp David, the official retreat for U.S. presidents, with his count

August 18, 2023

S. Korea unveils roadmap to attract 300,000 international students by 2027

SEOUL -- South Korea aims to increase the number of international students to 300,000 by 2027 from about 167,000 in 2022. The country will work with universities, private companies, and local governments, to attract foreign students. Various projects will be carried out such as offering hands-on career training programs and Korean-language classes. Under a project titled "Study Korea 300K Project," the Ministry of Education would secure 300,000 foreign students by 2027. T

August 17, 2023