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BTS' Jungkook awaits reunion with fellow BTS members in 2025
SEOUL -- Jungkook, the youngest member of BTS, anticipates his reunion with fellow BTS members in 2025 will create enormous synergy. After completing compulsory military service in South Korea, all seven members are set to renew their exclusive contracts in 2025 with their agency "Big Hit Music." In South Korea, all able-bodied males who are 18 and older must fulfill their military service unless they have a valid reason for exemption. Those who joined the Army should serv
10 November 2023
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[OPINION] The Continuing Threat of Nuclear Weapons
KENOSHA -- Generally, under the radar of media and public attention, representatives of China and the United States met on November 6 in Washington D.D. for the first explorator
9 November 2023
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Hyundai Motor partners with western port city to accelerate commercialization of flying taxi service
SEOUL -- The world's third-largest carmaker Hyundai Motor has partnered with the western port city of Incheon in a bid to accelerate the commercialization of urban air mobility services, also known as flying taxi services, using manned and unmanned passenger drones. Urban air mobility (UAM) is infrastructure for commercial flying passenger vehicles that includes vertiports and control towers. Aerial vehicles are required to fly through designated aerial corridors to prevent a
9 November 2023
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Hundreds of young S. Koreans flock to panda-themed event store to grab limited edition items
SEOUL -- Dressed in casual jackets and coats, young South Koreans in their 20s and 30s flocked to a pop-up store featuring Fu Bao, a three-year-old YouTube celebrity Chinese panda currently living at a zoo in South Korea. Despite the windy weather on the first day of the pop-up store event, about 800 people competitively raced to make a reservation to enter the store, filled with Fu Bao-related apparel, accessories, and cups engraved with a picture of the female panda. About 70 percent
9 November 2023
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SK E&S partners with central city to establish hydrogen bus infrastructure
SEOUL -- SK E&S, an energy wing of South Korea's SK Group, has partnered with the central city of Cheonan to develop and establish infrastructure for hydrogen fuel cell buses and hydrogen charging stations. South Korea is currently undergoing a structural change in a bid to reduce the country's dependency on fossil fuels and adopt clean and renewable energy systems. Hydrogen buses are part of South Korea's big picture to go green and clean energy vehicles are being o
9 November 2023
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Seoul Mayor shows strong will to push commercialization of commuter water bus
SEOUL -- Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon showed his strong will to commercialize "Han Gang River Bus," a 199-seater commuter boat designed to carry passengers along the Han River that flows through Seoul from the east and out to the West Sea, also known as the Yellow Sea. In September 2023, Seoul City unveiled a blueprint for the so-called "water bus" that will be commercialized in 2024. The capital city promised that the commuter boat would provide improved services than
9 November 2023
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Samsung Electronics to provide real-time AI interpretation service for Galaxy phone
SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics has revealed its plan to adopt a real-time interpretation service for Galaxy phone users to accurately communicate while on the phone. Without installing an application, users can engage in a verbal conversation and view the text visually on their smartphone screen. The interpretation service will be incorporated into the tech giant's next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model which offers generative AI functions within the device. Generative
9 November 2023
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Worker killed in robot accident at sorting center during test operation
SEOUL -- A male worker in his 40s was killed in an accident that took place inside an automated sorting center when a cooperative robot mistook its human coworker for a box of paprikas. The robot fatally wounded the man when it tried to lift the worker up with its actuators. Cooperative robots are machines that are deployed to a workplace where human workers are present. They collaborate with their human coworkers to carry out chores that need quick and precise handling of products
9 November 2023