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Jung Da-hyun is a reporter at The Korea Times, covering social issues in Korea, including foreign residents, education, environment and politics. Driven by a deep interest in people’s stories, she focuses on investigative and feature reporting through direct interviews and field coverage. She received the Amnesty International Korea Media Award for her “Deepfake Crisis at Schools” series. Reach her at dahyun08@koreatimes.co.kr. Always open to hearing your stories.

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Police officer arrested over AI-generated sexual deepfakes

A police officer has been arrested last month for allegedly generating sexually exploitative deepfakes of people he knew with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and sharing them on Telegram, police said Sunday. According to police, the officer, assigned to Dongdaemun Police Station in Seoul, was arrested Sept. 16 on charges including possessing sexual abuse material and sexually explicit deepfakes, as well as creating and distributing such content. Investigators found some 5,600 images and videos in his possession, including about 2,600 deepfakes, 1,600 pieces of child and adolescent sexual abuse material and 1,300 illegally filmed videos. Police also suspect that he personally created and distributed some of the illicit content. The case came to light during an investigation by the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency into a Telegram chat room where sexually explicit deepfakes were allegedly being shared. Police obtained court approval in December last year to conduct an undercover investigation of the chat room. An investigator entered the group under a concealed identity and tracked

16h agoBy Jung Da-hyun
Police officer arrested over AI-generated sexual deepfakes
K-pop

Stray Kids follows BTS in Grammy boycott over Asian pop category

K-pop group Stray Kids is boycotting next year’s Grammys, following BTS in its decision not to submit music for consideration amid mounting controversy over the award show's newly created Asian pop category. The BBC reported on Friday that JYP Entertainment, the boyband's agency, confirmed that the group did not submit any music for consideration for the 69th Grammy Awards. "Stray Kids did not submit for the Grammys," the agency was quoted as saying. The decision came less than a day after the Recording Academy, which organizes the Grammys, announced that it would move forward with its Best Asian Pop Music Performance category. Stray Kids has been considered a leading contender for the new award, given the group’s strong presence in the global music market. The group has topped the Billboard 200 nine times, the second-highest tally for any group after The Beatles. All eight members also hold voting membership in the Recording Academy, underscoring their growing presence in the U.S. music industry. The Academy first announced the creation of the Asian pop category in June. It argued the

17h agoBy Jung Da-hyun
Stray Kids follows BTS in Grammy boycott over Asian pop category
Society

Gender ministry to focus on tangible improvements for everyday life

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced Thursday that it will roll out a range of measures aimed at bringing tangible changes to everyday life. The ministry was expanded and reorganized on Oct. 1 last year with a broader mandate to promote gender equality for both women and men and ensure equal rights and opportunities regardless of gender. “Over the past year, we focused on rebuilding the foundation for gender equality policies and bringing government support closer to those in need,” Gender Equality and Family Minister Won Min-kyung said. “In our second year, we will focus on delivering tangible changes that people can feel in their daily lives.” The ministry will prioritize protecting victims’ rights amid changes to the criminal justice system, including by expanding free legal assistance from the early stages of investigations. It will also step up efforts to combat digital sex crimes, including deepfake sexual abuse material. It plans to strengthen regulations across the entire process, from the distribution and use of tools used to create such content to its

Oct 1, 2026By Jung Da-hyun
Gender ministry to focus on tangible improvements for everyday life
Education

Sungshin Women's University pushes flexible education to meet changing social needs

Sungshin Women's University is rethinking how it responds to the demands of the era of artificial intelligence (AI) — not by endlessly adding new departments, but by tearing down the walls between existing ones. President Yi Seong-keun said universities face constant pressure to keep pace with rapidly changing social and industrial needs, but warned that the reflexive response of creating new departments for every emerging field can simply replace old academic boundaries with new ones. “Society is constantly asking universities to respond to changing needs, but we cannot do that with rigid ways of thinking,” Yi told The Korea Times in a recent interview. “Just as students must adapt to a changing world, universities must evolve with them.” That approach is already reshaping Sungshin’s academic structure. The university has expanded into AI and other advanced fields through its AI Convergence Department and College of IT Convergence, while a new Department of AI Convergence and Semiconductor Engineering will begin admitting students in 2027. Enrollment in advanced fields unde

Oct 1, 2026By Jung Da-hyun
Sungshin Women's University pushes flexible education to meet changing social needs
Sports

ASIAN GAMES 3 men, 2 women for S. Korea in top 10 after opening round in golf

NAGOYA, Japan — All three Korean men placed inside the top 10 after the opening round of the men's golf tournament at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, while two teenagers wedged themselves among the top 10 in the women's competition. In the men's first round, LIV Golf player Mun Do-yeob shot a bogey-free round of four-under 66 to tie for third place at Kasugai Country Club East Course in Kasugai, just northeast of the main host city Nagoya. He sits one stroke behind two co-leaders, Wang Wei-hsuan of Chinese Taipei and Kazuki Higa of Japan. Kim Joo-hyung, better known as Tom Kim on the PGA Tour, is at three-under, good for a tie for seventh. Kim Seong-hyeon, a former PGA Tour member, is tied for ninth at two-under. Korea is tied for second place in the team competition, where the two lowest scores out of each team's three players count toward the team total. At seven-under thanks to Mun and Kim Joo-hyung, Korea is two strokes behind Japan. Mun had one birdie on the front nine but picked up three more on the back nine. Kim Joo-hyung, who traveled right after competing at the Pre

Sep 30, 2026By Jung Da-hyun
[ASIAN GAMES] 3 men, 2 women for S. Korea in top 10 after opening round in golf
Environment & Animals

Busan shark becomes tourist sensation, but stirs concerns over warming seas

A shark unexpectedly stranded in an artificial waterway at Busan’s North Port has become a sensation, drawing more than half a million visitors — but experts and environmental groups warn that the frenzy risks turning the animal into a spectacle while overlooking what its unusual appearance may signal about a changing marine environment. The shark has remained in the artificial waterway at North Port for 12 days as of Tuesday. More than 483,000 people visited the park during the Chuseok holiday alone, while cumulative visitors have surpassed 560,000 since the city began counting them on Sept. 19. Social media users dubbed the shark "Bukangi," from "buk hang" — the Korean name for Busan’s North Port. As public interest surged, Busan Mayor Chun Jae-soo described the shark’s unexpected appearance as an opportunity to raise the profile of the North Port area. Riding on Bukangi’s growing popularity, the city on Tuesday officially appointed the shark as an honorary promotional ambassador. The shark's popularity has also delivered a boost to nearby businesses. Some convenience store

Sep 29, 2026By Jung Da-hyun
Busan shark becomes tourist sensation, but stirs concerns over warming seas
Society

Plan to serve airline meals to deportees divides immigration officials

A proposal to upgrade meals for foreigners awaiting deportation at Incheon International Airport has divided immigration officials, with front-line officers raising safety concerns and some questioning whether better food is appropriate for those ordered to leave Korea for violating the law. According to immigration authorities, Sunday, the Incheon Airport Immigration Office under the Ministry of Justice is considering providing in-flight meal boxes to foreign nationals awaiting deportation through the airport. Foreign nationals ordered to leave the country are generally transferred to Incheon International Airport after local immigration offices confirm their illegal stay and complete the necessary procedures. After that, they remain in a designated departure waiting area until their flights. Those awaiting deportation are currently provided with bread and drinks supplied by local immigration offices. The Incheon Airport Immigration Office is now seeking to provide meals directly, replacing the basic food with airline-style meals, considering them the most practical option. The office v

Sep 28, 2026By Jung Da-hyun
Plan to serve airline meals to deportees divides immigration officials
Education

Don't outsource your thinking to AI, NUS president warns

SINGAPORE — National University of Singapore (NUS) has built its global competitiveness not only on research excellence, but also on a strong focus on teaching and preparing students to succeed beyond the classroom. For NUS, the quality of a university should ultimately be measured by how well it equips students with the knowledge and skills they need after graduation — an emphasis that has placed teaching and employability at the heart of the university’s strategy. “We take teaching very seriously, and many of these things that we do actually do not count toward the rankings — but yet it’s the mission of our university,” NUS President Tan Eng Chye said in a recent interview with The Korea Times. He emphasized that research remains an essential mission of a leading university, but global rankings — which tend to place heavy weight on research performance — do not always capture what universities accomplish in the classroom. For NUS, graduate employability is one of the key measures of whether the university is delivering on its educational mission. “The employability o

Sep 24, 2026By Jung Da-hyun
Don't outsource your thinking to AI, NUS president warns
Society

Seoul targets more lodging as it aims for 30 mil. foreign tourists

The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to reassess whether the capital has enough accommodations to keep pace with a rapid rise in international visitors, as it works toward its goal of attracting 30 million foreign tourists annually by 2030. The city will recalculate future room demand and examine ways to expand lodging capacity in major tourist areas, amid concerns that the current supply may fall short as visitor numbers continue to climb. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon called for a review of accommodation supply and demand in light of the growing number of visitors to the capital, as well as measures to expand lodging capacity, the city government said Friday. The move comes as the number of foreign tourists visiting Seoul continues to rise sharply. From January to July this year, the city welcomed 9.83 million international visitors, up 21.3 percent from 8.11 million during the same period last year. As of June, Seoul had 976 registered lodging establishments offering about 128,000 rooms. They included 719 tourism accommodation businesses with 62,369 rooms, of which 347 hotels and condomin

Sep 18, 2026By Jung Da-hyun
Seoul targets more lodging as it aims for 30 mil. foreign tourists
Society

N. Korea nuclear tests reactivated dormant faults: study

Repeated nuclear tests at North Korea’s Punggye-ri site appear to have reactivated dormant faults beneath Mount Mantap, triggering more than 1,000 earthquakes in the area, a new study has found. A research team led by Kim Kwang-hee, a professor of geological sciences at Pusan National University, analyzed seismic data collected in South Korea and northeastern China over 17 years, from 2008 to May 2025. The study, conducted jointly with researchers from several Chinese institutions, was published Friday in the international journal Science. The research found that repeated underground nuclear explosions progressively damaged the shallow crust and altered stress on nearby faults, causing previously quiet fault zones to become active. Historical earthquake records showed no seismic activity around Mount Mantap before North Korea began nuclear testing at the Punggye-ri site in 2006. About 60 earthquakes were detected between 2006 and the sixth nuclear test in 2017, with seismic activity gradually increasing after the third test in 2013. The most dramatic change came after the sixth and mos

Sep 18, 2026By Jung Da-hyun
N. Korea nuclear tests reactivated dormant faults: study
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