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Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light, though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning they, do not go gentle into that good night.

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Hankook Tire equips Hyundai Rotem's firefighting robot with airless tires

Hankook Tire & Technology said Tuesday it is supplying its airless "i-Flex" tires for a new unmanned firefighting robot built with Hyundai Rotem to battle high-risk blazes in underground parking garages. The robot is built on Hyundai Rotem's HR-Sherpa, the company's first domestically developed multipurpose unmanned vehicle, and is equipped with a 65-millimeter high-performance water cannon, a camera for improved visibility, a self-spraying system and remote-control functions. Hankook Tire and Hyundai Rotem spent about five years jointly developing the tire, which uses a double-arch structure designed to support heavy loads and disperse compressive force evenly, the company said. An outer arch absorbs shocks from uneven, off-road terrain, while an inner arch reduces vibration transmitted to the vehicle's drivetrain, with a hinge structure connecting the two. Because the tire is airless, it requires no air-pressure maintenance and eliminates the risk of punctures or air loss, the company said. Robots equipped with the tire have already been deployed at disaster sites, including a factory

Jul 21, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Hankook Tire equips Hyundai Rotem's firefighting robot with airless tires
Travel & Food

Korea turns domestic football road trips into regional tourism engine

On match days across Korea, traveling football supporters have long followed a rigid, hurried routine: board an early morning chartered bus, cheer through 90 minutes at an out-of-town stadium, and immediately head back home to the capital region. Now, tourism officials are betting that those die-hard fans can be coaxed into staying awhile, turning out-of-town matches into weekend getaways. The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said Tuesday that it is expanding its “K-League Trip Day” initiative for the second half of the 2026 season. Partnering with the K League, the national professional football circuit, the program packages match tickets with curated travel itineraries, local culinary tours and overnight stays across cities outside the greater Seoul area. The decision to broaden the initiative follows a successful pilot program in May. During that trial, roughly 150 supporters of FC Seoul and Incheon United boarded a specially chartered train to Daejeon. Beyond attending the match, fans participated in local food tours, including Daejeon's famous bakery trail — a trend locally d

Jul 21, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Korea turns domestic football road trips into regional tourism engine
People & Events

Busan unveils nighttime festival celebrating legacy as Korean War provisional capital

Long before the sprawling port city of Busan became internationally renowned for its glittering marine skyscrapers and premier cinematic events, it served as a desperate, densely packed sanctuary for a country on the brink of collapse. For 1,023 grueling days during the height of the 1950-53 Korean War, Busan was designated the provisional capital of South Korea, shielding hundreds of thousands of internal refugees while preserving the essential administrative seat of government. The city will temporarily turn back the clock on Friday to honor those dark yet resilient days. Municipal officials said the annual Wartime Capital Busan Heritage Night festival will return for a two-day run from Friday to Saturday. The specialized twilight event will unlock the doors of historic architectural monuments, former government bureaus and underground bunkers until 10 p.m., illuminating a historical chapter that local policy authorities are working to immortalize on the global stage. This year's festival timing is highly strategic. As Busan hosts international delegates for the 48th UNESCO World Herita

Jul 20, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Busan unveils nighttime festival celebrating legacy as Korean War provisional capital
South Korea

Gyeonggi Province reinforces legal lifeline for foreign survivors of gender-based violence

For foreign residents in Korea, navigating the aftermath of sexual assault or domestic abuse can be terrifying. Attempting to report it in a different legal system where justice hinges on highly specific, easily misinterpreted legal definitions can feel nearly impossible. To help overcome critical linguistic issues in reporting, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government and the Gyeonggi Integrated Response Center for Gender-Based Violence held a specialized intensive training seminar Saturday. The initiative aimed to elevate the proficiency of its dedicated interpretation support team in a move designed to ensure no victim is left vulnerable due to language barriers. The training session drew 36 specialized interpreters representing 17 different languages, including Mandarin, Vietnamese, English, Japanese, Thai and Russian. These language professionals serve as on-the-ground advocates, accompanying international residents through every grueling step of the reporting process, from emergency counseling and police interrogations to formal courtroom testimony. Because a poorly translated word can

Jul 20, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Gyeonggi Province reinforces legal lifeline for foreign survivors of gender-based violence
Korean Heritage

Busan exhibition features Korea's UNESCO Memory of the World documentary heritage

To celebrate hosting UNESCO’s 48th World Heritage Committee session, Korea opened a rare, sweeping exhibition on Monday, bringing together all 20 of its Memory of the World documentary heritage collections for the first time. The 10-day exhibition, titled "Records of Korea, Memories of the World," is running at the BEXCO convention center in the southern port city of Busan through July 29. Managed by the National Archives of Korea, the curation gathers over 100 artifacts that collectively trace the peninsula’s history from medieval royal records to 20th-century democratic struggles. Korea ranks fifth globally and first in Asia for the most inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World register. The exhibition organizes these complex cultural records in a four-part narrative space designed to showcase how a single nation meticulously preserved both its institutional triumphs and its deepest historical traumas. The exhibition’s opening sections focus on the structural backbone of Korean administrative history. On display are original volumes of the Joseon Wangjo Sillok, known in En

Jul 20, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Busan exhibition features Korea's UNESCO Memory of the World documentary heritage
Companies

CJ ONE members can now earn, redeem points through Samsung Wallet

CJ ONE, the lifestyle membership program operated by CJ OliveNetworks, has linked with Samsung Wallet, the company said Monday, allowing members to earn and redeem points at Olive Young, Tous les Jours and CGV, among other CJ-affiliated brands and partner merchants, directly from their phone's digital wallet. The integration took effect July 8. CJ ONE has expanded beyond CJ's own brands into everyday spending categories such as dining, shopping, cafes and leisure, building out a broader lifestyle membership platform. The program has also added services like brand-specific point events, a walking-based rewards feature called OneWalk, and a daily fortune-telling function to boost user engagement. With the Samsung Wallet integration, CJ ONE members can now access their membership through a single barcode inside the wallet app, letting them earn and use points without opening a separate CJ ONE app. To link the accounts, users would need to select CJ ONE from the "Add Membership" menu in Samsung Wallet; new users must sign up for CJ ONE first, while existing members can connect their accounts

Jul 20, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
CJ ONE members can now earn, redeem points through Samsung Wallet
Korean Heritage

Museum veteran to lead Korea's efforts to repatriate cultural assets from abroad

The Korean government has tapped a veteran curator and museum administrator to oversee the specialized agency tasked with tracking down and bringing home the country's displaced historical treasures scattered worldwide. The Korea Heritage Service appointed Monday Ahn Tae-hyun, 68, the former director of the National Aviation Museum of Korea, as the sixth secretary-general of the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation. Ahn’s three-year term will run through July 2029. The appointment comes at a crucial time for the foundation, established in 2012 to systematically survey, research and retrieve Korean cultural properties located outside the country — many of which left the peninsula during periods of colonial rule and wartime devastation. Ahn brings a unique trajectory to the role, blending deep-rooted provincial heritage work with high-level institutional management. He began his career in 1997 as a city curator and museum director in Mungyeong, a historic mountain pass city in southeastern Korea, before transitioning into federal museum administration. He later served as head o

Jul 20, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Museum veteran to lead Korea's efforts to repatriate cultural assets from abroad
Companies

Samsung SDS launches Korea's first deep learning service, powered by homegrown chip

Samsung SDS launched a new cloud service Monday that utilizes chips from domestic startup FuriosaAI, making an aggressive push into the booming market for cost-effective artificial intelligence infrastructure. The service introduces a Neural Processing Unit as a Service (NPUaaS) to the Samsung Cloud Platform (SCP). It is powered by FuriosaAI’s second-generation neural processing unit RNGD, which is designed to compete with traditional graphics processing units (GPUs) by offering drastically reduced power consumption and lower operational costs. Unlike GPUs, which are typically used to train massive AI models, NPUs specialize in AI inference — the phase where an already-trained model is put to work generating text, analyzing data or identifying images. Samsung SDS said the RNGD chip offers a highly efficient alternative for enterprise clients looking to scale down their computing energy bills. Under the new subscription model, clients can lease NPU computing power through the cloud rather than purchasing and maintaining their own physical servers. Customers can scale their infrastruc

Jul 20, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Samsung SDS launches Korea's first deep learning service, powered by homegrown chip
Travel & Food

Late-night festivities aim to boost regional tourism

Korea’s tourism strategy is moving into the after-hours, as state officials look past traditional daytime attractions like historic palaces and scenic mountain trails to find a fresh economic engine for the provinces. With independent travelers increasingly demanding unique, experiential itineraries, local authorities are betting that the key to reviving provincial economies lies long after the sun goes down. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, alongside the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), launched Monday the second season of the Bambam Festa — its name a play on "bam," the Korean word for night — a coordinated, multicity nighttime tourism relay running through Oct. 10. Spanning 10 specially designated night tourism cities, the initiative is a calculated effort to transform transient day-trippers into overnight guests, injecting vital capital directly into municipalities currently struggling with rural depopulation. The festival, which kicked off this weekend in the southeastern port city of Busan, will rotate through a diverse tapestry of regional hubs. The itinerary t

Jul 20, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Late-night festivities aim to boost regional tourism
Health

Islamic law meets K-beauty: Korea deploys task force to shield its cosmetics industry from new rules

Korea is deploying a joint public-private diplomatic task force to Indonesia this week, a preemptive bid to shield its lucrative cosmetics exporters from an impending regulatory shift that threatens to disrupt the flow of K-beauty products into Southeast Asia's largest market. Starting Oct. 17, Indonesia will enforce a sweeping mandate requiring all cosmetics sold within its borders to carry halal certification — a strict guarantee that ingredients and manufacturing processes comply with Islamic law. For Korea's cosmetics giants and independent brands alike, the rule introduces an expensive layer of bureaucratic friction, complicating customs and inflating distribution costs. With a population of 275 million, Indonesia is the world’s fourth-most populous country and a critical beachhead for Korea’s global cultural and commercial expansion. The 27-member delegation, coordinated by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, includes officials from the Korea Pharmaceutical Traders Association (KPTA), compliance testing executives and corporate exporters. The group arrives in Jakarta with

Jul 20, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Islamic law meets K-beauty: Korea deploys task force to shield its cosmetics industry from new rules
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