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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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Seoul backs talented youth, outbound scholars with expanded financial aid

The Seoul Future Talent Foundation, recently rebranded from the Seoul Scholarship Foundation, finalized its summer cohort this week by distributing critical financial aid to 240 local students across two separate ceremonies. The initiative targets both exceptionally talented high school prodigies in the arts and sports, as well as undergraduate scholars preparing to travel abroad for international university exchange programs. The first leg of the rollout took place on Satuday at Seoul City Hall, where the foundation awarded certificates to 180 recipients of the Seoul Future Arts and Sports Scholarship. Designed to alleviate financial pressures on promising young artists and athletes, the program provides an annual stipend of 3.5 million won ($2,347) to high school students majoring in music, fine arts, dance or athletics. Eligible candidates are drawn from low-income households or selected via principal recommendations, surviving a rigorous vetting process that includes document reviews, formal interviews and practical skills assessments. The City Hall event drew a crowd of 250 student

Jul 15, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Seoul backs talented youth, outbound scholars with expanded financial aid
Health

Researchers in Korea find herbal extract that blocks obesity-linked diabetes

Korean researchers have discovered that a natural compound found in a traditional medicinal herb can reverse a key cause of type 2 diabetes brought on by weight gain, opening up a promising new avenue for preventative medicine. In a joint study published in the science journal Tissue & Cell, researchers from the National Institute of Forest Science and Chung-Ang University showed that a natural ingredient derived from the plant Gastrodia elata — commonly known in Korean as "cheonma" — can help balance hormone levels in obese individuals at risk of diabetes. Gaining excess weight often leads to insulin resistance, a dangerous health condition where the body's cells begin to ignore insulin. When cells refuse to cooperate with this hormone, sugar builds up in the bloodstream instead of being converted into energy, causing blood sugar levels to spike, eventually leading to type 2 diabetes. By studying cells overwhelmed by excess fat, the research team mapped out exactly how damage occurs. They found that heavy fat deposits directly damage the gut, effectively shutting down a critical ho

Jul 15, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Researchers in Korea find herbal extract that blocks obesity-linked diabetes
Travel & Food

Expanded state initiative unlocks latent demand for arts in Korea

Korea’s ambitious push to weave arts and culture directly into the fabric of daily life has yielded a dramatic dividend. A newly expanded national initiative that offers weekly discounts and extended museum hours has triggered a 71.1 percent surge in cultural participation, effectively dismantling long-standing barriers of cost, time and geographic isolation for ordinary citizens. According to a comprehensive survey of 1,000 active participants released Wednesday by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the structural expansion of the country's landmark Culture Day policy has crossed a crucial threshold. What began as a modest state experiment has transformed into a self-sustaining societal habit. Nearly 90 percent of those surveyed expressed deep satisfaction with the program, while more than 91 percent said they actively intend to recommend it to others. For economists and policymakers tracking the initiative, the most striking finding lies in the nature of this civic awakening. Among the respondents who reported an increase or steady maintenance in their cultural activities

Jul 15, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Expanded state initiative unlocks latent demand for arts in Korea
People & Events

Incheon to showcase live UAM flight demo at upcoming drone expo

Incheon is positioning itself at the forefront of the next-generation aerospace sector as it prepares to host the 2026 Korea Drone and UAM Expo. The three-day event, running from Wednesday through Friday, will be staged across several major venues, including the Songdo Convensia, the Incheon National University Innovation Center and Songdo Moonlight Festival Park, municipal officials said Tuesday. Now in its sixth year, the expo is co-hosted by Incheon Metropolitan City and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. A consortium of state agencies, alongside Incheon Technopark and Inha University, are organizing the event's specialized programming. A central highlight of this year's expo is urban air mobility (UAM) — an emerging ecosystem of highly automated, electric aircraft designed to transport passengers and cargo over short distances within congested metropolitan areas. The expo kicks off Wednesday at the university's innovation center with the K-UAM Service Showcase. The premier event will feature what organizers bill as Korea's first live flight demonstration of a domes

Jul 14, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Incheon to showcase live UAM flight demo at upcoming drone expo
Education

Classroom-tested: Immigrant youth help gov't polish AI language tool

In an effort to better support the growing population of students from multicultural backgrounds, the Ministry of Education and the Korea Education and Research Information Service announced Tuesday the launch of a new student advisory group. The initiative is designed to directly integrate student feedback into Everyone's Korean, the government's flagship artificial intelligence (AI)-driven language platform. The advisory panel, which will run through December, consists of 22 teams comprising roughly 60 immigrant-background students and 22 guiding teachers. The participating students represent 15 different countries of heritage, including Vietnam, China, Russia, Nigeria and Brazil, bringing a highly diverse set of linguistic perspectives to the table. Launched as an online service to help students learn Korean both at school and at home, the Everyone’s Korean platform utilizes AI technology to determine language proficiency, track individual progress and suggest tailored educational content. As of June, the platform is actively used by over 29,000 students, teachers and administrator

Jul 14, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Classroom-tested: Immigrant youth help gov't polish AI language tool
Korean Heritage

Seoul opens basement museum showcasing intact Joseon-era ruins

Beneath a newly completed 25-story office tower in central Seoul, visitors will soon be able to walk along the stone-paved alleys of 16th-century Joseon Dynasty, stepping directly into the daily lives and cutting-edge science of Korea’s past. The Seoul Museum of History announced Tuesday the opening of the Insa Historic Sites Museum, a sprawling 4,810-square-meter subterranean site located in the historic neighborhood of Insa-dong. Scheduled for an official opening ceremony Wednesday, and public admission Thursday, the basement facility is the largest on-site museum in the Korean capital. Unlike traditional museums that house relics behind glass cases away from their origin, the new exhibition hall presents a massive archaeological site approximately where it was unearthed. Visitors walking along elevated wooden decks will look down upon the preserved foundations of six 16th-century buildings, ancient drainage systems and a massive communal stone well. The ruins were uncovered between 2020 and 2021 during excavation work for a commercial redevelopment project in the historic city-cent

Jul 14, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Seoul opens basement museum showcasing intact Joseon-era ruins
Companies

Samsung wins 8 Red Dot Design Award honors, including 2 top prizes

Samsung Electronics said it won eight awards in the design concept category of the Red Dot Design Award 2026, including two "Best of the Best" prizes, the competition's highest honor. The Red Dot Design Award, established in 1955 by Germany's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, is considered one of the world's most prestigious design competitions, given in three categories: product design, design concept and brand and communication design. The two "Best of the Best" winners were a concept design for home appliance consumables and a kids' robot concept called Dremo & Minimo. Judges credited both for using artificial intelligence (AI) to tailor experiences to individual users and for pointing toward future lifestyle trends. The appliance consumables concept uses color alone to indicate how a used part should be handled: gray for semi-permanent parts, green for recyclable parts and brown for parts meant to be discarded, without requiring separate instructions. The concept has now won top honors from all three of the world's major design competitions, having previously received a gold prize

Jul 14, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Samsung wins 8 Red Dot Design Award honors, including 2 top prizes
Companies

Hyundai Motor, Kia take 6 Red Dot honors, including top prize for MobED concept

Hyundai Motor and affiliate Kia said they won six awards at the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2026, including the event's top prize, for a mobile robot platform called MobED Urban Hopper & Golf. The Red Dot Award, organized by Germany's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, is considered one of the world's three major design awards, recognizing outstanding work each year in product design, brand and communication design, and design concepts. MobED Urban Hopper & Golf received the "Best of Best" award in the design concept category and was also named a finalist for "Luminary," the top overall prize in that category. MobED is a mobile robot platform that has separately received a CES Innovation Award in January and Red Dot and iF Design Award honors earlier this year for product design. The Urban Hopper & Golf concept pairs the MobED platform with interchangeable top modules. The Urban Hopper version is a scooter designed for maneuvering through crowded city streets and narrow alleys, while the Golf version uses autonomous driving and user-following technology to navigate golf course terrai

Jul 14, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Hyundai Motor, Kia take 6 Red Dot honors, including top prize for MobED concept
Companies

SK Telecom tests AI-RAN to power Korea's digital highway

SK Telecom said it has been selected to carry out a government-backed "Hyper-AI Network Infrastructure" pilot project to build a next-generation "AI-RAN" network — which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize wireless base stations and run computing tasks on cellular hardware — and test three physical AI services under the initiative led by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency. The two-year project supports Korea's "AI Highway" policy initiative, which aims to build ultra-low-latency, highly reliable networks for physical AI such as robots. AI-RAN refers to networks in which cell towers provide AI computing power in addition to standard communication service, shifting some of a robot's AI processing load onto the network itself. SK Telecom will build and test AI-RAN equipment from four manufacturers — Samsung Electronics, HFR, Ericsson and Nokia — within a single project, comparing performance across different computing configurations. Three physical AI services will be demonstrated: a four-legged patrol robot for industrial safety mo

Jul 14, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
SK Telecom tests AI-RAN to power Korea's digital highway
Companies

Domino's Pizza Korea unveils shrimp-steak pizza collaboration with Musinsa

In one of the year's more unexpected lifestyle crossovers, Domino’s Pizza Korea is teaming up with Musinsa, Korea’s dominant online fashion and beauty platform, to serve up a new collaboration that bridges youth streetwear culture and fast food. Launching nationwide Thursday, the partnership will debut the "Mujinjang Shrimp Steak Pizza." The name of the menu item plays on "mujinjang," a signature slang term deeply associated with Musinsa's brand identity that roughly translates to "endless" or "limitless." Operating under the concept of "enormous toppings, an overflowingly full pizza," the joint venture is designed to deliver an over-the-top feast. The premium pizza features what the companies describe as a decadent surf-and-turf combination. It is loaded with jumbo shrimp designed to offer a firm, springy texture and rich seafood flavor, alongside savory, thick-cut steak slices. To add extra depth, the center of the pizza is layered with crispy truffle cream hash browns and sweet corn mayonnaise, offering a rich, savory blend of textures and flavors from the very first bite. The "Mu

Jul 14, 2026By Jhoo Dong-chan
Domino's Pizza Korea unveils shrimp-steak pizza collaboration with Musinsa
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