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Busan webtoon festival marks 10th anniversary with 800 works by global artists

Busan will welcome about 190 webtoon artists from Korea and abroad this week for a three-day festival showcasing more than 800 works as the city marks the 10th anniversary of its international comics event. The 10th Busan Global Webtoon Festival, organized by Busan Metropolitan City with the Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency and the Busan-Gyeongnam Cartoonists Association, runs from Friday through Nov. 1 at Museum One and the Busan Cultural Contents Complex. Under the theme “Ten Years, One Story,” the festival will look back on a decade of webtoon creation while bringing artists, publishers and readers together through exhibitions, live drawing sessions and business events. Exhibitions will feature posters from previous festivals, commemorative illustrations and works by invited international artists, alongside award-winning comics and projects supported by the festival. Visitors can also attend drawing talk shows, where artists will discuss their creative processes and demonstrate how webtoons are made. Organizers are expanding business programs aimed at helping creators reach overs

Oct 27, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Busan webtoon festival marks 10th anniversary with 800 works by global artists
People & Events

Seoul offers up to 15% savings via local gift card promotion

Seoul residents can get more money back on everyday purchases starting Thursday, as the city rolls out additional cashback on local gift certificates during a nationwide shopping festival aimed at boosting consumer spending and small businesses. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that purchases made with metropolitan and district-issued Seoul Love Gift Certificates from Oct. 29 through Nov. 15 will qualify for an additional 5 percent cashback, paid in gift certificates. Combined with a 5 percent discount when buying eligible certificates and existing cashback offers, the promotion can deliver savings equivalent to as much as 15 percent of the purchase amount. For example, a shopper who buys 100,000 won worth of gift certificates at a 5 percent discount pays 95,000 won and can receive another 10,000 won in cashback if both the existing and additional 5 percent offers apply to a 100,000 won purchase. The campaign covers 78 types of certificates issued by Seoul and its 25 districts, including older and newer versions, meaning residents can also receive the additional cashback wh

Oct 27, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Seoul offers up to 15% savings via local gift card promotion
People & Events

Seoul garden festival draws record 14 million visitors in 6-month run

Seoul’s biggest garden festival has drawn 14 million visitors over six months, setting a record for attendance and giving a boost to nearby businesses as the city seeks to make green spaces a larger part of urban life. The 2026 Seoul International Garden Show concluded Tuesday after running for 180 days, the longest edition yet, with attendance up 34.1 percent from 10.44 million visitors last year, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said. The festival, held from May 1 through Tuesday under the theme “Seoul, Green Culture,” expanded beyond Seoul Forest into nearby Seongsu-dong, the Konkuk University area and the Han River waterfront, with an autumn garden festival also held at Maeheon Citizens’ Forest. Organizers created 225 gardens and offered 170 programs involving guided tours, exhibitions, hands-on activities and academic events, drawing about 210,000 participants to the programs. In a city survey of 2,358 respondents conducted from Oct. 19-25, about 91 percent said they were satisfied with the event, while 82.8 percent said they intended to attend next year. About 71 percent sa

Oct 27, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Seoul garden festival draws record 14 million visitors in 6-month run
Law & Crime

Seoul, Tokyo form united front against counterfeiters, drug traffickers

As K-pop, Korean cosmetics and fashion continue to capture global consumers, a darker shadow industry has grown alongside them: counterfeiters pumping out fake Korean goods, and international smuggling syndicates attempting to move illicit narcotics across borders. In response, Korea’s top customs official is launching a broad diplomatic campaign to enlist global enforcement agencies in cracking down on intellectual property theft and drug trafficking. Lee Jong-wook, head of the Korea Customs Service (KCS), will initiate the campaign on Oct. 29, during a high-level summit with his Japanese counterpart. The bilateral meeting marks the starting line of an ambitious diplomatic expansion aimed at building real-time information-sharing networks with key trading partners across Asia, Europe and the Americas. During the upcoming Tokyo summit, KCS said Lee plans to formally request that Japanese customs authorities streamline application processing for Korean companies seeking border enforcement of their intellectual property rights. Under Japan’s customs protection system — which mirrors

Oct 27, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Seoul, Tokyo form united front against counterfeiters, drug traffickers
Companies

LG CNS wins global certification for compliance management system

LG CNS has secured international certification for its compliance management system, strengthening its efforts to meet growing regulatory demands across artificial intelligence, cloud computing and data center operations. The Korean IT services company said Tuesday it had received ISO 37301 certification, an international standard established by the International Organization for Standardization to help organizations manage obligations involving laws, regulations, internal policies and ethical requirements. LRQA, an international assurance and certification provider formerly known as Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, conducted the assessment, examining compliance practices across LG CNS’ major business areas, including AI, cloud services, data centers and software development and maintenance. The review included examinations of systems and documentation, interviews with executives and employees responsible for compliance and checks of actual business records. The certification comes as the adoption of AI broadens corporate compliance responsibilities, particularly in areas involvin

Oct 27, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
LG CNS wins global certification for compliance management system
Companies

Coway air purifier earns spot on TIME's best inventions list

Coway’s latest air purifier earned a place among TIME’s best inventions of 2026, highlighting the Korean company’s efforts to make cleaner indoor air more accessible through improved filtration, quieter operation and automated monitoring. The Airmega Mighty2 (AP-1512N) was selected in TIME’s household category, with the magazine describing it as “the double-duty air purifier” for combining air purification with real-time indoor air quality monitoring. TIME evaluated nominations from its editors and correspondents worldwide, considering originality, effectiveness, ambition and impact, according to Coway’s announcement Monday. The Mighty2 uses a three-stage filtration system featuring a high-efficiency particulate air filter that is 20 percent larger than its predecessor and an activated carbon filter that is 45 percent larger, designed to capture allergens, dust, pollen, mold, cooking fumes and wildfire smoke. Its MegaScan laser sensor measures PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 particles, displaying numerical readings and using a four-color indicator to communicate air quality. The purifie

Oct 27, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Coway air purifier earns spot on TIME's best inventions list
Companies

Hyundai Engineering targets global SMR market with US partnerships

Hyundai Engineering is stepping up its push into the global small modular reactor (SMR) market, signing agreements with two U.S. nuclear technology developers to pursue demonstration projects involving next-generation reactor designs. The Korean engineering company said Tuesday it signed memorandums of understanding with Nano Nuclear Energy, known as NNE, and ARC Clean Technology to explore cooperation on fourth-generation SMRs, as demand for reliable, low-carbon electricity grows alongside artificial intelligence and data center expansion. Under its agreement with NNE, Hyundai Engineering plans to support the KRONOS micro modular reactor project at the campus of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, aimed to provide heat for the campus and advance carbon neutrality goals. The companies will explore cooperation on engineering, procurement and construction for auxiliary reactor facilities, modular design reviews, supply chain development and business planning. NNE, headquartered in New York and listed on Nasdaq, is developing a high-temperature gas-cooled microreactor. Hyundai Engineeri

Oct 27, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Hyundai Engineering targets global SMR market with US partnerships
K-pop

HYBE expands global operations with new label services chief

K-pop powerhouse HYBE is sharpening its international operations, appointing industry veteran Juan Arenas to steer a newly streamlined global division aimed at uniting distribution, marketing and artist promotion across its worldwide label network. The company said Tuesday that Arenas, chief intellectual property officer at HYBE America, would serve as president of the label's Global Label Services, expanding an existing operation into a centralized support organization for labels across all of its global entities. The division will coordinate global distribution strategies, manage supply chains and oversee relationships with regional distributors and online and offline platforms, while tailoring marketing and promotional campaigns to local markets. HYBE launched its Label Services operation in the United States in 2024 as part of its HYBE 2.0 growth strategy, subsequently extending the model to Korea and other markets. The latest restructuring reflects HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyuk’s “multi-home, multi-genre” strategy, which seeks to strengthen infrastructure across major music marke

Oct 27, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
HYBE expands global operations with new label services chief
People & Events

Yun Dong-ju, Kim Nam-jo receive Korea's highest cultural honor

Two of Korea’s most celebrated poets received the country’s highest cultural honor on Monday, as the government recognized 36 artists and cultural figures for their contributions to literature, the performing arts and other creative fields. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said earlier in the day that poets Yun Dong-ju and Kim Nam-jo would be posthumously awarded the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, the highest grade of the government’s cultural honors. An awards ceremony was held at Modu Art Theater in Seoul’s Seodaemun District, with 17 people receiving Cultural Merit Orders, six receiving the Korea Culture and Arts Award, eight receiving the Young Artist of Today Award and five receiving the Distinguished Parents of Artists Award. Yun, a leading Korean poet during the Japanese colonial rule, left behind works that expressed national suffering and resistance through lyrical language and personal reflection. Kim devoted more than seven decades to writing poetry and essays, producing more than 1,000 poems and contributing to the development of modern Korean literature

Oct 26, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Yun Dong-ju, Kim Nam-jo receive Korea's highest cultural honor
Others

Seoul to invite rail officials from 6 nations to share transit expertise

Seoul is bringing railway officials from six countries to Korea this week in a bid to turn its urban transit expertise into overseas contracts for Korean rail operators and manufacturers. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday that 12 officials from Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Egypt and Malaysia are taking part in its five-day international training program, which runs through Friday. The program is the largest of its kind since 2020, according to the city, and brings together officials from countries pursuing major urban railway projects. Rather than limiting the visit to policy discussions, Seoul has designed the program to expose participants to the technology and operations behind its transit network, from traffic management to train manufacturing. The itinerary includes the Seoul Transport Operation and Information Service, known as TOPIS, Seoul Metro, the Shinbundang Line and the Ui-Sinseol Line, as well as the Korea Railroad Research Institute and a railway vehicle manufacturing plant. The visits are intended to give participants a broad view of Korea’s

Oct 26, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Seoul to invite rail officials from 6 nations to share transit expertise
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