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Sat, January 16, 2021 | 05:50

Military parade pressures Biden to take North Korea seriously

North Korea used a Thursday evening military parade marking its latest party congress as a fully calibrated warning to the incoming Joe Biden administration in an attempt to keep its focus on its nuclear program and extract concessions from the United States, according to diplomatic experts. On the occasion of the eighth congress of the ruling Workers' Party that ended on Tuesday, the Kim Jong-un regime staged a military parade in Pyongyang, highlighted by the unveiling of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that was labeled as the Pukguksong-5, possibly an upgraded version of the Pukguksong-4 that was showcased at another parade in October to mark the party's 75th founding anniversary.

Korea, Japan urged to take next steps after court ruling

After a Korean local court's recent ruling ordered the Japanese government to ...

Bank of Korea warns against steep rise in leveraged lending

The Bank of Korea (BOK) warned Friday against a steep rise in leveraged lendin...

Unnecessary random testing causes burden for quarantine work

As the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, more and more local governments, institutions and companies are urging residents and ...

New virus cases in 500s for 4th day

Book review: Authors explore unconventional superpowers

If there were heroes in our time who remain unseen and marginalized instead of being under the constant spotlight, in what way and form co...

Debate intensifies over pardons of 2 ex-presidents

The possibility of presidential pardons for two jailed former presidents has become a hot issue in Korean politics after the sentence for ...

'Parasite' director Bong Joon-ho to head Venice film festival jury

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, whose "Parasite" movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture last year, was named Friday as jury president of the 2021 Venice Film Festival.

Doosan Group's successful restructuring is now up to Hyundai Heavy

Doosan Group's efforts to sell its construction equipment unit Doosan Infracore and finish its restructuring program now hinge on Infracore's preferred bidder Hyundai Heavy Indus...

Biden picks familiar faces for top roles at FEMA, CIA

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator and has tappe...

LVMH to raise prices of its luxury brands

Only a week after LVMH raised prices of Louis Vuitton products, the French multinational corporation decided to increase the product prices of other affiliated luxury brands such...

'Pandemic worsened gender inequality,' says Korea Image Awards winner Delphine O

Delphine O, left, the secretary general of the United Nations Generation Equality Forum, received the Korea Image Stepping Stone Bridge Award at the 2021 Korea Image Awards held ...

iKON's Bobby to make solo comeback

K-pop boy group iKON member Kim Ji-won, better known by his stage name Bobby, will make his return as a solo artist, the singer's agency YG Entertainment said Friday. The detaile...

Kia removes 'Motors' from its corporate name

Kia has removed “Motors” from its corporate name as the firm attempts to break away from its traditional manufacturing-driven business model, the company announced, Friday.

Coupang to change landscape of logistics market

Coupang got the green light on Wednesday to run its own parcel delivery service. With the approval from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the company will start...

Coupang Eats hot on heels of rival Yogiyo

Mirae Asset founder shares long-term investment insights on YouTube

Mirae Asset Financial Group founder Park Hyeon-joo, who is also global investment strategy officer (GISO) of the group's brokerage arm Mirae Asset Daewoo, made a rare appearance ...

Chang Uc-chin's love for family, nature revisited

Artist Chang Uc-chin (1917-90) is one of the most popular Korean modern painters, best known for pursuing childlike innocence throughout his career. Gallery Hyundai is presenting...

Quake in Indonesia's Sulawesi kills at least 10, injures hundreds

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island killed at least 10 people and injured hundreds on Friday, with the country's meteorological agency warning of the risk o...

Philippines' Duterte says presidency not a job for a woman

Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday declared that the presidency was no job for a woman because of their emotional differences to men, and dismissed speculation that hi...

Xiaomi, CNOOC, Skyrizon blacklisted in US

The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China's third-largest national oil company for alleged military links, heaping pressure on Beijing i...

Gov't replaces top envoy to Nigeria amid unfair hiring investigation

The foreign ministry appointed a new ambassador to Nigeria on Friday, replacing the former envoy under a probe over alleged misconduct in the hiring of an ex-embassy employee. Ki...

Turkey starts mass COVID-19 vaccination with Chinese jab

Turkey began administering COVID-19 shots developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd to health workers on Thursday, as it vaccinated more than 285,000 people as part of a nationwid...

Pope Francis, ex-pope Benedict get virus vaccines: Vatican

Film 'Minari' to hit local theaters in March

Director Lee Isaac Chung's award-winning film “Minari” is set to open in local theaters in March. Pancinema, the distributor of the film, confirmed its release Friday and also in...

Asian shares follow Wall St lower as traders mull Biden plan

Asian shares fell Friday after a worse-than-expected U.S. jobs report and a late slide in several Big Tech stocks left major indexes lower on Wall Street.

China puts 20,000 villagers in central quarantine over virus risk

China has sent over 20,000 rural residents living in the epicentre of the country's latest virus outbreak to state-run quarantine facilities, as Beijing on Friday reported the wo...

Head of commerce chamber asks court for leniency in Samsung heir's bribery case

The head of South Korea's leading business lobby group on Friday sent a letter to a Seoul court asking for leniency in the upcoming sentencing of the Samsung Group heir in a brib...

Hana Bank pushes for English-language documentation

Hana Bank will introduce documents written in both English and Korean in the latter half of 2021, as part of a group-wide globalization vision, the lender said Friday.

Koo Kwang-mo's 'New LG' initiative pays off

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo's “New LG” initiative has found great synergy and success across the diverse businesses of the conglomerate. Since Koo took the helm of the corpora...

Why treatments unlikely to be 'game changer' in COVID-19 battle

Celltrion has revealed positive Phase 2 clinical trial results for its COVID-19 treatment Regkirona, also known as CT-P59, raising expectations that the firm will get conditional...

AI developer to discard data used in controversial 'female' chatbot

The South Korean developer of a controversial chatbot said Friday it will discard all data and learning algorithms used in training the artificial intelligence (AI) platform amid...

Controversial chatbot leaves lessons on AI use ethics

Calls mounting to punish deepfake porn distributors

Calls are mounting for the punishment of producers and distributors of deepfake porn, manipulated pornographic videos and photos, involving female celebrities without their conse...

North Korea to hold marathon 'virtually'

North Korea will hold its annual international marathon event this year ― virtually ― according to the official website of the competition and Koryo Tours, the official event par...

Ex-BIGBANG member Seungri indicted for mobilizing gang members to threaten people

Seungri, the disgraced former member of K-pop boy band BIGBANG, has been additionally indicted for allegedly mobilizing gang members to threaten people he got into a fight with a...

UN Asia-Pacific fund to support female entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia

The U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has teamed up with the U.N. Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to launch a fund supporting female entrepren...

ASEAN forum to focus on sustainable infrastructure, digital innovation

The ASEAN-Korea Centre will host an online forum, Jan. 19, on the topics of sustainable infrastructure and digital innovation as part of efforts to help the 10 ASEAN member count...

BLACKPINK's Jennie gets 600 million YouTube views with debut single 'Solo'

Jennie, the singer-rapper of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has earned over 600 million views on YouTube with her 2018 hit song "Solo," her agency said Friday. The music video for h...

Gov't seeks redevelopment projects to supply more public houses in Seoul

South Korea plans to supply more public housing units in Seoul through redevelopment projects, the finance minister said Friday, in the latest move to expand home supply to stabi...

Video

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Auto

Korea to invest heavily in autonomous driving projects

Hyundai Motor will stop developing new diesel engines

Hyundai Avante wins 2021 North American Car of the Year Award

GM launches 'Everybody In' campaign aimed at zero carbon

Why Hyundai is contemplating over partnership with Apple

Hyundai Motor aims to co-develop electric car with Apple

Twitter CEO admits banning Trump sets dangerous precedent

Samsung rolls out new 108-megapixel image sensor

Samsung unveils Galaxy S21

KT's presence at hotels grows with AI

LG CNS promotes digital transformation

[Reporter's notebook] Platform giants may need to rethink strategy

Finance

'Stock investment rational choice amid low-interest rate'

'Rapid increase in household debt may trigger gov't fiscal crisis'

Bank of Korea keeps key rate at record low as pandemic persists

President's fund pick draws investor attention

Will Korean bank stocks bounce back on blue wave?

Banks' household loans jump in 2020

Entertainment

Film director says theme of universal humanity in 'Minari' resonates with American audience

K-pop star IU to drop new single 'Celebrity' this month

Chinese money flows into Korean culture industry amid streaming war

'The Penthouse: War in Life' season 2 set to air Feb. 19

[INTERVIEW] Gugak seeks breakthrough with launch of music archive

BTS wins 6 prizes at 2021 Gaon Chart Music Awards

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Editorial

Precondition of special pardons

Seoul's top court Thursday confirmed a 20-year prison term for former Presiden...

Unemployment shock

South Korea saw nearly 220,000 jobs last year disappear from 2019, the largest...

Columns

Freedom to inspire or incite?

For the U.S., the worst is yet to come, and that's not just over the few days befor...

Shameful political legacy

The Republic of Korea has a shameful political legacy: All 11 former presidents liv...

Thoughts of the Times

Guilty in Korea

Around one year ago, I published a few articles here about the absurd criminal tria...

North Korea seen staging military parade: source

Military parade pressures Biden to take North Korea seriously

North Korea to hold marathon 'virtually'

Concerns arising over Biden's national security team

Time to shift focus on arms control with North Korea: experts

Possibility of 2021 Moon-Kim summit drawing attention

Vice FM calls for Qatar's support for release of seized Korean ship,...

Korea, Japan urged to take next steps after court ruling

Debate intensifies over pardons of 2 ex-presidents

Unnecessary random testing causes burden for quarantine work

UN Asia-Pacific fund to support female entrepreneurs in Southeast As...

ASEAN forum to focus on sustainable infrastructure, digital innovati...

Korea to invest heavily in autonomous driving projects

Head of commerce chamber asks court for leniency in Samsung heir's b...

Koo Kwang-mo's 'New LG' initiative pays off

LVMH to raise prices of its luxury brands

Doosan Group's successful restructuring is now up to Hyundai Heavy

Kia removes 'Motors' from its corporate name

The Marianas offers nature-friendly activities from sea to sky

'Pandemic worsened gender inequality,' says Korea Image Awards winne...

Book review: Authors explore unconventional superpowers

Chang Uc-chin's love for family, nature revisited

VANK points out cultural, historical distortions in overseas travel ...

Gov't to fund billions in pandemic-struck culture, sports, tourism i...

Traditional New Year gifts in Joseon

The nightmare born when technology took the place of science

Toddler's death: Apologies and then what?

Exploring a Seoul winter in the 1880s

Bulls, butchers and death: Plenty to beef about in Joseon Korea

Noisy, staggering start to 1891 New Year in Jemulpo

Second impeachment

Precondition of special pardons

Guilty in Korea

Unemployment shock

Debate over short selling

Capitol Hill and 'production' of crowd

A legend returns to the K-League

Tommy Fleetwood tapped to be TAG Heuer ambassador

IOC, Japan press ahead with Tokyo Games

Reigning South Korean football MVP joins Chinese club

'Not acceptable': Australia's long battle with racism in sports

80% citizens want Tokyo Games cancelled or delayed: survey

China's Xi pens letter to Starbucks tycoon to promote trade

China puts 20,000 villagers in central quarantine over virus risk

Biden picks familiar faces for top roles at FEMA, CIA

Quake in Indonesia's Sulawesi kills at least 10, injures hundreds

Philippines' Duterte says presidency not a job for a woman

Pope Francis, ex-pope Benedict get virus vaccines: Vatican

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