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Kim Sung-jae The author is a business administration professor at Furman University and author of “The Story of Tariffs” (2025). On Oct. 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel to reclaim the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights lost in the 1967 war. The conflict, which erupted on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, quickly took an unexpected turn. Israel, accustomed to swift victories in earlier wars, had underestimated...
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LG Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, left, inspects pouch-type battery cells used in energy storage system (ESS) battery packs at Vertech, LG Energy Solution's North American ESS system integration subsidiary, on March 30. [LG] LG Group said on Thursday that Chairman Koo Kwang-mo recently visited key energy facilities in the United States and Brazil as part of efforts to accelerate business expansion, positioning the sites as critical infrastructure in the AI era. Koo began...
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Ice floes drift along the Imjin River near a village in Kaepung County, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea, as seen from the Odusan Unification Observatory in Paju, Gyeonggi, on Feb. 8. [YONHAP] Police launched an investigation after a severely decomposed body was found in the Imjin River near the North Korean border in Paju, Gyeonggi, on Thursday. Authorities discovered the body, believed to be male, at around 9:20 a.m. in the river in Naepo-ri, Munsan-eup acco...
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Boy band iKON [143 ENTERTAINMENT] Boy band iKON will launch a new world tour, “Fourever,” beginning in Seoul this May, its agency 143 Entertainment said Thursday. The tour will open with concerts in Seoul on May 16 and 17 before continuing to Tokyo; Jakarta, Indonesia; Bangkok; Manila; Taipei, Taiwan; Singapore; and Kobe, Japan. Additional dates in Europe and the Americas are also planned, with more cities to be announced later. Related ArticleiKON to hold...
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Comedian and broadcaster Shin Dong-yeob, left, actor-singer Bae Suzy, center and actor Park Bo-gum [CP ENTERTAINMENT/MANAGEMENT SOOP/THE BLACK LABEL] Comedian and broadcaster Shin Dong-yeob, actor-singer Bae Suzy and actor Park Bo-gum will return as hosts of the 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards, organizers announced Thursday. The three will host the ceremony on May 8 at 7:50 p.m. at Coex Hall D in Gangnam District, southern Seoul. This will mark the eighth time the trio...
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SEOUL, April 2 (Yonhap) -- The defense ministry said Thursday it has selected th...
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Sell-side trading curbs were activated on program trades for both the Kospi and Kosdaq on Thursday afternoon amid a panic-sell spree from investors following U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to “obliterate” Iran. Futures trading was temporarily halted on the sell side of the Kospi at around 2:47 p.m. The trading curb, known locally as a sidecar, was also activated for the Kosdaq at around 2:35 p.m. the same day. Related ArticleKospi drops below 5,300 a...
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SEOUL, April 2 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's "irrefutable" unorthodo...
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A satellite image taken by U.S. satellite company Vantor on March 28 shows the area around Nampho Dockyard. The circles indicate North Korean cranes and ships. [YU YONG-WEON] North Korea appears to be accelerating construction of its third 5,000-ton destroyer, a sign that state leader Kim Jong-un’s push to build a navy with an independent nuclear strike capability is beginning to take shape in earnest. The construction can also be read as part of an effort to qu...
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A promotional leaflet for the study abroad agency that Park Gwan-woo used to request help with his visa application [SCREEN CAPTURE] Many people trying to study or train abroad via study abroad agencies have ended up wasting their time and money after the agencies mishandled their cases, with some even becoming illegal residents overseas. Critics of the process argue that clients are being left in a regulatory blind spot because there is no system in place to over...
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A screen in Hana Bank's trading room shows the Kospi trading on April 2 as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address on the war against Iran. [NEWS1] Shares reversed early gains and fell more than 3 percent late on Thursday morning after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of imminent military action against Iran, raising fears of a prolonged conflict and rattling investor sentiment. The benchmark Kospi fell 191.02 points, or 3.49 percent, to 5,287.68 as of...
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Four generations of a Marine family are seen in this photo shared on April 2. From left are Kim Jae-chan of the first generation, Kim Eun-il of the second, Kim Cheol-min of the third and Pvt. Kim Jun-young of the the fourth. [MARINE CORPS] POHANG, North Gyeongsang — For the first time in its 77-year history, the Korean Marine Corps saw the birth of a four-generation Marine family as Pvt. Kim Jun-young became the fourth-generation Marine of his family during a training comp...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversees a ground test of a high-thrust solid-fuel missile engine using a composite carbon fiber material in a photo shared on March 29. [NEWS1] North Korea on Thursday condemned a recent United Nations resolution on human rights violations in the country, calling it a "grave political provocation." The reaction came after the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council adopted its annual resolution on Pyongyang's human rights by consensu...
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Verst Logistics in Hebron, Kentucky, on March 11. [AP/YONHAP] U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Korea was "not helpful" to the United States, noting the presence of American troops "in harm's way" in the Asian country "right next to a nuclear force," as he highlighted the need for countries to secure the crucial Strait of Hormuz. Trump made the remarks during an annual Easter luncheon at the White House, singlin...
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Kim Sung-jae The author is a business administration professor at Furman University and author of “The Story of Tariffs” (2025). On Oct. 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel to reclaim the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights lost in the 1967 war. The conflict, which erupted on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, quickly took an unexpected turn. Israel, accustomed to swift victories in earlier wars, had underestimated...
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Hao Nan The author is a research fellow with the Charhar Institute and a 2025 Korean Peninsula specialist fellow with the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, When the White House reinstated U.S. President Donald Trump’s Beijing trip for May 14 and 15 after delaying it because of the Iran war, it showed that the diplomatic calendar is starting to bend around the costs of a conflict that no major power can fully control. Around the same time, the...
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John Everad The author is the former British ambassador to North Korea. I took a particular interest in the visit to North Korea by Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, on March 25 and 26, as I have served as an ambassador to both countries. Two questions arise from the visit. First is the purpose of Lukashenko’s trip. The friendship treaty signed by the two leaders has not been released, though it reportedly covers areas...
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Yeh Young-june The author is the head of the editorial board at the JoongAng Ilbo. Two long-standing taboos in Middle East conflict appear to have been broken in the Iran war. The first is that the United States and Israel do not fight together. Historically, that pattern held. During the four Arab-Israeli wars, Washington supported Israel indirectly but avoided direct involvement. Conversely, Israel did not join U.S.-led wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. Thi...
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U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and first lady Melania Trump arrive to attend the opening night of the musical ″Chicago″ at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on March 31. [AP/YONHAP] Hopes are rising for an end to the Iran war, which was triggered by U.S. and Israeli strikes in February. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, “All I have to do is leave Iran. We will leave soon,” and indicated that military operations could cease...
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SEOUL/WASHINGTON, April 1 (Yonhap) -- Senior diplomats from South Korea and the ...