South Korea plans to participate in the US-led multilateral cyber defense exercise this year for the first time, in a bid to step up cyber cooperation with the US. The South Korean military will dispatch more than 20 personnel to the Cyber Flag exercise scheduled to be held this October in Virginia, South Korea’s Defense Ministry and Rep. Kang Dae-sik of the ruling People Power Party confirmed M...

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Kakao Entertainment’s popular sports webtoon “The Gift” is coming to the small screen. “The Gift,” a webtoon series written and drawn by author J1212, centers around baseball coach Jung Min-yong who has a supernatural power to rate the level and ability of baseball players. Min-yong starts coaching at a high school and scouts Tae-hoon as a first team pitcher, seeing in him potential to become a...

The series will be the third and fourth projects to emerge from the two companies’ collaboration, following the most recent release, “The Batman: Wayne Family’s Adventure.” “The Batman: Wayne Family’s Adventure” series garnered over 1 million subscribers and had a 9.76-point rating on Naver Webtoon’s English platform after its premiere in September 2021. “Our collaboration with DC has garnered ...

BTS member V has visited Paris in an apparent move to start his individual activities after the K-pop boyband announced a plan to take a collective break. According to industry sources Monday, V, or also known as Kim Tae-hyung, is on a trip to France for a fashion show on the invitation of designer Hedi Slimane for Celine. V attended the fashion show at the Palais de Tokyo, together with Korean...

A large-scale police search is underway for a family of three that went mysteriously missing on a remote island last month. Ten-year-old Cho Yu-na and her parents in their 30s went missing in Wando, South Jeolla Province, from May 31 after they entered the island in a silver-colored Audi sedan two days earlier. The family stayed at a guesthouse near a beach on the island after arriving, but cel...

The father and son worked to spread traditional metal engraving techniques that were on the brink of disappearing. Making bold innovations such as using tinted aluminum sheets rather than expensive silver, their remarkable skill and artistry have been recognized throughout the country. More than 50 pieces from the two masters are on display at the exhibition, as well as their workspaces which co...

About 4 out of 10 companies in South Korea saw their raw material prices jump 20 percent or more this year amid fast-rising oil and commodity bills, a central bank survey showed Monday. According to the survey by the Bank of Korea on 570 firms, 40.3 percent said so, with 8.1 percent saying that the prices jumped 50 percent or higher compared with a year earlier. With the raw material price incr...

A top official of the Bank of Korea (BOK) will attend a meeting of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) this week in the Netherlands and discuss global cooperation, Seoul's central bank said Monday. Bank of Korea (BOK) Deputy Gov. Lee Seung-heon will depart for the European country on Tuesday to join the general assembly of the FSB in Amsterdam on Thursday, according to the BOK. The FSB is a con...

South Korea could observe the first Constitution Day next month without a National Assembly speaker in 24 years, as the legislative branch remains stalled from rival parties failing to reach agreement on who should take key legislative posts. The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea on Sunday criticized the ruling People Power Party for rejecting its offer to let the People Power Party take...

Petal Search aims to provide search services anytime, anywhere SHENZHEN, China , June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Petal Search has been announced as the winner of iF DESIGN AWARD 2022 under the User Experience (UX) discipline. Petal Search wins iF Award 2022 Founded in 1953, iF Design has become a global symbol of excellent design, and the annual iF DESIGN AWARD is one of the most prestigious ...