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LG Energy Solution Sets Up Special Advisory Council of Global Artificial Intelligence Experts

PR NewswireJun 12, 2022

New council established to drive company's digital innovation and promote manufacturing intelligence Five global AI experts specializing in various crucial sectors assigned to spearhead key technological tasks SEOUL, South Korea , June 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Energy Solution (LGES; KRX: 373220) today announced the launch of its Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Joining for...
[Shangri-La Dialogue] S.Korea, US, Japan to regularize trilateral exercises against NK missile threats

DefenseJun 11, 2022

SINGAPORE -- South Korea, Japan and the US on Saturday agreed to regularize and publicize trilateral missile defense exercises and come up with further trilateral actions to deter North Korea’s ballistic missile threats. South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup had the 50-minute trilateral talks with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi at noon local ti...
[Shangri-La Dialogue] S.Korea, US commit to flesh out plans to step up military exercises

DefenseJun 11, 2022

SINGAPORE -- The South Korean and the US defense chiefs on Saturday agreed to flesh out their plans to step up combined military exercises and enhance the viability of the US extended deterrence against North Korea’s mounting threats. South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup had his first in-person encounter with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in the morning on the sidelines of the three-da...
Summer is for buckwheat noodles

Food&BeverageJun 11, 2022

Bongpyeong Ongsimi Memilkalguksu, located across from Gongdeok Elementary School in Mapo-gu, is a familiar chain restaurant among people who love ongsimi, potato dough soup, and kalguksu. The place is named after Bongpyeong-myeon in Gangwon Province. Memil kalguksu is a hot noodle soup dish. For those who are familiar with kalguksu, Korean knife-cut noodle soup, memil kalguksu is the buckwheat...
[Visual History of Korea] Jeju island‘s volcanic lava caves reveal Earth’s history

CultureJun 11, 2022

Residents used to sacrifice a 15-year-old girl each year to appease a giant snake which they believed lived in the Gimnyeongsagul lava cave and would destroy local farm fields. In 1513, during the Joseon period, a newly dispatched military administrator named Seo Ryun led a military expedition to rescue a young woman from the deadly ritual by slaying the gigantic serpent. On the way back to his...
[Temple to Table] Out of grass and flowers that bud in spring: Hwajeon with spring flowers

Food&BeverageJun 11, 2022

In spring she picked flowers and made hwajeon, pancakes decorated with edible flowers. She also made mandu, Korean dumplings, by preparing fillings with seasonal vegetables. She also made tea from plants she gathered from the mountains and fields, including shoots of winged spindle, ginger, chocolate vine, mugwort and dandelions. Her tea trays required much devoted labor and word of them spread. ...
[Weekender] Metaverse technologies bring health care to doorsteps

TechnologyJun 11, 2022

“The current Meta CPR 1.0 is for conducting CPR on adults. But other countries have shown interests in teaching young couples how to properly conduct CPR for children. South Korea’s police and firefighter authorities have asked for ways to educate more trainees with our solution as the current head-mounted display only allows for one-on-one training,” he said. The official added that the company...
Young adult novel remembers writer Li Mirok’s life

BooksJun 11, 2022

A Korean Australian writer’s novel for young adults takes inspiration from an educator and independence activist who spent much of his life in exile in the early 1900s. The book, titled “The Young Resistance and Korean Language School,” gives us a look at Li Mirok -- a writer and educator who is perhaps known better in Germany, where he spent rest of his life since 1922. Li published several bo...
[Scholars and their Spaces] ‘Ye’ makes others comfortable

CultureJun 11, 2022

The power of the dynasty’s ruling elite also took a hit after the Japanese invasion of 1592 and the Manchu war of 1636. Throughout these troubled times, the scholars at the Donamseowon Confucian Academy, led by Kim and his son, suggested “ye,” or Korean courtesy, as a solution to a chaotic society. Kim’s standard of “ye” stressed flexibility, rather than the formality of showing feelings such as...
'The Roundup' tops 10 mln admissions in S. Korea

FilmJun 11, 2022

The Korean action comedy "The Roundup" topped 10 million admissions in local theaters on Saturday. The sequel to the 2017 hit movie "The Outlaws" had set the record by 1:50 p.m., according to its local distributor, ABO Entertainment Co., based on a real-time box-office tally from the Korean Film Council. It exceeded the mark on the 25th day since its release on May 18 and became the 28th film t...
BTS' new album 'Proof' sold over 2m on 1st day of release

K-popJun 11, 2022

K-pop supergroup BTS' new album "Proof" sold over 2 million copies on the first day of its release, its entertainment agency said Saturday. The anthology album had sold a total of 2.15 million copies as of 11 p.m. Friday, just 10 hours after it became available in the market, according to Hanteo Chart, a South Korean music chart. It was the second time that the boy band's album sales surpassed ...
S. Korean, US defense chiefs discuss stronger deterrence against NK threats

North KoreaJun 11, 2022

The defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States held talks on the margins of a security forum in Singapore on Saturday to discuss joint deterrence against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, Seoul's defense ministry said. Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup and his U.S. counterpart, Lloyd Austin, met on the margins of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue amid concerns about the possibility of...
S. Korea to actively consider economic support for Ukraine

Diplomatic CircuitJun 11, 2022

South Korea will actively consider joining a global move to support the war-torn Ukraine by participating in multilateral development banks, a Seoul senior official has said. During the annual meeting of the OECD Council at the Ministerial Level, which ran in Paris from Thursday to Friday, First Vice Finance Minister Bang Ki-sun said the South Korean government will look at the option of using l...
N. Korean leader urges stronger national defense; no new direct message toward US, S. Korea

North KoreaJun 11, 2022

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for stronger "self-defense" measures to tackle "very serious" security challenges as he presided over a key ruling party session earlier this week, Pyongyang's state media reported Saturday. But there was no specific message issued from the fifth enlarged plenary meeting of the party's eighth Central Committee with regard to the possibility of the secretive...
New virus cases under 10,000 for 2nd day

Social affairsJun 11, 2022

South Korea's new COVID-19 cases remained below 10,000 for the second consecutive day on Saturday while the country is mulling eased antivirus restrictions to restore pre-pandemic normalcy. The country added 8,422 new infections, including 64 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,200,346, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Saturday's figure was down fr...