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Seoul National University is the first to use Korean version of Gradescope by Turnitin

PR NewswireMay 9, 2022

Popular for helping educators cut grading time in half and have more time for teaching, the software now supports Korean-language content SEOUL, South Korea, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the successful English software release in South Korea in September 2021 , edtech solution Gradescope by Turnitin has now launched its Korean language interface. For more than two decades, Tur...
[Adam B. Schiff] What I learned in Kyiv

ViewpointsMay 9, 2022

I returned Monday from traveling to Ukraine with a congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top national security team in Kyiv for almost three hours. Zelenskyy is a remarkably impressive wartime leader. His grasp of the military, civilian and humanitarian issues facing his country is extraordinary. Although it was ou...
[Flynn Coleman] The race to save Ukrainian culture, in the real world and online

ViewpointsMay 9, 2022

In the first few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Lilia Onyshchenko was hastily directing teams of workers throughout Lviv’s Market Square, which dates to the 16th century. As head of historical preservation in Lviv, she is on a mission to safeguard her city’s invaluable historical treasures from Russia’s unprovoked aggression. Lviv is filled with Byzantine- and Baroque-style churches and arch...
[Editorial] Shameful self-praise

EditorialMay 9, 2022

When President Moon Jae-in took office in May 2017 on the strength of citizens’ anger following the ouster of then President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, public expectations were sky-high. People expected Moon to open a new era of transparent, democratic and communication-based presidential leadership, in contrast to his predecessor’s closed and isolated style. At the time,...
Kim Ji-ha, poet and democracy activist, dies at 81

PeopleMay 8, 2022

Renowned poet Kim Ji-ha, a dissident figure who spoke out against the military dictatorship of the 1960s and ‘70s, died Sunday at the age of 81. Kim had been suffering from an unspecified illness for the past year before he passed away at his home in Wonju, Gangwon Province, according to the Toji Cultural Foundation. The foundation, which supports Korean writers and scholars, was named after the...
Extra budget for small businesses to be Yoon’s first economic move

EconomyMay 8, 2022

The incoming Yoon Suk-yeol government is set to reveal an extra budget later this week as the president-elect had promised to support the self-employed and small businesses that COVID-19 hit the hardest. Yoon takes office Tuesday. “The budget will be rolled out at the earliest day possible once the new government takes over,” said Choo Kyung-ho, Yoon’s finance minister nominee who will double as...
NFT 101: Gangdong Arts Center seeks to educate public on NFT art

Arts&DesignMay 8, 2022

Illustrator Mr.Misang is one of the first Korean NFT artists to have success in the global art market. His animated “Modern Life is Rubbish” series became a big hit on global NFT art platforms last year. Among the participating artists are Dorodaro, Vakki, Artnom, Blacksun, John Cook, Yongyong, GlitchOfMind, Lindsayking, maharanie, Zenavi, Holy Babies and Kim Gryun. The two other sessions, “NFT...
[Newsmaker] Iconic Korean movie star Kang Soo-youn dies at 55

FilmMay 8, 2022
S. Korea‘s daily COVID-19 cases increase week-on-week for the first time in 6 weeks

Social affairsMay 8, 2022

South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases for Saturday rebounded week-on-week for the first time in around six weeks, government data showed Sunday. According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, the country added 40,064 new COVID-19 infections during the 24 hours of Saturday. The total caseload came to 17,544,398. The daily figure on Saturday was up from 37,771 cases on Saturday a week...
African activist Cecile Ndjebet wins 2022 Global Forest Championship Award

Foreign affairsMay 8, 2022

Cecile Ndjebet, an international women’s rights advocate from Cameroon, has won the 2022 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award, the Korea Forest Service said Sunday. The award ceremony was held on Thursday, as part of the 15th World Forestry Congress in Seoul. This year’s award was given to Ndjebet in recognition of her decadeslong efforts in promoting women’s participation in forest preservat...
[From the Scene] Recycling used EV batteries for Jeju carbon neutrality

IndustryMay 8, 2022

Those with lower performance are disassembled into modules and those modules also go into the inspection rooms for performance testing. Battery packs are made with 10 modules which are made with 10 cells. Modules are reused to make small electric power storage systems, wheelchair batteries, electric bicycles, and e-scooters. The rest are sold to private companies that extract rare materials su...
Number of ‘supercars’ worth W300m quadruples over 6 years

TransportMay 8, 2022

Over 5,000 “supercars,” those worth around 300 million won ($230,000), have been registered as corporate cars in South Korea, according to the National Assembly Budget Office on Sunday. The data showed that the number of super expensive imported cars bought by corporations have quadrupled over the past six years from 1,172 to 5,075 units. Since 2016, the number of corporate supercars have shown...
Moon leaves behind mixed results despite high hopes that fueled his win 5 years ago

PoliticsMay 8, 2022

President Moon Jae-in will serve his last day as president Monday, leaving behind a mixed batch of results contrary to the high hopes South Koreans had when he took office five years after the country impeached its president for the first time in history. Moon and members of his Cabinet will spend their final day in office paying respects at the Seoul National Cemetery and the burial site of ind...
Political heavyweights stage comeback in parliamentary by-elections

PoliticsMay 8, 2022

Attention is also high for the Seongnam constituency, which has been left vacant after Kim Eun-hye decided to bear the People Power Party’s flag to bid for the Gyeonggi Province governor post. Meanwhile, Ahn, who served as the head of the presidential transition team for Yoon until Friday, also on Sunday declared he would run for the parliamentary seat upon “sincere requests from inside and outs...
Pyongyang ramps up provocations in run-up to Yoon’s inauguration

North KoreaMay 8, 2022

North Korea is ramping up provocations in the run-up to the inauguration of Yoon Suk-yeol, who is more hawkish towards North Korea than the outgoing president, on Tuesday. On Saturday, the North fired an apparent submarine-launched ballistic missile in the waters off its east coast, three days after launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. According to the South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of ...