WASHINGTON -- Former US Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert will begin working for Samsung Electronics America next month, the company said Wednesday. Lippert will head the company's Washington office as executive vice president and head of North America public affairs, starting from March 1. "Mark brings decades of public policy experience to Samsung Electronics America, as well as a deep u...

BEIJING -- South Korea collected a gold medal and a silver medal on the final day of short track speed skating at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday, a feel-good finishing touch to what began as a tumultuous event just over a week ago. Choi Min-jeong defended her gold medal in the women's 1,500m final, the very last short track race held at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing. She beat out Arianna Fontana ...

Every February, a memorial service is held in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan for 183 men who died in a 1942 coal mine disaster. Most of them were Koreans, but the Japanese government does not acknowledge they existed. Likewise, wartime Korean laborers forced to toil in gold and silver mines on the island of Sado are overlooked. On Feb. 1, Japan nominated the Sado mines for a place on the UNESCO Wor...

BEIJING -- Choi Min-jeong successfully defended her gold medal in the women’s 1,500m short track speed skating race in Beijing on Wednesday, earning her third medal in the Chinese capital in her final race here. Choi defeated Arianna Fontana of Italy for gold at Capital Indoor Stadium. Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands earned the bronze. This was South Korea’s second gold medal from short tr...

LONDON , Feb. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New website offers NFT owners the ability to keep the NFT artwork in their wallet even after they sell the asset. CloneMyNFT.com A London -based software company has just launched CloneMyNFT.com which offers NFT owners the ability to "keep their NFT artwork forever" even after they have sold it. It claims to be the world's first NFT backup service wh...

BEIJING -- South Korea grabbed silver in the men‘s 5,000m short track speed skating relay at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday for its first medal in the event since 2010. The quartet of Hwang Dae-heon, Kwak Yoon-gy, Park Jang-hyuk and Lee June-seo finished in second place behind Canada in the 45-lap race at Capital Indoor Stadium. Canada finished in 6:41.257, while South Korea ended in 6:41.679. Italy...

South Korean stocks rebounded nearly two percent Wednesday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as Ukraine tensions eased. The Korean won increased against the US dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kospi) surged 53.14 points, or 1.99 percent, to close at 2,729.68 points. Trading volume was moderate at about 415 million shares worth some 8.3 trillion won ($6.9 billion), wit...

SEOUL/CHEONAN -- The election campaign bus involved in the deaths of two campaign workers for presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo turned out to be illegally modified without the authorities’ approval, transportation ministry officials said Wednesday. The workers, a local campaign chief and a bus driver, were found unconscious inside a campaign bus in Cheonan, about 90 kilometers south of Seoul,...

YEONGDEOK -- Firefighters battled a major wildfire in the southern coastal country of Yeongdeok on Wednesday as the blaze spread to local communities, forcing the evacuation of more than 180 households. The fire started on a mountain in the county, about 350 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Tuesday. It was extinguished but reignited overnight and spread to nearby residential areas, according to...

There are some fields that previous forms of Korean diplomacy could not fully cover, but had to be dealt with. Those must be the new security and new economic issues. We are facing newly emerging security issues with roots in technological innovation -- for instance, the “fourth industrial revolution.” From 5G, quantum computers, semiconductors, and other areas, existing hegemonies face a variety...

SAN FRANCISCO , Feb. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- App Annie has changed its name to data.ai , establishing a big enterprise market opportunity: "Unified Data AI". The name reflects the company's vision to drive comprehensive digital performance with products and partnerships. data.ai is the first company to combine consumer and market data to fuel digital insights applying the power of artific...

Ong Seong-wu will meet his fans in Seoul on March 12 at his second official fan meet event in Korea. The first event was over two years ago and the singer-actor will sit down for a long talk to catch up with fans. He will also perform on stage and has prepared a special segment to make up for the long wait, said the company. The event, titled “Re:Meet,” will be broadcast live as well. ...

The feature-rich loyalty and marketing solutions portfolio from Azpiral adds to PDI's growing global presence and solution set, along with other recent acquisitions in the European market ATLANTA , Feb. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PDI ( www.pdisoftware.com ), a global provider of leading enterprise management software for the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industries, has acquired ...