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Seoul will be the first city to enter the metaverse
Facebook, now called Meta, is not the only entity currently working to develop its metaverse. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its intention to create Metaverse Seoul.
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BIG's floating city to be built in south korea as part of UN-backed plan
the south korean city of busan, UN-habitat and OCEANIX have signed a historic agreement to build the world’s first sustainable floating city prototype. the project is to be realized off the coast of busan, a city with 3.4 million residents.
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Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye to receive pardon for corruption
Moon Jae-in, her successor, will reportedly free Park from 22-year sentence after string of ailments while in jail
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South Korea Asks App Stores to Abolish 'Play-To-Earn' Crypto Games
Despite being legally dubious in the region already, the games are more popular than ever. Now authorities are asking Apple and Google to step in.
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Facial Recognition For Covid-19 Tracking In Seoul
The city of Bucheon, population 830,000, is a satellite city southwest of Seoul and part of the greater metropolitan area and the site of a pilot program to apply AI facial recognition and tracking technologies to aid Covid-19 epidemiological investigators. South Korea has been generally praised for its rapid response to coronavirus patient tracking since the beginning of the outbreak.
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Man who jumped border fence was ‘likely ex-North Korean gymnast-defector’
The defence ministry said it carried out a search operation after detecting the person over the weekend on the eastern side of the DMZ separating the two Koreas.
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From Squid Game to Hellbound: how South Korean TV took over the world
This year saw the long-awaited return of music festivals, clubs, theatres and cinema, but the biggest entertainment story of the year was arguably one that took place on the small screen. Squid Game was the global media sensation of the year, a bonafide TV hit that smashed viewership records, and was the latest South Korean cultural artefact to set the world alight after BTS, Blackpink and Parasite.
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Kim Mi-soo, Korean Actor in ‘Snowdrop,’ Dies at 29
Kim Mi-soo, a Korean actor who had a supporting role in the recent series “Snowdrop,” has died. She was 29. “Kim suddenly left us on Jan. 5,” her agency Landscape said in a statement on Wednesday. “The bereaved are deep in their sorrow at the sudden sadness. Please refrain from reporting false rumors or speculation so that the family can mourn in peace.” The agency statement was translated by Joongang Daily and gave no cause of death.
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‘Squid Game’ Makes SAG Awards History: First Foreign-Language TV Nominee
Netflix’s blockbuster original show “Squid Game” has made history at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards by becoming the first non-English-language series and first Korean series to score a nomination. “Squid Game” is up for outstanding cast in a drama series opposite “Succession,” “Yellowstone,” “The Morning Show” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The show also picked up nominations for actor in a drama series (Lee Jung-jae), actress in a drama series (Jung Ho-yeon), and stunt ensemble.
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‘Squid Game’ Star Lee Jung-Jae Signs With CAA
Lee Jung-Jae, protagonist of Netflix’s smash series Squid Game, has signed with CAA for representation as a director, producer and actor. Lee played character Seong Gi-Hun in Squid Game, the survival drama series that has garnered four Screen Actors Guild award nominations, including Male Actor in a Drama Series for Lee. This makes Lee the first male TV performer to solely earn SAG Award recognition for a fully non-English language role.
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‘Squid Game’ Cast Goes Absolutely Wild Over Historic SAG Wins
Lee Jung-Jae and Jung Ho-Yeon, two of the stars in the Netflix global sensation “Squid Game,” made history at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, becoming the first actors from a non-English language show to win in their respective categories.
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SpaceX is launching South Korea's first spy satellite in 2023
Like it or not, the threat of conflict is rising. This makes it necessary for key global players to build and maintain state-of-the-art intelligence infrastructure that can operate independently.
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South Korea is building the world’s first self-sustaining “floating city”
The trio of pre-fabricated platforms will have a combined surface area of 15.5 acres and support the full range of urban infrastructure—apartment buildings, offices, energy grids, and hydroponic farms.
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How a North Korean defector was coerced into spying for Pyongyang
A North Korean defector sentenced to over three years in prison last month for giving information to Pyongyang says he was coerced into spying for the regime.
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A Pair of Twins Grew Up in Different Countries, Then Scientists Compared Them
Researchers have taken advantage of a rare opportunity to study identical (aka monozygotic) twins who were separated early in life, before being raised in different countries by different families – and there are some surprising results to report.
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Hyundai's self-driving taxis roll out on the streets of South Korea
Automaker Hyundai and South Korean officials launched a trial service of self-driving taxis in Gangnam on Thursday, the latest step forward in the country's efforts to make autonomous vehicles an everyday reality.
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Internet Explorer gravestone goes viral in South Korea
For Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, Microsoft Corp's decision to retire its Internet Explorer web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology.
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South Korea considers law change to shorten military service for K-pop stars
South Korea is debating shortening mandatory military service for K-pop stars such as BTS from about two years to three weeks.
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South Korean rain turns roads into rivers, leaves 9 dead
Some of the heaviest rain in decades swamped South Korea’s capital region, turning Seoul’s streets into car-clogged rivers and sending floods cascading into subway stations. At least nine people were killed — some drowning in their homes — and six others were missing, with more rain forecast, officials said Tuesday.
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'The Netflix effect': Why Western women are heading to South Korea in search of love
Popular K-dramas are inspiring young women from the US and Europe to travel to South Korea.
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