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Lee proposes talks to end Korean War, build peace regime SEOUL, August 15 (AJP) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday proposed talks among the parties to formally end the Korean War.
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Korea's trade representative sacked, raising speculations SEOUL, August 15 (AJP) -South Korea abruptly dismissed its top trade negotiator on Saturday, leaving the command post for talks with Washington vacant as Seoul confronts fresh U.S. tariffs pressure to accelerate a $350 billion investment commitment and other unresolved trade disputes.
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Takaichi skips Yasukuni as ministers visit war shrine SEOUL, August 15 (AJP) - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from the diplomatically sensitive Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday.
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Chey divorce returns to court, buying time on record payout
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Korea widens nuclear export push from rules to SMRs
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MASGA gets liftoff with drones with Washington's push SEOUL, August 14 (AJP) - Washington's push to rebuild strategic industries at home while reducing dependence on China is creating new openings for South Korean companies in two seemingly different sectors: shipbuilding and drones. -
Is the Seoul stock party over or just cooling down? SEOUL, August 14 (AJP) — South Korea's KOSPI has rebounded after a heavy crash in July. But the crazy roller-coaster ride has shifted to a duller plateau, with the main drivers quietly taking a back seat. -
Colonial ghosts haunt Korea's celebrity descendants SEOUL, August 14 (AJP) — Actress Hayoung thought she was telling a family story. Speaking on television about coming from four generations of doctors, she proudly recalled a great-grandfather who had studied Western medicine in Japan. -
More Koreans see themselves as better off than Japanese SEOUL, August 14 (AJP) - South Koreans increasingly see themselves having a higher standard of living than people in Japan, a survey released ahead of Liberation Day showed.
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Why North Korean leader keeps putting his daughter in spotlight SEOUL, August 14 (AJP) - In one of the world's most closed societies like North Korea, what matters may lie in what happens before a successor is ever named. For decades, the isolated country's hereditary Kim dynasty has shown that power is not simply passed down when the previous leader dies. It has to be prepared, groomed and carefully managed to prevent any chaos. That process now appears to be underway for current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's daughter Ju-ae. In recent years by Lee Hugh
Central Asia emerges as South Korea's AI frontier
SEOUL, August 13 (AJP) -South Korea wants to become one of the world's top three artificial-intelligence powers, and Central Asia may offer something lacking at home - ample space, energy and governments willing to build the physical infrastructure that AI requires. But Seoul is arriving at a market where U.S., Gulf, Chinese and Japanese players are already staking out positions. Kazakhstan is planning a data-center zone with eventual capacity of 1 gigawatt. Uzbekistan is courting billi
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China cracks memory club, but harder test looms SEOUL, August 14 (AJP) - China's heavily government-backed chipmakers are breaking into the once-exclusive global memory club, with Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) vaulting into the world's top three NAND flash suppliers for the first time. But just as China closes the gap in manufacturing scale, artificial intelligence is moving the industry's profit pool toward a harder target. YMTC captured 14 percent of global NAND bit shipments in the second quarter, overtaking Japan
Korea takes AI race from chips to chillers
SEOUL, August 13 (AJP) - An AI agent on a laptop or smartphone may appear almost weightless. Behind every prompt, however, sit warehouses of processors and memory running around the clock — consuming enormous amounts of electricity and generating heat that must be removed before the machines can keep thinking. For South Korea, already a powerhouse in the memory chips feeding those machines, that physical burden is becoming the next AI opportunity. Samsung Electronics has already put mone
