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  Air Busan Delivers Lunar New Year Care Kits to Residents Near Gimhae Airport Air Busan said Wednesday it held a Lunar New Year sharing event Tuesday for residents living in noise-mitigation areas near Gimhae Airport. Air Busan employees visited senior centers and homes in the area, delivering essential-goods kits to about 100 older residents and spending time talking with them. The kits included daily necessities such as shampoo, detergent, toothpaste and toothbrushes. The airline said the effort focused on neighborhoods near Gimhae Airport designated for noise co February 12, 2026
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  James Van Der Beek of 'Dawson's Creek' Dies at 48 Actor James Van Der Beek, best known for playing Dawson on the hit U.S. TV drama “Dawson’s Creek,” died Tuesday, local time. He was 48. His family said on his official Instagram account, “Beloved James Van Der Beek passed away peacefully this morning,” adding that he “never lost courage, faith and kindness until the very end.” The New York Times reported that Van Der Beek had been battling stage 3 colon cancer since being diagnosed in 2024. Born in 1977 in Cheshire, Connecticut, he move February 12, 2026
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  Renault Korea’s Busan Plant Tops 4 Million Vehicles, Expands Role as Global Hub 르노코리아는 지난 2000년 국내 시장 출범 이래 26년 만에 부산공장에서 누적 생산 400만대를 돌파했다고 12일 밝혔다. 르노코리아는 부산공장이 르노그룹 내 D·E 세그먼트 생산을 맡는 글로벌 허브로, 품질 경쟁력을 인정받고 있다고 밝혔다. 부산공장은 국내 약 220만대, 해외 약 180만대 등 총 400만대 이상을 출고했다. 부산공장에서 가장 많이 생산된 차량은 중형 세단 SM5로, 총 95만4000대가 생산됐다. SM3는 80만5000대, 닛산 로그는 58만5000대가 생산됐다. 니콜라 파리 르노코리아 사장은 기념 행사에서 "부산공장에서 February 12, 2026
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  South Korea’s Jeong Seung-gi opens Olympic skeleton bid; women’s curling debuts vs. U.S. South Korea’s top skeleton racer Jeong Seung-gi, often described as the successor to Yoon Sung-bin, begins his push for a first Olympic medal on Thursday night. Jeong is scheduled to compete in runs one and two of the men’s skeleton on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Korea time at the Cortina Sliding Center in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, at the 2026 Milano-Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics. Skeleton standings are decided by combined times over four runs across two days. Jeong finished 10th at the 20 February 12, 2026
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  South Korea’s Lee Chae Woon reaches Olympic men’s halfpipe final in 9th South Korean snowboard prospect Lee Chae Woon of Kyung Hee University has reached the Olympic men’s halfpipe final, a first for South Korea in the event. Lee scored 82 points on Wednesday in qualifying at Livigno Snow Park in Livigno, Italy, placing ninth among 25 riders at the 2026 Milano-Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics. The result put him into the final reserved for the top 12. It is the first time since Kim Ho Jun’s debut at the 2010 Vancouver Games that South Korea will h February 12, 2026
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  South Korea’s Gu Gyeong-min Misses Medal in Olympic Men’s 1,000; Hungary’s Kim Min-seok Also Comes Up Short South Korea’s Gu Gyeong-min fell short of a medal in the men’s 1,000 meters in speed skating at the 2026 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics. Gu finished in 1 minute, 8.53 seconds in the fourth pairing at the Milan Speed Skating Arena in Milan, Italy, on Wednesday (Korea time). Skating alongside Norway’s Bjorn Magnussen, Gu opened with a strong first lap of 41.12 seconds and briefly led the overall standings after his race. His time was soon surpassed by skaters in the fift February 12, 2026
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  South Korea’s Abakumova Places 63rd in Women’s 15km Biathlon at Milan-Cortina Games Naturalized South Korean biathlete Ekaterina Abakumova finished in the lower half of the field in her third Olympic appearance. Abakumova, 35, placed 63rd among 90 starters in the women’s 15-kilometer individual at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Tuesday (Korean time) at the Biathlon Arena in Antholz, Italy. She finished in 47 minutes, 18.2 seconds. She missed three targets — once in prone shooting and twice standing — hurting her overall time. Abakumova, a former Russi February 12, 2026
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  Yoon Shin-yi Finishes 13th in Moguls Qualifier, Misses Final at Milan-Cortina Olympics Yoon Shin-yi of Bongpyeong High School failed to reach the final in women’s moguls in freestyle skiing at the 2026 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics. Competing Tuesday (Korea time) at Aerial Mogul Park in Livigno, Italy, Yoon scored 64.46 points in the second qualifying round, placing 13th among 20 skiers. In the first qualifier a day earlier, she scored 59.40 points to finish 21st out of 30, missing the top-10 cutoff for an automatic berth in the final. Her best score ac February 11, 2026
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  Short Track Skater Lim Jong-eon Says Olympic Debut Helped Him Find His Rhythm Short track skater Lim Jong-eon of Goyang City Hall, who made his Olympic debut a day earlier, said he gained confidence after getting a feel for the competition.  Lim took part in the national team’s official training session on Feb. 11 at the Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy.  In his first Olympics, Lim advanced smoothly from the 1,000-meter preliminaries a day earlier to reach the quarterfinals. Reflecting on that race, he said, “It’s been a while since I competed, and I wa February 11, 2026
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  Hanwha Aerospace Breaks Ground on Romania Plant to Build K9 Howitzers Hanwha Aerospace said Tuesday it has broken ground in Romania on a local plant, dubbed H-ACE Europe, to produce K9 self-propelled howitzers and K10 armored ammunition resupply vehicles. The company said the new facility is intended to establish a European base for local production of its ground systems and strengthen Romania’s and Europe’s defense supply chains. A groundbreaking ceremony in Petresti, Dambovita County, was attended by Lee Yong-cheol, head of South Korea’s Defense Acquisit February 11, 2026