LGBTQ culture festival to be held in S. Korea's conservative port city

SEOUL -- A "queer festival," designed to raise awareness of the human rights of gender minorities and diverse gender-based cultural content, will be held for the third time in the southern port city of Changwon. The port city located west of Busan, South Korea's main maritime gateway, is part of South Gyeongsang Province which has a strong conservative culture. The organizing committee of the Gyeongnam Queen Culture Festival said in a statement on October 31 that the LGBT

October 31, 2023

​S. Korea records 67 cases of lumpy skin disease in 10 days

SEOUL -- South Korea has seen an outbreak of lumpy skin disease and had a total of 67 cattle farms infected in about ten days after the infectious cattle disease was reported in the country for the first time. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a viral disease transmitted by blood-feeding insects such as flies, mosquitoes, and ticks. When a cow is infected with the virus, the animal would show symptoms of high fever, enlarged superficial lymph nodes, and multiple nodules, lumps measuring up

October 31, 2023

Exports of kimchi continue to increase thanks to popularity in US and Europe

SEOUL -- Exports of kimchi, traditional Korean pickled vegetables, have continued to increase by more than 10 percent on-year thanks to consumers in the United States and Europe who recognize the salad-like spicy mixed vegetable pickles as healthy food. Kimchi, mostly recognized as salted Chinese cabbage seasoned with red chili pepper powder, ground garlic, and fish sauce, has been the core of South Koreans' diet. The salted cabbage ferments over time to become sour. Some peo

October 31, 2023

​Singer G-Dragon to voluntarily participate in police probe for illegal drug use

SEOUL -- Singer Kwon Ji-yong, known by his stage name G-Dragon, has announced that he would voluntarily show up to police to cooperate in an ongoing drug investigation. The 35-year-old recently got caught up in a drug scandal after police booked the singer on suspicion of illegal use of drugs. South Korea's entertainment scene was engulfed in terror and shock in late October after law enforcers booked 48-year-old actor Lee Sun-kyun who starred in the globally popular 2019 film &q

October 31, 2023

Turkish Embassy in Seoul celebrates 100th anniversary of creation of Republic of Türkiye

SEOUL --The Turkish Embassy in South Korea celebrated the 100th anniversary of the creation of the republic at Shilla Hotel located in central Seoul on October 30. "Today we waited so long to celebrate," Salih Murat Tamer, the Turkish Ambassador to South Korea said during his opening speech. "Korea is a very special country for us," the ambassador emphasized the relationship between Türkiye and South Korea, often recognized as the "blood bond" that

October 30, 2023

Hanwha Ocean to work with US classification society ABS for digital shipbuilding project

SEOUL -- Hanwha Ocean, a major shipbuilder in South Korea, will work with a United States-based classification society for the digital transformation of shipbuilding technologies. The two groups will demonstrate technologies for digital production, autonomous navigation, smart ship solutions, and cybersecurity. Digital shipbuilding incorporates advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality, for ship production. Hanwha Ocean aims to obtain validation from t

October 30, 2023

HD Hyundai Electric joins offshore wind power project in southwestern coastal county

SEOUL -- HD Hyundai Electric, an electrical equipment manufacturer and energy solution provider, will take part in a project to establish offshore wind power infrastructure that can power some three million households in South Korea’s southwestern coastal county of Jindo. The energy solution developer will supply wind turbines and power equipment for offshore substations. The project involves the South Korean office of Pacifico Energy, a United States-based renewable energy power

October 30, 2023

Police rule out possibility of additional celebrities being involved in drug scandal

SEOUL -- Police have ruled out the possibility of additional celebrities being involved in a drug scandal other than actor Lee Sun-kyun and singer G-Dragon who were booked on suspicion of the illegal use of drugs. South Korea's entertainment scene was engulfed in terror and shock in late October after law enforcers booked the 48-year-old actor who starred in the globally-popular 2019 film "Parasite", and the 35-year-old singer after police obtained evidence that the two s

October 30, 2023

Supertone to showcase AI-based audio technology for game characters

SEOUL -- Supertone, the artificial intelligence audio technology wing of the BTS agency, will showcase AI-based technology that creates the voice of game characters from written descriptions at G-Star, an annual video game exhibition in South Korea's southern port city of Busan. During the four-day event, visitors can customize character voices by adjusting parameters such as pitch, gender, age, tone, and speaking speed. Previously, Supertone provided its audio technique for Disney

October 30, 2023

​About 56% of S. Koreans have no plans to hold traditional memorial rite 'Jesa': survey

SEOUL -- About 56 percent of South Koreans plan not to hold "Jesa," a traditional Confucian ceremonial ritual held to commemorate dead ancestors on the day they died, a survey showed. According to the survey, people feel burdened by the amount of food they have to prepare for the rite, and they think it should be simplified or replaced with a short and simple family gathering. Jesa is a Confucian rite that involves every family member who are direct descendant of the dead a

October 30, 2023