Hyundai Motor to supply electric buses to Indonesia's Bali SEOUL, November 11 (AJP) - Hyundai Motor said on Tuesday that it had been selected as the final contractor to supply electric buses to Bali, Indonesia. The South Korean automaker won the contract through an international bidding process organized by the Global Green Growth Institute, or GGGI, an environmental organization backed by the South Korean government. The project is part of Indonesia’s broader push to promote sustainable mobility and reduce carbon emissions in tou November 11, 2025

TV personality Park Kyung-lim donates 200 million won to support children in need SEOUL, November 11 (AJP) - Versatile TV personality Park Kyung-lim has donated 200 million Korean won (or about US$136,000) to support children from underprivileged families, a charity agency run by the Seoul Metropolitan Government said on Tuesday. The donation came just a few months after she invited around 1,000 children and young people to her musical "Again Dream High," supporting them in pursuing their dreams and fostering their career development. At that tim November 11, 2025

OPINION: Debates over raising retirement age emerge as South Korea becomes super-aged society SEOUL, November 11 (AJP) - With South Korea now officially a "super-aged society," concerns are mounting over how to secure stable income for its rapidly growing elderly population. This has reignited discussions about further raising the retirement age, a decade after it was last set at 60 in 2013. Proposals to raise the retirement age to 65 have sparked mixed reactions, exposing generational and social divides over how and when such changes should take effect. The ruling Democrati November 11, 2025

CJ CheilJedang's 3Q dips nearly 27% on cost spike related to raw materials and FX SEOUL, November 11 (AJP) - South Korea's food giant CJ CheilJedang on Tuesday reported double-digit fall in its third-quarter earnings as the global popularity of K-food was outweighed by money-losing bio and feed operations. According to its disclosure, its operating profit plunged 25.6 percent on year to 203 billion won on revenue of 4.5 trillion won ($3.08 billion) for the quarter ended September. Including CJ Logistics, consolidated revenue inched up 0.3 percent on year November 11, 2025

Celltrion completes regulatory approvals for acquisition of Eli Lilly plant in US SEOUL, November 11 (AJP) - South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion said on Tuesday that it had finalized the acquisition of Eli Lilly’s production facility in Branchburg, New Jersey. The deal, which recently cleared all regulatory hurdles in the United States and Ireland, positions Celltrion to expand its presence in the world’s largest pharmaceutical market. The company said it expects to close the transaction by the end of the year. Regulatory approval November 11, 2025

OPINION: Behind EV boom lies growing pile of battery waste The global shift to electric vehicles has hit a temporary slowdown. Sales have cooled, incentives are waning, and skeptics are asking whether the EV boom has peaked. Yet the slowdown is likely to last only a few years. The market will recover as costs fall and technology improves. What deserves far more attention, however, is what happens after the battery runs out. Batteries make up roughly 40 percent of an electric vehicle’s cost. They are the beating heart of the EV November 11, 2025

OPINION: South Korea's 260,000 GPUs and vision for AI hub As artificial intelligence becomes the engine of global competition, nations are racing to secure not only the technology but also the computing power that makes it possible. South Korea’s recent partnership with NVIDIA — acquiring 260,000 of the latest AI graphics processing units — is more than a technical upgrade. It is a statement of intent that the country aims to be a serious player in the new digital order. The deal has quadrupled South Korea's na November 11, 2025

Korea's National Dance Company "Double Bill" blends the worlds of discipline and freedom SEOUL, November 10 (AJP) - What looks like total chaos — fourteen dancers leaping, crawling, and tossing one another in midair amid tightly arranged metal tables — is, in fact, a work of meticulous control. A single misstep could mean a ruined sequence or even a serious injury. Discipline is the axis of American choreographer William Forsythe’s “One Flat Thing, Reproduced.” The tables impose strict rules: confined space, exact timing, predetermined pa November 10, 2025

Rose's nod by Grammys fails to persuade investors of her Korean label YG SEOUL, November 10 (AJP) - BLACKPINK member Rose is leading a wave of female K-pop artists heading into the 2026 Grammy Awards — an unprecedented moment for Korean pop music — but the historic nominations has so far failed to lift investor sentiment toward her label. Shares of YG Entertainment tumbled more than 7 percent to 66,650 won ($46) on Monday, the first trading day after the Recording Academy shortlisted Rose’s “APT.” featuring Bruno Mars for Re November 10, 2025

Asian stocks rise across the board; KOSPI rebounds sharply SEOUL, November 10 (AJP) - Asian stocks rose across the board on Monday, relieved by the developments in the United States as Washington appeared to move closer to ending the longest-ever federal government shutdown. South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI led regional gains, climbing 3.02 percent to 4,073.24 as the market warmed up the government’s plan to lower the separate tax rate on dividend income from 35 percent to 25 percent. Institutional investors drove the rebound, November 10, 2025