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  VISUALS: Romance film 'Hear Me: Our Summer' to be released next week SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - The cast and director of "Hear Me: Our Summer" held a press conference at Megabox COEX in Seoul on Monday. The Korean remake of a popular Taiwanese romance film features Hong Kyung and Roh Yoon-seo as Yongjoon and Yeoreum, whose lives intertwine when they meet during a lunch box delivery. Kim Min-ju plays Yeoreum's hearing-impaired sister. Directed by Cho Sun-ho, the film premiered at the 29th Busan International Film Festival this month and will hit October 28, 2024
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  PHOTOS: Latin American Cultural Center marks 30th anniversary with art exhibition SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - The Latin American Cultural Center in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, is hosting an exhibition of Mexican artist Lino Chávez’s works to commemorate its 30th anniversary. The exhibition opened Thursday and will run until the end of the year. October 28, 2024
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  PHOTOS: Vietnam War veterans condemn North Korea's alleged troop dispatch to Russia SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - The Korean Vietnam War Veterans Association held a rally in central Seoul on Monday, condemning North Korea's alleged dispatch of troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine. Police estimated that about 1,000 people attended the rally, while organizers put the number at about 2,000. October 28, 2024
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  Network equipment failure causes nationwide online transit payment disruption SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - LG CNS, South Korea's major IT service provider, confirmed Monday a network equipment failure at its data center in Bupyeong, west of Seoul, triggered a nationwide outage of the T-money transit payment system over the weekend. The disruption, which lasted about 90 minutes on Sunday afternoon, left passengers unable to purchase bus tickets at terminals and pay on the T-money mobile app across the country. "We identified the system error at 1:06 p October 28, 2024
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  VISUALS: Volleyball drama 'One Win' starring Song Kang-ho set for December release SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - The cast and crew of the volleyball-themed Korean film One Win held a press conference Monday at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall in Seoul. Song Kang-ho and Park Jeong-min star as the coach of a struggling volleyball team and its eccentric owner, both determined to achieve a single victory with their underdog women’s professional team. Directed by Shin Yeon-shick and featuring model-turned-actor Jang Yoon-ju, the film opens in theaters this December. October 28, 2024
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  Young Poong calls for extraordinary shareholders' meeting amid Korea Zinc control battle SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - Young Poong, the largest shareholder of Korea Zinc, and MBK Partners requested on Monday to hold an extraordinary shareholders' meeting amid a battle for management control over the world's largest zinc smelter. The two companies said they sent a document to the Korea Zinc board calling for the meeting to discuss the appointment of 12 outside directors and two non-executive directors, as well as the introduction of a new management system. Earlie October 28, 2024
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  North Korea renews drone accusations against Seoul SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - North Korea reiterated its accusations against South Korea on Monday, claiming that the South had infiltrated its airspace with a drone incursion. According to Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korean military found that the drone carrying propaganda leaflets, which crashed in Pyongyang earlier this month, took off from South Korea's westernmost island of Baeknyeong Island. It said its assessment came after analyzing the October 28, 2024
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  Korea Zinc, Bain acquire 11.26% of company shares amid battle over control SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - Korea Zinc and U.S. investment firm Bain Capital have acquired a combined 11.26 percent of company shares through a tender offer in a battle over control of the world's largest smelter. In a regulatory filing Monday, Korea Zinc announced that it had secured 9.85 percent through a buyback program that closed on Wednesday, while Bain Capital acquired 1.41 percent. Korea Zinc Chairman Choi Yun-beom and Bain Capital aimed to acquire up to 17.5 percent an October 28, 2024
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  Russia 'transporting North Korean troops' to battlefield SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - North Korean troops are expected to be deployed to the battlefield as early as this week. Russia is "transporting North Korean soldiers to the front lines via trucks," the Kyiv Independent reported last Sunday, citing a source from the Main Directorate of Intelligence . "Russian police officers on Oct. 27 stopped a Kamaz truck with civilian license plates on the Kursk-Voronezh highway," the Ukraine English-language online newspaper sa October 28, 2024
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  OPINION: US presidential election remains very close SEOUL, October 28 (AJP) - The United States presidential election will be held on Nov. 5. In analyst Nate Silver's aggregate of national polls, Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump by 48.6–47.4, a gain for Trump since last Wednesday, when Harris led by 48.8–47.2. Harris' national lead peaked on Oct. 2, when she led by 49.4–45.9. The U.S. president isn't elected by the national popular vote, but by the Electoral College, in which each sta October 28, 2024