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Hyundai Motor workers to extend strikes for higher wages
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Hyundai Motor’s union said Friday its workers will extend partial strikes next week in a bid to secure higher wages,…
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Seoul says cooperation with NATO aimed at global peace, seeks stable relations with Russia (Yonhap)
Seoul says cooperation with NATO aimed at global peace, seeks stable relations with Russia (Yonhap) July 21, 2026 https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260721007351315 ROK’s…
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Alice Syndrome: The Deep End of Debut
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Every debut era arrives with a promise. Most groups spend their first weeks chasing brightness — the widest smile, the…
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“Even prison will not save you”: unmarried young Korean women feared sexual enslavement in Imperial Japan’s wartime labor conscription, but officials said evaders would be imprisoned and then conscripted anyway (September 1944)
By early 1944, months before Japan formally promulgated the Women’s Labor Volunteer Corps Ordinance in August 1944, reports from colonial…
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Why K-pop Companies Are More Controlling Than Traditional Record Labels
Many people misunderstand this issue because they judge K-pop based on the traditional relationship between record labels and artists. However,…
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Agoda fined $1.7 mil. for hidden fees, obscure refund policies
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Korea’s media and communications regulator said Monday that it fined Agoda, a global travel booking platform, 2.42 billion won ($1.7…
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Who to blame for Korea’s World Cup failure
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After Korea’s early exit from the football World Cup, I find myself among the ranks of those disappointed by the…
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Appreciating Hong Myung-bo – as a Player
Do people here recall South Korea vs. Spain in the 1994 World Cup? It is arguably South Korea’s finest showing…
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In 1944, Imperial Japan formally conscripted almost all unmarried Korean women ages 12-40 into a forced labor system that had already been used for years to traffic laborers into sex slavery according to testimonies of former comfort women
On August 23, 1944, Imperial Japan promulgated the Women’s Labor Volunteer Corps Ordinance. This ordinance gave the state a formal…
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Will Homeplus liquidation decision be postponed again?
in NewsHomeplus has submitted an amended rehabilitation plan just three days before a court deadline, but its failure to secure a…
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Post WC failure media
Now that the players have returned, I’m curious to see what sort of wave this outcome will bring to the…
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THE ROOT OF EVERYTHING – GOT7’s JAY B steps into 2026 stripped bare
in FeedsGOT7’s Lim Jae-beom steps into 2026 stripped bare, artistically reborn, and more magnetic than ever — as Numéro Netherlands’ June…
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South Korean football… Remember that even great football teams can fail (Germany, Italy, England, Portugal, Brazil etc.). It was South Korea’s turn?
The internet seems to be rife with videos saying that the SK mens team is terrible, a fraud. They certainly…
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Community vs. ‘Epstein class’
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Over the course of a week, I speak with many people from different walks of life. Our discussions about social…
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Debate over Samsung, SK Hynix’s second chip cluster in Korea heats up: Is it feasible?
Debate over Samsung, SK Hynix’s second chip cluster in Korea heats up: Is it feasible? The Honam region in southwestern…
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Saturday morning noodles
After the laundromat, the logical thing seemed to be: get myself some Yulmu Bibimguksu and a half litre of beer.…
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Korea needed 3 of 9 games to go their way to qualify for round of 32. 0 of the 4 of those games that have been played so far have gone Korea’s way.
Nine games following Korea’s loss to South Africa would have/would affect Korea’s odds of qualifying for the knockout stage. To…
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The Most Despised People in Korea
https://preview.redd.it/40g6g15lbd9h1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=930e98c2ff284966ba6f2ca506ecfc8e3a185d54 When Japan drew with Iraq at Doha in 1994, it became the Tragedy of Doha as they failed to…
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I feel like the more you know about K-pop, the less cool you feel.
I don’t know if some of you feel the same way more than you’d like to admit, but the more…
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Public power generation firms’ proposed merger sparks debate
in NewsA third-party analysis proposing that the government merge Korea’s five state-run power generation companies to streamline structural inefficiency is prompting…
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Ex-defense minister sentenced to 3 years in prison for leaking military secrets
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A Seoul court on Friday sentenced former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun to a three-year prison term for leaking military secrets…
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Imperial Japan hunted shortwave listeners in colonial Korea: 246 people investigated and 50 radios seized by Inspector Saiga Shichirō, a notorious torturer accused of fabricating cases and sending detainees to their deaths (1942-1944)
During World War II, Imperial Japan banned the use of shortwave radios, which tech savvy Koreans were apparently using to…
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Probe pins Hanbit-Nano failure as INNOSPACE readies Q3 relaunch in Brazil
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I don’t think fans realize how difficult it is to chart on Melon (not charting doesn’t make a group a complete “flop”)
I wanted to make this post because lately I’ve been seeing more and more Kpop stans calling groups “flops” based…
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Coupang fined record 624.7 billion won over massive data breach, unauthorized data collection
South Korea’s data protection regulator on Thursday fined e-commerce company Coupang Corp. a record 624.7 billion won (US$410 million) over…
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just feeling bad for idid at this pointt
cant really help but feel bad for them tbh, they’ve been sabatoged too much to the point that if their…
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Bithumb’s bitcoin payout blunder results in $1.6 mil. compensation
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Korea’s major cryptocurrency exchanges have paid out billions of won in compensation for hacking incidents and system failures in recent…
