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Deposit insurance fee hikes face pushback from financial firms
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Financial companies are pushing back against plans to raise deposit insurance fees, warning that a steep increase could put an…
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B.A.P: The Forgotten Blueprint — Does a Group’s Eventual Commercial Failure Erase Its Influence?
Before B.A.P’s upcoming 15th anniversary, it is time to ask what they actually left behind Some groups define an…
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Santos Bravos has exposed the farce that is the K-pop training system
Santos Bravos were one of the most talked-about acts at KCON LA this weekend, mainly due to their stellar live…
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Why South Korea Won’t Send Weapons To Ukraine
Note: This is a long response, but it explains everything about why South Korea won’t send weapons or troops to…
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JYPE tried to solve TWICE’s western weakness with ITZY but it wasn’t needed
I saw this post about how TWICE’s western success was unexpected and it listed 3 main points: TWICE have a…
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Korea’s housing loan rules become patchwork of regulations, side effects, exceptions
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The government’s drive to curb home prices and household debt through a series of tighter lending rules is creating growing…
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WakeOne Has Amazing Groups(ZB1, ALD1 and Izna) but Keeps Wasting Their Potential
I honestly don’t understand what WakeOne is doing. They have such good groups like ZB1, ALD1, and IZNA. These groups…
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Gyeonggi Province calls for ‘jeonse’ fraud aid to cover foreign victims
in NewsAs a wave of scams exploiting Korea’s unique “jeonse” rental system has left tens of thousands of tenants at risk,…
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In just three hours, Japanese colonial authorities rounded up 466 Seoul residents for black-market trading, sentenced them on the spot, and sent them by streetcar to Seodaemun Prison (July 1945)
This article illustrates an example of the brutal “summary trials” carried out in connection with mass police sweeps against black-market…
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State audit agency apologizes for sitting commissioner’s indictment
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The Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) apologized Friday after one of its commissioners was indicted on charges connected to…
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US drone mix-up caused by communication error at working level: official
in NewsLast week’s mix-up between South Korean and U.S. militaries over a U.S. drone flight occurred due to a communication error…
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PPP calls on defense minister to step down over mix-up of US military drone as enemy threat
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The main opposition People Power Party (PPP) called on the defense minister to step down Friday, urging him to take…
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dkz were failed as a group by their company
not sure how familiar everyone is with dkz i became a fan towards their disbandment and didnt hear anything beforehand…
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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
in NewsAfter 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…
