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[EXIT DAEJEON 2019] Chaebol to play key role in hardware renaissance: HAX founder

Cyril Ebersweiler, the founder and managing director of hardware accelerator HAX, is out to create a startup-driven hardware renaissance. And in his view, Korea has much potential. “We’ve been quite...

May 20, 2019
Technology
S. Korea says will prudently consider Japan's call for arbitration panel over forced labor

South Korea will look prudently into Japan's request for the formation of an arbitration panel involving a third-country member to address the long-simmering issue of Tokyo's wartime forced labor, Se...

May 20, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Kia prepares for grand entry in India

Kia Motors, South Korea’s second-largest carmaker in terms of sales, has been pushing forward to successfully enter the Indian market in the latter half of this year. It has been conducting various ...

May 20, 2019
Automode
Woori conducts first overseas IR meeting as holding firm

Woori Financial Group has conducted its first investor relations meetings abroad after adopting a financial holding firm structure early this year, the firm said Monday. Group Chairman Sohn Tae-seun...

May 20, 2019
Finance
Cambodia marks genocide atrocities with Day of Remembrance

PHNOM PENH (AFP) -- Black-clad students reenacted the horrors of the Cambodian genocide at the "Killing Fields" on Monday to commemorate the two million people killed by the Khmer Rouge's murderous, ...

May 20, 2019
World News
[Book review] Entertainment news reporter says BTS opened up new paradigm for K-pop

A veteran entertainment news reporter with almost 20 years of experience has written a book about K-pop boy band BTS and its global success. In “BTS K-pop,” Herald Business reporter Seo Byung-ki ana...

May 20, 2019
Book Review
Second DMZ hiking trail to open in Cheorwon in June

The second inter-Korean border trail along the Demilitarized Zone that demarcates South and North Korea will be opened to civilian hikers next month, officials said Monday. The central section of th...

May 20, 2019
Social affairs
Moon to meet top military commanders of allies

President Moon Jae-in will meet with a group of top South Korean and US military generals at his office this week, Cheong Wa Dae announced Monday. He plans to have a luncheon meeting with Defense Mi...

May 20, 2019
Defense
Kim Go-eun cast in new drama series by star screenwriter

Actress Kim Go-eun has been cast in a new drama series by star screenwriter Kim Eun-sook, the series' production company said Monday. Kim will take on two different roles, as a detective in the pres...

May 20, 2019
Television
Dodgers' Ryu Hyun-jin extends scoreless streak to 31 innings, earns 6th win of '19

Scoring off Los Angeles Dodgers' Ryu Hyun-jin is the toughest thing for major league hitters these days. The South Korean left-hander improved to 6-1 for the season after shutting down the Cincinnat...

May 20, 2019
Baseball
Moon to meet former US President Bush this week

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will greet former US President George W. Bush at Cheong Wa Dae later this week, Moon's office announced Sunday. Moon is scheduled to meet Bush on Thursday morning,...

May 19, 2019
Politics
[Graphic News] US world’s top crude oil producer

The United States became the world’s top crude oil producer in 2017, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia, according to the International Energy Agency. The US produced 14.3 percent of the world’s oil...

May 19, 2019
World Business
KT to enhance partnership with Russia’s biggest telco

Major South Korean mobile carrier KT said Sunday it has discussed business cooperation with Russia’s biggest telecom firm, Mobile TeleSystems, to boost their partnership in the fifth-generation cell...

May 19, 2019
Technology
Market surprised by popularity of LG’s first 5G smartphone

Industry watchers attribute V50 ThinQ’s soaring sales to “overheated” 5G competition among mobile carriers.

May 19, 2019
Technology
[David Ignatius] What’s Trump’s plan for Iran?

In any tense military confrontation, diplomats start looking for an “off ramp” that could de-escalate tensions. But in the current standoff between the United States and Iran, it’s hard to find any s...

May 19, 2019
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