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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Yoo Jae-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok team up in 'Whenever Possible'
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Aging population to drive down Korea's housing prices from 2040: experts
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North Korea holds drills simulating nuclear counterattack against enemy
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[Herald Interview] Honeywell taps deeper into Korean aviation market
US aircraft solutions provider Honeywell is tapping deeper into the growing Korean aviation market with its new connected aircraft and flight efficiency solutions that help save fuel costs. In the last five years, Korea’s air traffic has increased by an average of 6.9 percent per year, outpacing the global average of 5.6 percent, according to government data. Honeywell expects this growth to be sustainable, as Korea is focusing on attracting more visitors to the country. “South Korea remains a p
IndustryJuly 2, 2018
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[Herald Interview] More than changing passport
First naturalized basketball player not of Korean descent strives to make lasting impact On Thursday, South Korean basketball fans saw something they hadn’t seen in years: their team dominating the paint against the towering Chinese national team.Ricardo Ratliffe, a recently naturalized Korean player, gave the Chinese twin towers of Wang Zhelin and Zhou Qi a run for their money as he scorched them for 25 points and 11 rebounds in an 82-74 victory in the third game of the FIBA Asian Qualifiers.Th
PeopleJune 29, 2018
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[Herald Interview] ‘Huawei or Samsung? Just leave it to the market’
SHANGHAI -- If Huawei has good reference sites and excels in quality, it is up to mobile operators to decide whether to use the made-in-China telecommunications equipment, says Johnny Kim, strategic engagement director and head of North East Asia at the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA). “There are political implications about the issue, but if they have good reference sites and good quality, why not use them?” Kim said during an interview with The Korea Herald at the Mo
TechnologyJune 29, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Mahindra Korea eyes partnership in defense biz
With aims to diversify its partnership with South Korean businesses and raise brand awareness, Mahindra & Mahindra tapped Choi In-bom as the second representative of the local office this January.Mahindra Korea, established in 2013, has so far helped the Mahindra Group clinch major deals with companies here including LG Chem, Posco and Hanwha Qcells, striving to fulfill its purpose as a facilitator between the headquarters in India and Korea.Continuing to pursue the firm’s mission, Choi is searc
IndustryJune 28, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Singaporean consultant optimistic about business opportunities in NK
SINGAPORE -- When Michael Heng, a business strategist and former professor, heard that the US and North Korea were going to hold a summit, he felt it was finally time for something to happen in the reclusive state.He asked his friend, an official at the North Korean Embassy in Singapore, if he could take some Singaporeans on a mission to tap future business opportunities in the North.A day after the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore earlier
North KoreaJune 26, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Merck ups focus on materials biz, where Korea is big market
German chemical and life sciences giant Merck KGaA has restructured its performance materials business with aims to strengthen its growth this year — a move that hints at Merck’s renewed attention to its key customers in the space including South Korean display makers Samsung and LG. Merck recently initiated a major restructuring of its performance materials business division. Previously broken down into smaller sub-units by material type, Merck’s materials business is now divided into three ar
TechnologyJune 26, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Korea stands at forefront of forest welfare
South Korea is taking the initiative in forest welfare, with the aim of maximizing economic value of forests for the public, according to the chief of the Korea Forest Welfare Institute. “The focus of Korea’s forests has transformed over the 40 years from simple afforestation to forest resources to sustainable forest management,” said Yoon Young-kyoon, president of the Korea Forest Welfare Institute, in an interview with The Korea Herald.Yoon Young-kyoon, president of the Korea Forest Welfare In
IndustryJune 25, 2018
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[Herald Interview] The magic in Ed Kwon’s air
It isn’t common to come across a magician on the streets, but meeting a young professional magician who is also a college student is much more rare. Ed Kwon, or Kwon Joon-hyuk, is a 23-year-old Korean magician based in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Despite his young age, he performed as a headliner act last Christmas at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles, the world-famous private club for magicians. Ed Kwon On Tuesday, Kwon spoke with The Korea Herald before staging a magic show at an event held by
PeopleJune 24, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Young, dynamic and connected -- ASEAN offers endless opportunities for Korea
Southeast Asia can offer market and business opportunities to South Korea with its young, digitally connected and growing middle class in return for Korea’s sharing of its quickly developed economic strategies, according to a high-ranking official from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community. “Korea will benefit from ASEAN’s dynamism, creativity and growth potential, as the regional production networks are fast expanding,” said Aladdin D. Rillo, deputy secretary-general for
IndustryJune 22, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Master calls for Korea to bring geomancy into open
Like other East Asian countries, South Korea has long practiced geomancy, or “pungsu jiri” in the local language. While doubt may prevail toward the pseudoscience, some Korean entrepreneurs and politicians have taken to consultants to make the most of a Korean equivalent to China’s feng shui to decide where to live, where to start a business or where to bury the dead. To them, finding an auspicious site has been deemed an essential bid to evade the narrowest chances of bad luck and pursue prospe
CultureJune 22, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Jaurim’s music revolves around humans, world they live in
Just as its name refers to a “purple rainforest,” Jaurim’s music is the epitome of profoundness and mysteriousness. Or, life itself. Seesawing between extreme highs and lows, the band dives deep into dark human emotions of angst and touches on societal illnesses. But it also coos about hope and lasting love in the most sophisticated language, as if trying to say life’s not always miserable. Celebrating 20 years in the music scene, the band -- vocalist Kim Yoon-ah, bassist Kim Jin-man and guitar
PerformanceJune 22, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Now is time to talk about Korean literature
Publishers choose the books to put out on bookstore shelves, hoping that some will buy and perhaps read them. Yet, many of them go unnoticed among the countless books that are released every day.This is much more the case with translated materials. The odds are very low that an American would read Korean literature. Ira Silverberg looks for information in a book during an interview with The Korea Herald on Wednesday at Coex in Seoul. (Shim Woo-hyun/The Korea Herald)”It‘s hard for American writer
BooksJune 21, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Taking global Starbucks phenomenon to next level
For Major Cohen, coffee changed his life as he approached mid-age.“I began working as a part-time barista in 1995, for a team that was opening a new store in Boston. It was when I was 45 years old,” Cohen told The Korea Herald at a Starbucks Korea’s The Jongno branch in downtown Seoul. At 1,097 square-meters, it is the biggest Starbucks store in Korea and was designed to do much more than simply serve coffee. Starbucks’ global ambassador Major Cohen speaks during an interview with The Korea Her
IndustryJune 21, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Tackling youth, gender and housing in South Korea
As far as she remembers, Hong Hye-eun says, she always had to give up at least one of the following -- safety, privacy and a decent living condition -- in almost all of the housing she’s lived ever since she moved out of her parents’ house as a teenager. In her final year at high school, the 30-year-old moved out because her parents’ home in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, was too crowded and loud. She had six siblings, and had a university entrance exam to prepare for. The place where her
Social AffairsJune 20, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Diversifying channels for foreign worker remittances
The Korea Herald is publishing a series of interviews on promising startups in the financial technology industry. This is the 17th installment. -- Ed.Foreign workers in South Korea from Southeast Asia or South Asia have faced various hurdles when remitting their income here to a home country.There are language barriers in financial services offered by banks, hefty commission charges and differences in banking service environments, to name a few.Using schemes such as collateral cash pooling, cros
MarketJune 19, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Grasping Chinese market with educator’s insight
For comprehensive educational firm Due West’s co-founders, Andrew Sohn and Michael J. Novielli, China has been a thrilling place to do business. The Columbia University graduates founded the company in 2009, and have made inroads into the Chinese market offering consulting and guidance for students wanting to study in the United States. In an interview at The Korea Herald headquarters in Seoul on Friday, the duo said there was a “real hunger” and drive for learning and entrepreneurship in China,
Diplomatic CircuitJune 18, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Violist with a big heart
Receiving an email a few weeks ago that violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill’s press conference for this year’s Ditto Festival would take place in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, my immediate reaction was “Why?”For most Koreans, the industrial city southwest of Seoul is a place of great sorrow -- most of the more than the 300 passengers who died in the Sewol ferry sinking on April 16, 2014 were second year students from a high school in Ansan, on their way to what should have been a fun-filled school trip
PeopleJune 15, 2018
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[Herald Interview] KHAN’s silver lining
From “K-pop Star” to “Superstar K” to “Unpretty Rapstar” to “The Unit,” the audition programs the two members of KHAN have gone through pretty much sums up the competitive and variable nature of the K-pop industry. Like other K-pop aspirants, Yuna Kim and Jeon Min-joo competed in several audition programs, endured grueling practice and trained under agencies with the hope of debuting. KHAN poses during a recent interview with The Korea Herald in Seoul (Park Hyun-koo / The Korea Herald)The pair
EntertainmentJune 14, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Redefining manufacturing with machine intelligence
MakinaRocks, a fresh startup spun out from South Korea’s No.1 mobile carrier SK Telecom, has a bold ambition as its name: To shake the manufacturing world with machine intelligence. “We are applying artificial intelligence to the high-tech manufacturing sector with a mission to make manufacturing more productive by harnessing the power of data and AI,” Andre. S. Yoon, a co-founder of MakinaRocks told The Korea Herald on Tuesday. Among many in the broad manufacturing industry, the Korean start
TechnologyJune 13, 2018
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[Herald Interview] International Red Cross ready to aid inter-Korean humanitarian projects
The International Committee for the Red Cross is committed to assisting humanitarian projects between the two Koreas amid their conciliatory efforts, even as it copes with the consequences of some of the world’s most calamitous man-made crises, said the chief of the Switzerland-based organization in Seoul last week. Peter Maurer, the president of the ICRC, came to Korea from June 4-5 to strengthen cooperation with Seoul by drawing the country’s continuing contributions and raising its public awa
Diplomatic CircuitJune 11, 2018