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After a dramatic six-hour long standoff with security, South Korea police have called off an attempt to arrest suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol.

A South Korean soldier at the inter-Korean border accidentally fired a machine gun toward North Korea last week, prompting the military to air broadcasts to notify the North of the mistake, military officials said Sunday.

Lee Jae-myung, former chairman of the liberal Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), secured the party’s nomination for the June 3 presidential election, officially setting the stage for his third presidential bid, Sunday.

Normally when you need to wait at a crossing because it's red you take out your phone to waste some time. But you have to be quite anxious and look up if it's already green or not, otherwise you miss the green light.

Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/7bcDN

Japanese consumers who used to treat foreign-grown rice with scepticism have been forced to develop a taste for it amid domestic shortage

Beijing recently asked South Korean companies not to export products containing China's rare earth minerals to U.S. defense firms, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Tuesday, citing government and company sources.

Nearly half of small- and medium-sized exporters in Korea have shown interest in hiring foreign nationals for white-collar jobs amid the country's declining population and young jobseekers' preference for large companies.

Swedish home furnishing giant IKEA will open its first Seoul store next week, giving up the brand’s signature “blue box” architecture to localize it inside a new business complex in the city’s easternmost district.

Korean currency weakens 10.9 won to 1,484.1 won per dollar, KOSPI drops 1.7%

I'm not sure what they expected, not everyone runs and gets a new ARC just because of that immediately.

New presidential election must be held by June 3

Oh, widely known as the “Gganbu grandpa” from the Netflix drama “Squid Game,” was sentenced in the first trial to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, for forcibly groping a younger actress from a theater troupe.

TL;DW: South Korea's fertility rate was 0.72 in 2023 and has not recovered. This leads to a nationstate that is unable to keep it's systems running due to a lack of employable domestic citizens.

New US and European tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) have created market opportunities for South Korean manufacturers. While South Korean EV exports remain behind Chinese volumes, manufacturers can gain market share by emphasising design, performance, safety and transparency. As such, the US Inflation Reduction Act benefits South Korean producers, though political uncertainty poses risks. Success depends on leveraging technological expertise while adapting to policy shifts.

BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China, Japan and South Korea agreed to jointly respond to U.S. tariffs, a social media account affiliated with Chinese state media said on Monday, an assertion Seoul called "somewhat exaggerated", while Tokyo said there was no such discussion. The state media comments came after the three countries held their first economic dialogue in five years on Sunday, seeking to facilitate regional trade as the Asian export powers brace against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.

China, Japan, and South Korea held their first trade talks in 5 years in Seoul, agreeing to deepen cooperation amid looming U.S. tariffs announced by Donald Trump.

https://ko.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EC%A3%BC

Beyond merely supporting financial transactions for foreign workers, banks are expanding their offerings by introducing platforms to help foreign nationals better settle in Korea and launching services tailored to wealthy foreign individuals and corporations.

If the two countries reach a complete truce or peace agreement, sanctions on Russia will likely be lifted, allowing Korean firms to resume business there.

Article in Korean, use translator of your choice (though there's no body for this breaking news)

Nearly 30 wildfires took place across the nation during the weekend, killing at least four and forcing more than 1,500 residents to evacuate, mostly in southeastern regions of the country, officials at firefighting authorities said Sunday.

This is one of the really bad things about living in Korea.

This is the first time in history that South Korea has received this classification by the US government

The library close by here in Pangyo has one daily newspaper in English, the https://koreaherald.com so sometimes it's nice to come here and read the paper version.

In an unexpected move, the US Department of Energy recently designated South Korea as a “sensitive country,” placing it alongside adversaries such as China, Russia and North Korea.

Does it mean it will be easier for rich people to hog houses outside of Seoul and drive prices up there without them needing to live there?

Several high-ranking executives at Samsung Electronics have recently left the company, despite initially joining with high expectations of strengthening future businesses and management practices.

Koreans' total spending on private education hit an all-time high in 2024, as parents spared no expenses for their children to survive in the pervasive competition that shows no signs of letting up despite a population decline, government data showed, Thursday.

“Even after the first hearing, he continues to show no remorse, making outrageous remarks like ‘Korea is a U.S. vassal state’ to the press,” Seo wrote on social media Monday. “We must send a clear message through strong punishment.”

Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from jail Saturday, a day after a court's ruling that allowed him to stand trial without physical detention over his failed bid to impose martial law in December.

Two South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs on a village near the inter-Korean border during a live-fire drill Thursday morning, injuring at least 15 people and damaging several buildings.

Police will deploy all available resources to prevent any potential civil unrest on the day of the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, which is expected later this month.

Damn, that would make things so much easier. In Sweden at my company we always had written language English but once we hired a bunch of foreigners suddenly without even coordinating it we all switched to verbal English communication too. There was always someone in the group who didn't speak Swedish.

A total of 30 military service members, including 17 generals, have been under investigation over their alleged involvement in President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed bid to impose martial law on Dec. 3, a lawmaker said Wednesday, citing a defense ministry report.

Government rolls out sweeping aid package, including record W366tr in policy funding Acting President Choi Sang-mok speaks at a Cabinet meeting held at the goverment complex in Seoul on Tuesday. (Ministry of Economy and Finance) Acting President Choi Sang-mok speaks at a Cabinet meeting held at the goverment complex in Seoul on Tuesday. (Ministry of Economy and Finance)

The government said Monday it has temporarily suspended the local service of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek over concerns about its data collection practices.

We watched the Netflix show "Culinary Class Wars" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culinary_Class_Wars and the winner of it, Napoli Mafia, created a mozzarella burger for the Korean McDonalds which is called Lotteria.

South Korea announced on Tuesday a record $1.8 billion (2.6 trillion won) investment in its shipbuilding sector — a 40% increase from last year — to strengthen its lead in green and digital ship technologies. The funding will focus on eco-friendly ships (1.7 trillion won), digital transformation of shipyards (700 billion won) and autonomous vessels (200 billion won). New R&D projects include ammonia-powered ships, electric propulsion systems, wind-assisted technology and AI-driven welding robots.

This year I feel I'm back in Sweden (where I came from to Korea) because the whole winter it's under 0 degree Celsius and often -10 degree. I like it a lot to be honest, it's better to have white snow everywhere than just gray and wet.

Korea has granted refugee status to 1,544 asylum-seekers since the system’s introduction nearly 30 years ago, officials said Monday, translating into an acceptance rate of just 2.7 percent.

That's kind of funny, yes if you use their website you're sending your data to china, but they also literary give you the model so you can run it on your own hardware.

SEOUL, South Korea -- The tail of a passenger plane with 176 people on board caught fire before takeoff at an airport in South Korea Tuesday night, news reports said. All passnagers and crew weer safely evacuated.

It's the time of the year again where we make Lunar New Years Dumplings at my parent's in law's place again. Every year I'm getting better at shaping them. This year they are with pork and beef mixed and half of them are with cabbage and the other half with celery.

President Yoon Suk Yeol was taken into custody by a joint probe team at 10:33 a.m. Wednesday, according to police and the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, 12 days after being repelled in its initial attempt to detain him.

Damn it's really cold outside, we had -13°C yesterday in Pangyo. I have to Wals about 3 km to the Kindergarden with my 2 years old, I put so many clothes on him he was almost not able to walk :D

The government and the ruling People Power Party (PPP) decided, Wednesday, to designate Jan. 27 as a temporary holiday for the nation.

Despite President Yoon Suk-yeol’s claims that only unarmed soldiers were deployed to the National Assembly on Dec. 3 after he declared martial law, investigations have revealed that the martial law forces had more than 50,000 rounds of live ammunition on hand that day.

Police officers forcibly remove President Yoon Suk Yeol's supporters lying on the road in front of the presidential residence in Seoul during a rally in support of Yoon, Thursday. Yonhap

My parents in law live close to where the Korean President lives so the small ally today is full of police and supporters all day long. They have a hard time to go to work and home because of them.

Acting President Choi Sang-mok appointed two out of three Constitutional Court justice nominees, Tuesday, as he presided over his first regular Cabinet meeting after assuming the role.

A joint investigation team said Monday it has sought an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived imposition of martial law, making him the first sitting president to face arrest.

No one knows for certain what caused Jeju Air flight 2216 to crash, killing all but two of its 181 passengers and crew. As darkness fell at Muan international airport in South Korea and officials fielded questions from distraught relatives of the dead, the most likely explanation was that the plane had been struck by one or more birds, triggering a sequence of events that prevented the pilot from deploying the landing gear.

Oh my god, this is getting real crazy.

Senior diplomats of South Korea and the United States agreed Monday to fully resume bilateral diplomatic and security schedules postponed in the aftermath of President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched martial law attempt, Seoul's foreign ministry said.

I'm born in Silesia (which is former Germany but now Poland) and for Christmas where is a super delicious desert called Makówka and I was ordering all the things from my grocery list for the traditional Christmas diner and at the end I tried to order the poppy seeds which are the main ingredient of the desert.

The local hamburger franchise Lotteria was the butt of a surge of memes and other online satire on Thursday, after police investigations revealed that former intelligence commanders met at one of its restaurants in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, to discuss martial law plans, two days before President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration on Dec. 3.

South Korea’s Supreme Court on Dec. 12 upheld a two-year prison sentence for Cho Kuk, the former justice minister and leader of the Rebuilding Korea Party (RKP). The ruling also confirmed the forfeiture of Cho’s lawmaker status. Cho’s conviction stemmed from charges including forging documents to secure his children’s university admissions, obstruction of business and violations of anti-corruption laws.

Former South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun has attempted to end his own life while in custody, the head of the country’s correctional service said Wednesday, as a political crisis from the President’s brief declaration of martial law continues to spiral.

From what I understand it's meant for enterprise servers and builds on top of OpenELA wich itself builds on top of RHEL (it's more complicated, but anyway).

President Yoon Suk Yeol was placed under a travel ban Monday pending an investigation into treason and other charges related to his short-lived imposition of martial law last week, with political turmoil deepening over Yoon's political future.

Prosecutors announced Sunday that President Yoon Suk-yeol has been officially named a suspect in a treason investigation related to his short-lived martial law declaration on Dec. 3. This marks the first time in South Korea’s history that a sitting president is under criminal investigation while still in office.

"Troops of the 707th unit are the most unfortunate victims used by former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun," Kim said in a press conference near the presidential office in central Seoul.

The prosecution arrested former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun on Sunday amid a probe into alleged treason following President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived declaration of martial law last week.

A number of lawmakers left parliament ahead of the vote to impeach President Yoon over his decision to impose a short-lived period of martial law earlier this week, with just two seen remaining.

I wonder what's going on. The korean Won already devalued a lot, damn, I was preparing to move some of my money out of the country around this time.

In Germany you can buy Stollen at Aldi for 4.79 € / kg.

Just around the corner at our house older Koreans are doing guerilla gardening.

It's getting weirder and weirder, should I start looking for flight tickets for my family?

North Korea threatens simultaneous barrage of 5,700 long-range artillery shells, ‘raining shells on the Seoul metropolitan area’.

We went to a rock concert and there was a nice sunset behind it. The band playing was SURL, this is one of their songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCusgx41tqk

Apple’s FindMy network is launching in South Korea in Spring of 2025, which will allow Apple users to locate their devices running MacOS and iOS, as well as use precision finding to track items with AirTags on them.

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