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Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea

Newsroom of the Korea JoongAng Daily

Audio recordings of the Korea JoongAng Daily"s in-depth, on-the-scene news articles and features informing readers around the world of the issues of the day in Korea. Under the slogan "Your window to Korea", the Korea JoongAng Daily is an English-language news organization focused on Korea that strives to publish factual, timely and unbiased articles.

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02:27

Korea drawn with Mexico, South Africa and European...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/06

Korea has been drawn into Group A for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North and Central America, setting up group-stage matches against Mexico, South Africa and a winner of one of four European playoffs. The draw took place on Friday at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Korea, ranked No. 22 in the FIFA rankings and placed in Pot 2, joined host nation Mexico from Pot 1, No. 61 South Africa from Pot 3, and a European playoff winner from Pot 4. Four European teams - Denmark, North Macedonia, Czech

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02:43

Korea drawn with Mexico, South Africa and European...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/06

This article is by Park Rin and read by an artificial voice. Korea has been drawn into Group A for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North and Central America, setting up group-stage matches against Mexico, South Africa and a winner of one of four European playoffs. The draw took place on Friday at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Korea, ranked No. 22 in the FIFA rankings and placed in Pot 2, joined host nation Mexico from Pot 1, No. 61 South Africa from Pot 3 and a European playoff winner from

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03:49

Korea's current account surplus decreases sharply in...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/05

This article is by Kim Nam-jun and read by an artificial voice. Korea's current account surplus shrank sharply in October after a long Chuseok holiday cut factory workdays and prompted more overseas travel, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said on Friday. According to the BOK's report released on the same day, the current account posted a $6.81 billion surplus in October, extending its streak of monthly surpluses to 30 consecutive months. But the surplus fell significantly to 49.4 percent from

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04:07

Congress moves to limit advanced chip exports to...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/05

This article is by Shim Seo-hyun and read by an artificial voice. U.S. lawmakers moved to block the export of advanced chips to China just a day after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged the White House to allow them, sharpening a clash between Washington and Silicon Valley over AI technology. Six Republican and Democratic senators on Thursday introduced the Secure and Feasible Exports (SAFE) Chips Act, which orders U.S. authorities to reject license applications for any chips more powerful than

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04:24

After two bankruptcies, how Kia survived 80 years to...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/05

This article is by Sarah Chea and read by an artificial voice. YONGIN, Gyeonggi - Twice driven to the brink of bankruptcy. Once fueled by the audacious dream of building aircraft. Rising from a humble bicycle parts shop to Korea's second-largest automaker. Such a tumultuous history leads back to one company: Kia. The Korean automaker held a ceremony on Friday marking its 80th anniversary at its Vision Square training center in Yongin, Gyeonggi, unveiling a concept car meant to encapsulate

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03:51

Too big to back: Samsung’s expensive Z TriFold stuck...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/05

This article is by Lee Ga-ram and read by an artificial voice. With Samsung Electronics set to release its three-panel Galaxy Z TriFold on Dec. 12, the company as well as insurers and consumers are scrambling to figure out what an appropriate insurance premium should be for a smartphone priced in the mid-3 million won ($2,040) range. As Korea sees its first smartphone priced at more than 3.5 million won, some predict that users may not be able to purchase insurance for the device at

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07:49

APR's founder sees the beauty sector differently,...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/05

This article is by Kim Kyung-mi, Noh Yu-rim and read by an artificial voice. Kim Byung-hoon, the chief executive of APR, has built one of Korea's most talked-about beauty companies by betting on a market few expected to grow: affordable home-use beauty devices. His strategy - blending heavy social media presence with data-driven product design - has helped turn a 50 million won ($33,935) startup into a public company valued in the trillions of won. But its rapid popularity has also raised

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02:39

Rachmaninoff and Horowitz

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

The author is a music critic and director of the classical music brand Poongwoldang.On Jan. 8, 1978, Carnegie Hall hosted a special performance marking the 50th anniversary of Vladimir Horowitz's American debut. The program featured Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, a work feared even by young virtuosos for its scale and difficulty. Horowitz was 75. Many wondered whether he was taking on too much. Yet he pressed ahead, driven by what Rachmaninoff had meant to him throughout his

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05:08

Was the 2,000-student expansion of medical schools...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

Joo Jung-wan The author is an editorial writer at the JoongAng Ilbo. The recent audit by the Board of Audit and Inspection on the push to expand Korea's medical school quota by 2,000 seats revealed findings that were surprising even to those who expected problems. The report reads almost like an absurdist drama. The previous Yoon Suk Yeol administration's confident assertions about "scientific evidence" for adding 2,000 medical students turned out to have no basis. What emerged instead was

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05:33

How should we understand today’s debate over an AI...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

The author is the chair of the board at KAIST and the former minister of environment. Whether the current wave of investment in AI represents a speculative bubble or a genuine technological transition has become a central question for policymakers and markets. Governments worldwide are accelerating AI initiatives, driven in part by a fear of missing out. The arrival of ChatGPT and DeepSeek, the volatility of GPU-linked stocks, and comments from the United States Federal Reserve on rates

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02:59

Coupang maintains irresponsible stance as fallout widens

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

The fallout from the Coupang data breach, which exposed the personal information of 33.7 million users, continues to deepen. Not only were names, addresses and phone numbers compromised, but also apartment entrance passwords and information on customers who left the platform years ago. Reports have surfaced of abnormal login attempts, overseas payment alerts and even unauthorized high-value charges on credit cards registered to Coupang accounts. As customers leave the platform, small

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06:36

President Lee lays out plan for ‘nuclear free’ Korean...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

This article is by Seo Ji-eun and read by an artificial voice. South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung laid out his administration's master plan for North Korea policy on Tuesday, a move experts say is meant to lower Pyongyang's immediate resistance to talks by replacing the politically charged term "denuclearization" with a more neutral vision of a "nuclear-free Korean Peninsula." Lee outlined the new direction at the inauguration ceremony of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council in

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02:58

Foreign Ministry lowers travel alerts for Cambodian...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

This article is by Michael Lee and read by an artificial voice. The Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs lowered the travel alert level for several popular tourist spots in Cambodia on Thursday, following a decline in reported crimes targeting Koreans. The ministry said the change reflected improved safety conditions in key areas. Notably, the province of Siem Reap - where Angkor Wat is located - was downgraded from level 2, or "refrain from travel," to level 1, or "exercise

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03:55

Hyundai’s hydrogen obsession shows no signs of...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

This article is by Sarah Chea and read by an artificial voice. GOYANG, Gyeonggi - Hyundai's fixation on hydrogen borders on the unprecedented, as the company presses ahead despite mounting costs even while rivals retreat from the technology over shaky profitability. Having introduced the world's first mass-produced hydrogen vehicle in 2013, the Korean automaker recently unveiled a fully redesigned Nexo SUV, extending nearly three decades of relentless investment in an energy source that

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03:01

Bigger 2026 budget for 'K-culture' and programs as...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

This article is by Lim Jeong-won and read by an artificial voice.The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's budget for 2026 has been finalized at 7.86 trillion won ($5.36 billion), an 11.2 percent increase from this year's budget, the ministry announced Wednesday. The Culture Ministry said Wednesday that the budget was approved at the plenary session of the National Assembly on Tuesday. The budget allocation focuses on developing Korean content into a national strategic industry as

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01:55

Shinsegae Property to debut smaller community-focused...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

This article is by Noh Yu-rim and read by an artificial voice. Shinsegae Property will debut its first Starfield Village on Friday in Paju, Gyeonggi, unveiling a scaled-down mall model built around books, play space and community use. Starfield Village Unjeong will act as the pilot site for Starfield's new community-focused model, Shinsegae Property, a subsidiary of retailer Emart, said Wednesday. The company positions the model as a neighborhood shopping space that layers family-oriented

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02:46

HD Hyundai outlines future growth strategy, targeting...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

This article is by Lim Jeong-won and read by an artificial voice. HD Hyundai has established its future growth strategy and implementation road map, aiming to achieve 100 trillion won ($68 billion) in group sales within the next five years, the world's largest shipbuilder said Thursday. HD Hyundai said Thursday that it held a group management strategy meeting at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan between Wednesday and Thursday. The meeting was attended by 32 executives from HD Hyundai

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03:48

The Korean talent and heart behind 'Zootopia 2'

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

This article is by Jung Hyun-mok and read by an artificial voice. The film "Zootopia 2" is proving to be a major box office hit, having become one of the top 10 worldwide releases of 2025 within a week of its release. Behind its success are several Korean animators who helped shape the sequel nearly a decade after the first movie. The film opened in Korea on Nov. 26 and drew 2.26 million moviegoers in just six days. Its global ticket sales have already surpassed $556.4 million, driven by

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04:33

Korea’s retirees exit work in their early 50s, face a...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/04

This article is by Kim Yeon-joo and read by an artificial voice. A recently-ended television drama following a middle-aged man who is pushed out of his workplace uses fiction to describe an ever-growing economic reality: Many Koreans now leave their primary careers in their early 50s, then spend years scrambling for lower-paid, less stable work. JTBC's "The Dream Life of Mr. Kim" follows Kim Nak-su, a corporate manager who accepts so-called voluntary retirement after refusing to fire his

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07:05

Tourists take to Korea's fresh-look, fast-delivery...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/12/03

This article is by Lee Jian and read by an artificial voice.Kylie DeLonge, a tourist from Australia, had been overdue for new prescription glasses - but she decided to wait a few weeks until her trip to Seoul. "I'd seen posts about how fast and affordable it could be to get them in Korea," she told the Korea JoongAng Daily via messages. When she landed in March, DeLonge headed to an optical shop in Myeongdong, the city's shopping district, where an optician did a quick free eye exam to

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