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Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea

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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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02:47

Chung Ki-sun takes over as chairman of HD Hyundai...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/17

This article is by Lim Jeong-won and read by an artificial voice. HD Hyundai named Executive Vice Chairman Chung Ki-sun as chairman on Friday in a leadership succession centered on the third generation scion of the shipbuilding group's founding family. The reshuffle comes as HD Hyundai faces a critical period for its shipbuilding and heavy-industry businesses. Chung is expected to spearhead shipbuilding cooperation with U.S. partners as the industry emerges as a key sector in the ongoing

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05:02

Korea's 'top-tier visa' program falling short of...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/17

This article is by Kim Yeon-joo and read by an artificial voice. As countries around the world fiercely compete to recruit talent for advanced industries like AI and semiconductors, Korea's ambitious new "top-tier visa" program is falling short of expectations. Critics say the stringent requirements have hindered its effectiveness in attracting high-level foreign professionals. According to data submitted by the Ministry of Justice to Democratic Party Rep. Jung Tae-ho on Wednesday, only

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05:04

Hyundai Motor focuses on China, India amid...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/17

This article is by Kim Hyo-seong and read by an artificial voice. Hyundai Motor is accelerating efforts to diversify its sales networks with market-specific strategies for China and India, as uncertainties in the global market - including potential auto tariffs in the United States - continue to linger. Beijing Hyundai (BHMC), the Korean automaker's joint venture in China, began preorders for its new compact electric SUV "Elexio" on Thursday, according to the automobile industry on the

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12:33

Why is Korea strangely absent from K-content's global...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Kim Ji-ye and read by an artificial voice. The record-breaking popularity of Netflix's "KPop Demon Hunters" has confirmed one thing: Korean content now commands a global audience. Released on June 20, the animated film continues to make history on the platform nearly four months after its debut. It has now become the most watched content on Netflix, outperforming the previous record holder, the first season of "Squid Game" (2021-) and marking the first Netflix production

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02:21

The paradox of housing regulation

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

Cho Won-Kyeong The author is a professor at UNIST and the head of the Global Industry-University Cooperation Center. The new administration has announced its third housing policy, expanding regulated zones. Regulatory efforts are also spreading abroad. In New York, tenants spend about 29 percent of their pretax household income on housing. After adjusting for disposable income, the burden is even heavier, prompting Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani to campaign on a policy of

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04:34

After Gaza, will Donald Trump try for a peace deal...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

Michael Green The author is the CEO of the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and the Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. U.S. President Donald Trump claims he has stopped eight wars. That number is debatable, but he deserves major credit for his recent Gaza peace deal. Phase One of the deal - a ceasefire, withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to a new line, opening of aid in Gaza and the release of remaining Israeli hostages

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03:15

Kospi breaks 3,700 — time for a structural, not just...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

The benchmark Kospi has surpassed the 3,700 mark for the first time in history. A rebound in the semiconductor sector - fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) demand and coupled with expectations of U.S. interest rate cuts and progress in tariff negotiations with Washington - has driven foreign capital into Korean equities. On the surface, the market looks like a classic bull run. But whether this becomes a sustained structural rally remains uncertain. Tailwinds in global conditions alone

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00:46

2025 Korea JoongAng Daily Forum — in pictures

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Michael Lee and read by an artificial voice. Some 220 participants, including ambassadors and senior diplomats from over 40 countries, attended the Korea JoongAng Daily Forum at the Lotte Hotel in central Seoul on Thursday. The event took place one day before the 25th anniversary of the printing of the paper's first edition on Oct. 17, 2000, when the JoongAng Ilbo launched an English-language newspaper in partnership with the International Herald Tribune, now The New

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05:00

Potential Trump-Kim summit could discuss joint South...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Seo Ji-eun and read by an artificial voice. South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Thursday that a potential summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on the sidelines of the upcoming APEC gathering could include discussions on Seoul-Washington "joint military exercises" as "a possible compromise." "If President Trump visits Korea [for APEC], there is a significant possibility that he and Chairman Kim could hold a

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05:15

Diplomats discuss prospects for peace after...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Michael Lee and read by an artificial voice. Ambassadors and senior diplomats in Seoul gathered Thursday to reflect on the state of inter-Korean relations and the growing challenges to peace and media freedom amid global uncertainty at the Korea JoongAng Daily Forum. The event, which took place one day before the 25th anniversary of the printing of the paper's first edition on Oct. 17, 2000, took place at the Lotte Hotel in Jung District, central Seoul. Some 40

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03:58

'Protection of independent media can't be taken for...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Cho Jung-woo and read by an artificial voice. Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, the international president of The New York Times, on Thursday underscored the vital role of the free press at a time when journalism faces profound challenges - from digital disruption and political attacks to declining public trust - as he celebrated the 25th anniversary of the paper's partnership with the Korea JoongAng Daily. "In liberal democracies today, we cannot take the protection of free

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05:08

Momentum builds in Korea-U.S. trade negotiations

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Kim Hyoung-gu and read by an artificial voice. Follow-up negotiations to a Korea-U.S. trade deal reached in late July appear to be nearing completion, as comments from top economic officials on both sides on Wednesday suggest rapid progress. With a Korea-U.S. summit likely to take place on the sidelines of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju later this month, attention is focused on whether a final agreement will be announced then. Asked whether the two sides

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02:34

Apple Music boosts K-pop with lyric translations,...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Shin Ha-nee and read by an artificial voice. As K-pop continues to expand its global reach, Apple Music is stepping up to ride - and further amplify - the genre's growing momentum. Apple Music's latest updates, rolled out in September as part of the broader iOS 26 launch, underscore that intent, introducing new features that would come in particularly handy for international K-pop fans, such as lyric translations and phonetic guides. Apple Korea highlighted the streaming

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06:25

'No Other Choice' pioneers new approach to breaking...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Cho Young-shin and read by an artificial voice. Cinema may be celebrated as culture, but it only survives as an industry. From the moment the Lumière brothers charged audiences for the first film screening at the Le Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris 1895, cinema has lived by a simple rule - a film that cannot make money cannot survive. Culture without profit cannot sustain itself as an industry. That basic principle has become precariously real for the Korean film

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04:18

USFK protests special counsel investigation team...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Cho Mun-gyu and read by an artificial voice. U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) sent a letter of protest to the Korean government over a raid conducted by the special counsel investigation team led by Cho Eun-seok at Osan Air Base, according to diplomatic sources on Thursday. The special counsel team reiterated in a press briefing held on Thursday that the raid did not violate the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Korea and the United States. The letter was sent by USFK

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03:23

Korea's top business leaders to visit U.S. to help...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/16

This article is by Kim Su-min, Na Sang-hyeon and read by an artificial voice. Top Korean conglomerate leaders are heading to the United States this week to help break a deadlock in Korea-U.S. tariff negotiations and to discuss a proposed $400 billion AI infrastructure project led by SoftBank. SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son recently proposed the visit to a group of Korea's top corporate chiefs, including Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group Chairman Chey

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02:24

Tired of rain? At least it's only made of water

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

Moon Hong-kyu The author is a principal researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. During the Chuseok holidays, I was greeted by a long stretch of monsoon-like rain. A day or two of showers can be a blessing after a dry spell, but when it lingers, we start to miss the crisp autumn sun and the deep blue sky. It made me wonder: could such watercolor-like days of rain exist beyond Earth? If we turn our gaze toward the pitch-black expanse of the universe, we find worlds

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05:15

U.S. stance on Taiwan has far reaching implications

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

Cha Se-hyeon The author is an editorial writer at the JoongAng Ilbo. An intriguing hypothesis about the shifting balance of power in Northeast Asia suggests that as U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan intensify, ties between North Korea and China grow closer - and hopes for denuclearization fade. The logic is that Beijing uses Pyongyang as leverage to influence Washington's policies on what China regards as its core national interest: Taiwan. In 2002, during the George W. Bush administration,

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06:01

The addictive drug of modern political efficacy

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

Lee Hyun-sang The author is the head of the editorial board at the JoongAng Ilbo. "Why did the party make that decision?" According to aides, President Lee Jae Myung has been asking that question frequently these days. Woo Sang-ho, senior presidential secretary for political affairs, said on television that he agreed with the Democratic Party's overall direction but sometimes struggled with "differences in pace and tone." His words reveal growing unease within the ruling camp: the party's

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03:31

Oct. 15 housing measures target demand, but supply...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

The Lee Jae Myung administration unveiled its third real estate policy package on Oct. 15, four months after taking office. In its Oct. 15 plan to stabilize the housing market, the government designated all of Seoul and 12 districts in Gyeonggi - mainly in the southeastern region - as regulated zones and land transaction permit zones. In these regulated areas, the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio for mortgages will be cut from 70 to 40 percent, while the debt-to-income (DTI) ratio will also be

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