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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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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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07:29

From reverence to reckoning: Scandals pull back...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

This article is by Michael Lee and read by an artificial voice. [EXPLAINER] After decades spent weaving a formidable web of religious, business and media companies, the Unification Church - formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification - now finds itself under the harsh light of official inquiries in both Korea and Japan. Long dismissed by traditional Christian denominations for its departures from mainstream theology, the church today faces a different set of

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01:52

Chung Mong-joon calls for 'close cooperation' between...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

This article is by Cho Jung-woo and read by an artificial voice. Chung Mong-joon, founder and honorary chairman of the Seoul-based Asan Institute for Policy Studies, on Wednesday likened Korea-Japan relations to a "half-filled cup," calling on Tokyo to "make an effort to fill the rest." Speaking at the 2025 Korea-Japan Policy Dialogue in Tokyo, Chung emphasized the need for "close cooperation" between the two countries amid rapidly changing regional security conditions. "According to

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05:22

'KPop Demon Hunters' star EJAE opens up about...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

This article is by Kim Ji-ye and read by an artificial voice. Netflix "KPop Demon Hunters" artist EJAE - the singing voice behind HUNTR/X's Rumi - has been steadily building her music career as a composer, working behind the scenes and collaborating with K-pop groups such as Red Velvet, Le Sserafim, Twice and NMIXX. Now, however, she is set to step into the spotlight as a singer, something she had only been able to dream of before. "I've always thought being a composer is the most

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03:16

'Unpretty Rapstar' returns after 9 years with 'Hip...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

This article is by Shin Ha-nee and read by an artificial voice. Mnet has brought back its iconic female rapper competition series "Unpretty Rapstar" (2015-) after a nine-year hiatus with the fourth and latest installment, "Unpretty Rapstar: Hip Pop Princess." And no, that's not a typo: The new season of the show aims to blend hip-hop and pop to debut a hip-hop-focused girl group from its 40 contestants, half of who are from Korea, and the other half from Japan. The concept marks a sharp

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11:04

390 miles to Busan: One intrepid reporter's six-day...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

This article is by Jim Bulley and read by an artificial voice. [GIVE IT A GO] When we started the "Give it a Go" series six months ago, we never expected it to culminate in someone cycling the length and breadth of Korea. But that's where it's taken us (to be clear, the series isn't ending - I just assume nobody will ever give it a go as hard as I gave it a go), and here's the story of my six-day cycling adventure crossing Korea from the northwestern port city of Incheon to the

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09:57

'We're back to square one': Nuclear manufacturers...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

This article is by Shin Su-min and read by an artificial voice. CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang - As Korea's new government signals another pivot away from nuclear power, small reactor-part manufacturers in cities like Changwon fear a return to the bleak years of the previous phaseout policy, warning that the industry can't survive policy whiplash every election cycle. "There's nothing I can do - we're back to square one," said Kang Seong-hyeon, the CEO of Youngjin Techwin, speaking from his

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03:18

Experts warn relocating fraud groups complicates...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/10/15

This article is by Im Soung-bin and read by an artificial voice. Fraud gangs in Cambodia, responsible for kidnapping and detaining Korean nationals, are showing signs of mass moving their locations in a bid to escape investigations. Officials warn that if those groups relocate to other parts of Southeast Asia, it could make the Korean government's response more difficult. On Tuesday, multiple Telegram channels and police briefings indicated that several scam groups based in Sihanoukville's

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