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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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03:55

Exclusive: Taylor plots high-tech cluster as...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Lee Jae-lim and read by an artificial voice. The city government of Taylor, Texas, is gearing up to create an industrial cluster and data center around Samsung Electronics' $37 billion semiconductor plant, betting that the factory's scheduled completion in 2026 will turn the small town into a key Texas powerhouse. The initiative comes amid heightened expectations regarding the Samsung plant's growth potential, following its deal to supply Tesla as a major foundry

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05:45

Ailee's 'Golden' year has taken her from the altar to...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Shin Ha-nee and read by an artificial voice. When veteran singer Ailee first heard "Golden," the standout track from Netflix's smash hit animation film "Kpop Demon Hunters," she knew she had to sing it herself - so did her fans, with one popular comment on her cover video calling her rendition "the shiniest 'Golden' of them all." "I only cover songs that I really like to sing," said the Korean American vocalist during an interview with the Korea JoongAng Daily in western

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04:31

[단독] 테일러시, 삼성 반도체 공장 정문 앞에 고용단지 조성한다

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Lee Jae-lim and read by an artificial voice. 한국의 대표 영어신문, 코리아중앙데일리가 특종과 단독 인터뷰를 한글로 요약해 드립니다. 독자들의 많은 성원 바랍니다. 미국 텍사스 테일러시가 370억 달러 규모(약 52조원) 삼성전자 반도체 공장을 중심으로 산업 클러스터와 데이터센터 조성에 속도를 내고 있다. 2026년 준공 예정인 반도체 위탁생산(파운드리) 공장이 소도시 테일러를 텍사스 핵심 산업 거점으로 끌어올릴 것이라는 전망이다. 이런 결정은 최근 삼성전자가 테슬라와 파운드리 대형 계약을 체결하면서 공장 성장 잠재력에 대한 기대가 한층 높아진 가운데 나온 것이다. 캠퍼스 서쪽에서는 미국 데이터센터 운영사 블루프린트 데이터센터스가 10억 달러를 투자해 30MW(메가와트)급 시설을 짓고 있다. 테일러시 도시계획위원회가 지난 12일 공개한 문건에 따르면, 삼성 테일러 부지 인근 47.634 에이커(약

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04:44

Constitutional reform? First fix presidential pardons

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

The author is the editor of the investigative reporting bureau at the JoongAng Ilbo. In late 2003, two groups of Koreans - 163 legal experts and 250 members of the public - sat with surveys in hand, pondering four blunt questions. Were presidential pardons legitimate? Had they become a tool to free corrupt politicians and business figures? Did they undermine legal equality? Were they granted too frequently? The questions seemed almost insolent, challenging the president's power of

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02:36

Netflix’s 'KPop Demon Hunters' and the forgotten...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

The author is a playwright and director. The global success of Netflix's "KPop Demon Hunters" has stirred mixed emotions in Korea. The international acclaim is encouraging, but it also raises concern that foreign producers and platforms were the first to recognize and commercialize its potential. Many feel that others are seizing on the promise of Korean culture before Koreans themselves. This sense of ambivalence has a precedent in the history of giak - gigaku in Japanese - a Buddhist

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04:45

The role of 'productive finance' in an era of low...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

The author is a professor of economics at Dongguk University. The government has forecast economic growth of just 0.9 percent this year. The figure itself was striking enough to capture headlines. But another pressing issue - asset inequality - deserves equal attention. According to the 2024 Household Finance and Welfare Survey, the top 20 percent of households by income hold 45.8 percent of total assets. The bottom 20 percent account for only 6.3 percent. By net assets, the imbalance is

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03:23

Lee’s first U.S. summit sets the tone, but real test...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

President Lee Jae Myung passed his first major diplomatic test with relative success during a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. The lead-up to the meeting was unusually tense. Both the national security and presidential chiefs of staff accompanied Lee to Washington, an unprecedented show of caution. Concerns deepened when Trump posted an unexpected social media message just before the summit. Yet the two leaders appeared at ease throughout, projecting a

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04:06

BIFF goes big with Marco Bellocchio, Park Chan-wook...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Kim Ji-ye and read by an artificial voice. From holding Korea's first sing-along event of "KPop Demon Hunters" to expanding its film lineup, the 30th edition of the Busan International Film Festival is doing everything in its power to invigorate the struggling film industry. The event is set to kick off on Sept. 17 and run until Sept. 26, and 328 films - including 241 official selections from 64 countries and 87 works entered into the festival's side program, Community

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04:07

BIFF goes big with Marco Bellocchio, Park Chan-wook...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Kim Ji-ye and read by an artificial voice. From holding Korea's first sing-along event of "KPop Demon Hunters" to expanding its film lineup, the 30th edition of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is doing everything in its power to invigorate the struggling film industry. The event is set to kick off on Sept. 17 and run until Sept. 26, and 328 films - including 241 official selections from 64 countries and 87 works entered into the festival's side program,

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07:01

Experts discuss implications of Lee-Trump summit at...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Michael Lee and read by an artificial voice. Hours after South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, officials and experts gathered at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss what their summit revealed - and what it left unsaid - about the future of the South Korea-U.S. alliance. The 14th JoongAng-CSIS Forum, co-hosted by the JoongAng Ilbo and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), quickly turned into a

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02:40

Trump threatens higher tariffs on 'all countries with...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Kim Hyoung-gu and read by an artificial voice. WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump warned Monday that his administration will impose additional tariffs on countries that levy taxes or regulations on U.S. tech companies. Although the Korea-U.S. summit the same day did not touch on Korea's digital regulations, observers say Seoul could be affected. The Trump administration and U.S. Congress have long cited Korea's pending Online Platform Fair Act Law and other

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03:52

HD Hyundai announces joint multibillion-dollar U.S....

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Kim Ju-yeon and read by an artificial voice. HD Hyundai on Tuesday announced its first major investment in a Korea-U.S. initiative aimed at revitalizing U.S. shipbuilding that comes as part of Seoul's broader trade pact with Washington. The Korean shipbuilding giant said it would commit an undisclosed amount through a joint "multibillion-dollar investment program" with U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital and the state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB). The three

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05:19

'50 percent German, but my heart is Korean': How this...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Park Rin and read by an artificial voice. Jens Castrop, a 22-year-old midfielder, has rejected a potential call-up to Germany's national team and pledged his future to Korea. "I've always valued my roots and identity," Castrop said. "Choosing a national team isn't about honor or conditions - it's about where my heart truly belongs." Hong Myung-bo, head coach of the Korean national football team, announced the squad on Monday for a series of friendlies in the United

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02:32

LG Innotek holds recruitment event in Chicago

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/26

This article is by Kim Min-young and read by an artificial voice. LG Innotek hosted "Inno Connect," a global recruitment event, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago on Saturday. About 30 Ph.D. candidates and professionals from 14 leading U.S. universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Georgia Tech University and the University of Illinois, joined the event, the company said Tuesday. The company launched Inno Connect last year in

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08:35

100-degree heat, 100 millimeters of rain: Korea's...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/25

This article is by Cho Jung-woo and read by an artificial voice. [BEHIND THE NUMBERS] Korea is grappling with a summer of extremes, with blistering heat coinciding with bouts of torrential rain that dumped more than 100 millimeters an hour earlier in the season. In early July, temperatures in Korea soared past 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Gyeonggi's Gwangmyeong and Paju, cities just outside Seoul. It was the first time the country had ever seen July heat break that

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05:56

The tiger boom is here, but where are the tigers?

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/25

This article is by Kim Han-byul and read by an artificial voice. A full-blown tiger craze is sweeping through Korea. The National Museum of Korea's "Magpie and Tiger Badge" has already sold out online until the end of the year. On Liberation Day, a massive "drone tiger" appeared in the skies over the Han River. This unexpected tiger boom was fueled by the global success of the Netflix animated series "KPop Demon Hunters," which features a tiger side character named Duffy modeled after the

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02:26

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/25

The author is a writer and a senior fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. On July 14, 1789, the storming of the Bastille in Paris signaled the start of the French Revolution. Weeks later, on Aug. 26, the National Constituent Assembly - formed after breaking away from the Estates General convened by King Louis XVI - issued a declaration embodying the spirit of the revolution. It was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Article 1 proclaimed that men

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04:48

Embedding science and technology in Korea’s Constitution

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/25

The author is a professor at the KAIST Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy and the director of the Center for Science, Technology and Global Development. The Lee Jae Myung administration has placed constitutional reform as its top national policy goal. In Korean politics, constitutional debates have long centered on restructuring the political system, and today's discussions remain similar. Yet revising the Constitution must go beyond altering power structures. Amending the

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04:34

A new era of labor–politics collusion

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/25

The author is the editor of political, international, foreign and security news at the JoongAng Ilbo. The "Yellow Envelope Bill", which revises Articles 2 and 3 of the Labor Union Act, passed the National Assembly on Aug. 24. Though its implementation has been delayed for six months, the law marks a sweeping change. Under the revised Article 2, an "employer" is defined as anyone who can "substantively and concretely control or determine working conditions." In practice, this means a

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06:23

We need 'paradigm shift in how Korean content is...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/08/25

This article is by Kim Ji-ye and read by an artificial voice. [INTERVIEW] Korean content is no longer a niche curiosity - it's a worldwide attraction, with K-dramas and K-movies now leading the "K" trend, a global cultural shorthand for Korea. Riding this wave, K Wave Media (KWM) became the first Korean multi-entertainment company to be listed on Nasdaq in May. KWM is a multi-entertainment company, with four renowned Korean production studios under its arm - Bidangil Pictures, The LAMP

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