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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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05:03

Hyundai's $8B Georgia plant faces critical test in...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/27

This article is by Sarah Chea and read by an artificial voice. [NEWS ANALYSIS] Some critical quandaries for Hyundai Motor in the United States - the potential cancellation of EV subsidies and wastewater management issues - still loom large even after the long-anticipated opening of its $7.6 billion Metaplant in Georgia. The Korean automaker on Wednesday officially opened the 11.76 million-square-meter (126.58 million-square-foot) Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Ellabell,

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01:08

LG develops AI that cuts prototype quality assessment...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/27

This article is by Jin Eun-soo and read by an artificial voice. LG Electronics has come up with AI that can cut the time spent verifying the quality of product prototypes by 99 percent, the company said Thursday. The technology, according to LG Electronics, is able to estimate the quality of prototypes within three minutes compared to the three to eight hours it took in the past. The AI system itself has reduced training time by more than 95 percent and memory usage to one-tenth while

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01:54

Parent company greenlights Hanwha Aerospace's...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/27

This article is by Jin Eun-soo and read by an artificial voice. The holding company of Hanwha Group, which owns a 33.95 percent stake in the aerospace company, said it would acquire 1.6 million shares of the newly issued shares at 605,000 won each, paying out 980 billion won in total. "We agree with Hanwha Aerospace's need for aggressive investment," the company said in a release Wednesday. "In order to fully carry out responsibility as a major shareholder and elevate Hanwha Corporation's

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03:00

Six in 10 SNU medical students will return to...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/27

This article is by Cho Jung-woo, Chae Hye-seon and read by an artificial voice. At least six in 10 medical students at Seoul National University (SNU) said they will resume their studies, more than a year after leaving campus in protest of the government's plan to increase the medical school enrollment quota. Observers believe the move could influence the return of medical students at other schools participating in the mass protest. According to medical sources on Thursday, an SNU task

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01:03

Hyundai, Kia shares tumble as Trump announces 25% car...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/27

This article is by Sarah Chea and read by an artificial voice. Shares of Hyundai Motor and Kia are sinking Thursday morning as U.S. President Donald Trump announced 25 percent tariffs on all foreign automobiles and related parts. Trump on Wednesday ordered a 25 percent tariff to take effect on April 2, asserting that the tariffs are "permanent" and that he isn't considering further negotiations for any exceptions. Kospi-listed Hyundai Motor is trading 217,000 won ($148) as of 10:30 a.m.,

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01:57

Hyundai's $8 billion Metaplant opens in Georgia as...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

This article is by Sarah Chea and read by an artificial voice. Hyundai Motor Group officially unlocked its $7.6 billion metaplant in Georgia Wednesday, saving the company from tariff threats as U.S. President Donald Trump formalized 25 percent levies on all imported cars. The 11.76 million-square-meter (126.58 million-square-foot) metaplant in Bryan County, Georgia, will help Hyundai boost its U.S. production capacity to roughly 1.2 million units, around 70 percent of the company's total

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02:28

Following the wanderers of Orion

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

Ko Jae-hyun The author is a professor at the School of Semiconductor and Display Engineering, Hallym University. On winter nights, Orion often appears above the southeastern rooftops. The three stars aligned at the center - recognized by the Greeks as the hunter's belt - are the constellation's most iconic feature. As familiar as it is to the naked eye, Orion is also a fascinating subject for astronomers. Among its many wonders, the Orion Nebula - where young stars are being actively born

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03:50

It’s time for North Korea to free them

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

The author is a professor of Law at Yonsei University Law School. Since October 2013, North Korea has been unlawfully detaining three South Korean missionaries - Kim Jung-wook, Kim Kuk-ki, and Choi Chun-gil - for extended periods. Kim Jung-wook was arrested by North Korean authorities in October 2013 while carrying out humanitarian aid work, including support for North Korean defectors. The following year, he was sentenced to life with hard labor on charges including plotting to overthrow

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06:03

Rethinking private education: Why regional quotas...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

Kang Chang-hui The author, a professor of economics at Chung-Ang University, is the director of the Private Education Policy Research Center. Every March, Korea's Ministry of Education faces a familiar sense of dread. That's when Statistics Korea releases its annual report on private education spending for elementary, middle and high school students. This year, the total reached 29.2 trillion won ($19.91 billion), marking a 7.7 percent increase from the previous year, with per-student

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04:19

NewJeans saga raises thorny questions

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

Yang Sung-hee The author is a columnist at the JoongAng Ilbo. The first knot has been tied. This is about NewJeans, the girl group embroiled in a legal dispute with their agency, ADOR. The court has sided with ADOR's injunction, barring NewJeans from pursuing independent activities. In response, NewJeans - who had unveiled a new team name, NJZ, and begun taking steps toward going solo - immediately pushed back. They filed an objection to the court's ruling and declared a halt to all

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04:14

Who stole ‘democratic legitimacy’?

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

Kim Seung-hyun The author is the national news director at the JoongAng Ilbo. Perhaps the feeling I have should be called heonta - a play on the Korean slang hyeonta (short for "reality check time"), but with a twist. Watching the unfolding saga of the Dec. 3 martial law controversy and the recent Constitutional Court rulings, I've come to think of this emotional jolt as heonta, short for "constitutional awakening time." If hyeonta describes the hollow sensation of realizing the world is

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03:07

As wildfires become a 'new normal,' response system...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

The damage caused by simultaneous wildfires in Uiseong, North Gyeongsang, and Sancheong, South Gyeongsang, is becoming increasingly severe. Fueled by strong winds, the fires are spreading rapidly, causing the scale of destruction to grow exponentially. Most of the more than 20 reported fatalities were elderly individuals in their 60s or older, who were unable to evacuate in time as the flames quickly engulfed their surroundings. Acting President Han Duck-soo issued an emergency statement

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03:27

Lee acquitted in appellate trial, but that does not...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party (DP), was acquitted in the appellate trial of his violation of the Public Official Election Act case Wednesday, avoiding the immediate risk of losing his eligibility to run for office. In November last year, the lower court sentenced him to one year in prison, suspended for two years, for spreading false information regarding allegations related to the Daejang-dong and Baekhyeon-dong development projects during the last presidential election

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05:29

A golden opportunity to regain shipbuilding dominance

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

Kim Doo-sik The author, an attorney, is the executive director of Tech & Trade Institute. As China tightens its grip on global shipbuilding, a new front in the U.S.-China rivalry is emerging at sea. The timing aligns with a surge in global freight demand, creating favorable conditions for Korea to reclaim its status as a shipbuilding powerhouse. Though overshadowed by semiconductors and automobiles in GDP and export figures, shipbuilding is a strategic industry that underpins both economic

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02:31

Victor Horta’s masterpiece town houses

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

The author is an architect and professor emeritus at Korea National University of Arts. By the 1890s, as the Industrial Revolution neared its culmination, Europe's maturing bourgeois society longed for an art form of its own. Yet much of the art that remained was steeped in the antiquated traditions of the aristocracy. In response, parallel movements emerged across major European countries under the banner of a "new art": the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, the Secessionist groups in

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02:54

Three die as aged care facility evacuation ends in...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

This article is by Lee Eun-ji, We Sung-wook and read by an artificial voice. Three elderly residents died when a vehicle carrying them became engulfed in flames during an evacuation of a nursing home which housed 21 residents, all in their 70s and 80s, in Yeongdeok-eup, Yeongdeok County. Eighteen aged residents, however, were safely transferred to a church in Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang, as wildfires continued to sweep through the southeastern regions of the country on

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03:29

As Trump shoves China, Korean battery firms eye big...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

This article is by Sarah Chea and read by an artificial voice. Energy storage systems (ESS) have emerged as the next golden opportunity for Korean battery makers to target the U.S. market, benefiting from U.S. President Donald Trump's hostile tariff policy against China. ESS demand is soaring predominantly in North America thanks to AI-driven data centers and renewable energy projects like solar and wind power. China, the current dominant player in the ESS market, is facing limited access

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04:44

Appellate court overturns DP chief Lee's conviction...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

This article is by Michael Lee and read by an artificial voice. The Seoul High Court on Wednesday acquitted Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Jae-myung of lying during his last presidential campaign, completely overturning a one-year suspended prison sentence handed to him by a lower court on charges of violating the Public Official Election Act. The court's decision significantly relieves pressure on Lee to stand down as a contender in the potentially early presidential election that would

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00:35

Appellate court and......

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

The Seoul High Court will hand down a ruling on Wednesday regarding Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Jae-myung's appeal against his conviction on charges of violating election law. Lee was found guilty of violating the Public Official Election Act by lying during his 2021 presidential campaign and was handed a suspended one-year sentence by the Seoul Central District Court last year. If the Seoul High Court upholds or stiffens the lower court's sentence against the DP leader, he would come

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04:13

Still, dying isn’t an option

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/03/26

The author is a Buddhist monk and abbot of temple Cheongnyongam. The older we get, the slower we heal. Even with my closely shaved head, white hairs are beginning to show, and with them come more aches and longer recoveries. The four elements - earth, water, fire, and wind - that make up our bodies must be falling out of balance. Little seems to come easily these days. That goes for the mind, too. Courage wanes while worries pile up. I used to think the mind didn't age, but emotionally, it

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