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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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03:53

Veteran K-pop idol becomes his own CEO with a debt...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/17

This article is by Shin Ha-nee and read by an artificial voice. K-pop isn't built for lone wolves. In this notoriously capitalistic industry in which idols can rarely take a single creative step without a corporate machine behind them, one veteran K-pop idol has jumped off the cliff alone - and financed his parachute with loans. Without an agency or production team behind him, boy band Infinite's Jang Dong-woo is releasing his second solo EP, "AWAKE," with the long-term goal of not only

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03:52

Veteran K-pop idol becomes his own CEO with a debt...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/17

This article is by Shin Ha-nee and read by an artificial voice. K-pop isn't built for lone wolves. In this notoriously expensive industry in which idols can rarely take a single creative step without a corporate machine behind them, one veteran K-pop idol has jumped off the cliff alone - and financed his parachute with loans. Without an agency or production team behind him, boy band Infinite's Jang Dong-woo is releasing his second solo EP, "Awake," with the long-term goal of not only

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02:21

The body as a page on which life is written

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/17

The author is a novelist. Some books arrive with a heat so intense they feel like a boiling kettle. Johanna Hedva, a Korean American writer, artist and musician born in 1984, brings that heat in "How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom" (2024), a work that rises as a new star among the books that have seared themselves into my memory. While reading it, I felt my mind burn more than once and found myself wanting to share that experience. "Because we want to live, we

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04:17

Time to end the wasteful disputes over early voting...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/17

Kim Bum-soo The author is the president of the Korean Political Science Association and a professor at Seoul National University. The Constitutional Court unanimously ruled on Oct. 23 that the clauses on early voting in the Public Official Election Act are constitutional. The court found that the system improves convenience and access for voters, enabling them to exercise their voting rights more easily. It was the court's first clear judgment that early voting, long suspected by some to

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04:30

Protecting Jongmyo while abandoning Jongno?

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/17

Choi Min-woo The author is the editor of political, international, foreign and security news at the JoongAng Ilbo. I visited Jongmyo on Sunday afternoon. It was crowded. Visitors waited about 10 minutes in the ticket booth line, and once inside the grounds, I found foreign tourists and tour groups filling the walkways. The current debate over the Jongmyo skyline is not about the shrine being invisible from the outside because of redevelopment in the nearby Sewoon district. The controversy

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03:07

Inclusive finance is necessary, but 'financial caste...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/17

President Lee Jae Myung last week identified regulation, finance, the public sector, pensions, education and labor as six areas in urgent need of structural reform. His view that reforms must begin now, as signs of economic recovery start to emerge, is sound. Structural reform is painful, but it is also essential for raising Korea's potential growth rate and advancing the economy. Still, concern has grown over the way he framed the need for financial reform. Lee questioned whether the

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03:14

Taste of Italy mixes with local touches at Park...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/16

This article is by Woo Ji-won and read by an artificial voice.[AMBASSADOR'S TABLE - RESTAURANT REVIEW] A meal is just a meal - unless it's in the hands of people who refuse to let it be ordinary. With five-star hospitality and a chef who has spent over two decades in hotel kitchens, dining becomes a seamless two-hour experience where every detail plays its part. The experience at Park Hyatt Seoul's Italian restaurant, Cornerstone, begins the moment the elevator doors slide open. Suited

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08:48

From spaghetti to space, Italian ambassador eyes...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/16

This article is by Seo Ji-eun and read by an artificial voice. Seoul's ambassadors are often gastronomes keen to share a taste of their home cuisine. In this series, the Korea JoongAng Daily asks the diplomatic corps to introduce our readers to their favorite restaurants representing cuisine from their homelands, while chatting about issues of interest to our Korean and global audience. - Ed. While pizza and pasta may be ubiquitous, much of what the world eats as "Italian style" strays far

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09:21

Regional cities find recipe for tourism success with...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/16

This article is by Woo Ji-won and read by an artificial voice. GUMI, North Gyeongsang - If you could try a ramyeon chili burrito, a hanwoo (Korean beef) intestine yaki ramyeon or even grilled samgyeopsal (pork belly) cream ramyeon, would you travel across the country for it? Droves of people did - with 350,000 flocking to this year's Gumi Ramyun Festival in North Gyeongsang to taste one-of-a-kind creations. The number is nearly double last year's crowd of 170,000, and more than half a

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02:46

Takht-i-Bahi, the homeland of Buddhist art

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/16

The author is an architect and former president of Korea National University of Arts. The Gandhara region in northeastern Pakistan became a meeting point of Eastern and Western culture after Alexander the Great reached the area in 326 BC. Around five centuries later, the Kushan Empire unified the region and promoted Buddhism within this Hellenistic environment, giving rise to a distinctive Greco-Buddhist tradition. The earliest human-form Buddha statues emerged here, along with thousands

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05:14

Will targeting retail investors slow the won’s slide?

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/16

The author is an editorial writer at the JoongAng Ilbo. "Foreign investors are selling Korean stocks and bonds and taking the money home, and we are even giving them a favorable exchange rate on the way out." This was one of the comments posted beneath news articles on Friday, when foreign exchange authorities signaled a forceful intervention to halt a sharp climb in the won-dollar rate. The won, which had weakened toward 1,475 per dollar in intraday trading, bounced back into the 1,450

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05:15

An era of loneliness we can no longer ignore

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/16

The author is a professor emeritus of sociology at Yonsei University. When the U.S. sociologist David Riesman brought "loneliness" into public debate in the mid-20th century, he argued that modern people had become anxious about losing their place within the organizations they belonged to. In "The Lonely Crowd" (1950), he described how this anxiety produced an "other-directed" character type, shaped less by individual conviction than by concern for how others think and behave. For Riesman,

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03:29

Korea must ensure U.S. investment leads to domestic...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/16

Following the conclusion of Korea-U.S. tariff negotiations and the release of a fact sheet outlining concrete investment conditions, the question of how to prevent industrial hollowing-out has emerged as a new policy challenge. The United States has proposed large-scale investment plans focused on energy, power grids and advanced manufacturing. Ensuring that these initiatives translate into real opportunities for Korean companies must be a priority in follow-up negotiations. With Korean

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07:09

Samsung, Hyundai to invest $400B at home as...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/16

This article is by Sarah Chea and read by an artificial voice. Samsung pledged to invest 450 trillion won ($310 billion) in Korea over five years to sharply expand its chip manufacturing capacity as President Lee Jae Myung voiced concerns that an intensified focus on U.S. investment could come at the expense of domestic spending under the recently concluded tariff deal with Washington. The chipmaker also began structural construction of its P5 plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, which has been

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09:27

How the prosecution’s decision to not appeal the...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/15

This article is by Michael Lee and read by an artificial voice. [EXPLAINER] The long-running saga over alleged corruption in the Daejang-dong development project in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, took an unexpected turn this month when prosecutors announced they would not contest the sentences handed down by the Seoul Central District Court against key defendants on Oct. 31. By forgoing an appeal, the prosecution effectively abandoned the chance to argue that the defendants - a network of private

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06:49

AI boom requires lots of energy. Korea isn't moving...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/15

This article is by Ahn Hyo-seong and read by an artificial voice. As AI research accelerates, Korean universities are facing a growing power shortage - so severe that some have had to restrict energy use by shutting down servers in other labs. "AI research consumes massive amounts of electricity, and power-related issues are becoming more frequent," said a professor at a university in the Seoul metropolitan area. "Even if Nvidia delivers high-performance GPUs as promised, we may not be

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09:55

[WHY] Good luck? Good energy? Or just a good time?...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/14

This article is by Kim Ji-ye and read by an artificial voice. At around 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, dozens of people lined up outside a shop called Spa in northern Seoul's Nowon District waiting to buy lottery tickets. The line snaked around a corner, with even a small stand set up selling nuts to bored customers enduring the wait. "I came here because I thought I might have better luck winning," said Choi Eun-hee, 28, after finally purchasing her ticket after waiting for 15 minutes in the

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04:39

West Bund shines as the heart of Shanghai Art Week

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/14

This article is by Lee Jian and read by an artificial voice. SHANGHAI - November is arguably the best month to visit Shanghai: mild temperatures, blue skies, and the city's beloved hairy crab in peak season. It's also when Shanghai Art Week - one of China's largest, citywide art celebrations - brings an extra dose of international flair. With major art fairs, Shanghai Biennale and dozens of parties and exhibitions across the city, the port megacity gives art lovers plenty to explore. At

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09:55

[WHY] Good luck? Good energy? Or just a good time?...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/14

This article is by Kim Ji-ye and read by an artificial voice. At around 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, dozens of people lined up outside a shop called Spa in northern Seoul's Nowon District waiting to buy lottery tickets. The line snaked around a corner, with even a small stand set up selling nuts to bored customers enduring the wait. "I came here because I thought I might have better luck winning," said Choi Eun-hee, 28, after finally purchasing her ticket after waiting for 15 minutes in the

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02:00

Le Sserafim's agency warns it will take legal action...

Korea JoongAng Daily - Daily News from Korea ·

2025/11/14

This article is by Shin Ha-nee and read by an artificial voice. Source Music, a K-pop agency under HYBE managing girl group Le Sserafim, issued a warning that it will take legal action in response to "a sharp surge of malicious posts" on Friday. The official statement comes as online debates and fan wars intensify following NewJeans' return to ADOR, another HYBE label. "We have confirmed a recent sharp surge in malicious online posts targeting Le Sserafim and individual members, including

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