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Korea’s ICT minister met Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Seoul on Monday to discuss bringing more of the US chipmaker’s AI computing infrastructure to Korea and expanding cooperation in physical AI. Deputy Prime Minister and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon met Huang during Nvidia’s Korea AI Ecosystem Reception in Seoul, the Ministry of Science and ICT said. Talks focused on the planned delivery of 260,000 Nvidia GPUs, the introduction of Vera Rubin-based AI factories in Korea, and closer cooperation betw

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Mirae Asset taps Singapore's UOB for omnibus accounts

Mirae Asset Securities said Monday it has launched a foreign investor omnibus account service through a partnership with Singapore-based brokerage UOB Kay Hian, in a move aimed at improving overseas investors' access to South Korean equities. The service was developed through Mirae Asset Securities' Singapore subsidiary and is expected to broaden access to the Korean stock market for investors in Singapore and across Southeast Asia. UOB Kay Hian is the brokerage arm of Singapore-listed UOB Kay H

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SK Chemicals taps Omya to expand SKYPEL sales in Europe

SK Chemicals said Monday it has appointed Switzerland-based Omya Performance Polymer Distribution as the official European distributor for SKYPEL, its thermoplastic polyester elastomer. Under the agreement, Omya will oversee sales, customer support, technical services and logistics for SKYPEL across Europe. Headquartered in Aargau, Switzerland, Omya distributes a wide range of specialty materials, including engineering plastics, thermoplastic elastomers and rubber products. SKYPEL is a polyester

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SK Biopharmaceuticals opens US innovation hub to support Korean biotech firms

SK Biopharmaceuticals has launched an innovation space to support promising Korean biotech and pharmaceutical companies as they expand into the United States and across the globe. SK Biopharmaceuticals held the official opening ceremony of SK Life Science LinX at its New Jersey-based subsidiary, SK Life Science, last week, the company announced Monday. SK Life Science LinX features a floor space of about 530 square meters with individual rooms, which SK Biopharmaceuticals said will serve as a br

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Doosan seeks bigger role in Nvidia's AI factory ecosystem

Doosan Group said Monday it would deepen ties with US chip giant Nvidia in physical AI-driven robotics and AI factories, expanding their partnership beyond collaborative robots to build a broader AI value chain. Based on the partnership, Doosan will combine its manufacturing expertise in robotics, energy solutions and advanced materials for AI semiconductors with Nvidia’s accelerated computing and Physical AI platforms to explore new business opportunities. One of the expected synergies is Doosa

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George Washington University seeks deeper Korea ties in AI, student exchange

George Washington University plans to deepen ties with South Korean universities as part of efforts to expand its research and degree programs in artificial intelligence, public health and international affairs, the university's president said. Ellen Granberg, who visited Seoul last week with a university delegation, said Korean universities have become increasingly important partners for GW as the Washington, DC-based institution seeks to expand international cooperation in fast-moving academic

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Nvidia taps Naver for gigawatt-scale AI cloud push in Korea

Nvidia and Naver are expanding their artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership and sovereign AI initiative, using the Korean internet giant’s existing data center in Sejong as the starting point to scale AI cloud capacity toward gigawatt-level AI factories. Nvidia said in a media prebriefing early Monday that it will work with Naver across its full AI stack, from DSX-based AI factories to Nemotron-powered sovereign AI models and Cosmos-enabled physical AI, as the US chip giant seeks to

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[Graphic News] Korea World Cup kits rank 21st, 35th

ESPN has ranked the 48 kits for the 2026 FIFA World Cup based on visual appeal, placing South Korea’s uniforms in the middle-to-lower tier of the list. The national team's away kit ranked 21st, while its home kit came in 35th. The lavender away kit drew praise for its distinctive color scheme and glow-in-the-dark logo, though it fell short of the top tier. The red-and-black home kit, inspired by a tiger motif, was considered a solid design but lacked the originality to stand out among the tourna

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Iran protests US visa denials for World Cup team staff

With the conflict between the United States and Iran still unresolved, a new controversy has emerged ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup after several members of Iran's national team staff were reportedly denied entry visas to the United States, prompting a strong protest from Tehran. On Friday, Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Türkiye and President Donald Trump's special envoy for Syria, announced in a statement on X that visas had been issued to Iranian players through the US Embassy in Türkiye.

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[Photo News] A pitch for future partnership

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang throws the ceremonial first pitch before the Doosan Bears’ home game against the Kiwoom Heroes at the Seoul Jamsil Baseball Stadium on Sunday. Doosan Group Chair Park Jeong-won (left), who is also the owner of the Doosan Bears, was Huang's counterpart as the ceremonial batter. Industry watchers anticipate that the baseball meeting between the two business tycoons will lead to robotics and AI collaboration between them in the future.

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Lee Jung-hoo extends hitting streak to 14 games

Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants extended his hitting streak to 14 consecutive games. Lee started in right field and batted fifth in the Giants' road game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on Saturday. He went 2-for-4 with a stolen base and a run scored. The performance allowed Lee to extend the longest hitting streak of his career by one more game. The streak began on May 15 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. His season batting average rose from .321 to .324 (70 hits in 216 at-bat

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Foreign selling drives won to 16-year low

The Korean won briefly breached the 1,560-per-dollar level in overnight trading Friday, falling to its weakest point since the global financial crisis as foreign selling and broad-based dollar strength overwhelmed Korea's solid export fundamentals. The won closed at 1,559 per dollar in Seoul's overnight market at 2 a.m. Saturday after touching 1,561.5 during the session, its weakest level since March 2009. The slide accelerated after the dollar-won rate ended Friday's regular session at 1,539.1,

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Han to propose bill making NEC subject to state audit

Independent lawmaker Han Dong-hoon, who entered the National Assembly after winning the June 3 by-election in Busan’s Buk-A constituency, said he will propose an amendment to the Board of Audit and Inspection Act that would subject the National Election Commission to state audit. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Han said the election watchdog had become “a sanctuary free from oversight,” arguing that recent problems had reached a point where even the basic principles of election management were bei

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Jensen Huang courts Korea's AI ecosystem on packed Seoul tour

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's Korea trip has unfolded with fanfare, selfies and a full course of Korean crowd-pleasers — from a PC bang appearance with a legendary League of Legends player to candid talks with the country's top tech chiefs over Korean barbecue. Through Monday night, Huang's itinerary was set to span more PC bang stops, fried chicken, samgyetang and baseball as he discussed next-generation technologies and sought to reinforce Nvidia's collaboration with Korean partners in AI, robotic

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Nvidia chief bolsters ties with Krafton, NC in Seoul

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again chosen Korea’s PC gaming cafes as the places to meet with the founders of the country’s leading game companies — Krafton and NC — after picking T1’s Base Camp as the first destination during his visit to Seoul on Friday. Huang joined Chang Byung-gyu, founder and chair of Krafton, and Kim Taek-jin, founder and co-CEO of NC, at two gaming cafes located across the street from one another in Gangnam-gu in southern Seoul on Sunday afternoon. The chiefs of Nvidia

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보이 그룹 제로베이스원(ZEROBASEONE) 멤버 박건욱이 이벤트 조작 논란에 이어 공중도덕을 지키지 않는 모습이 포착되며 도마 위에 올랐다. 최근 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 차에서 내리는 박건욱이 안전 고깔을 발로 차서 무너뜨린 후 곧장 건물 안으로 들어가는 동영상이 게재됐다. 영상 속 박건욱은 차 문을 열자마자 자신의 앞에 멀쩡히 놓여있는 안전 고깔인 라바콘을 갑자기 발로 찼다. 이후 대수롭지 않은 듯 무너진 라바콘을 그대로 둔 채 건물 안으로 들어갔다. 2005년생의 성인이 공중도덕을 전혀 의식하지 않은 미성숙한 태도로 보인 것....

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Smilegate doubles down on Crossfire with new AAA title

Smilegate is zeroing in on expanding the intellectual property of Crossfire, a megahit PC shooter with over 1 billion registered players since its release in 2007, unveiling the trailer for a Crossfire spinoff developed by US studio That’s No Moon on Friday. That’s No Moon, a Los Angeles-based game developer established by a $100 million investment commitment from Korean game firm Smilegate in 2021, debuted the in-game trailer of Crossfire that bears the same title as the original PC shooter dur

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OECD projects S. Korea's potential growth rate to hit record low in 2027

South Korea's potential growth rate is projected to fall to a record low next year, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Sunday, despite robust exports fueled by a semiconductor boom. The OECD's latest data shows the country's potential growth rate at 1.52 percent in 2027, down sharply from 1.66 percent this year. On a quarterly basis, the country's potential growth rate is expected to decline further to 1.46 percent in the fourth quarter of next year. The po

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Career-best hitting streak reaches 14 games for SF Giants' Lee Jung-hoo

Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants has now hit safely in 14 consecutive games. Lee extended his career-best hitting streak by going 2-for-4 with a run and a steal against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Saturday. The South Korean outfielder raised his batting average from .321 to .324, the fourth-best mark in Major League Baseball with evening games still to be played. Lee flied out in his first two trips to the plate before hitting a single in the top of the seventh inning

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Jensen Huang and Faker meet, celebrate mutual rise

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang began his five-day Korea visit Friday not in a boardroom but in a packed Hongdae gaming cafe, paying tribute to the Korean gaming culture he says built his company. Fans clutching phones had massed outside T1 Base Camp, a "PC bang," or internet gaming cafe, run by esports organization T1 in the Hongik University area of western Seoul. Staff held them back from the corridor and EDM pulsed through the venue. Huang, fresh off his 1 p.m. arrival at Gimpo International Airport

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