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롯데월드 ‘시급 100만원’ 메이플 NPC 알바…4만여명 몰렸다

롯데월드가 당근마켓과 손잡고 진행한 이색 아르바이트 모집에 약 2주 동안 지원자 4만여명이 몰렸다. 이번에 모집한 아르바이트는 롯데월드 내 ‘메이플아일랜드존’에서 NPC(Non-Player Character)로 등장해 방문객에게 특별 퀘스트(임무)를 전달하는 역할을 수행한다. 앞서 롯데월드는 지난 4월부터 넥슨과 협업해 야외 공간인 매직아일랜드에

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'Kidnap Game' sets pan-Asian cast led by Lee Joon-gi, Kentaro Sakaguchi

Lee Joon-gi, known for hit K-dramas including "Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo" and "Flower of Evil," is set to headline the multinational series “Kidnap Game” alongside Japanese actor Kentaro Sakaguchi and Taiwanese actor Alice Ko. “Kidnap Game” is a joint production involving creative teams from South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. The series centers on simultaneous kidnapping cases unfolding across seven Asian cities — Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok, Naha and Manila — as characters bec

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Park Eun-bin: 'I simply trusted the team' despite Cha Eun-woo scandal buzz

Netflix's superhero comedy series "The WONDERfools" got off to a bruising start, overshadowed by co-star Cha Eun-woo's massive tax evasion scandal involving 13 billion won ($8.6 million), a figure unprecedented in the history of the Korean entertainment industry. But when the series premiered on May 15, it drew a new sort of attention. What initially looked like a campy superhero comedy revealed itself to be a heartfelt ensemble piece packed with richly textured characters. Park Eun-bin, who pla

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KPop Demon Hunters takes first K-pop win at 2026 AMAs

Netflix animated film “KPop Demon Hunters” notched up a win at the 52nd American Music Awards as fictional girl group Huntrix took home the song of the year award for “Golden.” Accepting the award, singer-songwriter Ejae — the singing voice for the character Rumi and the lyricist and composer for the track — thanked fans for the achievement. “This movie, this song is fueled by the fans. You guys truly sealed the honmoon,” said Ejae, during her acceptance speech, referencing the mythic barrier in

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Unification ministry defends white paper against criticism over 'two-state' language

The unification ministry on Tuesday pushed back against criticism that its newly published white paper violates the Constitution, clarifying the controversial "two-state" language falls under broader peace efforts on the Korean Peninsula. The ministry characterized the "two-state" language as an "implementation strategy" to achieve the current administration's policy of peaceful coexistence with North Korea. "(It) is an implementation strategy to achieve the goal of the policy of peaceful coexis

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Sangpyeong Tongbo

The first legal tender in Korea, Sangpyeong Tongbo was issued in 1678 (the fourth year in the reign of King Sukjong of Joseon) and used nationwide for about 200 years until the late Joseon Dynasty. The name Sangpyeong is a shortened version of sang si pyeong joon, meaning "a consistent value at all times and easily usable by anyone." On the obverse of the coin, each letter of the word "sang, pyeong," (vertical) and "tong, bo" (horizontal) was stamped around a rectangular hole in the middle, while the top of the reverse showed an abbreviation for the name of the mint. The Thousand-Character Classic, numeral letters, or codes were additionally printed later to stem counterfeiting and apportion blame. According to the unit of old Korean coinage, one Sangpyeong Tongbo equaled one Moon. One hundred Moon equaled ten Jeon, and ten Jeon equaled one Nyang.

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Fourth-design 100-hwan Note

With the launch of the new government after the April 19 revolution in 1960, Bank of Korea issued a newly designed banknote as an embodiment of building a new economic order. The third-design 1,000-hwan note was issued in 1960, the third-design 500-hwan note in 1961, and the fourth-design 100-hwan note in 1962. As part of the First Five-year Economic Development Plan, this 100-hwan note accepted the design theme of a mother and her son holding a bankbook to encourage saving and a sense of thrift. Both the front and back of the note featured pure Korean letters without using Chinese characters. However, this note took out of circulation in only 20 days due to the currency reform on June 10, 1962, being the shortest-lived currency since Bank of Korea started to issue banknotes.

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Knife-shaped Coins

Knife Money (Mingdaoqian) is a bronze coin widely circulated from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period. The coin bears the character "Ming (明)" on one side and three straight lines on the handle with the ring-shaped end. Similar coins unearthed in the northwestern part of the Korean Peninsula, including the Cheongcheongang River, the Daedonggang River, and the upstream of the Yalu River. Mingdaoqian is the most frequently found among the ancient Chinese coins in the Korean Peninsula, indicating that Gojoseon engaged in active trade with the Yan Dynasty.

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Banliang

The ban liang coin was first issued in the Qin dynasty during the reign of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who unified China's politically warring states in 221 BC and their currencies in an effort to lay secure foundations for a new centralized state. The coin was round with a square hole in the middle, reflecting the traditional cosmology of East Asia in which the sky is round and the earth square. Thereafter, the shape of the ban liang coin became the standard form for other coins made across Korea, Japan and Vietnam, as well as in China in the following periods. The coin took its name from the two-character inscription, ban liang (半兩), in seal script. The liang is an ancient unit of weight consisting of 24 zhu (or su), each of which is equivalent to about the weight of 100 grains of black millet, approximately 0.65 grams, and, accordingly, a ban (“half”) liang consists of 12 zhu, or approximately 7.8 grams.

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Kanei Tsuho

The Kanei Tsuho is a Japanese coin that is comparable to Joseon’s Sangpyeong Tongbo in that it was issued in larger amounts and in more types than any other coin, and was circulated for the longest period in the history of Japanese currency. The coin was issued in local mints across Japan for about 240 years from 1626, the 3rd Kanei year in the Tokugawa Shogunate period, to 1868 and was used widely by the common people of Japan. The front face of the coin is inscribed with four Chinese characters representing its name, Kanei Tsuho (寬永通寶), while its rear face contains inscriptions of the name of the area, a decorative design, numbers and characters.

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Daming Tongxing Baochao

The Daming Tongxing Baochao is a paper note that was circulated in Ming China during the fourteenth century, and is known to have been the world's largest banknote. Issued during the Hongwu period (1328 – 1398), this particular banknote contains the inscription “Daming Tongxing Baochao” (大明通行寶鈔) written in regular script at the top of its front face, and eight characters, “Daming Baochao Tianxia Tongxing” (大明寶鈔天下通行) written in seal script on the upper part of both faces. The center of the note shows the denomination of 1 gwan, with a design of ten bunches of coins placed directly beneath it to help illiterate users understand the function and value of the note. The lower part of the note contains a warning to the effect that anyone who forged this note would be subject to severe punishment.

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Sangpyeong Tongbo

Fourth-design 100-hwan Note

Knife-shaped Coins

Banliang

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Daming Tongxing Baochao