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Sept 22 (Reuters) – South Korea’s government is due to brief lawmakers on Tuesday on plans for a $350 billion US investment package, a key step as Seoul ‌and Washington seek to finalise implementation of a trade deal that cut US tariffs on ‌South Korean goods to 15%

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes how music is written and produced, Korea is stepping up efforts to set clear ground rules for the digital era.

[Sportschosun | Reporter Lee Woo-joo] Actress Jin Seo-yeon explained why she settled on Jeju Island.

An artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted song’s entry into Melon’s Top 100 chart has exposed a regulatory vacuum over AI music in Korea, just weeks after the country’s largest music copyright collective withdrew its first attempt to allow the registration of such works.

South Korea won gold in the men’s modern pentathlon team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Sunday, successfully defending its title.

KEPCO’s first-half 2026 revenue was stable but profits, cash flow and margins softened while the balance sheet and state-backed ownership remained strong.

Add preferred source The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) will expand its ultra-fast patent review system starting in November to cover youth-led startups across all industries, as well as AI data centers and physical AI technologies. Under the program, patent review times drop from the standard 20 months to an average of one month. Annual…

[Sportschosun Reporter Kim So-hee] Broadcaster Lee Kyung-kyu revealed his special connection with Woo Seo-yoon, who was crowned this year’s Miss Korea winner.

Add to Google Preferred Sources Mercedes-Benz Korea has kicked off a roughly 100-day proof-of-concept (PoC) program with four South Korean startups. The selected companies—Cogcom, Wonderslab, NanoMiracle, and Bwright—will respectively validate AI-based vehicle test issue management, AI-based internal knowledge management, AI-based autonomous driving verification route generation, and an 800V wireless charging system for electric vehicles. Three…

Korea’s privacy regulator is sharply raising the cost of data breaches, aiming to push companies to treat data protection as a preventive investment rather than a routine cost of doing business.