Seoul shares retreated Thursday led by tech stocks over concerns that the United States may tighten chip sales to China. The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar.
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A prominent North Korean defector was tapped to head the presidential advisory council on unification and an engineering professor was named the new science minister, the presidential office said Thursday.
NewJeans is embroiled in a plagiarism controversy after British band Shakatak formally claimed the prominent K-pop group’s latest hit “Bubble Gum” copied its 1981 song “Easier Said Than Done.”
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North Korea has again launched balloons presumed to be carrying trash toward South Korea, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Thursday.
The JCS said the balloons appeared to be
