Topic: South Korea — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-07 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top general on Thursday visited a key Air Force unit in the central region and inspected the country's air defense posture, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
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[2026-05-07 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS details in 4th para, bond yields at bottom)
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[2026-05-07 17:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Tesla topped South Korea’s imported car market for the third consecutive month in April, fueled by robust electric vehicle demand amid high fuel prices, industry data showed Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 17:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Kim Min-seok ordered a thorough investigation Thursday into suspicions that Korea National Railway internally circulated content of ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law decree and tried to implement it even after the National Assembly demanded the lifting of the illegal act.
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[2026-05-07 17:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS throughout; CHANGES headline; ADDS photo)
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[2026-05-07 17:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The unification ministry said Thursday it will approve a planned visit by a North Korean women's football team to South Korea, based on information submitted by the Korean Football Association (KFA).
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[2026-05-07 17:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Iran says it ‘firmly rejects and categorically denies’ allegations that it was responsible for the explosion on board the HMM Namu
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[2026-05-07 17:18 UTC+10:00] [HMM] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Iran says it ‘firmly rejects and categorically denies’ allegations that it was responsible for the explosion on board the HMM Namu
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[2026-05-07 17:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- A ruling Democratic Party-led bill on a constitutional amendment was scuttled Thursday as the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) boycotted a parliamentary vote to pass the motion.
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[2026-05-07 17:11 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean stocks extended their bullish run Thursday to close at a new all-time high after briefly topping the 7,500-point mark on hopes for a Washington-Tehran deal to end their war and positive outlooks on chipmakers, backed by an artificial intelligence boom. The local currency gained against the US dollar.
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[2026-05-07 17:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- LG CNS Co. expressed a goal of becoming a major partner for companies seeking to incorporate robots into their business, as it unveiled the company's new platform that can train and manage robots.
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[2026-05-07 16:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk plans to visit South Korea next week to meet with government officials, civic activists and North Korean defectors, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 16:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has significantly tamped down its hostility toward South Korea in its recently revised constitution, while maintaining leader Kim Jong-un's stance on treating the Koreas as two states, Seoul's spy agency said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 16:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS more info, comments in paras 3-4, 10-18)
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[2026-05-07 16:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- U.S. defense tech firm Anduril Industries Inc. said Thursday it plans to expand partnerships with South Korean defense companies by combining its artificial intelligence (AI) platform with the country's advanced manufacturing capabilities across various weapons systems.
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[2026-05-07 16:43 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Korea Herald correspondent
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[2026-05-07 16:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Creditors of Yeochun NCC, a major producer of ethylene products in the country, decided to raise the upper limit of the company's letter of credit (L/C) to US$300 million, to help secure naphtha supplies, the financial regulator said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 16:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Before the golden days of K-pop megastars BTS and BLACKPINK, first-generation acts like H.O.T. and FIN.K.L ruled the South Korean pop music scene.
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[2026-05-07 16:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks extended their bullish run Thursday to close at a new all-time high after briefly topping the 7,500-point mark on hopes for a Washington-Tehran deal to end their war and positive outlooks on chipmakers, backed by an artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The local currency gained against the U.S.
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[2026-05-07 16:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (2nd LD) Seoul shares shoot up nearly 6.5 pct to over 7,300 on chip rally, Mideast hopes; won rises
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[2026-05-07 16:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday urged stepped-up efforts to stabilize consumer prices, calling it a top priority for his government amid uncertainties stemming from the prolonged war in the Middle East.
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[2026-05-07 16:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead with latest info; ADDS more details in paras 3, 6-7; CHANGES photo)
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[2026-05-07 16:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean and Chinese business leaders discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in strategic industries such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors and batteries at a forum in Shanghai on Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 16:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-05-07 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Eight liberal student activists were apprehended by police Thursday for attempting to enter the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
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[2026-05-07 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- With less than a month remaining until the June 3 local elections, South Korea is gearing up for the pivotal event widely expected to reshape the country's political landscape and determine the future momentum of President Lee Jae Myung's administration, political observers here noted Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:53 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Korean drugmaker doubles down on expanding seizure medicine across globe
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[2026-05-07 15:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Eighty-three-year-old Rep. Park Ji-won, the oldest sitting member of the National Assembly, is running in the Democratic Party of Korea’s race to become speaker for the latter half of the 22nd National Assembly.
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[2026-05-07 15:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The Board of Audit and Inspection said Thursday it will launch a special inspection next week to make sure that public servants remain faithful to their duties, including maintaining political neutrality, ahead of next month's nationwide local elections.
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[2026-05-07 15:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean civic groups are organizing cheering squads to welcome North Korea’s Naegohyang Women’s Football Club, which is scheduled to face a South Korean team in the semifinals of the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Champions League on May 20 at 7 p.m. at Suwon Stadium in Gyeonggi Province.
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[2026-05-07 15:47 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: LG CNS, the IT services arm of LG Group and one of Korea's largest systems integrators, on Thursday launched a software platform to run fleets of robots from different manufacturers under a single control layer — a problem that has long required custom engineering to coordinate the machines.
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[2026-05-07 15:44 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Korean won climbs to pre-Iran war level on returned risk appetite
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[2026-05-07 15:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- For pianist Sunwoo Yekwon, Franz Liszt was once a composer of empty virtuosity -- all flash and little substance. But with his new album released Thursday, Sunwoo is peeling back the Hungarian composer's dazzling facade to reveal a profound human voice and dramatic lyricism.
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[2026-05-07 15:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will begin drafting a report to submit to the United Nations on the progress the country has made in implementing the 17 U.N.-designated sustainable development goals (SDGs), the first such report in 10 years, officials said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has called on the international community to jointly respond to the recent spread of trade restrictive measures by major economies in a high-level meeting of World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations, the trade ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:16 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Italian Ambassador to Korea Emilia Gatto urged closer cooperation with Korea in a field where she said Italian know-how is built on both deep tradition and advanced technology.
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[2026-05-07 15:15 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-05-07 15:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El ex primer ministro de Corea del Sur Han Duck-soo (centro), llega a la Corte Central de Distrito de Seúl para una vista de sentencia en un caso de insurrección, en Seúl, Corea del Sur, el 21 enero de 2026. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Foto vía AP, archivo)
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[2026-05-07 15:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson has stressed the importance of an "east-up" perspective view in the Indo-Pacific theater, stressing a "coherent strategic geometry" of South Korea, Japan and the Philippines in the region, according to the USFK website Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) have failed to cooperate properly on nuclear power plant export projects, resulting in overlapping expenditures and other inefficiencies, the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: 1442 -- King Sejong of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) orders the development of a rain gauge. The king is best known in Korea for inventing the Korean alphabet, Hangeul.
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[2026-05-07 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The country's financial regulator said Thursday that major securities firms need to extend their support to high-risk but promising companies as part of their ongoing effort to bolster productive financing.
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[2026-05-07 14:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating fell to 67 percent after remaining at a record high of 69 percent for three consecutive surveys, a biweekly poll showed Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 14:57 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Core insurance earnings fall as existing units lose momentum
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[2026-05-07 14:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's first homegrown KF-21 fighter jet has passed a "full" combat readiness evaluation, marking the completion of the final phase of the performance verification process in its development, the state arms procurement agency said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 14:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, center, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court for his first sentencing trial in the insurrection case, in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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[2026-05-07 14:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-05-07 14:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Health authorities said Thursday they had confirmed South Korea’s first locally detected human case of Oz virus infection, a tick-borne disease previously found here only in an imported case.
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[2026-05-07 14:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Son Heung-min and his Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) have been eliminated in the semifinals of their top regional tournament after absorbing a crushing loss in Mexico.
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[2026-05-07 14:26 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Low-paid, female-dominated workforce faces chronic shortages, robot replacements remain limited
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