Topic: South Korea — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-07 15:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: For over a decade, I’ve navigated the complexities of North Korean affairs, security, and foreign policy from both Seoul and Washington, D.C. As the National Desk Political Team Lead, I track the pulse of geopolitics, closely following developments from the Unification Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. My mornings start with Rodong Sinmun—North Korea’s state mouthpiece—before diving into the day’s headlines from Seoul and Washington.
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[2026-09-07 15:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Staff reporter at The Korea Herald’s National Desk, based in Seoul. Covers South Korea’s national security and foreign policy, with a focus on the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly.Before entering journalism, served as an Air Force officer. Experience includes providing translation and interpretation, as well as strategic input for planning efforts, at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-09-07 15:38 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: HIT Forum panelist Joon Seok says stronger ROE and capital management are key to lasting rerating
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[2026-09-07 15:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean sharpshooter Lee Hyun-jung signed a non-guaranteed contract with the Portland Trail Blazers with an invite to training camp, the player's agency said Monday, giving himself a shot at reaching the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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[2026-09-07 15:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: En esta imagen proporcionada por el gobierno norcoreano, su líder Kim Jong Un y su hija asisten a una ceremonia de entada en servicio del destructor Kang Kon en un puerto en Wonsan, Corea del Norte, el domingo 6 de septiembre de 2026. Periodistas independientes no tuvieron acceso a la cobertura del evento mostrado en esta imagen distribuida por el gobierno norcoreano.
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[2026-09-07 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's drug ministry said Monday it has held the first meeting of a newly created platform connecting the heads of global regulatory agencies for cosmetics.
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[2026-09-07 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: 1966 -- Senior economic officials of South Korea and Japan hold a meeting in Seoul, the first high-level talks since the two countries restored diplomatic relations under the normalization treaty signed in June 1965.
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[2026-09-07 14:58 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Korea Heritage Service's flagship heritage event returns this fall with five days of performances, exhibitions, tours and hands-on programs, along with expanded opportunities for international visitors.
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[2026-09-07 14:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: South Korean did not drop a game in the tournament, while India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty win men’s doubles
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[2026-09-07 14:47 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: South Korean did not drop a game in the tournament, while India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty win men’s doubles
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[2026-09-07 14:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: This year, South Korea’s oldest biennale explores politics through sound, performance and art, but does it truly challenge the status quo?
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[2026-09-07 14:45 UTC+10:00] [Moca Busan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: This year, South Korea’s oldest biennale explores politics through sound, performance and art, but does it truly challenge the status quo?
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[2026-09-07 14:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul is adding venues and ambitions, chasing a model that is already under pressure. City needs to decide what kind of fashion capital it wants to be
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[2026-09-07 14:21 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The breaches compromise nearly 40 million Tving accounts and more than 420,000 Weverse records
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[2026-09-07 14:11 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Middle and high school students commuting on public transportation in Seoul could receive up to 160,000 won ($119) a year toward their fares by 2030 under a phased plan proposed by the city’s education office.
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[2026-09-07 13:06 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean midfielder Lee Jae-sung picked up his first Bundesliga assist of the campaign as Mainz routed Hamburg 5-0 on Sunday.
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[2026-09-07 13:02 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Actress Baek Jin-hee is marrying a non-celebrity in Seoul in January, according to a local media report on Monday.
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[2026-09-07 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Loans extended to companies in South Korea grew at a slower pace in the second quarter compared with the previous quarter on reduced demand from the manufacturing sector, central bank data showed Monday.
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[2026-09-07 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Unlicensed firms were subcontracted to carry out a battery replacement project at the state data center and caused a fire that crippled the government's online administrative services last year, the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) said Monday.
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[2026-09-07 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean economy continued to improve, supported by strong exports and investment related to artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure at home and abroad, a state-run think tank said Monday.
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[2026-09-07 12:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: People in their 60s and older account for 73.2 percent of deaths since 2022
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[2026-09-07 12:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's women's national soccer team boosted its chances of reaching the round of 16 at the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup by drawing France.
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[2026-09-07 12:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: MUJU, South Korea, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- No South Korean taekwondo practitioner has won more than one gold medal at an Asian Games, for the simple reason that athletes could only compete in one weight class at a time.
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[2026-09-07 12:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja has appealed her two-year prison sentence for bribing the wife of former President Yoon Suk Yeol and other corruption charges, legal sources said Monday.
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[2026-09-07 12:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded sharply higher late Monday morning as investors scooped up semiconductor shares on optimism on further artificial intelligence (AI)-related demand.
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[2026-09-07 12:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Naver Cloud, the cloud operator of Naver Corp., said Monday its business messaging platform Line Works has been selected as the official business tool for the Hsinchu city government, marking its first entry into Taiwan's public sector.
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[2026-09-07 12:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea-linked hacking group Kimsuky was found to have leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents to create decoys for malicious codes, a local security firm said Monday.
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[2026-09-07 12:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS details in paras 10-15) By Kim Seung-yeon
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[2026-09-07 12:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: PAJU, South Korea, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Police said Monday they have arrested a suspect after discovering the body of a woman who had gone missing inside a freezer at a cafe in the northern city of Paju.
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[2026-09-07 12:05 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The leader of the ruling Democratic Party on Monday called for strengthening South Korea's independent security capabilities, citing the possibility of a shift toward a "freeze-first" approach to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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[2026-09-07 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports to India jumped more than 30 percent in the first eight months of the year from the same period in 2025, driven by strong demand for semiconductors, a government agency said Monday.
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[2026-09-07 11:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Justice Minister nominee Kim Seung-won on Monday denied illegally lobbying for a COVID-19 treatment in 2021, while acknowledging he should have been more careful in his request over the medication at the time.
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[2026-09-07 11:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- The leader of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) on Monday called for strengthening South Korea's independent security capabilities, citing the possibility of a shift toward a "freeze-first" approach to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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[2026-09-07 11:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS photo, more details in paras 6-8, last 4 paras)
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[2026-09-07 11:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean Air Force will stage an air show next month featuring advanced performances by its aerobatic team and involving its homegrown KF-21 fighter, officials said Monday.
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[2026-09-07 11:21 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Lee Jae Myung has reaffirmed his commitment to playing a "pacemaker" role in promoting the resumption of dialogue between North Korea and the United States, saying the move could help halt the advance of Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities.
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[2026-09-07 11:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iranian academic Mohammad Marandi has warned that Tehran would consider South Korea an enemy and could strike its economic and military interests across the Persian Gulf if Seoul joins the US-led war on Iran.
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[2026-09-07 11:01 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea, the United States and Japan began a five-day joint military exercise Monday, proceeding on schedule even as key Seoul-Washington drills were recently scaled back upon US President Donald Trump's order.
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[2026-09-07 10:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: NICE, France, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung has reaffirmed his commitment to playing a "pacemaker" role in promoting the resumption of dialogue between North Korea and the United States, saying the move could help halt the advance of Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities.
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[2026-09-07 10:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea, the United States and Japan began a five-day joint military exercise Monday, proceeding on schedule even as key Seoul-Washington drills were recently scaled back upon U.S. President Donald Trump's order.
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[2026-09-07 10:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un and his daugther attend a commissioning ceremony of a destroyer, Kang Kon at a port in Wonsan, North Korea Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government.
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[2026-09-07 10:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Soyeon, the leader of K-pop girl group i-dle, will make her first solo comeback on Monday in more than five years with an album built around the theme of leaving a job.
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[2026-09-07 10:24 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean stocks started sharply higher Monday, driven by gains in tech shares, despite heightened military tensions in the Middle East.
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[2026-09-07 10:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Christopher Nolan's adventure-packed epic "The Odyssey" reigned atop the weekend box office chart for the fifth straight week as it exceeded 10 million admissions, data showed Monday.
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[2026-09-07 10:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with latest figures in 2nd para; ADDS more info from 7th para)
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[2026-09-07 10:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended the commissioning of a warship he said could deliver “annihilating retaliatory strikes on an enemy”, citing “constant threats”, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
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[2026-09-07 10:10 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul tops favorite cities for Gen Z, millennials for fifth year
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[2026-09-07 10:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks started sharply higher Monday, driven by gains in tech shares, despite heightened military tensions in the Middle East.
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[2026-09-07 10:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Facebook X More Pinterest Linked in Tumblr Reddit Facebook Messenger Copy URL URL is copied. OK
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[2026-09-07 09:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating has slipped to a new low of 37.4 percent, marking the eighth consecutive week of decline, a poll showed Monday.
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