Topic: South Korea — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-28 11:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea will impose fines of up to 50 times the sale price on people who illegally resell tickets for concerts and sporting events, the culture ministry said Friday, as part of a crackdown on ticket scalping.
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[2026-08-28 11:26 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's science ministry said Friday it has selected three teams to build an artificial intelligence service accessible to everyone, under the government's "AI for all" initiative.
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[2026-08-28 11:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office will clarify the legal scope of labor-management negotiations under the revised labor union law by issuing enforcement guidance, the office said Friday.
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[2026-08-28 11:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's science ministry said Friday it has selected three teams to build an artificial intelligence (AI) service accessible to everyone, under the government's "AI for all" initiative.
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[2026-08-28 11:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will impose fines of up to 50 times the sale price on people who illegally resell tickets for concerts and sporting events, the culture ministry said Friday, as part of a crackdown on ticket scalping.
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[2026-08-28 11:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: South Korea, Japan, and the United States will conduct joint military drills from September 9 to 11 to test readiness against North Korea's missile and nuclear weapons threats, South Korea said on Friday.
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[2026-08-28 10:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung was set to preside over a meeting Friday to unveil next year's budget for young people and present the government's major projects specifically designed to assist them.
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[2026-08-28 10:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS details from 4th para, byline)By Kim Seung-yeon
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[2026-08-28 10:35 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul stocks opened lower Friday, bucking overnight gains on Wall Street, while investors sat on the sidelines ahead of the Jackson Hall meeting set to provide clues on the Federal Reserve's rate policy.
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[2026-08-28 10:32 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Actor Kim Soo-hyun is set to make his first public appearance in South Korea next month, informed sources said Friday, more than a year after he nearly suspended all activities here following allegations linked to late actress Kim Sae-ron.
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[2026-08-28 10:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES para 2; ADDS additional info in bottom; CHANGES photo)
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[2026-08-28 10:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- Actor Kim Soo-hyun is set to make his first public appearance in South Korea next month, informed sources said Friday, more than a year after he nearly suspended all activities here following allegations linked to late actress Kim Sae-ron.
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[2026-08-28 10:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea will offer a debt relief program for small business owners hit by the COVID-19 pandemic to help improve their financial health, the finance ministry said Friday, amid concerns that they could face heavier debt-servicing burdens following recent rate hikes.
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[2026-08-28 10:17 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea, the United States and Japan will conduct their trilateral military exercise off South Korea's southern coast early next month, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday.
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[2026-08-28 10:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEJONG, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will offer a debt relief program for small business owners hit by the COVID-19 pandemic to help improve their financial health, the finance ministry said Friday, amid concerns that they could face heavier debt-servicing burdens following recent rate hikes.
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[2026-08-28 10:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea, the United States and Japan will conduct their trilateral military exercise off South Korea's southern coast early next month, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Friday.
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[2026-08-28 10:11 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean chipmaker SK hynix on Thursday held a groundbreaking ceremony for an advanced packaging production facility for artificial intelligence memory in Indiana, aiming to produce hundreds of thousands of wafers annually there.
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[2026-08-28 10:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks opened lower Friday, bucking overnight gains on Wall Street, while investors sat on the sidelines ahead of the Jackson Hall meeting set to provide clues on the Federal Reserve's rate policy.
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[2026-08-28 10:05 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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[2026-08-28 10:02 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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[2026-08-28 10:00 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seocho Music & Art Festival
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[2026-08-28 09:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Biologics announced Friday it would raise 3 trillion won (US$2.17 billion) through a rights offering as part of efforts to fund investments in its long-term growth strategy.
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[2026-08-28 09:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Two people were killed after a ship carrying oil products caught fire in waters off Incheon late Thursday, west of Seoul, the Coast Guard said. The fire has been extinguished.
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[2026-08-28 09:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has finished building a railway station at the Wonsan-Kalma tourist area on the east coast, state media said Friday, as the nation seeks to nurture tourism.
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[2026-08-28 09:26 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has expressed his support for a potential meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying it is "very important" that the leaders meet, according to a report.
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[2026-08-28 08:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- Two people were killed after a ship carrying oil products caught fire in waters off Incheon late Thursday, west of Seoul, the Coast Guard said. The fire has been extinguished.
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[2026-08-28 08:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Government spending risks undermining BOK rate hikesAs the Bank of Korea raises rates to curb inflation, planned fiscal expansion risks keeping borrowing costs higher for longer.
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[2026-08-28 08:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Jeju death raises troubling questions about policePolice must work hard to earn back public trust
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[2026-08-28 08:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Perils of fiscal overreachTemporary tax revenue surge must not blind policymakers to structural limits
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[2026-08-28 08:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on Aug. 28.
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[2026-08-28 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- Savings banks' first-half net profit nearly tripled from a year earlier, aided by a decline in loan-loss reserves and investment returns, data showed Friday.
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[2026-08-28 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- Loans extended by insurance companies here rose in the second quarter of this year from three months earlier due to increased lending to households, data showed Friday.
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[2026-08-28 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: SK Hynix, the South Korean memory maker that's emerged as one of the biggest winners in the AI boom, is bolstering its U.S. presence, with a new factory in Indiana that CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says will make the state a "key HBM production base in America" by 2030.
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[2026-08-28 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) -- The chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has expressed his support for a potential meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying it is "very important" that the leaders meet, according to a report.
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[2026-08-28 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: South Korea's SK Hynix's more than $4 billion construction project includes an advanced chip packaging facility as well as a research and development complex in West Lafayette, Indiana, which is home to Purdue University. (Photo by Yifan Yu)
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[2026-08-28 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Manchester City’s Omar Marmoush celebrates after scoring his side’s opening goal during the preseason friendly soccer match between Manchester City and Atletico Madrid in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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[2026-08-28 00:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Fabricated calls and erased files kept two deaths hidden. Now, a police force prone to cover-ups is inheriting unchecked authority.
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[2026-08-27 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean police officer's alleged falsification of documents in two missing person cases has exposed gaps in police oversight and fueled public distrust of police.
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[2026-08-27 22:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT on Thursday released detailed scores from the second-phase evaluation of its Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project.
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[2026-08-27 22:17 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Jared Diamond, a renowned US scholar, suggested Thursday that South Korea refrain from publicly "bad-mouthing" North Korea if it wants to achieve peaceful coexistence with Pyongyang.
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[2026-08-27 21:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are higher led by Tech as NVDA earnings boost the tape. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are 0.5% higher while Nasdaq futures jump 1.1% led by NVDA which is +7.4% in pre-market trading following an unprecedented forecast of 70% revenue growth in 2028, which is boosting Semis (+3%), incl MRVL +5.2% into their print tonight.
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[2026-08-27 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song says the pre-emptive moves aim to help ‘reduce the costs to the economy’
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[2026-08-27 21:35 UTC+10:00] [Monetary Policy Board] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song says the pre-emptive moves aim to help ‘reduce the costs to the economy’
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[2026-08-27 21:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Korea Investment Management and Korea Investment Value Asset Management are pursuing a spinoff merger.
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[2026-08-27 21:09 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Nine of 10 South Koreans who had been isolated following massive flooding in Nepal were moved to safety Thursday, while one remains at the affected site, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
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[2026-08-27 21:04 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The number of suspected illegal short selling cases reported to South Korea’s financial regulator has risen steadily in recent years, as a new system allows authorities to monitor institutional investors’ short selling activity in real time.
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[2026-08-27 21:02 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean investors’ deposits fell below 100 trillion won ($72.4 billion) again, while margin debt, a measure of leveraged investing, climbed back above 33 trillion won.
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[2026-08-27 20:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: North Korea has condemned US plans to supply South Korea with tactical missiles and fund projects monitoring human rights abuses in the country, warning of a “powerful response” to what Pyongyang described as Washington’s hostile actions.
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[2026-08-27 20:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Park So-yeon will represent her country in survival horror game Identity V at Asian Games in Japan next month
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[2026-08-27 20:21 UTC+10:00] [Hangzhou] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Park So-yeon will represent her country in survival horror game Identity V at Asian Games in Japan next month
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