Could we be witnessing Korean pop's plunge into the cultural criticism arena?

Flash Drives for Freedom aims to take old USB sticks and smuggle them into North Korea loaded with Western media.

CES 2020, the world's largest technology exhibition, was held Jan. 7-11 in Las Vegas. During the exhibition period, MIK (MADE IN KOREA) INNOVATION HOT SPOT zone was held at Eureka Park located at Sands Expo to introduce Korean startups to the world

North Korea-linked hacking group Lazarus has been leveraging a Mac variant of the Dacls Remote Access Trojan (RAT), Malwarebytes reports.

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The quality of the games, which include a handful of former big-league players, isn’t great. But it’s real, live baseball being broadcast by ESPN. Beyond the joy of watching baseball, these games provide a glimpse of what Mariners games and other MLB matchups might look like if/when they return.

The quality of the games, which include a handful of former big-league players, isn’t great. But it’s real, live baseball being broadcast by ESPN. Beyond the joy of watching baseball, these games provide a glimpse of what Mariners games and other MLB matchups might look like if/when they return.

The quality of the games, which include a handful of former big-league players, isn’t great. But it’s real, live baseball being broadcast by ESPN. Beyond the joy of watching baseball, these games provide a glimpse of what Mariners games and other MLB matchups might look like if/when they return.

The quality of the games, which include a handful of former big-league players, isn’t great. But it’s real, live baseball being broadcast by ESPN. Beyond the joy of watching baseball, these games provide a glimpse of what Mariners games and other MLB matchups might look like if/when they return.

Wide Bay macadamia grower Kate Rose is crediting 'Korean natural farming', which she says improves the microbiology in the soil using indigenous microorganisms, for a large increase in crop yield.

The new baseball season began in South Korea on Tuesday with the crack of the bat and the sound of the ball smacking into the catcher’s mitt echoing around empty stadiums.

American sports fans starved for live games may find a measure of salvation from an unlikely source: South Korean baseball. The Korea Baseball Organization season begins Tuesday, and ESPN has announced plans for live broadcasts of its games.

So pleased to welcome NYC author Erin Yun to the blog today. Her debut middle grade novel, Pippa Park Raises Her Game (Fabled Films Press, 2020), is a contemporary reimagining of the Dickens’s classic Great Expectations.     Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her … Continue reading [spicy guest post] Pippa Park’s Favorite Korean Stew by Erin Yun

European soccer leagues got a glimpse of what the future might hold after football finally returned with the start of the South Korean K-League on Friday.

Korea's top soccer league will be banning players from talking and excessive spitting on the pitch.

Korean baseball is up and running and Express Sport is on hand with all all details you need, including scores, game times and how to watch the action.

Although it hasn’t actually happened yet, the odds are strong that the Korean War may be finally coming to an end.  New information has come to light that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been meeting secretly with China’s President Xi Jinping shortly before the planned summit meetings with President […]

While only a small group of North Koreans have access to the global internet, usage patterns are changing among the elites of Pyongyang – with those in military intelligence circles now exhibiting stronger security chops, a report from Recorded Future has found

Ensemble SU from Korea will stage a concert at Sha Tin Town Hall in December.

The quintet breaks boundaries by merging both traditional Korean musical instruments with Western instruments to bring music to life.

The world touring group plays works ranging from Arirang Rhapsody to Bohemian Rhapsody and from Bul-no-ha to the jazz classic Take Five.

The concert will be held at 8pm on December 6 and tickets are available at URBTIX.

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Approximately 1 million Korean immigrants—the vast majority from South Korea—resided in the United States in 2017. Korean immigrants tend to be highly educated and of high socioeconomic standing. Get the latest data on this population, including flows over time, geographic distribution, employment, and more in this Spotlight.

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Text summarization refers to the process that generates a shorter form of text from the source document preserving salient information. Recently, many models for text summarization have been proposed. Most of those models were evaluated using recall-oriented understudy for gisting evaluation (ROUGE) scores. However, as ROUGE scores are computed based on n-gram overlap, they do not reflect semantic meaning correspondences between generated and reference summaries. Because Korean is an agglutinative language that combines various morphemes into a word that express several meanings, ROUGE is not suitable for Korean summarization. In this paper, we propose evaluation metrics that reflect semantic meanings of a reference summary and the original document, Reference and Document Aware Semantic Score (RDASS). We then propose a method for improving the correlation of the metrics with human judgment. Evaluation results show that the correlation with human judgment is significantly higher for our evaluation metrics than for ROUGE scores.

The Korean baseball league opens its delayed season Tuesday in empty stadiums across South Korea and Canada's Jamie Romak, along with the rest of the league's players, are getting used to a new baseball normal that includes rules against high fives and spitting, daily temperature checks and the absence of fans.

The new baseball season began in South Korea on Tuesday with the crack of the bat and the sound of the ball smacking into the catcher's mitt echoing around empty stadiums.

A sports writer covering the strange return of South Korea's baseball season says fans should brace for similarly odd experience in Toronto, if and when the 2020 season begins.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery or any other medical procedure, a South Korean official has said amid continued speculation about his health.

South Korea says its troops have exchanged fire with North Korea along their tense land border.

In the United States, adolescent obesity rates have tripled in the last 3 decades, with concomitant increases in other metabolic risk factors, including the metabolic syndrome (MetSyn). However, in Asian countries, these same risks have only recently begun increasing.

Representative data for the United States and Korea reveal trends in adolescent obesity and MetSyn moving in opposite directions. This study provides a benchmark for Korea and other Asian countries toward mitigating the upward trends in obesity and MetSyn. (Read the full article)

1 Seychellois Rupee = 71.0504 South Korean Won

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 180.5087 South Korean Won

1 Swedish Krona = 124.8273 South Korean Won

1 Slovak Koruna = 54.9311 South Korean Won

1 Serbian Dinar = 11.2471 South Korean Won

1 Polish Zloty = 290.1005 South Korean Won

1 Qatari Rial = 335.0142 South Korean Won

1 Indian Rupee = 16.1554 South Korean Won

1 Pakistani Rupee = 7.6405 South Korean Won

1 Sierra Leonean Leone = 0.1237 South Korean Won

1 New Taiwan Dollar = 40.8547 South Korean Won

1 Thai Baht = 38.0945 South Korean Won

1 Turkish Lira = 172.067 South Korean Won