It's been a while since a good old fashioned Links post. I realized that I had saved up a backlog of links relating to the release of Apple Pay in Korea, which is supposedly due to happen this week. Though we've heard that before. So before it goes live, I figured it's as good a time as any to take a big steamy link dump on those of you who are interested. As usual, the below collection of links are just things (English articles) I found interesting, plus some links to tweets of Korean sources with some short commentary by me.
Happy reading and enjoy the warming up spring weather, if you can simultaneously avoid the fine particulate matter floating around out there.
Just FYI, the links start most recently and end up with the oldest.
- More Koreans Using Illegal Streaming Sites Despite Police Investigation
- No. of first-time brides in 40s outstrips those in 20s
- Kakao halts its own AI chatbot beta service a day after release
- Coupang hacked by Russians, report says, company denies
- Kakao suspends AI chatbot service due to 'massive' popularity
- 10원 Tips See a car swerving on the road? Report it. If driver is caught drunk, you get 100k won! See a hit-and-run accident? Report it, and depending on severity, earn big money! Snitches get rewards.
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for International Day of Happiness, by artist Heymogoo @ instagram.com/mogoo.poj
- Centre Pompidou's Korean branch to open in 63 Building
- The Top Products on the Korean Crowdfunding Platform Wadiz
- Japan Lifts Export Controls on Key Materials, South Korea Withdraws WTO Complaint
- 10원 Tips Some of the many places you can pay with a T-Money card in Korea. Buy one at any subway station, convenience store, etc. Load it with cash, use it pretty much anywhere.
- Tenfold Increase in Raid Warrants over 20 Years: Data
- S.Korea's Air Premia to launch Incheon-New York route in May
- Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service
- S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification
- Jeju, 14 Other Municipalities to Test Drone Delivery Service
- Southern resort island of Jeju to start first commercial drone delivery service
- WeBudding partners with the most popular free app Goodnotes 5 to provide Korean digital stationery content to users globally
- Starlink establishes Korean entity ahead of service launch
- Court Rules Same Sex Couples May Register as De Facto Married
- Public gets look at colonial-era tram tracks
- Centre Pompidou and Hanwha to join forces on Korean branch
- Korea's only 'maid cafe' opens in Hongdae, reservation rush causes server outage amidst concerned locals
- Lotte's home shopping channel selects human influencers to promote virtual model Lucy
- Are they for real? South Korean girl band offers glimpse into metaverse
- Koreans to get extra day off if Buddha's Birthday, Christmas fall on weekend
- 10원 Tips Look at this absolute unit of a laptop Panasonic will release in Korea. The recessed track pad. The tasteful girth. The multiple varied ports. Hecka chonker of a notebook. My God, it's beautiful. newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2242231
- Apple Pay to launch in South Korea on March 21
- Incheon Airport Being Offered Great Direct Service By KTX
- 5th Apple Store to open in Korea, on Gangnam's main drag
- Tossbank’s ‘Get Interest Now’ service with 2.98 million customers in one year.
- Samsung in Talks with Kakao for Integration of Mobile Payment Services
- Coupang to exit Japan to focus on Korea, Taiwan
- Samsung Pay boosts ties with Naver, Kakao to cement payment leadership - The Korea Herald
- KT launches open beta version of metaverse platform Genieverse
- 10원 Tips Apple Pay finally to be released in Korea March 21st (i.e. in 8 days). Will only accept Hyundai Cards for now and only at some stores. hankyung.com/economy/articl…
- 10원 Tips Korean Payment Avengers apparently assembling to fight Apple Pay. Samsung Pay, already partnering with Naver Pay, now looking to partner with Kakao Pay. etnews.com/20230310000120
- Magpie Nests Remain a Challenge for KEPCO Despite Annual Nesting War
- Grassland Area in Korea Continues to Decrease, Jeju Island Hit the Hardest
- 10원 Tips KakaoTalk Open Chats were hacked. Bad actors could trace your supposedly anonymous profile and chats back to your real name and phone number. Whoops! etnews.com/20230312000017
- 10원 Tips ChatGPT inside KakaoTalk [Korean article] news.nate.com/view/20230305n…
- Coupang Exits Japanese Market After Testing Operations
- 10원 Tips TIL: Koreans use a Japanese loan word, 히키코모리 (hikikomori), to describe reclusive loners who never leave their home.
- 10원 Tips Video showcasing real people's submitted voices, turned into AI by Naver Clova to speak anything. Idea is to preserve your precious mother/father/husband/wife/kid's voice, but feels creepy to me. Like those holograms of dead performers. serviceapi.nmv.naver.com/flash/convertI…
- Seoul-based startup Wisely emerges victorious in patent infringement lawsuit filed by Dorco
- The Top 10 Klaytn Blockchain Applications
- Facebook Users in S. Korea Dip Below 10 mln: Data
- S. Korean government reveals the gov-driven metaverse project budget.
- Kakao Brain launches web service to turn imagination into images
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for International Women's Day. By artist Ahra Kwon @ instagram.com/ok_ahra
- Toss Place Launches Payment Devices to Streamline Offline Store Operations
- 10원 Tips Korean blog service Tistory will remove it's plugin to autopost your blog posts to Twitter, thanks to Musk's API depreciations. notice.tistory.com/2636
- South Korea’s first Five Guys store to open at the end of June in Gangnam
- 10원 Tips K-Bank, Korea's first online-only bank, suffers customer hack and bungles the response. Not a great look. newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2241325
- Lazarus Group Attack Case Using Vulnerability of Certificate Software Commonly Used by Public Institutions and Universities
- KRX to Offer English Translations for Filings of 51 Firms on Secondary Market
- 10원 Tips Parents, want to register your child's T-money card as a child/youth card for discounted fares? Easy-to-do instructions here. Just Chrome-translate them. blog.naver.com/dailytravel12/…
- Apple Pay's S.Korea debut as early as third week in March
- Samsung Electronics, Naver partner to create simple payment service
- CJ Logistics launchs new delivery service brand called 'O-NE'
- S. Korea Rejects Apple’s Request to Send Map Data Overseas
- Veraport: Inside Korea’s dysfunctional application management
- 10원 Tips AI colorized photos of independence heroes at Gwanghwamun plaza koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20…
- 10원 Tips Shinsegae apparently has no intention of supporting Apple Pay at its stores (E-Mart, Traders, Starbucks, No Brand, etc) etnews.com/20230303000150
- Korean retailers take online payment solutions in store
- Countless Foreign Children are Growing Up in Korea
- SM Entertainment: Power Struggle at the Fountainhead of K-pop
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for 경칩, the 3rd of the 24 traditional seasons, signalling the start of early spring and the return of hibernating insects, by artist "Dric" (instagram.com/dric)
- Dramas begin to standardize Korean subtitle options
- 10원 Tips Naver's groups focused app, Band, now has a kids mode. Safely and ad-free communicate among kids groups, parents, teachers, etc. Band is actually a great app with full English support too. blog.naver.com/bandapp/223033…
- 10원 Tips Praise to a real Korean hero 🇰🇷: Yoon Seokdeok (윤석덕 차장), Deputy Manager of Korea Expressway Corp. Colored line painting on the highway was illegal. He did it anyway. Immediate improvement in safety/convenience. Now it's standard and saved my ass many times.
- 10원 Tips Apple Pay was supposedly briefly available as an option in the Baedal Minjok food delivery app. Another tease.
- 10원 Tips Korean slang word of the day: 카공족. Those annoying people who think a table at a coffee shop is their personal office. Contraction from 카페 + 공부 + 족 (cafe + studying + folk)
- Samsung Adds Logo to Phones Sold in Japan
- Naver's Webtoon ranked one of world's most innovative platforms
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for World Wildlife Day by artist 요이한 (Yoy Han). Artist Instagram link: instagram.com/yoy_han/
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for the start of the Spring semester 2023. By artist Mouun (Instagram link: instagram.com/mouun._.factor…)
- 10원 Tips Some goofball (supposedly a Japanese person, but who knows) flew the Japanese flag from his apartment in Sejong City today, the anniversary of the March 1st Korean Independence movement against Japan. donga.com/news/Society/a…
- 10원 Tips Korean Tech Avengers, Assemble! KT, Hangul, TMax, AhnLab, etc agree to partner up for domestic cloud OS development. May increase Korea's "Galapagos syndrome" but also economical domestic tech solutions. zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20230…
- 10원 Tips Anybody have a Winia Model # DD-12031D, DD-C2205RT(B) kimchi refrigerator? If so, very high chance it will catch fire.
- 10원 Tips FYI: you can login to Naver without your username/password. In Naver app on your phone, generate a 1 time code for quick login. Great for using public/office/friends PC.
- 10원 Tips Only in Korea: KakaoTalk releases MBTI-based emoji brunch.co.kr/@andkakao/261
- 10원 Tips Unlikely that Apple Pay in Korea would support transportation (bus, subway, etc) payments. Would require upgrade of Korean bus/subway terminals or change in Apple security policy. Both unlikely. etnews.com/20230224000174
- 10원 Tips South African citizens in Korea apparently now barred from using KakaoPay due to anti-money-laundering laws. Company offering refunds of any remaining balances.
- 10원 Tips Cycling along the Han river? Watch out for legendary "Pervert Rider", an old man who rides uncomfortably close behind female bike riders to record their butts. fnnews.com/news/202303010…
- 10원 Tips Logo doodles from Naver, Daum, Nate, Zum celebrating the Korean March 1st Independence Movement today
- 10원 Tips 매운짤: My face when Japan is one of the hottest destinations for a 3/1절 holiday.
- 10원 Tips Or, as my hilarious coworker put it: “of course, because now we are wealthy enough to invade them!” 🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷
- [Newsmaker] [Hello Hangeul] The linguistic divide of Korea: the legacy of 'Malmoi' and decades of separation
- Arable Land Down for 10th Consecutive Year in 2022
- More Seoul buses to go cashless
- Hyundai Department Store uses AI to write advertising copy
- Lotte Mart’s new loyalty program 'Snow Point' attracts new members
- Smartro Launches FreePay App for SMBs to Pay with Apple Pay Without Additional Costs
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for International Polar Bear Day (Feb 27) by artist Sammy Bang (방새미) Artist Instagram: instagram.com/bang.sammy/
- Controversial S. Korean pundit kicked off radio
- Young Koreans Flock to New Metaverse Network Bondee
- Emails Impersonating Shipping Companies Distributed as ‘Guide on Submitting Import Clearance Info’
- 10원 Tips Olive Young customer data leaked newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2240029
- 10원 Tips KakaoPay and KakaoBank apps scan your Android phone for potentially malicious apps (often APKs) you may have been phished into installing and suggests deleting them.
- Samsung’s Bixby Will Clone Your Voice to Answer Calls for You
- South Korean chicken chain Kyochon to launch in North America
- S.Korea's SK Broadband moves into public DaaS market
- WSJ Reports ‘BTS Dynamite’ Lego Set to Test K-pop Group’s Influence and Marketability
- Records of school bullies to remain undeleted for 2 years after graduation
- AI-Powered Textbooks to be Introduced in Schools from 2025
- [Newsmaker] Handwritten English translation of Feb. 8 Declaration of Independence found after 104 years
- Samsung Announces New Updates to Bixby Assistant Platform
- LG Uplus to release metaverse platform for young children
- Male graduates face legal action over sexual comments in group chat
- Disappearance of 10 Bln Honeybees Prompts Pest Control Measures
- Semiconductor Market Craters, Dragging Down South Korea’s Exports
- Samsung and Naver partner on mobile payments in Korea as Apple Pay prepares to go live
- 10원 Tips Korean university female bathroom only accessible by verifying your gender via phone ID app. newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2239716
- Google to Open Online Archive of DMZ in Korea
- Samsung and Naver Form Joint Front to Hold Apple Pay in Check
- Lessons from Korean Air’s botched mileage program reform
- SnappyWire – Contactless Payment Solution for Smartphones
- HWP Malware Using the Steganography Technique: RedEyes (ScarCruft)
- 10원 Tips TIL: Korea was a peninsula even during Pangea times
- South Korea’s banking security: Intermediate conclusions
- North Korea's Expanding Coastline
- Ticketing agencies Interpark and Triple to adopt luggage tracking service for first time
- Zero Sum Game: Huge Popularity of Galaxy S23 Makes Foldable Phones an Afterthought
- 10원 Tips Pick up a Linux-based TmaxOS laptop for just 200,000 won. As a cloud-first product, doubt anyone but gov workers will be able to make much use of it. Is this the future of Korean office/gov work? Is the Windows stranglehold on Korea closing? ppi.g2b.go.kr:8914/sm/dm/sch/sear…
- [INTERVIEW] 'Unnie Car' founder helps women break gender bias on roads
- [Newsmaker] ChatGPT not to be trusted on Korean names
- What to make of the “North Korean Life” TikTok channel
- Adult Diapers Now Outsell Baby Nappies
- Women's priority parking spaces to disappear in Seoul
- Hyundai Launches Free Anti-Theft Software Upgrade for Nearly 4 Million Vehicles.
- Kakao Mobility fined $20 million over unfair taxi-hailing service
- 10원 Tips You can buy your own Whalebook, Naver's version of a Chromebook (but running WhaleOS), for a surprisingly hefty price of 580,000 won. smartstore.naver.com/reputer/produc…
- Korea Film Archive unveils 113 videos of modern-day Korea
- Toss Bank offering an account with many account holders
- 7-Eleven's non-face-to-face offline secondhand trading service gains popularity among women
- Kakao Taxi App Fined for Secretly Giving More Calls to Franchise Cabs
- Korean Edutech startups Sling & Visang Education in a ‘plagiarism’ row over app design
- Web Page Disguised as a Naver Login Page
- Korean Americans Can Succeed in the Korean Startup Ecosystem
- Korean Startup HiBlocks a Social Media Curation Platform
- 10원 Tips Coupang Play will stream the 2023 Super Bowl tomorrow morning at 8:30am Korea time. If you (or your wife/husband) is a Coupang "Wow" member, it's already included in your plan. AFAIK it's not showing anywhere else on Korean TV.
- 10원 Tips Naver Sports offers "V-Player Cam" coverage where the camera focuses on close-ups of specific players for the entire game. See every detail of the player, and group chat about him/her. Superfan experience, or a little creepy?
- Kakao to unveil Korean language-specific, vertical AI
- Is the Korean Data Protection Law Applicable to Foreign ICT Service Providers?
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle yesterday honoring the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
- 10원 Tips TIL: The T-Express roller coaster at Everland stops running each winter. Makes sense, but I never thought about it. koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2023/02/09/nat…
- Hyundai Card Holds ‘Apple Party’ Ahead of Apple Pay’s Arrival in S. Korea
- FYI: Now is the time for applying for gardening land
- Coffee in South Korea: Starbucks, Ediya Reign While Mega Challenges
- Nationwide Civil Defense Exercises to Resume for 1st Time in 6 Yrs.
- How To Use Korean Floor Heating & Hot Water System
- Tiger endures 3 years of solitary confinement in closed zoo
- Elon Musk's Twitter changes have disrupted K-pop’s biggest awards show
- V Live is done at the end of 2022, leaving some content likely gone forever & making fandom archiving more important than ever
- Weakening TLS protection, South Korean style
- 10원 Tips Thanks to Twitter shutting down free access to its API, if you had connected your Naver account to Twitter, it will be removed. Check your status here: nid.naver.com/user2/help/ext…
- 10원 Tips Kakao Pay on Android can generate an on-device transit card to use for busses, subways, taxis, etc. Uses phone's NFC. No more carrying a T-money card. Super convenient if you already have KakaoPay set up. Sorry, iOS users.
- Papa John's Korea releases first vegan pizza products in S. Korea
- [Video] How Koreans' favorite convenience store foods are made in factories
- [My Hangeul Story] Meet Billy, YouTube’s self-starter Korean tutor
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for 정월 대보름 ("Daeboreum"), the first full moon of the Lunar New Year
- People’s Vanguard, HGH, North Korea’s Extensive Spy Network Discovered All Over South Korea
- 10원 Tips KakaoTalk emoticons now have assistive alt text embedded, so blind users can "hear" the content/type of the emoji spoken out loud. welfareissue.com/news/articleVi…
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for "ipchun" (입춘), the turning point from coldest winter to slowly warming up for spring. By artist Seunghwan Kim. Artist Instagram link: instagram.com/bird_pit
- Shinhan Securities launches 'Shinhan Easy Investment Whale' with Naver Whale - Korea IT Times
- Apple Pay Can be Launched in S. Korea: Financial Regulator
- Naver to introduce search GPT in first half of year
- Highly Flammable Acrylic on Noise-Barrier Tunnels to be Replaced
- 10원 Tips Signed up for Kakao Talk Drawer (cloud storage for Kakao files, chats, etc) and want to cancel? Follow these steps. pf.kakao.com/_ZRQBh/98530496
- S. Korean Websites Fully Restored After Chinese Cyberattacks
- One in 5 South Koreans claims Starbucks Rewards stars
- [Newsmaker] 'Liberals in early 20s use Twitter, conservatives choose Facebook’
- 10원 Tips KakaoMap for Wear OS (i.e. Android smartwatches) now available. Integrates with the KakaoMap app on your smartphone. Includes cycling directions navigation too, plus subway/bus timetables etc. kakaomap.tistory.com/367
- 10원 Tips Approx 1/5 of Koreans (~20%) are Starbucks rewards members. Compare that to ~7% of Americans. Sounds to me like Koreans like Starbucks ~3x more than Americans! fnnews.com/news/202301311…
- 10원 Tips If you use Kakao Calendar, there are various sports/event calendars you can subscribe to. Here's a whole list of e-sports team events you can follow.
- 10원 Tips In "Falling Down" Michael Douglass goes into a Korean grocery store and gets angry about high prices. Re-watching today, I really feel sorry for the shopkeeper trying to make a living. youtube.com/watch?v=a2YRMi…
- Toss Mobile Gathers 150,000 Pre-applications Ahead of Official Launch
- 10원 Tips Shinhan thinks iPhone users will stick a $45 brick to their phone that mimics the MST signal Samsung Pay uses. It has to be separately charged too. Is this a joke? allthat.aws.shinhancard.com/prd10010/PD200…
- 10원 Tips Apparently in Metaverse Seoul, your avatar can visit the tax office and get help with tax issues, assuming your avatar has verified its/your real identity via a Kakao Certificate or etc.
- S. Koreans’ Family-related Mentions Show Different Patterns by Social Media Channel
- Unmanned Selfie Shops and Taphouses Gain Popularity
- ‘Inverted Icicle’ Wow Visitors at Buddhist Temple
- 12 websites still unavailable after Chinese cyberattacks
- Lotte's virtual human Lucy makes successful debut on live commerce
- Toss Mobile Gathers 150,000 Pre-applications Ahead of Official Launch
- Korea’s SK E&S opens 1st US EV charging stations with Avis
- Netmarble subsidiary Metaverse Entertainment’s K-Pop virtual girl band MAVE has a smashing online debut
- Virtual model Lucy to promote fashion items through live commerce show
- Chinese Hackers Attack Korean Academic Institutions
- Homeless women struggle to find place to spend night
- 10원 Tips Many news articles feature the phrase "솜방망이" ("cotton bat") to describe a light punishment, i.e. a "slap on the wrist." I imagine a foam Nerf bat, but 솜방망이 is also a delicate flower. Which named which?
- [VIDEO]How top-selling Korean convenience store foods are mass produced
- The 1968 Blue House raid, seizure of the USS Pueblo, and anti-US demonstrations
- IPinside: Korea’s mandatory spyware
- Netmarble debuts virtual girl group MAVE:
- 10원 Tips The "Carabao Cup" of the EFL England Football League will be streaming on Coupang Play in Korea.
- 10원 Tips "Onbooks" (온북), laptops running cloud-based OSes like Hancom's Gooroom, Tmax's TMaxOS, Naver's WhaleOS, etc bring promoted for gov offices but seems like not much traction yet. etnews.com/20230119000130
- 10원 Tips Popular K-pop fans app "Weverse" from Hybe is apparently planning to switch more fully to a paid model. You'll need more "jelly" coins if you watch and comment.
- 10원 Tips KakaoMap updated their bicycle route recording feature so you can share your ride on your social media, including in KakaoTalk. Similar to Strava or Workouts.
- 10원 Tips Disneyland (USA) hosts Korean traditional performance in celebration of Lunar New Year koreabizwire.com/disneyland-to-…
- Genie Music Sees 62% Annual Growth in Overseas Sales of K-Pop Content.
- Samsung Expands Digital Wallet Platform to Eight New Markets
- S. Koreans are mixed about debut of virtual K-pop girl band MAVE:
- Face masks no longer required indoors in Korea from Jan. 30
- SK Telecom Introduces Virtual Human Sua to Promote AI Assistance Platform
- Virtual Influencer Rozy to Make Singing Debut Next Week
- Roaming Mantis' Android malware adds DNS changer to hack WiFi routers
- Weverse to switch to paid subscription model starting April
- 5-year blueprint for multicultural families to be unveiled in March
- 10원 Tips "Metaverse Seoul" is supposed to open a new era of accessibility for government services. But is this actually useful or are we just pursuing the NextBigThing™️ regardless of it being better or not?
- KakaoTalk Introduces Memorial Accounts for Deceased Users
- Naver and LG U+ Announce Partnership to Strengthen Media Services Competitiveness.
- Automatic Reporting System on Cell Phone Catches Drunk Driver
- Hundreds of Thousands Live Like Recluses in Korea
- KT Skylife offers Disney Plus service via its channel
- 10원 Tips Apparently when you board a "cashless" bus without a transport payment card, they give you a flyer with instructions on doing a bank transfer to pay the fare.
- 10원 Tips To help prevent fraud, KakaoTalk messages coming from official sources will have this gray checkmark.
- Beware phishers claiming to be from National Tax Service
- South Korean Court Imprisons a Vietnam War Veteran and Retired ROK Army Colonel for Saying North Korea Was Involved in the Gwangju Uprising in May 1980
- 10원 Tips Video in which a *NORTH* Korean girl introduces Bulgogi. Probably propaganda but still an interesting view. youtube.com/watch?v=0vtJ7D…
- 10원 Tips KakaoTalk will soon have "Memorial Profiles" for deceased loved ones. They'll appear with a chrysanthemum flower beside the profile image. Upon petition by immediate family. etnews.com/20230117000185
- 10원 Tips You've heard of ChatGPT, but try KakaoBrain's "KoGPT." Here it is generating advertisement marketing slogans for products you specify.
- 10원 Tips KakaoBrain also has an AI image generation app "B^Discover" which you can try right now. Not completely open ended prompting, but lets you choose various aspects of the image you want to generate. bdiscover.kakaobrain.com/try-it
- Apple Watch may offer ovulation tracking in Korea
- ‘Right on Red’ without Stop to be Banned from Sunday
- Korea to Scrap Reporting of Forex Transfers
- Starlink coming to Korea in second quarter
- Seoul becomes world's first city to provide metaverse-based administrative services
- 10원 Tips Infographic showing the lag between Apple's worldwide product releases and their Korean releases. Blue dates are international (excepting Korea), red are Korea.
- 10원 Tips English language e-book by Seoul city government on how air quality has improved over the years and what steps/plans to be taken to further improve ebook.seoul.go.kr/Viewer/6SGLN67…
- 10원 Tips Today in Koreana: Seoul City's infoguide to surviving wild boar attacks. Basically, just be calm and go hide.
- K-pop album exports hit record high in 2022
- Global Funding: A new distribution method for verified overseas brands in S. Korea
- Man on wheels dashes into store after owner refuses to give plastic bag
- 10원 Tips Convenience store didn't give customer a plastic bag. So customer returns TWO MONTHS LATER to ram his car into the store. Now *that* is a grudge. newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2235226
- 10원 Tips Apparently Apple iPhone's "Find My" network, disabled inside Korea for legal reasons, functions on the outskirt islands of Ulleungdo and Dokdo.
- 10원 Tips Ha! Come on now, who among us hasn't done this? Teacher gets busted when his roll sheet is found filled with notes like "the big face one, the ugly one, one with fat mom" etc. I keep client/partner notes exactly like this! newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2235019
- 10원 Tips Seoul subway is getting a new song to indicate transfer stations. You'll now hear "풍년" by composer 박경훈. Hear it here: youtube.com/watch?v=8U4P4S…
- 10원 Tips Want to watch the upcoming NFL playoff games this week in Korea? Coupang Play will be streaming them.
- 10원 Tips Korea's infamous porn censors are sharing porn on SNS. Whoops! Really hope they weren't spreading the revenge/hidden cam stuff they're tasked with removing. newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2234986
- Aespa's first VR concert unveiles at the US music festival - KED Global
- Instagram Influencer Investigated for Selling Counterfeit Dyson Hair Dryers
- Orcus RAT Being Distributed Disguised as a Hangul Word Processor Crack
- KakaoTalk update improves search and eCommerce capabilities.
- iPhone and iPad Devices Allowed for Use at Public Institutions
- 10원 Tips In news that ought to surprise nobody, Apple Pay's supposed Korean launch is delayed, possibly indefinitely. etnews.com/20230111000119
- Kakao + Netmarble collab unveils AI girl group Mave
- LINE Securities Launches My Number Card Reading service.
- MVNOs Crack S. Korea’s Mobile Market, Narrowing Gap Between MNOs.
- LG U+ customer data hacked, 180,000 affected
- Ikea suffers first decline in sales since entering South Korea
- Web Page Disguised as a Kakao Login Page
- 10원 Tips Most Korean news of the day: users could boil up their own custom ramen noodles inside Naver's Snow's "ZEPETO" metaverse and the most popular flavor "Spicy Meat & Egg Ramen" was manufactured in real life.
- 10원 Tips Disable all "emergency" alerts in your phone settings. Install "Emergency Ready App" instead. Receive alerts as calm, simple push notifications that follow phone's do-not-disturb rules. Live your best Korean life.
- 10원 Tips TIL: All this time I just assumed 기차 ("train") somehow came from 긴+차 ("long cars") but turns out it's from 汽車 ("steam car").
- PSA: 6.4% Discount for Prepaying Car Tax between Jan. 16 and Jan. 31
- 10원 Tips Kakao has something like Dalle/StableDiffusion called "Kalo" (칼로) for AI-generated images. Requires developer account or paid API access at the moment. zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20230…
- TouchEn nxKey: The keylogging anti-keylogger solution
- Hit English-language webtoons reach Korean readers
- Seoul Abolishes 35-Floor Cap on Residential Buildings
- Kakao starts handing out compensation to its users for the last year's data center fire
- Southern port city starts multilingual menu board service in 50 restaurants to attract foreign customers
- Nexon to pull plug on former bestseller online racing game 'Kartrider'
- Line 9 extension gets green light — again
- 'The Glory' brings back real life case of horrific bullying to media attention
- Pyongsan Uranium Plant Reservoir Expansion
- Samsung shares a vision for a calmer, more connected, and sustainable world at CES 2023.
- Low Youth Employment in Korea Part 1:The “Golden Ticket Syndrome”
- 10원 Tips Today is "Sohan" (소한, 小寒) or "minor cold" on the traditional seasonal divide calendar. Naver has a cute logo doodle for it. folkency.nfm.go.kr/en/topic/detai…
- Rural Extinction in Numbers: Data
- Why Korea fell 27 spots in world internet speed rankings to 32nd place last year
- Blind App Flooded with Posts Complaining About Reverse Discrimination Against Men
- 10원 Tips Found some cute Christmas logo doodles I forgot to put up last month from Korean web portals Daum, Nate, Zum.
- Convenience store franchise GS25 to demonstrate currency exchange kiosks for foreign tourists
- More Cancer Went Undiagnosed Amid Coronavirus Lockdown
- Namyang sees big increase in overseas sales of Chupa Chups drink
- 10원 Tips End of an era. Korea's license plate seals, known mostly only in East Asia and meant to prevent theft, fraud, plate swapping, will be discontinued after 60+ years.
- Seoul’s night patrol service in residential areas
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