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London Bagel Museum 20s Employee Dies After Long Working Hours
Oct 28, 2025 Taein Lee www.chosun.com London Bagel Museum (LBM) is a bakery brand established in September 2021 near Anguk Station in Seoul. The brand gained popularity for its chewy bagels, diverse flavors, and visually distinctive store designs. Leveraging its popularity among young people, LBM has expanded to seven stores nationwide and plans to open locations abroad in Japan and Singapore. Recently, LBM’s operator reportedly negotiated a stock purchase agreement (SPA) wor

Taein Lee
Oct 28


Major global tech outage: Amazon’s AWS cloud service
Oct 23, 2025 Dogeon Lim www.geekwire.com AWS (Amazon Web Services) reported a global outage that disrupted many of the world's biggest websites and applications (e.g. Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox) on Oct 25 2025. For this situation, Amazon Web services said that it has fixed the fundamental cause. However, the users couldn’t use the websites and apps for almost the whole day. The cause of the problem was a malfunction at Amazon Web Service, the giant cloud computing division, who

Dogeon Lim
Oct 23


A North Korean soldier defects to South Korea across the MDL
Oct 22, 2025 Doyoung Lim www.nknews.org A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea through the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) on Sunday, South Korea’s military said. According to the JCS, the military identified and tracked personnel in the MDL area, secured the custody, and the relevant agencies will investigate the detailed process of moving south. The Northern soldier was found in the southern area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). When the South Korean military team a

Doyoung Lim
Oct 22


Typhoons and the Korean Peninsula in 2025
Oct 22, 2025 Seoyeon Kim www.chosun.com Overview of Typhoon Fengshen (No. 24) Typhoon Fengshen, the 24th typhoon of 2025, formed over the open sea east of Manila, the Philippines, at approximately 3 a.m. on October 18. As of 3 a.m. on October 19, it recorded a central pressure of 998 hPa, maximum sustained winds of 19 m/s (68 km/h) near the center, and a gale radius of 250 km, indicating a relatively weak system. The typhoon was moving westward at a speed of 14 km/h, passing

Seoyeon Kim
Oct 22


The Debt That Time Forgot: Why North Korea Still Hasn’t Repaid South Korea
Oct 17, 2025 Dogeon Lim www.nytimes.com The South Korean government has failed to get approximately 885.3 billion Korean won (620.2 million dollars) from North Korean unpaid loans as of the 13th. Even so, the Export-Import Bank of Korea has already sent over 100 reminders to the North Korean government since the initial early repayment deadline in June 2012. North Korea didn’t leave any response for this. Opposition parties criticised that “All the unpaid money to North Korea

Dogeon Lim
Oct 16


President Lee Jae-myung and First Lady Kim Hye-kyung to Appear on JTBC’s “Please Take Care of My Refrigerator”
Oct 15, 2025 Seoyeon Kim www.mk.co.kr President Lee Jae-myung and First Lady Kim Hye-kyung will make a special guest appearance on the popular JTBC variety program Please Take Care of My Refrigerator, also known internationally as Chef & My Fridge. The episode is scheduled to air tonight (October 6) at 10 p.m., after being postponed by one day from its original broadcast date of October 5. In the official preview video released by JTBC on its YouTube channel earlier in the da

Seoyeon Kim
Oct 15


South Korea’s Passport Ranking Shows Mixed Results
Oct 15, 2025 Eunyo Hwang www.mk.co.kr South Korea’s passport, known as one of the world’s strongest, has recently shown different results depending on how it is evaluated. Some reports say its ranking has dropped sharply, while others still place it near the top of the global list, making it the most powerful. According to the Nomad Capitalist Passport Index 2025, South Korea’s passport fell to 39th place, dropping 28 spots in six years. This index does not only count how man

Eunyo Hwang
Oct 15


South Korea Issues Stronger Travel Warnings for Cambodia After Abduction Case
Oct 2, 2025 Seoyeon Kim www.bbc.com The South Korean government has raised its travel advisories for parts of Cambodia, urging citizens...

Seoyeon Kim
Oct 2


South Korea Turned Off its Loudspeakers Broadcasting North Korea Propaganda
Oct 2, 2025 Eunyo Hwang www.bbc.com South Korea’s military shut down its loudspeakers towards North Korea, intending to ease prolonged...

Eunyo Hwang
Oct 2


Ladium Battery Blaze in South Korea Paralyzes Government Services
Oct 2, 2025 Doyoung Lim edition.cnn.com A massive fire at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service data center has paralyzed...

Doyoung Lim
Oct 2
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