Foreign activists promoting Korean culture Culture Minister Yoo In-chon (4th from R) and foreigners pose for a group photo while holding up letters of appointment as activists to promote Korean culture during their launching ceremony in Seoul on April 30, 2024. (Yonhap)
Hanwha Systems breaks ground on space center This photo, provided by Hanwha Systems Co., a defense electronics and ICT solutions unit under Hanwha Group, shows a rendering of the Jeju Hanwha Space Center, whose ground-breaking ceremony took place on the country’s southern Jeju Island on April 29, 2024. The 11,000-square-meter center will develop and manufacture satellites. (Yonhap)
The North Koreans could use drones and gliders for terror attacks, but why would they at this time?:
This file photo, provided by the National Intelligence Service, South Korea’s spy agency, on Jan. 8, 2024, shows an F-7 rocket-propelled grenade launcher manufactured in North Korea suspected to have been used by the Hamas militant group. Korean characters are engraved inside of the fuse (in blue circle) of the grenade launcher.
South Korea’s spy agency said Tuesday it cannot rule out the possibility of North Korea staging attacks involving drones and motorized paragliders amid suspicions over Pyongyang’s ties with the Hamas militant group.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) issued the warning in its annual report on global terrorism, as the North has been ramping up weapons tests and verbal threats amid allegations of its illicit arms transfers.
In January, the NIS confirmed suspicions that North Korean-made weapons are being used by the Hamas militant group in its war against Israel despite Pyongyang’s repeated denial of such transactions.
It is amazing that doctors would just cancel appointments like this at the last minute. Who knows how long some of these patients have been waiting for an appointment before they were cancelled:
Some medical professors at the country’s three major hospitals, Seoul National University Hospital, Severance Hospital and Korea University Hospital, suspended surgeries and outpatient clinics on Tuesday for one day, as previously announced, to protest the government’s plan to expand the number of new medical students by 2,000 a year.
The main hall at SNUH’s Cancer Hospital was without medical staff Tuesday, while a number of patients wandered around the ward, having just learned that the doctors wouldn’t be coming in. Some said they hadn’t been told that their appointments would be canceled or postponed; other said they had to wait in long queues, not knowing when their names would be called.
I watched the season 2 and MAJ Kim did well, but he was not one of the main competitors featured on the show. Though he is fit, he was definitely not on the same level of the top competitors who’s fitness was extremly impressive. Overall though great job by MAJ Kim and I am sure it was a great experience for him:
An Army officer who competed in a South Korean reality show said he pushed beyond his physical limit to become one of the top 20 contestants battling in theatrical feats of strength for a chance to win roughly $220,000.
Maj. Gibson Kim of the 411th Contracting Support Brigade at Camp Humphreys was among 100 contestants on Netflix’s nine-episode second season of “Physical: 100,” which aired globally starting March 19. Kim, an avid powerlifter, said he was surprised to see his fellow contestants for the first time while filming in August at the Korea International Exhibition Center in Goyang city.
Male and female contestants this season ranged from mixed-martial arts fighters, rugby players, special forces soldiers, body builders, bobsledders, arm wrestlers and ballet dancers.
Protest against increase of medical students Professors and students at the medical school of Chungbuk National University in Cheongju, 112 kilometers southeast of Seoul, stage a protest on April 29, 2024, opposing the faculty’s plan to expand its medical student intake in line with the government’s medical reform initiative. (Yonhap)
It is not like the ROK is going to invade North Korea so they are actually helping the ROK to defend itself:
A South Korean military official (R) shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart as they meet inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas to take part in a project to establish a cross-border road, in this file photo provided by Seoul’s defense ministry on Nov. 22, 2018. (Yonhap)
North Korea has installed land mines on an inter-Korean road within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, a South Korean military official said Monday, the latest in a series of moves to shut down cross-border roads.
The military detected the North laying mines on the unpaved road inside the DMZ late last year near Arrowhead Hill in Cheorwon, 85 kilometers northeast of Seoul, according to the official.
The path was created under a 2018 inter-Korean military agreement to connect the South and the North for joint efforts to excavate remains of those killed near the hill during the 1950-53 Korean War.
Since late last year, the North has installed mines on all roads between the two Koreas once seen as symbols of inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation.
It is amazing that President Yoon agreed to a meeting with Lee Jae-myung where he basically told Yoon he needs to agree to things to help put his wife in jail and help the oppostion impeach him:
Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung asked President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday to agree to a special probe into suspicions surrounding a Marine’s death and to resolve suspicions surrounding his family in an apparent reference to first lady Kim Keon Hee.
Lee made the demands during his first-ever meeting with Yoon at the presidential office, which followed the ruling People Power Party’s humiliating defeat to Lee’s Democratic Party (DP) in the April 10 parliamentary elections.
Lee also asked that the president accept his election pledge to give 250,000 won (US$182) in cash handouts to the entire population and agree to a special bill aimed at determining the truth behind the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush that left 159 people killed.
And then for good measure Lee Jae-myung throws in some Dokdo nonsense where he actually tries to get people to believe Yoon would give up the islets to Japan:
Lee listed a series of other issues, including those related to foreign policy, saying he hopes Yoon will consider shifting to a “national interest-centered practical diplomacy” and make active efforts to ensure “the people’s pride is not damaged with regard to relations with Japan,” citing Tokyo’s territorial claims to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, the two countries’ shared history and the release of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
You can read more at the link, but I don’t see what the point of this meeting was? If Yoon thinks giving Lee Jae-myung this forum to attack him will help in future cooperation, I think he is mistaken. The only thing the opposition wants to cooperate with Yoon on is impeaching him like they did to former President Park. By the way is that not the two most forced smiles you have ever seen in the above picture?
