It looks like Cambodia’s top export to South Korea will be deported South Koreans:

Dozens of South Koreans suspected of involvement in scam operations in Cambodia will be repatriated to Korea, officials said Thursday, in the largest overseas transfer of Korean scam suspects.

According to presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung, a pangovernmental task force formed to combat transnational crime has coordinated the return of 73 Korean suspects accused of defrauding 869 victims of approximately 48.6 billion won ($33 million).

The task force was established in October following a summit between President Lee Jae Myung and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.

Korea Herald

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K-Pop Demon Hunters should have been nominated for best picture besides best animated film and song. Instead the best picture will likely go to a movie that pushes some kind of left wing narrative. There is hope though, F1 did get nominated for best picture and it is excellent if you haven’t seen it yet:

Netflix’s hit animated film “KPop Demon Hunters” has received two Oscar nominations.

The animated sensation, co-directed by Korean Canadian filmmaker Maggie Kang and American director Chris Appelhans, earned nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for “Golden,” according to the announcement of the 98th Academy Awards nominees, livestreamed Thursday.

Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the film centers on Huntr/x, who live a double life, balancing their music careers with their duties as warriors who protect the world from demonic spirits, like the overlord Gwi-Ma and the soul-stealing Saja Boys.

Yonhap

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It will be interesting to see if South Korea and Japan join the Board of Peace:

DAVOS, Switzerland — Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, seen by some as a rival ‍to the United Nations, has caught officials at some of the countries invited off guard, with several saying they felt compelled to sign up rather than risk the U.S. president’s wrath.

Reuters canvassed 16 world leaders, including politicians and delegates from Arab nations, Latin American countries and Europe at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, with the response fairly consistent.

Officials from several regions said privately that joining Trump’s proposed board felt less like a choice and more an inevitability, as governments weighed the risks of staying out against the uncertainty of signing on.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but if Korea or Japan really want to get on Trump’s good side they should offer to host the board in their country.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) looks at men using a spa facility a spa facility as he attends a ceremony marking the completion of remodeling the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp in Kyongsong, North Hamgyong Province

These guys seem pretty dumb by admitting to flying these drones over North Korea on TV and thinking nothing was going to happen:

This photo, carried by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Jan. 10, 2026, shows what North Korea claimed was a drone sent by South Korea on Sept. 27, 2025

A joint team of police and military investigators on Wednesday raided the homes and offices of three civilian suspects accused of flying drones into North Korea, police said.

The team carried out search and seizure warrants against the three civilian suspects on charges of violating the Aviation Safety Act at 8 a.m., according to the National Police Agency’s National Office of Investigation.

The joint investigation was launched last week after North Korea claimed South Korea infringed on its sovereignty with drone incursions in September and on Jan. 4. South Korea’s military has denied involvement, saying it does not operate the drone models in question.

Police said they would conduct a thorough investigation while keeping all possibilities open but declined to identify the suspects.

The raid comes after a 30-something graduate student, surnamed Oh, claimed to have flown the drones himself in a media interview aired last Friday. The team also questioned a civilian suspect over the alleged incursions the same day.

The two, who attended the same university in Seoul, were found to have worked at the presidential office under former President Yoon Suk Yeol and to have co-founded a drone manufacturing startup with university support in 2024.

Yonhap

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It will be interesting to see if President Lee considers a pardon for Han because a 23 year prison sentence that would see him spend the rest of his life in prison is harsh:

Former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo (C) arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in the capital on Jan. 21, 2026, to attend the sentencing hearing of his trial on insurrection charges. (Yonhap)

Former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was sentenced to 23 years in prison Wednesday for playing a key role in an insurrection by abetting former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law

The court said the former prime minister took part in the insurrection by proposing that Yoon convene a Cabinet meeting before declaring the decree.

Han did not voice his opposition to the declaration during the Cabinet meeting and appeared to have encouraged then Interior Minister Lee Sang-min to execute Yoon’s orders to cut off power and water to media outlets critical of the administration, it said.

“The defendant had a duty as a prime minister indirectly given democratic legitimacy and the responsibility for it to follow the Constitution and laws and make every effort to realize and defend the Constitution,” the judge said during the sentencing hearing, which was televised live.

“Even so, he neglected this duty and responsibility until the end, thinking the Dec. 3 insurrection might succeed, and chose to take part as a member,” he added.

Yonhap

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The next time someone checks into a Lotte Hotel they could be getting their key card from a robot:

Lotte Hotels & Resorts has joined a government-backed effort to develop humanoid robots tailored for hotel operations, marking the first time a Korean hotel group has participated in a national program focused on next-generation service robotics.

The company said it was selected as the lead operator in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources’ “core robot technology development” project and will take part in the so-called K-Humanoid Alliance, a consortium of government agencies, universities and technology firms working on advanced humanoid platforms.

Korea Herald

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