Kenneth Bae is a name I haven’t heard in a long time since his detainment and release from North Korea:

American missionary-turned-human rights activist Kenneth Bae, who was once detained in North Korea for more than two years, said he will engage in a broadcasting propaganda initiative using shortwave radio to reach North Korean people.

The head of the New Korea Foundation International said in an interview with The Korea Times that he will spearhead a public fundraising campaign to establish a North Korea-focused radio service called Korea Link.

“The effort is centered on North Korean citizens rather than the Kim Jong-un regime in the North,” Bae said during the interview at the Korea Press Center in Seoul, Feb. 4.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but it will be interesting to see if the Lee administration tries to crackdown on these radio broadcasts.

What is interesting about this latest school shooting was that the shooter was once again trans. Of course the media is not going to look into why there are so many trans shooters:

President Lee Jae Myung (2nd from L) attends a Cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae in central Seoul on Feb. 10, 2026. (Yonhap

President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday expressed condolences over a deadly school shooting in Canada, voicing hope that the country will heal from the tragedy.

“On behalf of the Republic of Korea, I convey my heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved families and to the people of Canada who are mourning this profound loss,” Lee wrote on the social platform X, using South Korea’s official name.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link.

I don’t think someone can take credit for publishing a book when AI wrote it for them:

ISBN issuances surge in 2025 as AI accelerates publishing, but fears mount over flood of low-quality titles

It took me about an hour to produce a 50-page-long children’s book. All it required was a handful of prompts to ChatGPT.

The task was simple: Write a children’s story about a journalist living in the age of artificial intelligence, set at The Korea Herald, with a main character named Jane.

Readers can decide for themselves if the result is convincing enough to pass as something written by a human.

But this experiment shows just how quickly a book can be made with AI, something South Korea’s publishing industry is trying to cope with, for better or worse.

Korea Herald

You can read more at the link.

South Korean Ambassador to the US Kang Kyung-wha (left) and Korea Heritage Service Administrator Huh Min attend an event installing a plaque at the consular section building of the Korean Embassy in Washington on Monday to mark the historic building as the site of the Asian country’s first-ever embassy. (Yonhap)

So when is North Korea going to apologize for their drone and balloon incursions into South Korea?:

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young on Tuesday expressed regret over a recent alleged drone incursion into North Korea by a South Korean civilian, marking the first expression of regret regarding the incident by a senior government official.

“I express deep regret to North Korea over the reckless drone intrusion that occurred recently,” Chung said during a congratulatory message delivered at a Mass for national reconciliation and unity at Seoul’s Myeongdong Cathedral.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link.

It looks like the Coupang data breach issue is far worse than originally suspected:

Choi Woo-hyuk, director general of the science ministry’s cybersecurity bureau, speaks during a press conference in Seoul on Feb. 10, 2026. (Yonhap)

A joint public-private probe into a major data breach case at the South Korean unit of U.S.-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. has confirmed that over 33.6 million accounts have been exposed, the science ministry said Tuesday, suggesting the company may have sought to play down the incident by initially claiming only some 3,000 had been compromised.

The South Korean unit, Coupang Corp., also failed to promptly report the incident despite related regulations, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.

“The science ministry concluded the incident as being a major breach case leading to a massive leak of information involving the country’s top online commerce platform,” Choi Woo-hyuk, director general of the ministry’s cybersecurity bureau, said during a press briefing.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link.

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