Holy shit, dude.

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SCOOP: The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Jan. 2 was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. reuters.com/world/un-exper…

Samsung says AI to drive technology demand in second half reut.rs/3UiJo80

My guest essay for the New York Times on South Korea's radical Christian lobby and their homophobic agenda.

This piece has been years in the making, and it all started with a disturbing incident I witnessed in 2018. nytimes.com/2024/04/28/opi…

South Korea to consult Naver, after report firm faces Japan pressure to divest stake reut.rs/44kUI7S

This tweet must sound like gibberish to people not following K-pop. lol

Hospitals in South Korea's smaller cities are struggling with a lack of physicians, as a nationwide strike of trainee doctors enters its third month in protest against plans to tackle the shortage by boosting medical school admissions reut.rs/44f2SyE

Shares of K-pop giant HYBE sank over 5% on Friday morning as an internal dispute with the NewJeans label drags on

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Exclusive: China is providing moorage for a US-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to satellite images obtained by Reuters, as US concerns grow over Beijing's support for Moscow's war in Ukraine reut.rs/49RjLki

Earlier we saw Min Hee-Jin, even as a veteran K-pop creative director, talking about top-down corporate hierarchy at HYBE which she saw as stifling and restrictive.

A story so common for many workers at South Korean companies in various sectors (w/ mostly male executives).

Min Hee-jin is now showing what purports to be a KakaoTalk message from HYBE’s Bang PD saying: “You can stomp on aespa right? ㅎ”

As in, asking if she (or her group) is confident they can outshadow aespa

Min Hee-jin says she's never said BTS copied her and HYBE used vague wording to avoid defamation and frame her as a show-off and a weirdo to those who don't follow the news closely.

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Min Hee-jin, CEO Of NewJeans label ADOR, says HYBE PR has been on a level like never before, comparing it to a 'bomb' and says she's been framed as a 'witch'

ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin’s press conference is currently being delayed because Min is asking photographers to stop taking photos yet the photographers keep taking them.