Has South Korea replaced the Japanese
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how they have culturally changed
both have shifted
South Korea - Mostly lower-budget Korean films to compete for summer box office, diverging from blockbuster trend
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240620004000315?section=culture/enterta
inment
South Korea’s 0-4 age group now smaller than North Korea’s
https://www.chosun.com/english/opinion-en/2024/06/20/S6TM3XR2FNCAJAGZQ
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Japan toughens rules on products sold online by foreign sellers
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240619/p2g/00m/0bu/035000c
Tokyo’s Shibuya district passes year-round public drinking ban
https://soranews24.com/2024/06/18/tokyos-shibuya-district-passes-year-
round-public-drinking-ban/
Korean universities seek to lure more foreign students
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240620050668
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Demographic crisis looms: UN warns S. Korea’s population to halve by 2089
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2024/07/18/GC5BSQQ3OJD55GGV
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even the article uses AI?
Artist's ethics, copyright law come under scrutiny as AI music production grows
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2024/07/398_379128.html
Mukbang star Tzuyang reports YouTube channel Hoverlab's Kim Se-eui to prosecutors a kind of Maga Rightwinger site? 'Hoverlab'a right-wing mouthpiece
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-07-31/national/socialAf
fairs/Mukbang-star-Tzuyang-reports-YouTube-channel-Hoverlabs-Kim-Seeui-to-prosecutors/2102867
Right-wing YouTubers acquitted of defaming ex-justice minister's daughter
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/06/251_353298.html
Korea logs record US trade surplus in 1st half amid surging Trump risks
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240721050076
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Squid Game: Season 2
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Who is buying Dollars and Euros?
Foreign reserves up for 2nd month in Aug. on weak dollar
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240904050106
more scandals and Perversions
Police to launch intensive crackdown on deepfake sex crimes
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240827006800315?section=national/nation
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Korea to bolster cybersecurity measures against hacking, disinformation
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/09/205_381643.html
Google Korea’s real revenue could be 33 times higher, experts say
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2024/09/04/WOZKFBKNBFEO5FBH
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and to think so many used to eat dog, no longer a top seller on the menu
now they treat them as the baby like crazy cat ladies
Sales of dog strollers outpace baby strollers in the country with the world’s lowest birth rate. South Korea is one such country, a fertility rate that's dwindled to the lowest in the world at 0.72 as of 2023.
https://fortune.com/2024/09/09/sales-of-dog-strollers-outpace-baby-str
ollers-in-the-country-with-the-worlds-lowest-birth-rate/
Japan had Kurosawa VHS selling to the world, today live streamers and subscribe movie and tv sites like Netflix have South Korea
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In South Korea, rise of explicit deepfakes wrecks women's lives and deepens gender divide
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/in-south-korea-rise-of-explicit-dee
pfakes-wrecks-womens-lives-and-deepens-gender-divide
Surge in Vietnamese women remarrying Vietnamese men after gaining S. Korean citizenship
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2024/03/21/LCUXJLPYWBDVPPRN
CMBP6XOC34/
Delta Air Lines to launch new Incheon-Salt Lake City route in June next year
https://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240928050002
Ex-Yongsan police chief gets 3 yrs in prison over Itaewon crowd crush; Yongsan ward chief acquitted
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240930002352315?section=national/nation
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Chatbot can translate stupidity?
Only 2 Korean diplomats fluent in Arabic at 19 Middle Eastern missions
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/10/113_383620.html
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perhaps South Korea becoming a regional military power?
South Korea to launch 3rd military spy satellite in December with SpaceX Military
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241023003000315
gamer business
Korean game companies open pop-up stores to attract consumers
https://pulse.mk.co.kr/m/news/english/11120654
$1,000 to LEO: South Korea’s reusable rocket plan targets SpaceX’s dominance
https://spacenews.com/1000-leo-south-koreas-reusable-rocket-plan-targe
ts-spacex-dominance/
National ideas of Rude perception of impolite, also upset he put his hands in his pockets.
Adidas Korea CEO faces criticism for speaking English at Assembly despite Korean fluency
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/10/356_384992.html
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Gaijin Invasion
with Martial Law the Koreans take a step backwards
all of a sudden they feel like Latin America maybe an unstable 1950s-1970s Japan maybe Thailand
they figured out how to make kids again,
Stocks crashing the South Korean leader goes temporary dictator and then asks "Should I not have done that?"
Opposition parties hint at proceeding immediate impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol
https://news.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20241204050022
S. Korea's stock market faces decline as investors shift to crypto
https://www.chosun.com/english/market-money-en/2024/11/22/32Z7S2Q3KVF2
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Acting defense minister says won't obey any orders for martial law if issued again
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/12/356_387845.html
Korea’s fertility rate to rebound for first time in 9 yrs in 2024
https://pulse.mk.co.kr/m/news/english/11178069
South Korea
Army special warfare commander says he defied order to drag out lawmakers
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241206005700315?section=national/politi
cs
however they might still have the 'Soft Power' coolness factor
75.9% of Japanese Teenage Girls Choose Korea as Fashion Inspiration for Eighth Consecutive Year
https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=221314
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'Exhuma' earns 8 times its budget; 'Handsome Guys' posts 336% profit return
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2024/12/398_388507.html
Why more young Japanese workers are seeking jobs in Korea
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2024/12/16/DZPJB4VXMBG3HLXP
XDPBDUIKZQ/
Korea's space development to hit wall without private sector initiative: report
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20241119050068
Samyang Foods' BuldakTteokbokki Newly Launched in Walmart USA
https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=229664
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Trump announces $100 billion in investment by Japanese bank and tech giant to create jobs in U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/16/trump-japanese-financ
ial-giant-softbank-announce-1/
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