SPOTLIGHT

• Technology

  

  73% of mobile gamers not bothered by in-app ads: report

  By Sohn Ji-young

  A majority of those who play free mobile games turned out to be indifferent to in-app adds in the form of banners or videos, considering the benefits earned in exchange of watching them, according to an industry report.Around 73 percent of gamers are happy with the ad-funded model of mobile app games, according to the “Mobile Games Research 2017” report from London-based market research firm 2VC, commissioned by the Facebook Audience Network.The report was based on more than 6,000 online intervi

• Industry

  

  Alleged Samsung Galaxy S7 explosion causes severe burns

  By Kim Min-joo

  A Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone, a model previously offered in exchange for the recalled Galaxy Note 7, caught fire while charging, a Korean phone owner claims. The 20-year-old user said Wednesday that her Galaxy S7 smartphone she had left charging in the room caught fire at around 3 a.m. on Aug. 14.Sparks from the fire burned the floor and furniture in her bedroom, as well as her hands, resulting in severe blisters. (Yonhap)The user clarified she has been using Samsung’s official charger and the

• Culture

  

  New cultural heritage chief vows ‘attitude overhaul’

  By Yoon Min-sik

  Kim Jong-jin, the recently-named head of Cultural Heritage Administration, emphasized the importance of preserving cultural heritage and vowed changes in the CHA employees‘ attitude in achieving the goals of the organization.Kim who has been with CHA since 2001, however, stopped short of suggesting specific plans for revamping the system that has been criticized for lacking expertise, resulting in such fiascos as the recent “fake royal seal” controversy. Kim Jong-jin, head of Cultural Heritage A

• Social affairs

  

  Teacher-pupil sex incident leads to misguided witch hunt

  By Lim Jeong-yeo

  Personal data about unrelated teachers leaked online following sex case of female teacher, 12-year-old student

LATEST NEWS

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  Defense

  US sends B-1Bs, F-35s to Korea as warning against Pyongyang

  Four F-35B stealth jets and two B-1B strategic bombers from the United States trained with South Korea's F-15K fighter jets over the Korean Peninsula on Thursday in response to North Korea's continued ballistic missile launches and nuclear weapons development, the South's Air Force announced.The unprecedented combined maneuver involved the F-35Bs from Japan and the long-range bombers based in Guam as well as a squadron of four F-15Ks, it said.They staged air-to-ground precision-strike drills aga

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  North Korea

  Moon appeals for Latin America’s support in NK issues

  President Moon Jae-in on Thursday requested Latin American countries to pay greater attention and provide support for containing North Korea’s nuclear program, saying it is not just an issue of major powers, but demands closer global partnerships. Foreign ministers and other senior policymakers from 36 Asian and Latin American countries and international organizations gathered in Busan for a meeting of the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation. In his welcoming remarks, Moon also called

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  World

  Mark Wahlberg named world's top paid actor

  　Rapper-turned-actor Mark Wahlberg was named the world’s highest paid actor, earning an estimated $68 million before taxes over the past 12 months.　The 46-year-old star won his place at the top of the list compiled by Forbes magazine, thanks to earnings from “Transformers: The Last Knight” and comedy sequel “Daddy's Home 2,” due out in November.　Dwayne Johnson, who placed first in 2016, is in second place with $65 million, after starring in the big screen reboot of lifeguard action-comedy “Baywa

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  Industry

  SK Innovation to produce EV batteries with 100 km extension of driving range

  SK Innovation will start the world’s first commercial production of mid- and large-sized pouch-type NCM 811 batteries that would allow a driving range of up to 500 kilometers for electric vehicles, the company said Thursday. NCM 811’s letters and number stand for the chemicals and proportions of the chemicals that make up the battery. The chemicals are nickel, cobalt and manganese. Starting in December this year, the new batteries will be supplied for the production of energy storage systems. Fo

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  Defense

  Talk of tactical nuclear weapons resurfaces

  Talk of South Korea’s nuclear armament resurfaced Thursday, after Seoul’s defense chief raised the issue in a meeting with his US counterpart.Meeting US Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday, Seoul’s Defense Minister Song Young-moo floated the idea of South Korea manufacturing indigenous nuclear-powered submarines and bringing back US tactical nukes that were withdrawn from the Korean Peninsula in 1991. 　The proposal was discussed in the context of the allies’ efforts to enhance their dete

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  Industry

  Battery conference to be held in Seoul in September

  SNE Research is slated to host a battery conference in Seoul, gathering experts to share information and connect with new business partners.The Korean research firm said Thursday it would host the eighth KABC2017, or Korea Advanced Battery Conference, at Coex in Seoul, starting on Sept. 21 for two days. The seminar will also look at how global leaders in the battery industry, LG Chem, Samsung SDI, SK Innovation and China’s CALT have been preparing for the rapidly growing electric vehicle market,

• Editorial

  Super welfare budget

  Uncharted paradigm of income-led growth feared to snowball fiscal deficits

• Viewpoints

  A black daughter of the Confederacy corrects history

  As monuments to the Confederacy are swept away from public spaces, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the president of the United States have been fretting over the so-called attack on history, presumably their history. Their white history.Attack, assault, erasure, destruction — well, truth and justice in the face of denial and dissembling can certainly feel like that. But there is no such thing as whites-only history, there never was, not even with regard to the Confederacy.Like millions of Afri

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  Viewpoints

  China’s car sector needs a shakeup

  China’s SUV specialist Great Wall Motor Co. may, in the end, never get its hands on Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s Jeep division. But expect more and more Chinese automakers to seek out foreign acquisitions. The Chinese government has long dreamed of creating a globally competitive car industry, and having Chinese automakers purchase established companies and brands would seem one obvious way to accomplish its goal.Unless the government rethinks its own industrial policies, however, the strategy

• Viewpoints

  Start preparing for the next Hurricane Harvey

  My heart goes out to the people who have borne the brunt of Hurricane Harvey and still face continued flooding and a long recovery. As a nation, we need to be better prepared for such catastrophic floods so as to mitigate their widespread damage and loss of life. Harvey’s 50 inches of rain in a few days might be unusual, but extensive flooding with its subsequent property damage and loss of life is not.It’s time to stop using the words “unprecedented” or “one in a pick-your-large-number-year flo

GRAPHIC NEWS

OPINION

• Viewpoints

  

  China’s car sector needs a shakeup

  By Bloomberg

  China’s SUV specialist Great Wall Motor Co. may, in the end, never get its hands on Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s Jeep division. But expect more and more Chinese automakers to seek out foreign acquisitions. The Chinese government has long dreamed of creating a globally competitive car industry, and having Chinese automakers purchase established companies and brands would seem one obvious way to accomplish its goal.Unless the government rethinks its own industrial policies, however, the strategy

• Viewpoints

  

  Korea’s ‘Look South Policy’

  By Korea Herald

  Two weeks after his inauguration, President Moon Jae-in unprecedentedly sent a special envoy to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He also announced that his government would bring its relations with ASEAN up to the level of the four major powers -- the US, China, Japan and Russia. While such efforts are on the rise, we may still ask, what is exactly the Korean government’s vision and strategy toward ASEAN?　Pursuing mutual and sustainable prosperity, increasing people-to-people exchange

THE INVESTOR

• Mobile & Internet

  

  Apple plans to launch 6-inch screen iPhone next year

   Apple has started the development of a 6-inch OLED iPhone with aims to launch the largest-ever screen iPhone next year, industry sources said on Aug. 31.The largest iPhone available now is a 5.5-inch LCD model. Sources said Apple plans to launch two OLED iPhones next year -- a 5.85-inch and 6.46-inch models. The 5.58-inch is the same size screen of the upcoming iPhone 8 this year. Apple has started development work with Samsung Display, the sole OLED supplier, and other parts makers ea

• Samsung

  

  Samsung Galaxy S9 likely to debut in Jan.

  Samsung Electronics’ next flagship smartphone Galaxy S9 is highly likely to debut earlier than usual, possibly in January, The Bell reported on Aug. 31. The report said Samsung Display’s OLED panel shipments will start in November, two months in advance of the current S8 whose display shipments started in January this year before the phone’s unveiling in March. Galaxy S8Display panels are usually shipped earlier than other parts such as camera modules and cases. After the panel sh

• Automobiles

  

  [URGENT] Court orders Kia to pay W420b on union's ordinary wage claim

  A local court ruled bonuses and lunch allowances paid to workers at Kia Motors as part of “ordinary wages” on Aug. 31, ordering the nation’s second-largest carmaker to pay 422.3 billion won ($375.5 million) as compensation.The Seoul Central District Court was partially upholding the demand by workers from Kia Motors, the nation’s second-largest automaker, who had claimed 1.09 trillion won in compensation. However, the court ordered that they be paid around one-third of the amount.

• Retail & Consumer

  

  Lotte to invest US$300m to boost China biz

  Korean retail giant Lotte Group announced on Aug. 31 that it will invest US$300 million to revive the sluggish operations of its discount supermarket chain in China. Lotte Shopping Holdings Hong Kong, the holding firm that owns Lotte Mart China and Lotte Department Store China, will take a loan for this purpose.　The new funding comes after Lotte injected 360 million won (US$319.26 million) in March amid the Chinese government’s escalating economic retaliation against Korean firms

K-POP HERALD

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  EXO listed in Guinness World Records

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  ‘Be With You’ to be remade in Korea

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  Park Bo-gum in tug of war with girlfriend

HERALD INTERVIEW

• Culture

  

  BBC journalist Francine Stock talks about Korean films’ richness, complexity and honesty

• Industry

  

  ‘Smartphone OLED will face oversupply by 2020’

• Industry

  

  ‘Korea needs stronger botulinum toxin regulations’

• 미분류

  

  Planning for smart, sustainable future with Singapore

PHOTO NEWS

• 미분류

  

  Signs of fall in the sky in Seoul

  By Park Hyun-koo

  Cool breeze and a clear sky signaled the arrival of fall in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday. Daytime temperature dropped to an average of 18 degrees Celsius nationwide, creating an optimal weather for outdoor activities. A dry spell is anticipated in the following weeks. Photographed by Park Hyun-koo (phko@heraldcorp.com)

VIDEO

• People

  

  Meet Korean Billy, the internet sensation of 2017

• Culture

  

  Slimy ‘liquid monsters’ captivate Korean adults

• Industry

  

  Beauty meets IT for customized experience

• Technology

  

  A tattoo that is painless, removable and safe

FEATURES

• Film

  

  Korean film's depiction of brutally abused women -- Is it too much?

  By Rumy Doo

  Recent thriller “V.I.P.” at center of a whirlwind debate about artistic expression, gender sensitivity

• North Korea

  

  South Korea to upgrade Kaesong guidelines amid UNSC sanctions

  By Jung Min-kyung

  South Korea’s Unification Ministry said Thursday it will launch a research project that aims to overhaul and upgrade the operational guidelines of the now-suspended Kaesong Industrial Complex. “It is necessary to draw an expansive management plan of the Kaesong industrial complex by improving its operational guidelines, to prepare for a progress in the inter-Korean relationship,” a Unification Ministry official said Thursday. North Korean workers at Kaesong Industrial Complex. (Yonhap)The joint

• Social affairs

  

  ‘Excrement School’ changes name to protect students from ridicule

  By Lim Jeong-yeo

  An elementary school named “Daebyun,” whose sound in Korean can make one think about “feces,” is changing its name to “Yongam,” the school said Thursday. The school had been named after the area of Gijang County in Busan where it is located. Most of the residents in this area are alumni of this elementary school. Yongam refers to the name of the village which had been used a century earlier.  A sign by Daebyun students reads, "We want to have a good school name" (Instagram @mey_moon)For decades

• Industry

  

  Ikea Goyang to open on Oct. 19

  By Won Ho-jung

  Ikea Korea‘s second store in Korea will open in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province on Oct. 19, the company said on Tuesday. Ikea Korea Country Retail Manager Andre Schmidtgall gives a press presentation at Bread Comma Café in Seoul on Tuesday. (Ikea)“We had heard from customers that they wanted us to come closer to them, and that sometimes our (existing) store is too crowded,” Ikea Korea Country Retail Manager Andre Schmidtgall told reporters at the Bread Comma Cafe in Seoul.According to Schmidtgall, the