...o influenced Korean abstract art, such as the ‘dansaekhwa movement,’” said Kim Young-ho, a professor at Chungang University who directed the exhibition. The exhibition starts with “Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisations,” showing Kandinsky’s works from the improvisation series produced in 1909, 1913 and 1917 that feature more simplified forms and bolder and sensuous colors. The first session is followed by “Absolutism of Kazimir Malevic...

...ts, marking the first time in nine years to see exports rise in both volume and value. The country’s car production and sales volume at home, on the other hand, dropped 1.3 percent on-year to 3.46 mi...mid the prolonged pandemic and a global shortage of semiconductors, Korea continued to be the world’s fifth producer of automobiles after China, the US, Japan and India. Domestic sales dropped from t...

... age” system came into the limelight Tuesday following leading presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol’s pledge to make the use of the international age system mandatory for all administrative matters. ...e caught in-between from the youth vaccine pass system, scheduled to go into effect in March. Yoon’s pledge to get rid of confusions stemming from the different ways of counting one’s age came Monday...

...US envoy for North Korea urged Pyongyang to cease its “unlawful and destabilizing” activities and engage in dialogue in his talks with South Korean and Japanese counterparts on Monday after the North’s latest missile test. US Special Representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, South Korea’s Noh Kyu-duk and Japan’s Takehiro Funakoshi held three-way phone talks immediately after North Korea fired two ballistic missiles –- the latest in a flurry of weapons tests despite a United Nations b...

South Korea's molecular diagnostics company Seegene Inc. said Tuesday it has exported 5.1 million COVID-19 test kits to Israel. The company already delivered 1.7 million diagnostic tests last month ...d its delivery of COVID-19 diagnostic tests is expected to cover approximately 57 percent of Israel's 9 million population. "We will continue to support countries in need of COVID-19 tests to improve...

A high school student’s sarcastic letter to a conscripted soldier sent as part of an encouragement campaign, has recently raised questions as to whether it is worth keeping the longstanding practice....take part in this damn campaign. So work hard. ... When it snows, clear it well.” While the letter’s derogatory tone sparked outrage and criticism over its perception of soldiers, the letter also bro...

...r maker Yandex Self-Driving Group, KT said Tuesday. The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding at a Yandex office in Moscow, and are at an early stage of cooperation to integrate KT‘s artificial intelligence and digital capability with Yandex’s self-driving technology. KT added the MOU, in addition to its launch plan, would enable next-generational robot solutions run by AI and help KT and Yandex explore further collaborations in the fiel...

Song Ji-ah, a contestant on Netflix’s latest hit reality dating show “Single’s Inferno,” who is also known as YouTuber FreeZia, has been embroiled in controversy over wearing counterfeit luxury fashion items. Criticism flew in from online community users earlier, claiming that Song’s outfits and pieces of jewelry worn for the dating show and her YouTube clips are partially fake, which resembled ...

The government will convene an extra Cabinet meeting this week to finalize a supplementary budget plan aimed at helping small businesses hit by the pandemic, the prime minister's secretariat said Tuesday. Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum will preside over the meeting Friday, a week after he announced the government's plan to draw up an extra budget to assist small businesses and self-employed people....

...y test-fired a pair of “tactical guided missiles” for the first time in around two years, Pyongyang’s state media reported the following day, saying it did so to confirm the accuracy and efficiency of...PRK precisely hit an island target in the East Sea,” without further details. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the North’s formal name. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday said ...

Hyundai Motor Group’s launch of B2C secondhand car business has met with headwind after the ministry put a halt on the business launch temporarily, according to the industry on Tuesday. The Ministry...pend the launch of the certified used car sales business here. The advisory comes after the country’s association of used car dealership asked the ministry to intervene the automotive conglomerate’s m...

...r Beijing 2022 crashed and burned. The sources said the Seoul Eastern District Court rejected Shim's application for an injunction to lift a two-month ban by the Korea Skating Union (KSU) issued in D...nter Olympics. Those text messages were reported by an online outlet in October last year. The KSU's two-month suspension ruled Shim, a two-time Olympic relay champion, out of the Feb. 4-20 Beijing W...

... chips for mobile phones, in a delayed announcement by a week. The partnership with AMD in Samsung’s processor business has boosted energy efficiency and graphic processing performance compared to pr...pation for the new chip is high, as there are market rumors that Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon mobile processors might be featured on Samsung’s new Galaxy phones, instead of Samsung’s own processors.

...up 18.7 percent from the previous year. The ministry and the corporation attributed the HMR market's exponential growth to more convenience stores, the COVID-19 pandemic and the greater use of air fr...the prolonged coronavirus pandemic has resulted in greater demand for ready-to-eat products in Asia's fourth-largest economy, they added. The data also showed exports of HMR items spiking 323.1 perce...

...er. Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee even hinted a potential merger and acquisition of a robot company at the Consumer Electronics Show 2022 held earlier this month. Regarding the firm’s plans for large-scale merger and acquisitions, the executive said, “We are looking at (targets) quite a lot, with a lot of possibilities in both parts and finished products.” Industry watchers pred...