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- No limits: Winter Paralympic team pledges best efforts in Italy
- Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Chae Hwi-young (third from left) on Feb. 2 poses for photos with athletes at the launch ceremony of Team Korea for the Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics in Italy at Seoul Olympic Parktel in Seoul's Songpa-gu District. By Margareth Theresia Photo = Heo Man-jin f..
- 2026.02.05
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- [World Heritage candidates] ① Busan: refugee hub of Korean War
- Busan will host the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in July. Korea.net reflects on the significance of this event by looking at six of the 12 sites on Korea's tentative candidate list for UNESCO World Heritage. These five places are among the 11 Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital..
- 2026.02.05
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- Chinese pick Korea as top spot to spend Lunar New Year: study
- The Singapore-based marketing technology company China Trading Desk says between 230,000 and 250,000 Chinese tourists will visit Korea over the Lunar New Year period from Feb. 15-23. Shown is the trendy Seongsu-dong neighborhood in Seoul's Seongdong-gu District late last year. (Lee Jeongwoo) By Xu A..
- 2026.02.05
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- Consortium lands deal to export AI know-how to Saudi Arabia
- Second Vice Minister of Science and ICT Ryu Jemyung (clockwise from left in back row) on Feb. 1 poses for a group photo with Aramco Digital CEO Nabil Al-Nuaim, Mohammed Makhdoum, Aramco Digital's president of digital business services, and Joh Joon Hee, chairman of the Korea AI and Software Indust..
- 2026.02.05
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- Winter Olympic team arrives in Italy, eyes 3 golds, 10th place
- The main delegation of the national team for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy on Jan. 31 pose for a group photo in Milan after arrival. (Korean Sport and Olympic Committee) By Kang Gahui The main delegation of the national team for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy on Jan. 31 arri..
- 2026.02.04
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- Chip boom helps exports set all-time January mark of USD 65B
- Exports in Exports last month set a record high for January by exceeding USD 60 billion for the first time. Shown are stacked containers on Aug. 7 at Pyeongtaek-Dangjin Port in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do Province. (Yonhap News) By Yoo Yeon Gyeong Exports last month set a record high for January by brea..
- 2026.02.04
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- 'Startup Program for All' seeks 5,000 innovative entrepreneurs
- President Lee Jae Myung (left) on Jan. 30 speaks at a meeting on strategies for national job creation at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul. (Cheong Wa Dae) By Yoon Sojung A new government initiative seeks to develop talent and innovate the startup ecosystem to create an environment where anyone can start a bus..
- 2026.02.04
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- Culinary school to train foreign students in Korean cuisine
- Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Song Mi-ryung (sixth from left) on Jan. 27 takes a group photo at the Korean Food Promotion Institute in Seoul's Jongno-gu District. She discussed at the gathering the planned launch of Sura School, a culinary training center for Hansik (traditional fo..
- 2026.02.02
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- Korea in 2025 ranked fourth in patent applications with 260K
- The Ministry of Intellectual Property on Jan. 29 said the number of patent applications in the country last year reached 260,000 for the first time. Shown are Samsung SDI's ultra-high-power cylindrical battery SDI 25U-Power, which won a Best Innovation Award at this year's CES, the world's largest e..
- 2026.02.02
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- Homegrown cube satellite to gauge effects of cosmic radiation
- This is a full-scale mockup of the cube satellite K-RadCube made by Nara Space Technology demonstrating the deployment of solar panels and antennas in space. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) By Margareth Theresia K-RadCube, a domestically developed cube satellite, will be installed on A..
- 2026.02.02