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Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' to Debut in Korea, World Tour Launching

Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' to Debut in Korea, World Tour Launching

Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' to Debut in Korea, World Tour Launching

‘Bedford Park’ Star and Busan Juror Moon Choi on Locking Away Her Trophies and Plotting a Screen Version of a Molière-Winning Play

‘Bedford Park’ Star and Busan Juror Moon Choi on Locking Away Her Trophies and Plotting a Screen Version of a Molière-Winning Play

For several years after the biggest run of her career, Moon Choi, known in Korea as Choi Hee-seo, kept her trophies out of sight. The haul was substantial. Her turn as Japanese anarchist Kaneko Fumiko in “Anarchist from Colony” swept Korea’s new actress prizes, and her lead role in independent feature “Our Body,” which bowed […]

Isabelle Huppert Says AI Hasn’t Replaced Her Yet: ‘It Really Is Me Acting’

Isabelle Huppert Says AI Hasn’t Replaced Her Yet: ‘It Really Is Me Acting’

Isabelle Huppert has yet to be pushed aside by AI, the French star said at the Busan International Film Festival, though she has heard she may soon be speaking Korean and Japanese. “I didn’t know I spoke Korean. I just know how to say ‘annyeonghaseyo’ [hello],” Huppert said at a press conference for Marc Fitoussi’s […]

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missiles, adding to streak of weapons tests

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missiles, adding to streak of weapons tests

South Korea’s military says North Korea fired at least one projectile toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations

South Korea’s military says North Korea fired a projectile toward the sea

South Korea’s military says North Korea fired a projectile toward the sea

South Korea’s military says North Korea fired at least one projectile toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations

North Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles, adding to streak of weapons tests

North Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles, adding to streak of weapons tests

South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations

Seoul Court Rules U.S. Prison Term Counts Towards Korean Military Exemption

Seoul Court Rules U.S. Prison Term Counts Towards Korean Military Exemption

A Seoul administrative court has ruled that a Korean-born man who served 14 years in a U.S. prison for armed robbery is exempt from mandatory military service in Korea. This decision extends the existing exemption for inmates to those who have completed their sentences overseas, a stance previously rejected by the Military Manpower Administration. The man, who became a permanent resident in the U.S. and was deported to Korea after completing his sentence last year, was convicted of robbery and aggravated assault in 2010. While a physical examination deemed him eligible for alternative service as a social service agent, he sought assignment to wartime labor service, which exempts individuals from peacetime military duty. The court sided with the man, asserting that the rationale for excluding inmates from active duty—to protect military discipline and maintain the quality of the armed forces—applies regardless of where the sentence was served. However, the court stipulated that such overseas prison sentence...

Japan's Content Industry Boosted by New Policies and International Collaborations at ACFM

Japan's Content Industry Boosted by New Policies and International Collaborations at ACFM

Japan's Content Industry Boosted by New Policies and International Collaborations at ACFM

Ham So-won Expresses Playful Jealousy Over Ex-Husband Jin Hua's Meeting with Fan Bingbing

Ham So-won Expresses Playful Jealousy Over Ex-Husband Jin Hua's Meeting with Fan Bingbing

Ham So-won Expresses Playful Jealousy Over Ex-Husband Jin Hua's Meeting with Fan Bingbing

Netflix Romance ‘Love Untangled’ Director Namkoong Sun on Netflix Freedom and the Funding and Distribution Gap in Korean Indie Film

Netflix Romance ‘Love Untangled’ Director Namkoong Sun on Netflix Freedom and the Funding and Distribution Gap in Korean Indie Film

Namkoong Sun, director of Netflix’s Korean romance “Love Untangled,” said her first commercial feature felt little different from her independent films once cameras rolled, apart from the scale. The freedom, she added, came with weight. Namkoong was speaking at “New Voices in Film,” an industry panel staged by the Busan International Film Festival and Netflix […]

AI-Powered Healthcare Model Proposed to Alleviate Hospital Overload in Korea, Citing U.S. Precedent

AI-Powered Healthcare Model Proposed to Alleviate Hospital Overload in Korea, Citing U.S. Precedent

A research team led by Professor Jung Se-young of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has proposed a new AI-powered healthcare model, dubbed the '1.5-Tier Healthcare System,' to address the issue of overloaded hospitals in Korea. This model aims to create an 'invisible bridge' between primary care clinics and larger hospitals, allowing doctors to provide more personalized care without increasing staff. The system leverages AI across four key primary care functions: 'First Contact' for initial patient assessment and referral, 'Coordination' for automating referral letters and discharge summaries, 'Comprehensiveness' for early detection of hidden diseases, and 'Continuity' for ongoing patient monitoring and lifestyle coaching. As an example of AI's 'Comprehensiveness,' the NOTIFY-1 project in the U.S. is cited, where AI reanalyzed existing chest CT scans for coronary artery calcium, leading to a significant increase in statin prescriptions for eligible patients who were not previously receivin...

Bela Bajaria on Netflix’s Epic TV Trek into Local Language Production: ‘There’s No Roadmap for This’

Bela Bajaria on Netflix’s Epic TV Trek into Local Language Production: ‘There’s No Roadmap for This’

Bela Bajaria was a few months into her job as the leader of Netflix’s international content expansion campaign in 2019 when she fully realized the significance of the opportunity ahead. The production of local original content was not destined to be a side business for Netflix — it is the business, and increasingly so as […]