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Even ‘home-cooked meals’ are daunting for low-income·older adults

It was found that last year food accounted for more than 37% of consumption spending among low-income households. This is the highest level since the relevant statistics began to be compiled. The share of food spending among older households also set a new record since compilation began. As income has retreated, households appear to have tightened their belts on items such as medical and education costs while leaving essential ‘food’, which has affected the results. With food prices continui...

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Mixed doubles ‘golden duo’ do it again… Lim Jong-hoon·Shin Yu-bin ‘WTT Finals triumph’

The mixed doubles world No. 2 ‘golden duo’ Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange) and Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) became the first Korean players to win the World Table Tennis (WTT) season-ending Finals.Lim and Shin swept the Chinese duo Wang Chuqin-Sun Yingsha 3-0 (11-9 11-8 11-6) in the mixed doubles final at Hong Kong Finals 2025, which concluded in Hong Kong on the 13th, to take the title. The Finals is a champions-of-champions event that invites only players with high ranking points based on resu...

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LG Electronics to establish an industry-academia research center for ‘AI security’ with Seoul National University

LG Electronics will join hands with Seoul National University to establish a dedicated industry-academia research center to advance artificial intelligence (AI) security technologies.LG Electronics said on the 14th that on the 12th it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University to establish the ‘Secured AI Research Center’. The AI research center is scheduled to be set up at Seoul National University early next year.Leveraging Seoul National University’s researc...

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Hyundai Motor hydrogen-electric SUV ‘Nexo’, earns top grade in European new car safety assessment

Hyundai Motor announced on the 14th that the hydrogen-electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) ‘The All-New Nexo’ (photo) received the highest five-star rating in the European New Car Assessment Programme ‘Euro NCAP’.Launched in 1997, the Euro NCAP tests assign ratings based on a comprehensive evaluation of four areas: adult occupant protection, child occupant protection, pedestrian protection, and safety assist systems.Euro NCAP assessed that Nexo maintains a safe passenger compartment in fron...

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‘Ski Queen’ Lindsey Vonn, back atop the World Cup at 41

American alpine skiing star Lindsey Vonn (41) set the record as the oldest winner of a World Cup downhill.On the 12th (local time) in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Vonn won the 2025~2026 women's World Cup downhill season opener in 1:29.63. Vonn, who retired in 2019 due to a knee injury, claimed her first World Cup gold medal since her official return last December. With this victory, Vonn now has 83 World Cup wins in total. At 41, she surpassed Switzerland's Didier Cuche (2012 men's super-G·t...

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Chung Yong-jin attends Christmas dinner hosted by the U.S. Vice President

Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin met Vice President Vance at a Christmas dinner hosted by U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance.According to Shinsegae Group on the 14th, Chairman Chung attended the dinner held on the 12th local time at the residence of Vice President Vance in Washington, United States. Also present were U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Bus...

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As the exchange rate soars, foreign exchange authorities convene an emergency Sunday meeting···The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy also join

Recently, as the won·dollar exchange rate has continued to soar, the government on the 14th held an emergency economic ministers meeting related to the foreign exchange market, with the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy also participating.Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Gu Yoon-cheol convened a joint emergency economic ministers meeting of relevant agencies at Government Complex Seoul that afternoon to review recent domest...

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Coupang’s Kim Beom-Seok: “I cannot attend the hearing due to business commitments”···Choi Min-Hee: “We will hold them appropriately accountable”

Kim Beom-Seok, chair of Coupang Inc.’s board of directors, and former Coupang CEOs Kang Han-Seung and Park Dae-Jun said they would not attend the National Assembly’s “Coupang personal information leak hearing.” Choi Min-Hee, chair of the National Assembly’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, said nonattendance would not be permitted and added, “We will hold them appropriately accountable.”On the 14th, Chair Choi posted on Facebook that “CEO Kim Beom-Seok and former CE...

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‘AI bubble’ narrative pushes the exchange rate close to 1,480 won···Annual rate may even break the record set during the currency crisis

Despite the Federal Reserve (Fed) cutting rates, the rekindling of the artificial intelligence (AI) bubble narrative is once again shaking the won-dollar exchange rate, which had been staying in the 1,470-won range. With the rate not falling amid a dollar supply-demand imbalance and various headwinds, some expect the annual average rate to reach the 1,400-won range for the first time on record. As the increase in overseas investment by the National Pension Service, companies, and households ...

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‘The Price of Confession’ Jeon Do-yeon: “I chose it because I was drawn to a women-centered narrative… I wrestled with desires beyond just ‘maternal love’”

The characters played by actor Jeon Do-yeon (52) have never been one-dimensional. Even when she smiles brightly, she knows how to, with a fleeting, delicate expression, make you imagine the anxiety and solitude her character feels.In the Netflix series <The Price of Confession>, Jeon becomes ‘Ahn Yoon-su’, an art teacher framed as a suspect in her husband’s murder, and pleads her innocence. Shouting, “How could I possibly have killed my husband!”, her face looks utterly desperate. Ye...

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