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“We are finished”···Hollywood feels its livelihood threatened by the ‘Sidance shock’
“We are finished”···Hollywood feels its livelihood threatened by the ‘Sidance shock’

The video-generation artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Sidance 2.0’ from the Chinese company ByteDance, the parent of TikTok, is facing backlash amid allegations that it may have infringed the copyrights of works from the United States and Japan. On the 14th (local time), according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Axios, and the BBC, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) issued a statement saying, “the Chinese service Sidance used, without authorization, a large number of works protected by U.S. ...

2026.02.16
  • ‘One-day temp’ turned ‘perpetrator of the accident’, Inhyeon-dong disaster victim Lee Ji-hye to receive compensation after 26 years
    ‘One-day temp’ turned ‘perpetrator of the accident’, Inhyeon-dong disaster victim Lee Ji-hye to receive compensation after 26 years

    Lee Ji-hye (16 at the time of death), who died in the 1999 ‘Incheon Inhyeon-dong fire disaster’ but was excluded from compensation, will receive compensation 26 years after the disaster.Yonhap News reported on the 11th that Jung-gu, Incheon said it would accept the Anti-corruption & Civil Rights Commission’s recommendation to amend the ‘Ordinance on Compensation Related to the Inhyeon-dong Fire Accident in Jung-gu, Incheon’.Kim Jeong-heon, head of the Jung-gu District Office, said, “Recent...

    2026.02.11 16:14

  • Countdown to the launch of a bigger, more powerful ‘Starship’… SpaceX “Structural strength test passed”
    Countdown to the launch of a bigger, more powerful ‘Starship’… SpaceX “Structural strength test passed”

    SpaceX, the U.S. private space company led by Elon Musk, has successfully completed a structural strength test for the new model of the largest rocket ever built, ‘Starship’ (Starship V3). Bigger and stronger than the previous model, Starship V3 is scheduled to launch next month. If the flight succeeds, the United States path toward landing humans on the Moon in 2028 is expected to accelerate.On the 10th (local time), SpaceX said via X that it had completed a ‘cryo proof’ for Super Heavy a...

    2026.02.11 16:14

  • KoreaU.S. discuss non-tariff areas… An increasingly impatient Trump administration pressures Japan and Taiwan as well
    KoreaU.S. discuss non-tariff areas… An increasingly impatient Trump administration pressures Japan and Taiwan as well

    As the Trump administration considers raising tariffs on Korean-made products, citing delays in Korea’s investment in the United States, the Korean and U.S. trade authorities have consulted on non-tariff barrier issues, including in the digital sector. President Trump is also urging Japan and Taiwan, which along with Korea are major investors in the United States, to speed up their investment. Industry observers say the situation is better than when only Korea was being singled out, but to m...

    2026.02.11 16:13

  • A string of resignations by Tesla executives and xAI founding members···What is going on in the ‘Musk empire’
    A string of resignations by Tesla executives and xAI founding members···What is going on in the ‘Musk empire’

    Under Elon Musk, the American entrepreneur who leads Tesla and SpaceX, key executives have recently been leaving in succession.According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and CNBC on the 10th (local time), Vice President Raj Jagannathan, who had worked at Tesla for more than 10 years, recently left the company.Vice President Jagannathan had overseen Tesla information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, business applications, and information security, and his t...

    2026.02.11 16:13

  • School shooting in western Canada···10 dead·25 injured
    School shooting in western Canada···10 dead·25 injured

    A shooting at a school in a mountain town in British Columbia, western Canada, left at least 10 people dead, including the suspect, and dozens injured, AP and other outlets reported on the 10th (local time).According to reports, the incident occurred at around 1:20 p.m. at a middle and high school in the small city of Tumbler Ridge, more than 1000㎞ northeast of Vancouver. Tumbler Ridge is a mountain town of about 2,400 people, and about 175 students are enrolled at the secondary schoo...

    2026.02.11 16:12

  • If a vehicle is trapped at a rail level crossing, information sent to train drivers... AI CCTV to be introduced
    If a vehicle is trapped at a rail level crossing, information sent to train drivers... AI CCTV to be introduced

    To prevent accidents occurring at rail level crossings, the government will introduce an artificial intelligence (AI)-based closed-circuit television (CCTV) system and strengthen related enforcement.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 11th that it has prepared a "Comprehensive Measures to Prevent Rail Level Crossing Accidents" and will implement it starting in March. To prevent rail level crossing accidents that have claimed 14 lives over the past five yea...

    2026.02.11 15:43

  • KDI raises this year growth forecast to 1.9%… semiconductors drive the economic recovery
    KDI raises this year growth forecast to 1.9%… semiconductors drive the economic recovery

    The state-run think tank Korea Development Institute (KDI) has presented a growth forecast for this year of 1.9%, up 0.1 percentage points from its previous projection. It judged that the steep rebound in the semiconductor cycle has propelled exports and facility investment, lifting overall growth momentum. However, it warned that if semiconductor demand declines, the recovery could be constrained.On the 11th, through its ‘2026 Economic Outlook Revision,’ KDI projected that real gross domest...

    2026.02.11 15:17

  • Direct hit from fee cuts… card companies’ net profit fell 8% last year
    Direct hit from fee cuts… card companies’ net profit fell 8% last year

    Due to the reduction in merchant fees, a contraction in card loans, and rising interest costs, the net profit of the four major card companies fell by nearly 8% from a year earlier last year.According to the card industry on the 11th, last year’s net profit at the four companies, Samsung·Shinhan·Hyundai·KB Kookmin Card, was 1.8031 trillion won, down 7.8% from the previous year (1.9558 trillion won). After rising 5.9% in 2024, it returned to negative growth. It was even below 2023 (1.8462 tri...

    2026.02.11 15:13

  • Chey Tae-won·Jensen Huang ‘upgrade their AI alliance’ at a U.S. chicken-and-beer meetup···their daughters also joined
    Chey Tae-won·Jensen Huang ‘upgrade their AI alliance’ at a U.S. chicken-and-beer meetup···their daughters also joined

    It is said that the daughters of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and NVIDIA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jensen Huang also joined their recent Silicon Valley ‘chimaek (chicken·beer) meetup’ in the United States. During the roughly two-hour gathering, the two discussed strengthening their companies’ artificial intelligence (AI) alliance and appeared to deepen their rapport.According to business circles on the 11th, Chairman Chey met CEO Huang at ‘99 Chicken’ in Santa Clara, California, on t...

    2026.02.11 14:13

  • ‘From ‘youngest’ to ‘oldest’, six Olympics, 12 medals···At 36, Fontana wrote a new chapter on the ice’
    ‘From ‘youngest’ to ‘oldest’, six Olympics, 12 medals···At 36, Fontana wrote a new chapter on the ice’

    Six Olympics, and 12 medals.Arianna Fontana, the living legend of Italian ice sports, has made history again at age 36. On the 10th, at the Milan Ice Skating Arena in Italy, she competed for Italy in the short-track mixed 2000m relay at the Milan·Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics and hung a gold medal around her neck. It was the third Olympic gold of her career, and her 12th medal overall. She extended her own record for the most Olympic medals in short track. The next-best tally is eight...

    2026.02.11 14:13