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Deepfake producer·seller targeting aespa sentenced to two years and six months in prison···SM “will respond firmly” An individual identified as A, who produced and distributed deepfake content targeting the SM Entertainment group aespa (aespa), has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison. On the 18th, SM Entertainment said that A, who created deepfake videos of members Karina and Winter and sold them for profit, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison. The 1st Criminal Division of the Daegu High Court also ordered completion of 80 hours of a sexual violence treatment program and a ...

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Former Singapore vice minister Kausikan “The international order is not singular ··· it will be reorganized around interests”
“We must learn to think of the international order not in the singular, but in the plural, as ‘international orders’. The factor that will determine these various combinations will be ‘interests’, not universal values.”Bilahari Kausikan, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, said this at the first session of the <2026 Kyunghyang Forum>, held at the Lotte Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 17th. He spoke through a lecture on the theme of ‘Return to normality...

2026.06.17 18:27
Despite Trump repeatedly signaling interest in North Korea…“The prospects for U.S.-North Korea talks are not high”
As U.S. President Donald Trump has shown interest in North Korea, including asking President Lee Jae Myung about the current state of inter-Korean relations, attention has turned to the possibility of resuming U.S.-North Korea talks. However, observers say Pyongyang is unlikely to enter talks, given that it has strengthened economic and military cooperation with China and Russia, reducing the pressure from U.S. sanctions and thus its incentives to engage, and that there remains a wide gap betw...

2026.06.17 18:27
The stadium set to host the World Cup final··· “It feels like there is concrete under the grass” complaints pour in
Is it really okay? Complaints continue to mount about the turf at New York/New Jersey Stadium, which will host the final of the 2026 North and Central America World Cup.France head coach Didier Deschamps played the first Group I match of the World Cup on the 17th at New York/New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. Despite a satisfying 3-1 win over Senegal, Deschamps expressed dissatisfaction with the stadium’s turf. In the post-match press conference, when asked,...

2026.06.17 18:27
Charles Michel “The Age of Coercion… In a multipolar world, power politics, not cooperation, is reshaping the international order”
At a lecture during the <2026 Kyunghyang Forum> held at Lotte Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 17th, former President of the European Council (EU) Charles Michel assessed that today’s international community is passing through the final phase of the liberal international order formed after World War II and has entered a new era in which coercion prevails over cooperation.Michel said, “The past international order was built on the belief that cooperation brings better outcomes than confr...

2026.06.17 18:00
The ‘Seoul International Garden Expo’ reaches 5 million in the shortest time on record···aiming for ten million
The ‘2026 Seoul International Garden Expo,’ unfolding around Seoul Forest in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, surpassed 5 million cumulative visitors just 48 days after opening.The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that as of 7 a.m. on the 17th, the cumulative visitor count stood at 5,001,766. This is the shortest time on record. Last year, the Seoul International Garden Expo held around Boramae Park reached 5 million visitors in 72 days.This year, the expo spans the largest area ever (530,000...

2026.06.17 17:53
240 million won saved with a stooped back··· a 90-year-old grandmother’s ‘love for her hometown’
Money saved over a lifetime of picking up waste paper and empty bottles with a bent back has become scholarships for juniors from her hometown.Jeongeup City in North Jeolla Province announced on the 17th that Park Soon-Deok (90), who lives in Ulsan, visited the Chilbo Happiness Connection Center in Chilbo-myeon, her hometown in Jeongeup, on the 15th and delivered 12.5 million won in scholarships to 29 students.Thinking of her life getting by on a tight livelihood, the time it took to gat...

2026.06.17 17:53
Mexico national team arrives in ‘Guadalajara’ ahead of match with Korea [2026 North and Central America World Cup]
The Mexico men national soccer team, set to face Korea in the group stage of the 2026 North and Central America World Cup, arrived in Guadalajara, the site of the showdown, on the 17th (Korean time).At the team hotel, ‘Hilton Midtown’, fans in green jerseys flocked in from the morning. From around 5:30 p.m., when word spread that the team had left Mexico City and landed at Guadalajara Airport, the front of the hotel began turning into a ‘party venue’. Mexico fans shouted chants in time with ...

2026.06.17 17:53
From practicing taking the bus alone to going to the supermarket··· South Chungcheong sees the first ‘success story’ in disability independence this year
Mr. A (56), who had been living at a residential facility for persons with disabilities in Boryeong, South Chungcheong Province, began independent living in the community after about a year of preparation. He is the first case this year to leave a facility and achieve independence through the South Chungcheong Province ‘Metropolitan-scale Pilot Project to Support Community Independence for Persons with Disabilities’.South Chungcheong Province stated that on the 17th it held a move-in cerem...

2026.06.17 17:53
Special Counsel Seeks 1 Year and 6 Months in Prison for Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon over ‘Proxy Payment of Polling Costs’
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, who was brought to trial on charges of having a supporter pay opinion poll costs on his behalf after receiving results from political broker Myung Tae-gyun, had a sentence of 1 year and 6 months in prison requested. The verdict will be delivered on the 22nd of next month.At the closing-arguments hearing on the alleged violations of the Political Funds Act by Mayor Oh and others, held on the 17th before the 22nd Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Court (Pr...

2026.06.17 17:53
Artist who mocked Putin·Kadyrov shot dead in Poland···‘Mysterious death’
A Russian-born artist who had criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, was shot dead in Poland. In the Russian exile art community, the possibility of involvement by the Chechen authorities is being raised.According to Polish prosecutors, on the 16th (local time) in Biala Podlaska in eastern Poland, Russian-born painter and performance artist Robert Kuzovkov (pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky) died in a shooting. Prosecutors have detained two Be...

2026.06.17 17:53