About a thousand cases and counting of food poisoning have been reported from South Korea’s Namwon City. Incidentally, as per a BBC report, this sudden surge has been a result of consuming kimchi, a traditional Korean staple, taken with most meals. The ailment in question has been identified as the highly contagious norovirus, something which …
North Korean authorities publicly executed a 22-year-old man for listening to and sharing K-pop music and films, according to a human rights report released by South Korea’s unification ministry. According to a report by The Guardian on the 2024 Report on North Korean Human Rights, a young man from South Hwanghae province was executed in …
In the Budget for 2023-24, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced reduction in customs duties for ‘seeds’ for lab grown diamonds, to give a fillip to diamond manufacturing in India. The government also gave a grant of ₹242 crore to IIT Madras for setting up an India Centre for Lab Grown Diamonds (InCent-LGD) for research into …
Samsung has revealed that the One UI 6.1 update for the Galaxy S23 series will come with the March 2024 security patch in Korea (via @tarunvats33). The latest announcement gives us a hint about when the company will start rolling out the next big update for its last year’s flagship smartphone lineup. Samsung offers one …
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asserted on Monday that if the United States and South Korea choose military confrontation then the most powerful means must be mobilised to destroy them, reported Reuters. While hosting senior military leaders on Sunday at the ruling Workers’ Party (WPK) headquarters, Kim pointed out that hostile manoeuvres by the …