Hyundai Motor and Kia unveiled a number of technologies for their battery management system (BMS) to ensure customers of the safety of electric vehicles (EVs), following a recent EV fire that burned over 100 vehicles at a parking garage in Incheon. In a press release Thursday, Hyundai Motor and Kia said they are making extensive…
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Migrant worker’s fight for justice: lung disease, compensation struggle in Korea
When Ajit Roy first arrived in Korea in 2011, he was already overqualified with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and aspired to become a medical doctor. But he needed money to support himself and his girlfriend back home in Bangladesh. He went back in 2016 only to be devastated by the news that his girlfriend…
How does Bacha Coffee’s $1,000 java taste?
A Korean influencer has shared his experience visiting the country’s first Bacha Coffee shop and tasting its coffee, which generated buzz for charging 1.4 million won ($1,000) per 100 grams of beans. Kim Bo-kyem posted on Tuesday a short clip on his YouTube channel Bokyem TV in which he visited the store in central Seoul…
From bullpen hopeful to closer.
From bullpen hopeful to closer. The 22-year-old hard-throwing pitcher is turning into a true closer. The SSG Landers switched their closer from Moon Seung-won to Cho Byung-hyun on the 2nd. The move took the pressure off Seung-won Moon, who has been the closer since the beginning of the season, and put it on the hard-throwing…
“Who is a domestic pitcher?”
They don’t have the domestic resources to offer a contract extension to a foreign pitcher with an ERA in the 7s. Brandon Waddell’s slow recovery from injury is the primary reason, but when his rehabilitation takes longer than expected, the reality that the only other option is Keisho Shirakawa is bittersweet. Doosan Bears manager Lee…
Kim Do-young has regained his confidence.
One home run away from joining the ’30-30′ club. Kim Do-young (21-KIA Tigers) has regained his confidence. In 109 games this season, Kim is batting .346 with 29 home runs and 33 doubles. After consistently posting monthly batting averages in excess of .300 since April, Kim is batting .258 in nine games in August. He…
The NC Dinos are currently playing without their Captain
The NC Dinos of the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) are currently playing without their cha, po, ma, and prize. Captain Son As-seob suffered a cruciate ligament injury in his knee at the start of the second half, and Park Gun-woo fractured his wrist after being hit by a sand dune during a game. In addition,…
GKL’s June sales up by 17pct m-o-m to circa US$23mln
Casino sales at Grand Korea Leisure Inc. (GKL), which operates foreigner-only casinos in South Korea, rose 16.7 percent on-month to about 29.55 billion won in June, according to data submitted to the Korea Exchange on Monday. The latest monthly tally rose 20.8 percent year-on-year. During the month of June, table game sales rose 21.4 percent…
Kangwon Land’s recovery is quite slow: intermediary
Securities firm JPMorgan Securities (Asia Pacific) said casino firm Kangwon Land’s earnings normalisation “shows no signs of a turnaround” and appeared unlikely more than a year after it resumed following restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kangwon Land Inc. is a promoter of Kangwon Land (pictured), the only Korean casino resort that allows Koreans to…
Hitting Ahn Se-young getting stronger
The offensive against Ahn Se-young, a gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, who revealed the absurdity of the Badminton Association, is intensifying. Recently, even Na Soo-hyun, a commentator for MBC, a former member of the national badminton team, pointed out Ahn’s “politeness” and seems to be leaning toward the association. Commentator Bang said in an…