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SINGAPORE – Local actor-deejay-host Marcus Chin has upped the ante in his bid to win the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artiste prize at this year’s Star Awards. In 2022, the 69-year-old entertainer offered free grilled fish worth $46.80 at Tian Tian You Yu, the restaurant chain he co-owns, in return for public votes. He

South Korea’s Ministry of Science has announced that it will invest KRW27.7 billion (US$21 million) into local projects building in the metaverse. In an official disclosure, the ministry said the earmarked funds will be used to prop up 13 new projects leveraging virtual worlds in the health, tourism, and education industries. Aside from merely sinking in the

The Korea Customs Service in 2022 uncovered a total of 15 cases of illegal foreign exchange transactions purposed for virtual asset speculation. These transactions were worth 5.6 trillion won (approximately $4.3 billion), local media Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday. The cases are part of overall cases of trade and economy crimes traced by the

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Office workers pick up lunch boxes at a convenience store in Seoul, South Korea, June 24, 2022. Picture taken June...

Korea has its first "unicorn" or start-up valued at more than W1 trillion in the field of computer chip design (US$1=W1,323).Fadu, which designs microchip circuits without manufacturing them itself, has completed a pre-initial public offering placement with a corporate value of W1.8 trillion, accord...

North Korea has ordered a five-day lockdown in the capital over "respiratory illness", a report said Wednesday, in what appears to be the first citywide restrictions since the country declared victory over Covid-19 in August 2022...

The government has threatened to send copies of North Korean drones across the border to bamboozle the enemy if the North invades South Korean airspace with unmanned aerial vehicles again.There are already some mockups in storage here, which were produced in 2014 when some North Korean UAVs crashed ...