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Rain to continue nationwide through evening after heavy downpours
6+ hour, 7+ min ago (164+ words) SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- Rain is expected to continue across South Korea through Saturday evening after heavy downpours drenched much of the country overnight, weather officials said. Between 6 p. m. Friday and 6 a. m. Saturday, accumulated precipitation reached 137. 5 millimeters on Halla Mountain on Jeju Island,…...
[PRNewswire] Affinidi and Card Info Link Launch AI Agent Trust Layer
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (679+ words) Yonhap News Agency SINGAPORE June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire=YONHAP/ -- Card Info Link has deployed Agent Gateway on Agenzo, its agentic commerce platform for travel and hospitality merchants, making it what is believed to be the first commercial deployment in Asia to operate…...
[PRNewswire] Cision Launches AI Coverage Analysis in Cision One
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (296+ words) -- Helping PR Teams Move from Coverage to Action -- AI Coverage Analysis helps communicators understand the story behind their media coverage, surface key narratives, and identify what to do next CHICAGO June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire=YONHAP/ -- Cision, a global leader in consumer and…...
Endangered animal
1+ day, 57+ min ago (55+ words) Yonhap News Agency A hawk indigenous to South Korea's largest island of Jeju flutters its wings to fly at a nest on a seaside cliff in the city of Seogwipo on the island on June 19, 2026. The hawk, an endangered animal,…...
First heat wave alerts of year issued for Seoul, surrounding areas
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (143+ words) SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- The state weather agency on Thursday issued the first heat wave advisories of the year for Seoul and its surrounding areas. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) put the alerts into effect at 2 p. m. for southern Seoul, parts of…...
S. Korea-ASEAN partnership launches supercomputer in Indonesia
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (151+ words) SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- A supercomputer built under a partnership between South Korea and Southeast Asian nations officially began operations in Indonesia, the science ministry said Thursday. The ministry held an opening ceremony for the high-performing computing infrastructure of 4. 2 petaflops with…...
Hyundai Motor to build green hydrogen power system at Antarctic research station
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (265+ words) SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Group said Thursday it will introduce a clean hydrogen energy circulation system at South Korea's Antarctic research station to support sustainable scientific operations. The initiative is part of a memorandum of understanding signed with the…...
SK hynix ships HBM4 E chip samples to global customers
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (185+ words) SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it has begun shipping samples of its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip, the 12-layer HBM4 E, to major global customers, marking another step in the race to supply next-generation memory for artificial intelligence…...
[PRNewswire] Hon Hai Technology Group(Foxconn) Leads AI Factory Push
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (311+ words) Yonhap News Agency "Foxconn is connecting with transformation opportunities and diversified business models across European industries. By fostering technology collaboration with industry, start-ups, government and academia, we strengthen our Build-Operate-Localize presence in Europe," said Foxconn Vice President and Spokesperson James…...
S. Korea becomes 4th country to forge AI security alliance with Open AI
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (156+ words) SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea became the fourth country to forge a security partnership in artificial intelligence (AI) with Open AI, the developer behind Chat GPT, according to the science ministry Wednesday. Under a memorandum of understanding, South Korea's AI…...