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first robot "suicide", according to the Daily Mail. The response isn't surprising since South Korea loves its robots, and boasts of highest robot density globally with one industrial robot for every 10 employees, according to the International Federation of Robotics. While the exact cause of the incident is still under investigation, some officials say it could have been caused by a navigational error, sensor failure, or even a programming bug.

Kim Yo Jong, the sibling of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, described the recent live-fire drills conducted by South Korea as «suicidal hysteria» and vowed to take military action without giving details. Her warning came after two weeks of tense land and sea border shooting drills between South Korea and North Korea. After South Korea halted a 2018 deal meant to lower military tensions on the front lines, these were the first drills of that kind, as per the reports of Yahoo News.

Mint spoke to lawyers and investment bankers who also alluded to the rise in MNCs evaluating such options. Besides South Korea’s Hyundai, which is preparing for a record ₹25,000 crore initial public offering, LG Electronics and Italy’s component maker Carraro are looking at similar moves, according to media reports.

Binance is reportedly close to finalizing negotiations with South Korean cloud service provider Megazone for the sale of a majority stake in Gopax, a local exchange.

The U.N. intellectual property agency says China has requested far more patents than any other country when it comes to generative AI, with the United States a distant second

The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of South Korea announced a “continuous monitoring system” on July 4 for suspicious cryptocurrency transactions on exchanges. The new system, established in collaboration with South Korean digital asset exchanges, will go live on July 19, coinciding with the implementation of the Virtual Asset User Protection Act.

North Korean Intelligence is believed to have fled China where he was working on a project. The concerned official is reported to have escaped with $30 million of funds meant for the hermit kingdom’s weapons modernization program. This has been reported by Money Today that this escape took place last month. This is yet another escape by a member of the North Korean government in recent times. China and North Korea share a good relationship and this relationship at times has been described as ‘devious’ due to the former’s support to North Korea to its nuclear program.

robot civil servant employed by the Gumi City Council in South Korea was discovered unresponsive after an apparent fall down a flight of stairs. The incident, which occurred around 4 pm last Thursday, has been termed as the country's first robot suicide, according to media reports. According to the city council, the 'Robot supervisor' was found smashed and lying in the stairwell between the first and second floors of the council building. Mirroring humans, witnesses reported tha the robot «circling in one spot as if something was there» before the incident occurred. The exact cause of the fall is still under investigation, and the city council official said that «Pieces have been collected and will be analysed by the company.» About the robot servant:

Tower of God Season 2 is set to debut on July 7. The trailer hints at the intense journey ahead for fans.

AC 130-J is large according to CNN who has reported this. Nicknamed the Ghost rider, it has the ability to pick on objects which are located 50,000 feet away. It has powerful cameras that can easily capture the photographs before relaying it back the command center. It is also equipped with the biggest gun ever mounted on a fixed wing plane. Recently, the aircraft was spotted in the South Korean air space where it was conducting joint exercises with a key Asian ally. This aircraft is critical to the US Air Force and its aircraft mounted gun missions in places such as Iraq and Somalia.

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South Korean financial regulators will launch “full-scale investigations” into “unfair crypto transactions.”

Samsung is dressing up its wearable devices in technology’s latest fashion — artificial intelligence

Unionized workers at Samsung Electronics have declared an indefinite strike to pressure South Korea’s biggest company to accept their calls for higher pays and other benefits

South Korean prosecutors have charged an employee of the bank Woori with embezzlement-related offenses after he admitted stealing company money to spend on crypto.

In a move to bolster investor protection, South Korean crypto exchanges, working alongside the Digital Asset Exchange Alliance (DAXA), unveiled on July 2 a set of comprehensive guidelines for the re-evaluation of listed cryptocurrencies.

Japan’s crypto use will stay among the highest in the world, with the number of people trading crypto daily rising from 350,000 to around 500,000 by the end of this year, according to a Bitget study.

SEOUL—Jordan Daniels, a 31-year-old pianist and software engineer in California, posted a cover of a catchy new tune on TikTok. One aspect of the ditty, “Friendly Father," made Daniels uneasy: It is propaganda from North Korea, the communist country led by brutal strongman Kim Jong Un. “He’s like this dictator," Daniels said.

South Korea's government has announced it will abandon its plan to suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors to resolve the country’s long medical impasse

Asian shares are trading mostly higher after Wall Street benchmarks reached more milestones

People's Liberation Army exploding and destroying US fighter jets worth £78,000 each when the two countries are not at war? Not exactly. There is no US-China war and the Chinese Army has not bombed the US Air Force. What they have done is taking mock drills of exploding jet fighters as a part of their training exercise. According to 'Express', Airbus and Google Earth have captured the images showing destroying US F-35 and F-22 fighter jets in a remote desert area in northwest China. The satellite pictures suggest that the Chinese military destroyed these dummy aircraft with a nearby runway displaying scorch marks and bomb blast craters.