Hyung-Jin Kim

Associated Press

The New Standard for Modern Dock Operations

The New Standard for Modern Dock Operations

July 20, 2026

Northwestern Engineers Made a 'Phantom' Drone That Vanishes in Plain Sight

July 17, 2026

This photo shared by Indian Ministry of Railways on X shows India's first indigenously built hydrogen-powered train named the “NaMo Green Rail,” at Jind, in the Indian state of Haryana, Thursday, July 16, 2026.

India Launches First Hydrogen-Powered Train Built in the Country

July 17, 2026

Low Res Thermal Treatment Process Illustration

New Process Turns Mixed Plastic Waste Directly Into Hydrogen Fuel

July 16, 2026

Only 5% of Manufacturers Are Winning With AI

Only 5% of Manufacturers Are Winning With AI

Here's how they're doing it.

July 14, 2026

Samsung Faces Strike After Pay Talks with Union Fall Apart

The last-minute deal failed. What's next?

May 20, 2026

Experts from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and joint investigation team between the U.S. and South Korea check the site of a plane crash at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024.

U.S., Boeing Investigators Examine Deadly Plane Crash Site

The South Korean government has launched safety inspections on all the 101 Boeing 737-800s in the country.

December 31, 2024

Rescue team members work at the site of a plane fire at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.

South Korea to Inspect Boeing Aircraft Following Deadly Crash

The plane landed without its front landing gear deployed and overshot the runway.

December 30, 2024

The light trail is seen in Goyang, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. South Korea's military confirmed it test-fired a solid-fueled rocket on Friday, after its unannounced launch triggered brief public scare of a suspected UFO appearance or a North Korean missile or drone flying.

Unannounced Rocket Launch Causes UFO Scare

The military didn't notify the general public of the launch because it involved sensitive military security issues.

December 31, 2022

Quarantine officials wearing protective gears place barricades as a precaution against African swine fever at a pig farm in Paju, South Korea.

NKorea Weak Link in Swine Fever's Spread

South Korea is deploying snipers and flying drones along its border to stop wild boars from spreading swine fever from rival North Korea.

October 16, 2019

In this July 15 2019, photo, South Korean small and medium-sized business owners pour beers and drinking waters from Japanese brands into a trash can during a rally calling for a boycott of Japanese products in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, The signs read: 'Our supermarket does not sell Japanese products.' A widespread anti-Japanese boycott has gained ground in South Korea since Tokyo tightened its exports of materials used to manufacture semiconductors and display screens, key export items for South Korea.

Koreans Boycott Japan

South Koreans are ditching Japanese products as a trade war begins to bubble up.

August 1, 2019

In this Nov. 29, 2018, file photo, victims of Japan's forced labor and their family members arrive at the Supreme Court in Seoul, South Korea. Colonial-era Korean laborers on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, are seeking a court's approval for the sales of local assets of their former Japanese employer after it refused to comply with a court order to compensate them for forced labor decades ago. The sign reads 'Mitsubishi Heavy Industries should compensate and apologize to victims of forced labor.'

Ex-Mitsubishi Workers Push for Compensation

The Koreans who were forced to work for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries during Japan's 1910-45 occupation of Korea are dying of old age as they wait to be compensated.

July 16, 2019

Kim Sung-joo, bottom center, a victim of Japan's forced labor, arrives at the Supreme Court's in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. South Korea's top court ordered a Japanese company to compensate 10 Koreans for forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

Firm to Compensate Forced Laborers

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said that the ruling was "extremely regrettable and absolutely unacceptable."

November 29, 2018

In this Sept. 4, 2017, photo, workers at a seafood processing plant where North Korean workers are distinguished from the Chinese workers by blue overalls wash up after work in the city of Hunchun, in northeastern China's Jilin province. At a time when North Korea faces sanctions on many exports, it sends of tens of thousands of workers worldwide bringing in revenue estimated at anywhere from $200 million to $500 million. That could account for a sizable portion of its nuclear weapons and missile programs, which South Korea says has cost well over $1 billion.

Americans May Be Buying N. Korea-Produced Seafood

Workers have no access to telephones or email. And they are paid a fraction of their salaries, while the rest — as much as 70 percent — is taken by North Korea's government.

October 5, 2017

In this June 1, 2016 photo, scientist Lee T.B. who fled North Korea to South Korea, looks at packs of mushrooms at his newly-built laboratory in Hwaseong, South Korea. Lee has studied the fungi for decades and has created products with them that he believes may fight diseases including cancer, which killed his wife more than 25 years ago. He felt his work was constrained by, and ultimately even in some danger from, the North Korean government, so he fled to South Korea in 2005.

Mushrooms Fuel a Scientist's Flight

At one point he had to trade his mushroom products for groceries. Now, a company that is starting to mass-produce and sell his products.

June 23, 2016