Silently the morning mist is lying on the water, captive moonlight waiting for the dawn; softly like a baby’s breath, a breeze begins to whisper; the sun is coming quick, you must be dawn on the waters surrounding Gwangan Bridge in Busan on July 20.YONHAP
Guess who's back? With Sterling off in the middle of a heatwave traveling somewhere even hotter for some inexplicable reason, the editing team is delivering your daily dose of news.
In today's headlines, Korea is steppe-ing up efforts to secure a new source for rare earths (bam! Nailed it right out of the gate), a neighbor from the North teaches children in the South a lesson (but not like the kind in the hit Netflix show) and BTS apparently stands for "Big (but debatably incredibly unnecessary) Tournament Show."
Also, AI gets stopped in Go, a British company sets sail for riches with Korea's shipyards and Boryeong is back with some dirty fun.
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BUSINESS
Korea's Mongolian mineral bet may become a geopolitical tightrope walk between China, Russia and the U.S.
As China tightens its grip on critical mineral exports, South Korea is eyeing Mongolia as an alternative supplier — though its distribution networks, hemmed in by China and Russia, carry the risk of political interference by the two regional heavyweights down the road.
The potential for tension could grow if South Korea ultimately funnels those minerals toward the United States under the two countries' ever-expanding mineral supply chain alliance. South Korea currently chairs a 17-nation coalition that Washington launched to reduce the world's reliance on China for critical minerals.
‘Shin-telligence’ beats an actual AI in two-stone handicap Go match
World No. 1 Go player Shin Jin-seo, whose style of play is likened to artificial intelligence, defeated the elite AI KataGo Sunday after losing an earlier match.
