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[On-site] Why were 'mobile CCTVs' installed on the roadside of valleys crowded with vacationers?···Vacation spots suffering from illegal dumping

Surveillance network expanded following acts of illegal dumping. On the 12th, a banner for illegal waste dumping enforcement and a 'mobile closed-circuit (CC) TV' were installed next to the variable lane of National Route 56 near Yongdam Valley, Yongdam-ri, Sanae-myeon, Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon-do. Reporter Choi Seung-hyun “We shouldn't just stop at cleaning up the trash that vacationers secretly leave behind. We need to expand the surveillance network and strengthen enforcement so they don't even think about dumping it in the first place.” Ji···

Fractional investment 'stock market debut'... New securities market to open in November

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Yoo Dong-hyun = A new securities market where fractional investments can be made in various underlying assets such as art and real estate will open at the Korea Exchange (KRX) this November...

'Special Prosecutor for the National Election Commission' ahead of launch... Targeting vote count manipulation, overseas business trips, etc.

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Park Jae-hyun = As the candidates for the special prosecutor for the National Election Commission, who will investigate the shortage of ballots in the June 3 local elections, have been narrowed down to two, the special prosecutor team's launch...

Seoul Metropolitan Council Democratic Party proposes resolution for 'TBS normalization'... Accumulated debt of 16.9 billion won

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Hwang Jae-ha = Democratic Party members, who hold two-thirds of the total seats in the 12th Seoul Metropolitan Council, have asked the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Mayor Oh Se-hoon to...

[Reportage] Semester starts soon, but university area studio apartment vacancy crisis... 200,000 won minimum goshi-tels are full

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporters Yoon Min-hyuk and Jung Ji-soo = On the 14th, with about two weeks left until the start of the semester, 'Room Available' flyers were posted all over the studio apartment villages in the university area of Seongbuk-gu, Seoul...

Homeplus payment resumption, which was blocked by the card industry... Some are tied up in provisional seizure

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Ji-yeon = The card industry has lifted the suspension of card payment settlements in line with the resumption of Homeplus operations.

Samsung and Hynix cash reserves up by 117 trillion won in 6 months... Overwhelming ammunition compared to facility investment

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporters Kim Min-ji and Kang Tae-woo = Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix saw explosive performance in the first half of this year due to a surge in sales of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and general-purpose DRAM...

Seoul apartment 'conversion of jeonse to monthly rent'... Monthly rent proportion up 7.8%p in 7 years

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Ahn Chae-won = Over the past 7 years, the number of households living in jeonse apartments in Seoul has decreased by more than 30,000, while the number of households paying monthly rent, including semi-jeonse, has increased by more than 50,000...

Revisiting the U.S. in 3 weeks, Kim Jeong-gwan says, 'Last-minute issues in investment in the U.S. ... will resolve it somehow'

'Litigation materials created by AI are not protected by attorney-client privilege'

To what extent can conversations with AI chatbots be protected as 'confidential'? In the legal community, this issue is drawing attention as a new 'point of contention' surrounding the AI industry. Since a man who discussed a crime plan with an AI was arrested last May following a report by an AI company, the possibility that conversations with AI or materials created using them could be effectively forced to be disclosed during civil litigation, acting to the disadvantage of the user, is also being raised.

Confessed murder plan to AI... Police showed up shortly after

The controversy over AI's 'crime monitoring,' which ignited following the Canadian shooting incident last February, is flaring up again. This comes after it was belatedly revealed on the 16th that Darren Zhou (25), who confessed his plan to murder his ex-girlfriend to OpenAI's AI chatbot service 'ChatGPT,' was arrested and punished last May following a report by OpenAI, not the victim. The debate is reigniting over how far AI companies should look into users' private conversations and report them to investigative agencies, and whether merely stating a crime plan to a chatbot constitutes a crime.

South Korea-U.S. security consultations on expanding uranium enrichment authority remain 'sluggish'

Even if the government takes the lead in the race to secure enriched uranium, limitations remain because it uses facilities in other countries. This is because as the uranium enrichment market solidifies into a seller's market, prices will continue to soar and securing facilities will inevitably become increasingly difficult. This is why experts point to South Korea securing its own uranium enrichment capability as a fundamental alternative.

'We get along well'... Trump posts photo with Kim Jong Un again

U.S. President Donald Trump posted a photo on Truth Social on the 15th (local time) taken with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un 7 years ago, saying, 'Kim Jong Un and I GET ALONG GREAT!' The photo posted that day was taken at Panmunjom in June 2019, which was the third meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un. Although the two people in the photo have stiff expressions, Trump wrote, 'There are also many photos of us laughing.' Previously, in June, Trump also posted a photo of himself walking in a hotel garden with Kim Jong Un during the June 2018 Singapore U.S.-North Korea summit.

Seeing no breakthrough in inter-Korean dialogue... President Lee changes strategy to multilateral talks

President Lee Jae-myung's proposal in his Liberation Day celebratory address on the 15th to 'start discussions among the parties concerned to end the long-standing war' is interpreted as meaning that South and North Korea, the U.S., China, and others should participate to address the issue of ending the war. It is said to be a strategy to bring North Korea to the negotiating table through multilateral negotiations in a situation where there is no progress in inter-Korean dialogue. On this day, President Lee did not mention North Korean denuclearization and said that the suspension of the advancement of North Korea's nuclear capabilities could be discussed in the process of discussing the end of the war. The opposition party protested, calling it a 'declaration of abandonment of national security.'

6 independence activists in Liberation Day ceremony video... Syngman Rhee missing

At the Liberation Day ceremony held on the 15th, 6 independence activists including Kim Gu and Ahn Chang-ho appeared in the video, but the image of Syngman Rhee, a representative independence activist who served as the first president of the Republic of Korea, was not seen. Concerns are being raised about this, asking 'if the South Korean government has set out to erase the first president of the Republic of Korea.'

Kim Min-seok wins majority in Honam and neck-and-neck in the metropolitan area... 'Seized the momentum for party leadership'

In the Honam and metropolitan area primaries, which are the biggest battlegrounds for the Democratic Party's August 17 national convention, party leader candidate Kim Min-seok maintained his lead by a large margin over candidate Jeong Cheong-rae. Until just before, candidate Kim was ahead of candidate Jeong by only 1.45 percentage points, but by winning in the Honam and metropolitan areas, which account for 71% (about 1.1 million) of all party members with voting rights, the gap in cumulative vote percentage with candidate Jeong widened to 8.38 percentage points. While it is being evaluated that candidate Kim has seized the momentum, the final victory or defeat will be decided according to the 'public opinion poll,' which accounts for 30% of the primary results on the 17th.

與, 당대표 누가 돼도 입법 폭주 예고

더불어민주당은 새 당대표 선출 사흘 뒤인 오는 20일 국회 본회의를 열고 ‘입법 속도전’에 나선다. 국민의힘이 반대하는 패스트트랙(신속처리안건) 기간 단축 법안을 통과시킬 예정이다. 정부의 주택 공급 대책을 뒷받침할 법안 처리도 시도할 방침이다.

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Dementia and developmental disability medical records will become easier for families to view

러시아에 드론 600대 보낸 우크라이나, 러시아는 드론·미사일 공격···공중전 격화

16일(현지시간) 러시아 모스크바주 포돌스크 인근의 와일드베리스 시설 위로 연기가 피어오르고 있다. 와일드베리스는 러시아 최대 온라인 유통업체로, 우크라이나의 무인기 공격을 받았다. EPA연합뉴스러시아와 우크라이나가 밤사이 상대 수도를 향한 대규모 공격을 주고받는 등 공중전 강도를 높이고 있다. 우크라이나는 러시아 모스크바를 겨냥해 무인기(드론) 600대를···

서울·경기서도 김민석 1위…정청래에 누적 8.4%p 앞서

3주에 걸쳐 진행된 민주당 순회경선, 그 마지막 지역이자 핵심 승부처인 서울과 경기 지역 권리당원 투표 결과가 조금 전 나왔습니다. 1위는 김민석 당 대표 후보였습니다.

'엎치락뒤치락' 최고위원 경선…치열한 '명청대전'

민주당 최고위원 경선도 당대표 경선만큼 치열했습니다. 이른바 친명과 친청 후보들의 대리전 양상이 펼쳐졌는데요. 최민희 후보가 박빙의 차이로 누적 득표율 1위 자리를 탈환했습니다.이어서 김관진 기자입니다.

"세계적 관광지" 튜브 끼고 엄지척…14분 영상엔 반전

북한이 최근 '김정은 표 역점 사업'으로 꼽히는 원산갈마해안 관광지구를 연일 선전하고 있습니다. 세계적 관광지라고 띄우고 있는데, 정작 외국인 관광객들은 거의 보이지 않습니다.김아영 기자입니다.

'선관위 특검' 곧 출범…여야 대립에 밀린 '개혁'

선관위의 비위 의혹들을 수사할 특검이 곧 출범합니다. 이제 남은 건 선관위의 개혁입니다. 하지만 여야가 당리당략을 앞세워 대립을 거듭하는 사이, 선관위 개혁 논의는 뒷전으로 밀리고 있습니다.손형안 기자의 보도입니다.

“종전 위한 당사자들 논의 시작하자”…이재명 대통령 ‘다자 협의’ 첫 제안

경축사 하는 이 대통령 이재명 대통령이 지난 15일 서울 종로구 세종문화회관에서 제81주년 광복절 경축사를 하고 있다. 청와대사진기자단81주년 광복절 경축사서 언급‘북한 핵 능력 동결’ 우선 목표로 제시…‘비핵화’가 최종 목표미·중 포함 다자 대화로 ‘종전’ 이후 한반도 평화체제…단계적 구상 “남과 북 서로 존중, 불필요한 대결 멈춰야…선제·지속적 평화 ···

[포토뉴스]고사리손에 들린 ‘독립의 기쁨’

제81주년 광복절을 맞이해 ‘2026 서대문독립민주축제’가 열리고 있는 서울 서대문구 서대문형무소역사관에서 16일 태극기를 든 한 어린이가 옥사를 구경하고 있다.

민주당 서울·경기 권리당원 투표 "김민석 승리"…호남 이어 '연승'

오늘 발표된 더불어민주당 서울·경기 권리 당원 투표 결과 김민석 당대표 후보가 1위를 기록했습니다. 정청래 후보는 2위, 송영길 후보는 3위로 …

[속보] 김민석, 민주당 전대 서울·경기 당원투표서도 승리

▲ 더불어민주당 김민석 당 대표 후보가 16일 경기도 수원시 수원종합운동장 실내체육관에서 열린 '민주당 당 대표·최고위원 후보…