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U.S.-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Saturday it has confirmed personal information from 33.7 million customer accounts was exposed.

The updated figure suggests that nearly all Coupang customers may have had personal information — including names, phone numbers, email addresses and delivery addresses — compromised.

However, the company said payment information, credit card numbers and login credentials were not accessed.

Today is very rainy and cold outside, exactly like fall is in Europe where I'm from.

It's dark and moody and I have the desire to buy a house with a cosy fireplace, just drink some hot mulled wine and listen to easy jazz on a vinyl record player.

But at least instead I am sitting here in a cosy café with my flat white and a small eggtard and listen to Christmas music.

I'm updating it on mastodon as it goes on, sometimes with pictures.

https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena/115511440599372193

Growing numbers are finding work in the business of death.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/death-becomes-a-growing-business-in-ageing-lonely-south-korea

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-gifted-gold-crown-south-102755807.html

thought some people here may find this interesting :)

Seoul (AFP) – Ten South Koreans have been arrested in Cambodia for alleged involvement in cyberscams and two more rescued, Seoul's top diplomat said Monday, days after dozens accused of working in the vast fraud operation were repatriated.

A multibillion-dollar scam industry has ballooned in Cambodia in recent years, with thousands involved, some willingly and others forced by the organised criminal groups, experts say.

Over the weekend, Cambodia sent home 64 South Korean nationals who had been held for their alleged links to "pig butchering" scams -- so-called for the method of building trust with victims over time before stealing funds.

On Monday, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said that 10 more people were arrested and two individuals rescued.

They were detained on Thursday and will be repatriated this week, he said.

Seoul is also working to locate 80 South Korean nationals still unaccounted for in Cambodia, Cho said.

About 550 South Koreans had been reported missing or held against their will after entering Cambodia since last year, the foreign ministry said last week.

Seoul has estimated around 1,000 South Koreans are among the 200,000 people working in scam operations in Cambodia.

Some have been forced under threat of violence to execute "pig butchering" or romance scams.

Those deported over the weekend were detained as soon as they boarded a chartered flight home and were escorted off the plane in handcuffs.

Seoul's National Police Agency said Monday it was seeking arrest warrants for 59 of them.

The repatriated individuals have been implicated in crimes like voice phishing, romance scams and so-called "no-show" fraud schemes, Park Sung-joo, head of the National Office of Investigation, told reporters last week.

The group included both "voluntary and involuntary participants", National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac has said.

The high-profile repatriations follow public outcry over the torture and killing of a South Korean college student in Cambodia this year, reportedly by a crime ring.

Last week, South Korean foreign ministry officials met with Cambodia's prime minister and local police to discuss fake jobs and scam centres.

Public areas designed for older adults' exercise and recreation to expand to all Seoul districts as seniors aged 65 or older expected to surpass 20 percent of city's population

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55044412

Since the 17th century, the all-female Haenyeo divers have harvested seafood near South Korea's Jeju Island — and they don't use modern scuba gear to this day.

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – South Korea's dovish new president vowed Tuesday at the United Nations to work to end the "vicious cycle" of tensions with the North as he promised not to seek regime change.

"We intend to end the vicious cycle of unnecessary inter-Korean military tension and hostile acts," President Lee Jae-myung told the UN General Assembly.

He pointed to his administration's decision to halt measures that include the sending leaflets with hostile messages across the military frontier.

South Korea "clearly reaffirms that it respects the North's current system, that it will not pursue any form of unification by absorption, and that it has no intention of engaging in hostile paths," Lee said.

"We must end the era of hostility and confrontation on the Korean Peninsula and usher in a new era of peaceful coexistence," he said.

The approach marks a strong contrast in tone from his conservative predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol, who advocated pressure on North Korea and highlighted the human rights situation in the authoritarian state. Yoon was impeached after he briefly imposed martial law.

Despite the new president's outreach, North Korea has said so far said it has no intention of sitting down with Lee and has long cast Seoul as a puppet of Washington.

But North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has voiced openness to meeting with Donald Trump, recalling fondly their three meetings during the US president's first term.

On a visit to Washington last month, Lee encouraged Trump to pursue fresh diplomacy with Pyongyang.

North Korea, however, has been firm that it will not give up its nuclear arsenal. Trump in his first term failed to seal an agreement to end the North's nuclear program.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48863264

South Korean firms spent almost 600 billion won ($431 million) on corporate credit cards at adult entertainment venues in 2024, with more than half spent at high-end hostess bars known as room salons.

I just saw this dog sitter with three small dogs, each of them had some clothes on in a different color. But that was not the most interesting thing about him, not even the full face cloth similar to a niqab Muslim women wear to cover the face, which normally older women do here in Korea.

The really striking thing was what is a bit difficult to see in the picture, so you need to zoom in a bit, but he had THREE cameras on him! One on his baseball cap, a gopro on his chest and a 360 camera on the stick in his hand.

I went by him twice within 5 minutes and the dogs were just sitting there bored, no idea if he was live streaming it for the owners or what.

I think not only Korean investments. Actually I trained people in the US back in 2015 on the same visa those guys from Korea did this year, it's kind of common practice in a legal gray zone. Getting the real proper work visa takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money while the projects need to start immediately. The visa we had allowed you to do business there for 90 days. It depends a bit how you define doing business, and if training your US collegues or a customers guys is working there or doing business. You still are payed 100 % in your country and not in the US. But yeah it's a gray zone.

Now the people who were kind of forced to invest in the US to make money will have a hard time to find workers who would go there to do the training because they have to trust their company to do the paper work correctly. I would probably decline even though back then it was a lot of fun to do that project, and I did it again in Korea because I liked it so much.

But it's not worth the risk, the money is not so much more and once you end up in ICE jail, you won't be allowed in the US for tourism either in the future. The investors will have a much harder time to find the right and competent people to do the trainings there to such a degree that they will need to look to invest their money in other, investment-friendlier countries.

Seoul (AFP) – Seoul said Sunday that negotiations with the United States to secure the release of South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid have been "concluded" and they would soon be freed and flown home.

It follows the arrest of more than 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the southern state of Georgia on Thursday.

The operation, carried out in the town of Ellabell, was the largest single site raid implemented so far under US President Donald Trump's nationwide anti-migrant drive, catching Seoul officials off guard.

"As a result of the swift and united response... negotiations for the release of the detained workers have been concluded," Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff to President Lee Jae Myung, said on Sunday.

"Only administrative procedures remain. Once these are completed, a chartered flight will depart to bring our citizens home," he added.

Footage of the raid released by US authorities showed detained workers, in handcuffs and with chains around their ankles, being loaded onto an inmate transportation bus.

Scrambling to contain the fallout, a senior executive at electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution flew to Georgia on Sunday morning.

"The immediate priority now is the swift release of both our LG Energy Solution employees and those of our partner firms," executive Kim Ki-soo told reporters before boarding a plane.

LG Energy Solution has said 47 of its employees had been arrested -- 46 South Koreans and one Indonesian.

The company has also said about 250 of those arrested were believed to be employed by its contractor, and most of them were South Koreans.

An official at a partner firm of LG Energy Solution who spoke with one of the detained workers told Yonhap news agency that conditions at the detention centre were poor.

"They are given food and allowed to shower, but the conditions are substandard," the official was quoted as saying, adding they were not being handcuffed.

The battery maker said it has suspended all business trips to the United States, except for client meetings, and instructed those already there to either "return immediately or standby at their accommodations".

Hyundai has said none of those arrested are its employees.

South Korea, Asia's fourth-biggest economy, is a key automaker and electronics producer with multiple plants in the United States.

Its companies have invested billions of dollars to build factories in the United States in a bid to access the US market and avoid tariff threats from Trump.

President Lee met Trump during a visit last month, and Seoul pledged $350 billion in US investment in July.

Trump has promised to revive the US manufacturing sector, while also vowing to deport millions of undocumented migrants.