Hong Yoo-jung, founder and CEO of an air mobility start-up, this is engineering(TIE), poses with a miniature aerial vehicle at the company's office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi on Nov. 23. [PARK SANG-MOON]

Flying car pioneer builds on childhood love of mechanics

Hong Yoo-jung, founder and CEO of an air mobility start-up named this is engineering (TIE), spent her childhood taking apart various machines like radios and clocks to try and figure out how they work.

Movies
Actor Jun Jong-seo and director Lee Choong-hyun are dating

Actor Jun Jong-seo and director Lee Choong-hyun are in a relationship, Jun’s agency My Company confirmed Friday. “The pair started dating recently,” the agency said. Jun and Lee met while working together on Lee’s mystery thriller “The Call”...

Director Lee Choong-hyun, left, and actor Jun Jong-seo during a press conference for the movie ″The Call″ in 2020 [ILGAN SPORTS]
Travel 
Two Korean villages named Best Tourism Villages by World Tourism Organization

The Purple Island in South Jeolla’s Sinan County and Ungok Village in North Jeolla’s Gochang County have been named on the list of Best Tourism Villages by the World Tourism Organization under the United Nations on Thursday.

The Purple Island in South Jeolla's Sinan County was listed as one of the Best Tourism Villages by the World Tourism Organization under the United Nations on Thursday. [KOREA TOURISM ORGANIZATION]

K-pop

2021 Asia Artist Awards hands out nine Grand Prizes

The Grand Prize winners at the 2021 Asia Artist Awards: from top, BTS, Lee Jung-jae, Yoo Ah-in, Lee Seung-gi, Lim Young-woong, NCT 127, Seventeen, Stray Kids and aespa [ILGAN SPORTS]

K-pop

Boy band ONF drop its 6th EP 'Goosebumps'

Boy band ONF [WM ENTERTAINMENT]

K-pop

Rookie girl group Kep1er to join fan community Universe

Girl group Kep1er is set to join online fan platform Universe. [WAKEONE, SWING ENTERTAINMENT]

K-pop

BTS dominates Billboard’s year-end charts

BTS [BILLBOARD TWITTER]

Talk of the Town

Winner's Mino to drop 'To Infinity.' on Dec. 7

The track list for Mino's third full-length album, ″To Infinity.″ [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Industry

Meatless meat

Models introduce plant-based meat products developed by local food-tech start-up Unlimeat at an Emart branch on Thursday. Emart said it started selling meat substitutes made by Unlimeat at 20 branches within the greater Seoul area. [EMART]

Media

'Kingdom' to become hyper-casual zombie game

Netflix’s popular zombie action original “Kingdom” series will be turned into a mobile game early next year by local game developer Supercent. [SUPERCENT]

North Korea

North Korean leader sports new look

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presides over a Politburo meeting at the Workers' Party headquarters in Pyongyang on Wednesday. [NEWS1]

Football

Son scores another as Spurs take 2-0 win over Brentford

Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-min scores their second goal against Brentford at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Thursday. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

Today's Photo

ESG award

Yoon Sung-tae, vice chairman of Huons Global, front left, is awarded a commendation from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Wednesday in acknowledgement of the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) management efforts. Huons Global set up a dedicated ESG management team that helps the company come up with sustainable business strategies in line with the changes in the global market environment. [HUONS GLOBAL]

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