Social Media Minute

1. Bondi who who disarmed gunman and shot twice identified as Ahmed al Ahmed

2. Korean Air warns of zero tolerance for emergency exit tampering

3. Japan’s last pandas set to leave as diplomatic tensions with China deepen

1. As presidential office prepares to return to Cheong Wa Dae, nearby neighborhoods feel both hope and unease

2. “Like reading an ancient script”: BBC highlights backlash over Korea’s exceptionally difficult English exam

3. More than 1,400 couples kiss under giant mistletoe in Washington, D.C., setting new world record

1. K-Pop Demon Hunters team makes Forbes’ “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” list

2. Surging demand sends wintertime favorite yellowtail to record prices in Korea

3. New discovery suggests humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought

1. Tottenham gives Son Heung-min a hero’s welcome as he returns for an emotional farewell

2. Complaints grow as Coupang’s account deletion process proves slow and confusing

3. Italian cuisine becomes world’s first to be awarded UNESCO status

1. A wave of celebrity scandals forces major TV shows to halt production

2. Australia begins world-first social media ban today for children under 16

1. Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice” and Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” score three Golden Globe nominations each

2. Oxford University teams up with composer Kim Hyung-seok to publish Korean children’s songbook

3. Korean professors choose “constant change” as the idiom that defined 2025

1. The Park Na-rae scandal: counter-lawsuits, cash transfers, and the ‘injection auntie’ controversy

2. Veteran actor Cho Jin-woong steps away from the spotlight after troubled past comes to light

1. Former MMA fighter Choo Sung-hoon crowned YouTube Korea’s No. 1 Creator of the Year

2. Filipino domestic worker hailed as hero after saving infant in Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in 77 years

3. With bear encounters soaring, Japan faces a new problem: what to do with all the carcasses

1. The “Peace Cow” that drifted south in 1996 finds a final resting place overlooking North Korea

2. Ajou University’s “prince” professor wins over students with rigor, warmth, and an open-door approach

3. Sabrina Carpenter slams White House for using her song in “evil” video

1. Viral cosplay videos in China using Korean military and police uniforms raise concerns on both sides of the border

2. Deadly floods sweep across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand as death toll surges past 1,200

3. Michael and Susan Dell pledge $6.25 billion to boost “Trump Accounts” for 25 million U.S. children