Social Media Minute

1. As animal rights concerns rise over donor dogs, pet owners join the push for voluntary canine blood donation

2. Japanese researchers win Ig Nobel Prize for painting cows like zebras to keep flies away

3. Some American tourists are posing as Canadians, and Canadians are not amused

1. Explosive demand for weight-loss drug Wegovy followed by mounting complaints over side effects

2. ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air after remarks about Charlie Kirk shooting spark backlash

3. Egypt's 3,000-year-old pharaoh’s bracelet melted after its disappearance from Cairo museum

Prof. David Tizzard of Korean Studies at both Seoul Women University and Hanyang University and a columnist for the Korea Times will talk about changes in Iran three years after Mahsa Amini's death and Iranian women’s liberties.

1. Seoul bus driver’s kindness returned with a passenger’s gift

2. Beijing hit by hundreds of lightning strikes, followed by surge in asthma cases

3. Pilot left circling for an hour as air traffic controller falls asleep in Corsica

1. Busan Film Festival 2025 brings world cinema to Korea’s port city

2. UAE becomes first-ever country to license Korean medicine practitioners

3. Elderly Austrian nuns leave care home, go viral after returning to convent

1. Study finds generational gaps in how Koreans view the meaning of work

2. Students turn to 'retro' gadgets as schools crack down on smartphones

3. Lee Hyori brings star power to Seoul’s yoga scene

1. Koreans debate pouring iced Americano over rice and what it says about a rice-first food culture

2. 1,000-won college campus stores prove a hit with students

3. Young Koreans turn to fortune-telling and AI for comfort in uncertain times

1. U.S. ends duty-free allowance on small parcels, sparking backlash from people mailing to America

2. U.S. detention of 300 Koreans sparks anger and boycott movement at home

3. Go legend Lee Sedol warns that in the AI era, it’s not enough to just “use” AI; we must learn to truly harness it

1. After 33 years, Korea moves to legalize tattooing by non-medical professionals

2. Climate change fuels surge of “autumn mosquitoes” in Korea, raising disease concerns

3. Finding a hurt wild animal? Here’s what experts say you should — and shouldn’t — do

1. Supreme Court ends decades-long dispute over Chun Kyung-ja painting “Beautiful Woman”

2. South Korea tops world in higher education for 17 years, but wage gaps are growing

3. Banksy unveils High Court mural in London amid crackdown on pro-Palestine activism