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  1. Toss Bank's Failed Transfers Showed Up as Deposits: A 32.5 Billion Won Error, 7.3 Billion Still Being Recovered
  2. Why Seoul Smells Odd in Autumn: Ginkgo Fruit, and the 6 Tons a Day Songpa Shakes Down
  3. Typhoon Champi Passes South of Jeju This Weekend: Check Flights and Ferries the Night Before
  4. Busan Subway Strike Called Off After Overnight Deal, Trains Run Normally Oct. 23
  5. Korea Trip From the US: K-ETA Waiver, e-Arrival Card and Plugs
  6. Korea's Pension Service Floats Letting Full-Time Homemakers Join the National Pension
  7. Gymnast Yeo Seo-jeong Named MVP as Korea's National Sports Festival Closes in Jeju
  8. Korea's Nationwide Court Computer Network Went Down for Two Hours on Oct. 22, Now Restored
  9. Korea Trip from Japan: K-ETA, e-Arrival Card and Plugs
  10. Riding a Seoul Bus: 1,500 Won by Card, Tap On and Off, Check Your Balance First
  11. Halloween in Seoul 2026: Hongdae, Itaewon and Seongsu Among 28 Crowd-Control Zones, Oct. 23 to Nov. 1
  12. Taiwanese Visits to Busan Jump 60.5% to 718,000 in Eight Months
  13. 4,000 Drones Over Gangneung Olympic Park, Free at ITS Congress
  14. Condé Nast Readers Name Seoul the World's Best Big City
  15. Kim Do-young's 145-Meter Grand Slam Ends Jamsil Stadium's Last Game as KIA Sweeps LG
  16. Genesis Championship in Cheonan, Oct. 22–25: Kim Si-woo, Im Sung-jae and Ryan Fox
  17. Scan a QR at Mangwon Market for 34-Language Interpreting
  18. Cheonggyecheon This Autumn: a Free History Walk and a 450 m Cosmos Path Until the End of October
  19. Peak foliage arrives late October: pick your national park trail by its five grades
  20. Galaxy AI Learns Malay and Hungarian, Growing to 24 Languages
  21. Less Flash, More Detail: Hyundai's Avante N Monochrome Launches Oct. 29
  22. What Foreigners Scan Most in Korea Now Has Its Own Tab in Papago
  23. The Door That Opens Itself: LG and Apple's Seven AI Home Devices
  24. No Korean Phone Number Needed: CJ ONE Launches 'CJ ONE Global' for Visitors
  25. LG's Wireless OLED W Makes TIME's Best Inventions of 2026
  26. Ma Seo-young Wins First Title in Her 83rd Start, Beating Seong Yu-jin in a Two-Hole Playoff
  27. Seoul's Title Champagne Waits as Two Gimcheon Penalties Push It to the Gangwon Game
  28. Court Widens Limits on Samsung Biologics' Second Strike
  29. 60 m Shotgun, 2 km Laser: Incheon Airport Puts Bird-Scaring Laser Guns on All Four Runways
  30. An Se-young Puts a 43-Match Streak on the Line Against Yamaguchi in the Denmark Open Final
  31. AI Plans the Welding Paths, Robots Do the Hauling: Hyundai and Kia Show 200 'Future Factory' Technologies
  32. A KRW 5.8 Million AI Laptop: Nvidia's RTX Spark Lands in Korea
  33. No Driver on Board: Kia Starts a Remote-Driving Car-Sharing Pilot in Pangyo
  34. AI Picks the Café Playlist: KT's RaiDIO Biz Costs 9,900 Won a Month
  35. Heo Mi-mi Wins a Fifth Straight National Sports Festival Title, Without Her Best Throw
  36. Two Kim Do-young Homers Hand KIA a 5-1 Game 1
  37. Seoul's museums now stay open until 9 pm through Nov. 30
  38. Yeoju Outlet's Foreigner One-Day Tour Now Runs Daily, With a Tourist Desk Opening Oct. 23
  39. Swipe KakaoTalk with Two Fingers and Ryan Pops Up: Kakao's AI Assistant Goes to Beta in December
  40. Empty-seat Kia PV5 drives itself to you: remote-driving car sharing launches in Pangyo
  41. iPhone Duo sells out on day one in Korea: from ₩3.29M, delivery late January
  42. Solo-only territory, until now: BTS hit 10 billion Spotify streams in a year
  43. Lotte Department Store hits KRW 1 trillion in foreign sales, and a passport gets you the card
  44. Autumn hiking in a national park: bend your knees on the way down
  45. 17 wedding businesses told to expect fines for hiding option prices
  46. Police to Post AI Analysts Nationwide to Catch Deepfakes
  47. Wear 'AI glasses' to the Nov. 19 CSAT and your exam is void, with a ban next year too
  48. Korea's free AI for everyone starts beta today, public launch in December
  49. Korea Grand Festival Opens in Andong, and a 20,000-Won Concert Ticket Comes Back as Vouchers (Oct. 29–Nov. 15)
  50. Heading to Busan? A 15,000-won K-Tour Pass pilot cuts rail and bus fares by up to 40%
  51. Robots enter the minefield first: the Army's TIGER+ demo
  52. Line 9 will run two express trains in a row from Nov. 16
  53. Wolchulsan designated a national Scenic Site across Yeongam and Gangjin
  54. South Korea adds 113,000 jobs in September as manufacturing employment rises for first time in 27 months
  55. Korea tests 12 convenience-store gimbap: 760–1,393 mg of sodium per roll
  56. Korean ministry finds harmful replies in AI character chatbots open without age checks
  57. Autumn foliage road 2026: peak dates for 14 Korean mountains, Odaesan (Oct 16) to Hallasan (Nov 13)
  58. Seoraksan Autumn Colour Began September 28 (Normal Peak Is October 17)
  59. Korean grape growers and exporter put payment and quality terms in writing
  60. CJ ONE Global lets visitors sign up with just an email, no Korean phone number
  61. KIA–LG semi-playoff tickets go on sale October 15 at 14:00
  62. Hangang Bus group bookings open online on October 19
  63. Six KBO September–October MVP nominees: fan voting runs through October 19
  64. Seoul plans more Line 9 expresses and express buses from November 16
  65. Taste of Seoul booking opens October 15, with an English rice workshop
  66. Digital Onnuri prize draw starts October 15: where you pay matters
  67. KBO postseason ticket checks extend to ballpark surroundings from October 14
  68. Baegaksan’s new 1.32 km southwestern trail opens October 17
  69. KES 2026 brings Korea’s AI appliances and robotics to COEX through October 16
  70. Korea’s mobile ID expands to IBK, Shinhan, Woori and Hana apps on October 14
  71. Busan's shark crowds: caring about Bukangi means keeping some distance
  72. Suwon and Sejong meet in Icheon for the first W Korea Cup final on November 21
  73. Tax-administration support linked to programs for 2,559 AI firms
  74. Tap a manga line for Korean help: Langaku’s Korean edition
  75. Check for a free museum-entry coupon before you go
  76. KT breaks out in the fifth, Lotte in the sixth: October 11 KBO results
  77. Hyundai shows how the new Tucson’s hood is formed from steel
  78. Seoul takes first place in Condé Nast Traveler’s Best Big Cities readers’ poll
  79. South Korea decides to recall ambassador to Ukraine; talks to continue
  80. Galaxy SmartTag3 launches in Korea with iOS location sharing
  81. Milk and soy-drink cartons belong in a separate carton bin
  82. Kim Do-yeong and Ryu Hyun-jin uniforms head to Wiaja’s charity shop
  83. Samsung guides for KRW 107.4 trillion in Q3 operating profit
  84. Korea posts a $46.11 billion August current-account surplus
  85. Jamsu Bridge closes to vehicles October 26; buses 740 and 405 divert
  86. Lotte wins 9–1; KIA and SSG also take Friday’s games
  87. Check Sunday morning road restrictions before crossing central Seoul
  88. After the shoe sketch: RebuilderAI’s manufacturing-data pitch in Tokyo
  89. Finding a neighbourhood gym that a wheelchair user can access
  90. Arts startups can apply for partnership and investor meetings until October 15