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Telecommunications & Media
KT offers 88 children of long-term customers chance to serve as player escorts for national team
KT will offer 88 children of long-term customers a chance to enter the pitch alongside South Korea\'s national soccer team players as part of a player escort programme. The company will run the programme at four national team friendly matches starting on Sept. 24. KT will select 22 children per match, and winning families will receive tickets for one child and two guardians.
AI & Enterprise
HancomWith introduces AI, security solutions to Japanese business delegation
HancomWith said on Wednesday it held a company and solution briefing for Japanese business representatives visiting South Korea through the Korea-Japan Nikkei Open Innovation Cooperation Day, co-hosted by KOTRA and Nikkei. Attendees included officials from the hosts, winners of Nikkei THE PITCH startup programme and executives from major Japanese companies. HancomWith introduced and demonstrated its authentication and TLS/SSL certificate automation solutions and shared its local business progress targeting Japan’s finance and public sectors.
Sports
MLB \'robot umpire\' era opens, 54 percent of calls overturned in opening week
Major League Baseball’s automated ball-strike system, officially introduced from the 2026 season, is reshaping games from the first week. In the first four days, there were 124 challenges across 35 games and 67 decisions were overturned. Each team gets two challenges per game, retained if successful. Early figures show walks per team rising to 3.7 per game, while strikeout rate is largely unchanged.
