gdp -- south korea's exports alone. when you factor in these forables with the outlook global growth and if the virus outbreak sets back the domestic recovery, it could be a factor that they do more in the coming months. them jump earlier this month, adding to the policy headache. the debate around adding jobs stability is part of the bok mandate. is that something that would help? enda: it is an interesting one. several banks around the world are under pressure to broaden their mandate and look after parts of the economy. this is happening in south korea, too. despite the recovery, jobs are still being lost and lawmakers are pushing for a revision to the bank of korea's act that would improve stability in their mandate. we don't know too much in terms of how the bank will respond but we know governor lee did appear at the parliamentary hearing recently. super worriednd that the bank of korea could do much in terms of supporting employment. more from might hear him in the press conference is coming up later and see whet

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south korea, 52 point nine, also pretty strong. indonesia about 50 for only the third time this year so those stood out to me. we have a number of them below 50. japan inching up at 49 versus 48 last month. malaysia, vietnam, and the philippines, all below 50. ,hen you headed into this global trade really picked up over the past couple months, and our bloomberg trade tracker is at its healthiest in its more than two year history so we see signs that exports are recovering. there is demand. factories are pumping out production and that is reflecting some strength in asia so we would expect to see pmi's continue to improve, at least to have some stable demand at factories. shery: is this a story still of diversions? china -- divergence? china versus southeast asia? ofhom: -- >> there is some that theme still. indonesia, even though they had research into the virus and have been dealing with elevated cases for sometime, that was pretty good news for them to be above 50. we have been looking at north asia leading the charge, posting su

box system it's like all gaming systems here benefiting from south korea's super fast 5 g. mobile internet network enabling ever more immersive play the need in the past people had to download install and then play a game going forward we will be playing games by streaming them align the professional gaming of the sports has also grown during the pandemic helping confirm south korea's position as a world leader. there are bigger sponsorship deals and developing technology offers the expanding online audience a richer experience. for south korea it's all much more than just video games it represents a part of its economic future as it charts a path focused on digital content gaming joins k. pop dramas and movies as the country's growing export of soft power. if for the last half a century manufacturing has helped our economy to flourish cultural content will be the country's power of development for the next 100 years south korea has seemingly embarked on a quest for digital supremacy now with the new devices to help it rob mcbride al-jazeera sole. well again i'm fully back

it's like all gaming systems here benefiting from south korea's super fast 5 g. mobile internet network enabling, ever more immersive play without making any in the past, people had to download install and then play a game going forward. we will be playing games by streaming them a line. the professional gaming of the sports has also grown during the pandemic helping confirm south korea's position as a world leader. there a bigger sponsorship deals and developing technology offers the expanding online audience, a richer experience for south korea, it's all much more than just video games. it represents a part of its economic future as it charts, a path focused on digital content. gaming joins k., pop dramas, and movies as the country's growing export of soft power. if for the last half a century, manufacturing has helped our economy to flourish. cultural continue to be the country's power of development. for the next 100 years. south korea has seemingly embarked on a quest for digital supremacy now with the new devices to help it. rob mcbride, al-jazeera soul. fo

throughout this pandemic, south korea has been determined to keep its economy moving. and it believes it has in place, the kind of accurate and efficient test and trace system that with a few adjustments here and there will allow it to stay on top of any new clusters or outbreaks. certainly there could still be dark days ahead, but certainly not as dark as in other parts of the world. now the 1st covered 1000 home test has been approved in the u.s. and was given a green light by the food and drug administration. and can now be solved with a prescription to individuals who are at least 14 years old. that can take nasal samples at home and gives results in about 30 minutes ahead of the international olympic committee is encouraging athletes to get vaccinated against kind of 1001 possible thomas back finished a 2 day visit to tokyo at the national stadium. that's one of the venues for the games which have been delayed by here because of this pandemic. 11000 athletes are expected to compete in tokyo in 2021. but we really encourage that whenever of course, you have a vacci

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that includes south korea, which is a key american ally. earlier, ai uchida spoke to james kim for his take on the situation. kim is a research fellow for the asean institute of policy studies and an expert on relations between the united states and south korea. >> i think eventually, we're going to get a result, one way or another. so i, in the long run, i think, you know, we will have a new administration in place. whatever the result may be. but there are certain short-run complications and potential risks that we need to be mindful of, given how unpredictable donald trump can be. last four years have shown that. certain things that he could say or do could be, we could be in for a pretty rocky ride between now and next inauguration, january 20th is when it's scheduled for. i think we need to hedge against those risks and some potential instability within the united states as well. >> now south korea has a strong relationship with the u.s. and has worked closely with the country towards achieving denuclearization on the peninsula. if thi

cnn's paula hancocks is live in seoul, south korea, with more on this. paula, nice to see you. what did the two leaders discuss? >> well, laura, certainly one of the main things they discussed was how to improve the alliance, the u.s. south korea alliance as we expect to happen as president-elect biden considers alliances very important, and also how to progress with north korea. now, notably north korea has still not mentioned anything about the u.s. election, and i don't think it's any secret that north korea leader kim jong un would probably have preferred a second term for president trump. this is the legacy of president trump's north korean policy. historic meetings with leader kim jong un, thankless letters described by the u.s. president as love letters, a statement signed in singapore but little tangible progress on denuclearization. >> it's not at all in a better place as a result of the sort of reality tv diplomacy we saw from president trump. >> the thugs like in north korea. >> reporter: president-elect biden is very unlikely to have been north korea's preference. t

throughout this pandemic, south korea has been determined to keep its economy moving. and it believes it has in place, the kind of accurate and efficient test and trace system that with a few adjustments here and there will allow it to stay on top of any new clusters or outbreaks. certainly that could still be dark days ahead, but certainly not as dark as in other parts of the world. 3, former pro-democracy politicians have been arrested in hong kong, but it's a questioning $1020.00 in any chew and way chan, they're suspected of destructing, a legislative meeting held in june to discuss a law which criminalizes any insults to the chinese national anthem. if the o.p.'s government says to graham forces are destroying bridges in an attempt to stop the military said vance to their main city on tuesday, promise of the lands to what he called a final offensive to end. the conflict in the region mohali is the main base for the theory, people's liberation front or t p l f. 2 grand fighters have refused to comply with government demands to put down their weapons. both sides are

south korea has a 5 here social distancing system and this raises the level from one to $1.00. it will mean slightly tighter restrictions on things like nonessential gatherings or run the numbers of people allowed into restaurants and bars. and it affects the soul metropolitan area which is home to around half the country's population, but significant leaderboards, the kinds of lockdowns that we are seeing elsewhere throughout this pandemic, south korea has been determined to keep its economy moving. and it believes it has in place. the kind of accurate and efficient best and trace system that with a few adjustments here and there will allow it to stay on top of any new clusters or outbreaks. certainly that could still be dark days ahead, but certainly not as dark as in other parts of the world. the head of the international olympic committee is encouraging athletes to get vaccinated against covert 19 when possible. tell us, but finished a 2 day visit to tokyo with the stop of the city's nationals stadium, is one of the venues for the games which have been delayed by a year bec

the cost in south korea rose about 2 percent. so clearly investors are quite optimistic that this is going to lead to a big boost for these economies that are really needing it right now because of the coronavirus economic damage to deliver me in frankfurt. thank you. and now to some of the other global business stories, making the news to have the car to me, it's exit of recession in the 3rd quarter, a strong domestic demand and into exports meant. the japanese economy grew a better than expected 5 percent quarter of the world's 3rd largest economy had contracted for 3 quarters in a row because of the coronavirus and debt korean airlines plans, a $1600000000.00 takeover of india did asiana airlines. a member of star alliance says the partnership would help avoid the fate of several airlines worldwide. travel restrictions due to the coronavirus been demick, have decimated passenger demand and force carriers into bankruptcy. to the untrained eye view, kim looks like an ordinary racing pigeon buds to one wealthy chinese pigeon raci

park by ram is a rarity in south korea. she works is a mortician, an industry traditionally reserved for the country's men. but those traditions are gradually shifting. park has come to learn the families of many young female victims prefer that she prepares their bodies which is the biggest cause of death among young people in suicide. many of them are women and the bereaved families, especially when the death was due to suicide and the deceased is a woman, feel more comfortable if a female head of the body south korea has the world's highest suicide rates among developed countries. the tragic statistic has been brought into sharp focus after the recent deaths of prominent k. pop artists such as sunni from go band f.x. . that's helped break to boost with more women training to be morticians, determined to counter historic gender stereotypes. i have heard some shocking things from former students. one of them told me her mother in law said, how do you think of cooking my meals with the hands that have touched a dead body th

you and i would always compare the united states to south korea because the pandemic began in south korea and the united states the same day. patients were diagnosed the same day in both places. everyone always said south korea, is that a really good example because they are only 50 million people? wolf, let me show you south korea compared to north and south dakota since we are talking about these places in particular. south korea, when you talk about total confirmed deaths throughout this pandemic, south korea is actually less now than south dakota or north dakota when it comes to total confirmed deaths. can you believe that? that one country is lower than these two states which have population close to 1 million. it's not even close how bad even isolated states have become compared to the rest of the world. >> when south korea, as you correctly point out, a country of 506 million people, when they had maybe 20 or 30 deaths, the u.s. maybe had 5 or 10. now we have almost 225,000 deaths and they have maybe 500 deaths all these months. they knew what they were doing and how to control the

>> o'donnell: unable to leave south korea, nicole became suicidal. her direct supervisor knew, but failed to report her suicidal ideation up the chain of command, even though it was a mandatory reporting requirement. how do you think she felt about how the military responded to her when she reported these assaults? >> i'm sure she was scared to death. i'm assuming, like, this is not what i expected. i signed on the dotted line to serve and protect my country, serve and protect my country, and who is here to help me and protect me? >> o'donnell: a few weeks before christmas, steve and stacy welcomed their daughter home. >> even at home, when she came home, in her bedroom, she locked the door and pushed a dresser up against it. and it was like, "nicole, you're home." she's like, "you don't understand." >> o'donnell: two weeks later, nicole had to report to her new assignment in colorado. when nicole got to fort did her command know that she had been a victim of sexual assault? >> no. that was-- that was not communicated to them. unicatonnell: and it wa

to the discovery documentary is coming up today, south korea's digital sex crimes in focus amount of time to the 4 to your prison time for having a sexual blackmail ring that preyed on women. it's the latest in a long line of digital sex crimes in the country. why do they keep happening? and these hospitals, with a surge of cases from the festival season 6, people have to search in the capital for days for an available beds. welcome to glad you could join us on how to use in south korea have handed a 40 year to this 24 year old recent graduate for hitting an online 6. will blackmail ring, coerced women into sharing, degrading sexual images and videos of themselves. and sort of these onto paying view was in online chat rooms, prosecutors said $38.00 people were involved in total, in what they called virtual in slave moment of women and teenagers. online. he called himself the dr. all of south korea and it says israel 9 was arrested in march for running a notorious sex online. today the cotton sold aside it. he'll spend the next 4 decades in prison for it outside the court. female acti

south korea's digital sex crimes in focus. amount is under the 40 year prison time for having a sexual black man bring it's the latest in a long line of digital sex crimes in the country. why do they keep happening? and the hospitals with a surge of cases from the festival season 6, people have to search india's capital for days for available beds. welcome to glad you could join us. also to tease in south korea, have handed a 40 year jail to this 24 year old recent graduate for hitting an online sitch. will blackmail bring the worst women into degrading sexual images and videos of themselves and sort of these onto paying their was in online chat rooms. prosecutors said $38.00 people were involved in total, in what they called virtual in slave moment of women and teenagers. online. he called himself the doctor. all of south korea was arrested in march for online today, the cotton sold aside and he'll spend the next 4 decades in prison for it. outside the court. female activists read out statements from some of the victims of se

south korea, of course, 30,000 cases, 509 deaths. with the government has done there now, as they're worried about this new surge in cases, their third wave, they are raising their coronavirus alert -- to22 as of tomorrow .wo as of tomorrow in seoul so, south korea, the prime minister urging people to stay-at-home, telling businesses to encourage workers to work from home. and they're going to have stricter social distancing measures. now on japan, the concern there is that the new surge in cases, in particular in tokyo, but also hokkaido in the north as we're entering the winter transport vacation season -- not international, but domestic vacationing -- because keep in mind, there's this go to travel stimulus program in place since july, and that's of people have been traveling. while that's been stimulative and we've had an economic recovery in japan, it's also maybe helped spread the virus locally. so, hokkaido getting new cases. tokyo has 500 new cases each day thursday and friday, and more on the weekend. ultimately,rn, the live

box system it's like all gaming systems here benefiting from south korea's super fast 5 g. mobile internet network enabling ever more immersive play without making any in the past people had to download install and then play a game going forward we will be playing games by streaming them a line. the professional gaming of the sport has also grown during the pandemic helping confirm south korea's position as a world leader. there a bigger sponsorship deals and developing technology offers the expanding online audience a richer experience. for south korea it's all much more than just video games it represents a part of its economic future as it charts a path focused on digital content gaming joins k. pop dramas and movies as the country's growing export of soft power. if for the last half a century manufacturing has helped our economy to flourish cold cruel continent will be the country's power of development for the next 100 years south korea has seemingly embarked on a quest for digital supremacy now with the new devices to help it robert pried out his era soul oh time now

in august of 1948, free elections were held in south korea, supervised by united nations inspectors, establishing the republic of korea. three weeks later, communists controlled elections in north korea from which u.n. inspectors were barred, established the communist regime and divided the korean nation. not long afterwards, the communists decided their moment for conquest had come. >> in early summer, 1950, life was good in the agricultural south. there was peace, time for living in the quiet, ancient way. then suddenly, in the pre-dawn darkness of june 25th, 1950 -- [ explosions ] >> -- south koreans were jarred awake by a living nightmare. unprovoked and unannounced, the communists' latest war of conquest had begun. many thought it was the beginning of world war iii. it might have been if we had not taken immediate action. president truman ordered our navy and air force to provide cover and support to the republic of korea. in the united nations, united states delegate warren austin spoke for the indignant free nations everywhere. >> the republic of korea has appealed to the unit

park program is a rarity in south korea. she works as a mortician, an industry traditionally reserved for the country's men, but those traditions are gradually shifting. park has come to learn the families of many young female victims prefer that she prepares their bodies which in the biggest cause of death among young people is suicide. many of them are women and the bereaved families, especially when the death was due to suicide and the deceased is a woman, feel more comfortable if a female handles the body. south korea has the world's highest suicide rates among developed countries. the tragic statistic has been brought into sharp focus after the recent deaths of prominent k. pop artists such as suny from go band f.x. . that's helped break to blues with more women training to be morticians, determined to counter historic gender stereotypes. i have heard some shocking things from former students. one of them told me her mother in law said, how do you think of cooking my meals with the hands that have touched a dead body th

let's check on south korea. we saw a surprise increase in the jobless rate. exports rising 20% year on year for the first 10 days of the month. the kospi adding 0.4%. we are seeing the korean won under pressure, holding below 1120. we are seeing support with bond inflows increasing this week. chipmakers in focus, watching to see if there may be a shift around huawei shipments under a biden administration. later in asia, we are watching earnings. let's switch out the board. you have the asx 200 adding more than 1%. banks are tracking yields higher. commerzbank gaining ground. it is going to be paying out a dividend despite its profit falling to a seven-year low. in wellington, fresh highs. the kiwi dollar holding as we wait on the rbnz decision. watch for choppy price action. the offshore yuan this morning trading around 6.60. jp morgan saying look will dynamics will be more important going forward. u.s. futures, we are seeing s&p and nasdaq futures edge lower this morning. some downside coming through after the tech selloff we saw on wall street. alibaba ahea

memorial events were held across south korea on monday. at the national cemetery, government officials and families prayed for victims. on november 23, 2010, north korea shelled the island of yeonpyeong, killing two south korean civilians and two marines. south korea's defense minister said he's determined to build a strong defense system to protect the peace and prosperity of the peninsula. heaid the suffering of the past should not be allowed to happen again. he did not directly criticize e north. he said the two koreas have left confrontation and conflict behind and are on a path to peace. the administration of president moon jae-in has been trying to improve relations with pyongyang but opposition parties state south korea's security situation has not improved and moon's stance towards pyongyang is weak. >>> the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow more serious in many countries. that includes japan where over 500 new cases were reported on monday. the situation has prompted government authorities to rethink an initiative to encourag

they have not taken more action in south korea. can they afford not to when we are seeing a third wave of infections? keep conan definitely it iss accommodating, but unlikely that there will be more interest rate cuts. the government is concerned about other fiscal imbalances that have been building up in south korea with the rounds of stimulus. the figures are deceptive because we had weaker numbers in october, but compared to october of last year with a national holiday. it is early to say how bad things are going to turn. things on the external end seem more positive. we expect the figures to rebound in november. most likely what we are going to see are more measures. things to ensure that the liquidity remain suitable with other potential banks around the region keeping an eye on this, on the loan moratoriums that are expected to expire in 2021. expecting china pmi data to continue to expand. we are going to the point of the calendar year where you start to see distortions in the data. how important is it to not make any conclu

all of south korea knows his way online. was arrested in march for running a tourist online today the cotton sold aside and he'll spend the next 4 decades in prison for it outside the court. female activists read out statements from some of choice victims, september. and then in order for everyone to live in a safe society in the future, the court should also impose severe punishment on accomplices and set an example to prevent such evil from happening again. in total, there were $74.00 victims, including 16 under-age girls prosecute, just said the women were blackmailed into filming degrading and sometimes violent sexual imagery of themselves. that imagery was then distributed to paying customers by the messaging up telegram to at least 10000 people in some paying up to 1000 euros for access. remember, we live in a digital society that's evolving every day. those who committed these terrible crimes are not human beings. the south korean justice system has long been accused of failing but take tens of sexual violence. it was

and south korea south korea as the g.d.p. is many many many multiples of north korea's g.d.p. and let's just say their populations are similar and you see the 2 diametrically opposed economies and and one is very wealthy and very prosperous and is a response to go after in the other ones despotic you know communist regime we are hoping china was going to choose the south korean way and not the north korean we unfortunately max they went the other way i think that our we have we have finally understood. amongst across all of our difference the government should china's maligning and what they do with the actual property. robbery of foreign corrupt practices around the world we understand the way they operate now and i think china is orderly and that's why we are we are well in national and asia that it's in speak of there with south korea of course the u.s. has a huge military presence same too and japan u.s. as a big military presence you know china what i what i find interesting is that china is competing on the global stage

let's turn to south korea, checking in on the korean one holding steady. we are seeing job earnings by authorities and the kospi little changed after a two day gain. keeping an eye on tourism related gains on news that china's foreign minister is said to visit seoul. aspping the board, asx 200 paired its losses while they see u.s. futures edged lower and treasury yields continuing to roll over after being weighed overnight on the virus concerns. on pandemicle] plans. the atlanta fed president telling us earlier he was surprised given the uncertainty. gold still under pressure after a four day decline. morgan sighed -- morgan stanley's think outside for william but sydney is bullish on gold. the team at goldman believe near-term rate inflation has further room to run according to the forecast of goals at $2300. haidi: breaking news when it comes to remdesivir, the therapeutic that had been part of the drug cocktail that president trump had received in october when he was diagnosed with covid-19. we are hearing from the world health organization advising doc

china, 10 southeast asian nations along with south korea and japan, and new zealand have signed up. the u.s. is excluded, leaving china as the dominant economy in the bloc. first, this report. >> after eight years of talks, the regional comprehensive economic partnership or rcep is finally signed. meeting virtually, leaders from 15 countries and 10 members of the association of southeast asian nations or asean. >> the conclusion of rcep negotiation, the largest free-trade agreement in the world, will send a strong message that supporting the multilateral trading system, creating a new trading structure in the system. >> it is an ambitious deal covering nearly 30% of global economic output and nearly a third of the world population. it aims to lower tariffs in stages. it will provide a simpler tariff framework, meaning businesses will not have to navigate separate requirements to export to different companies. the u.s., led by president donald trump, pulled out of a trade pact in 2017. that deal, then known as the transpacific partnership, or tpp, would have been the biggest trade de

it's a similar situation in south korea. they have lifted, sorry, they have raised the social distancing rules to try and cut back on the number of cases. we had over 500 for three consecutive days just recently here in south korea. not very high when you compare it to other countries around the world, but it is high for south korea, and a similar situation in hong kong. they had 115 cases, and that's the highest for a few months in the territory. they have decided they're going to shut schools in person from wednesday onward. december 2nd, there will just be online schooling from the christmas holiday, after the end of december again, trying to curtail the increase that we're seeing in certain parts of asia. rosemary. >> it's a delicate operation, working on how to respond to this in different parts of the world, of course. paula hancocks, with the latest, appreciate it. >>> funeral services have been held for a chief nuclear scientist killed in a brazen assassination, mohsen fakhrizadeh was killed just outside of teheran o

what's being said in south korea and any reaction coming out of north korea at this time? >> well, rosemary when it comes to south korea, there was a fairly swift congratulations from president moon jae-in, also says he's going to see there's going to be no vacuum, no gaps between the two administrations when it comes to the peace process. he doesn't believe it will change radically. also when it comes to alliances. of course we have heard from president elect biden. he wrote an op-ed that he will be encouraging closer alliances, something he believes donald trump did something very different, the exact opposite in fact. but when it coms to north korea, we hasn't yet heard a response. it's not unusual. it does take pyongyang to react to whoever's won the u.s. election. but it's likely this is not the result that the leader kim jong-un wanted. had haez spent a lot of time and effort with president donald trump. they have had three historic meetings. there were countless letters which mr. trump called love letters. clearly it was a top-down approach. it was all about the rel