Korea 24 - 2021.09.28

Korea24 &ndash; 2021.09.28. (Tuesday)<br /> <br /> News Briefing: North Korea fired off another missile on Tuesday, just days after Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, expressed interest in South Korea&rsquo;s proposal to declare a formal end to the Korean War. Seoul has yet to confirm the exact nature of the missile, but Tokyo identified it as ballistic and condemned the move. Washington also slammed the launch, saying it violates multiple UN sanctions. (Koo Hee-jin)<br /> <br /> In-Depth News Analysis: New government regulations over cryptocurrency exchanges operating in South Korea came into effect last Friday, requiring them to file applications to register with the Financial Services Commission. Only 29 out of 66 such exchanges met the deadline, and among them, only 4 have been able to reach agreements with commercial banks to verify real-name accounts, making them the only exchanges that trade using Korean currency. Eliza Gkritsi, the Asia reporter for Coindesk, joins us on the line to brief us on the situation.<br /> <br /> Korea Trending with Jung Yewon: The US pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, announced that it has started a phase 2 clinical trial for a form of COVID-19 treatment that can be taken orally in the form of a pill (화이자, &#039;알약 형태&#039; 코로나 치료제 2상 임상시험 개시). Meanwhile, President Moon Jae-in has become the first President to officially raise the issue of banning dog meat consumption in the nation (文 &quot;개고기 식용금지, 신중하게 검토할 때&quot;). And K-pop superstars BTS have announced they will be holding their first live concerts since the start of the pandemic in Los Angeles later this year (BTS, 2년여만에 관객 앞에서 콘서트 연다&middot;&middot;&middot; 장소는 미국 LA).<br /> <br /> Touch Base in Seoul: Professor Kim Min-hyong (김민형) is a leading Korean mathematician who became the first-ever South Korean math professor at the University of Oxford in 2013. But aside from researching and teaching math at university, he has also made efforts to help ordinary people overcome their fear of ma