NKDB is recruiting 10 adults aged 20 or older who are interested in North Korean human rights issues for the North Korean Human Rights Exhibition Room blog online supporters program. Applications are accepted until midnight on Sunday, August 23, 2026, and selected participants will be contacted individually before 5:00 PM on Tuesday, August 25. Participants will carry out 10 promotional missions through personal Naver blogs during the activity period. The orientation and completion ceremony will be held on site, while online blog posting missions will be conducted during the activity period. Benefits include a certificate of completion, recognition of volunteer hours through the 1365 portal, and opportunities to form a personal network.

Join 38 North for a book talk with co-authors of "Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea" Kathi Zellweger and Mike Chinoy. The session will cover Zellweger's nearly three decades of humanitarian engagement in North Korea, including relief efforts during the famine and relationships with local medical staff and officials.

Public seminar hosted by the Seoul Peace Institute on inter-Korean relations, humanitarian aid, and reconciliation. Speakers include former diplomats, NGO representatives, and academic experts. The event is open to the public and will be held in-person at the Seoul National Museum Auditorium and streamed online. Registration is open to external participants.

Public panel hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies on China's influence and the repression of human rights in North Korea, featuring policy experts and academics. Open to external participants and livestreamed.

The legal AI market is being reshaped at remarkable speed. Global tech giants including Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft have each launched legal-specialized AI services in quick succession, and in the United States, "AI-native" law firms have emerged where AI handles a substantial share of legal work. In Korea, by contrast, legal AI services have spread only in a limited way, held back by restrictions under the Attorney-at-Law Act on non-lawyers handling legal work and sharing in its profits, as well as by the limited scope of court ruling disclosure. Join us for a Seoul Circuit dinner discussion with Young-Yik Rhim, CEO of Intellicon Lab and Managing Partner of Intellicon Law Firm, who has spent years building and applying legal AI, and Simon Kwon, Managing Partner of Kwon & Partners Law Office and Director of Ethics at the Seoul Bar Association, who brings the perspective of a practicing attorney steeped in professional conduct and ethics. Together, they'll examine what is behind the gap between Korea and the global frontier, where the line falls on what legal AI can and cannot do, whether individuals could one day use it directly, and what the limits on legal data mean for the technology's future. They will close with their outlook on what Korea's legal market could look like five years from now. Expect a candid, lively conversation over dinner, plus plenty of room for you to jump in with your own questions and experiences.

Russia said it plans to start a bus service connecting Primorsky Krai and North Korea by the end of this year. A Moscow Foreign Ministry official said the two countries are preparing to open a new automobile bridge over the Tumen River. Russian travel company Vostok Intour said it will operate a regular bus route connecting Vladivostok and the Rason Special Economic Zone. The company was selected in May as the operator of the route. North Korean General Secretary Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to build the Tumen River automobile bridge at their 2024 Pyongyang summit.