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[속보] 종합특검, '윤 격노 은폐 가담' 지휘관 구속영장...채상병 사건 관련

종합특검, '윤 격노 은폐' 지휘관 구속영장 청구 "황유성 방첩사령관·문연철 방첩부대장 영장 청구" '채상병 사건' 전직 사령관 등 오는 12일 구속 심사 ▷ 자세한 뉴스가 곧 이어집니다. ※ '당신의 제보가 뉴스가 됩니다' [카카오톡] YTN 검색해 채널 추가 [전화] 02-398-8585 [메일] social@ytn.co.kr

구속영장종합특검CIA카카오특검

2026.08.10

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전장연 지하철 탑승 시위...1호선 용산역 한때 무정차

전국장애인차별철폐연대가 지하철 탑승 시위를 벌이면서 서울 지하철 1호선 용산역에서 상행선 열차가 한때 무정차 통과했습니다. 전장연은 오늘(10일) 아침 8시부터, 1호선 용산역과 4호선 혜화역에서 장애인 권리예산 보장 등을 주장하며 71차 지하철 탑승 시위를 진행했습니다. 한국철도공사는 오전 10시 10분쯤, 서울역과 청량리역 방면으로 가는 용산역 상행선 무정차 통과가 종료돼 정상 운행 중이라는 안내 문자를 발송했습니다. ※ '당신의 제보가 뉴스가 됩니다' [카카오톡] YTN 검색해 채널 추가 [전화] 02-398-8585 [메일] social@ytn.co.kr

한국철도공사CIA카카오서울역서울

2026.08.10

생활

In Seoul’s backstreets, Mr. Tongue turns a fleeting mark into a citywide language of faith and free art

The elusive street artist behind Seoul’s recurring tongue motif reflects on anonymity, spirituality and how street art quietly reshapes Korea’s urban landscape. A mural by street artist Mr. Tongue featuring the artist's signature tongue image MR. TONGUE For the observant resident or traveler, the thing that most frequently catches the eye in Seoul may not be a famous landmark or a cluster of teenagers dancing to K-pop in a plaza, but the image of a tongue — the signature motif of the graffiti artist known as… Mr. Tongue. The artist, who has largely remained in the shadows, has put up several hundred street pieces across Seoul and other cities in Korea. Hailing from the United States and based here for more than a decade, he prefers to let the work introduce him beyond that, remaining anonymous throughout his career. A passerby looks at a mural by street artist Mr. Tongue MR. TONGUE The image of the tongue was born in New York in 2010, in a city that Mr. Tongue found gray, dull and hard in the way New York famously is. He had drawn since childhood and written graffiti for years — all of it letter-based, which had begun to feel like a dead end. “For me, I always felt a certain limitation when it came to letters, because it’s hard to deliver a certain message if you are just writing your name, just writing letters,” Mr. Tongue said during an interview with the Korea JoongAng Daily. “There’s so much intricacy and detail in that, but for me personally, that’s not what caught my attention. What caught my attention was using an iconic symbol or character to portray a certain message to the public.” What was around him at the time made the case. JR, the French artist, was pasting portraits blown up to the size of buildings, overnight and without permission. Banksy was deep in his rat period. The placements, the colors, the repetition of a single mark across a city — that was the lesson. Arriving at the tongue was a process of elimination. Mr. Tongue wanted expression, and expression meant the face, so he went down the list: eyes, nose, eyebrows, ears. Each felt as limited as a letter. The mouth brought him to the Rolling Stones logo, which had the right instinct but read to him as too feminine in its lips; the teeth said almost nothing. “And then I came to the tongue, and I started researching the tongue, because I saw the simplicity of it but also the complexity of it,” he said. He drew a first version on a Post-it note — nothing like what it has since become — and started placing it on mugs, televisions and refrigerators, to see how it behaved. Even without a face, the tongue was doing something an eye could not: witty, playful, or in-depth, depending on where it landed. Research followed, first into the biology, then the spiritual, which is where it locked. The tongue is capable of speech, appetite, mockery, aggression and prayer, and over 15 years it has moved between them. At the start it was speech, loudly. A friend once told Mr. Tongue that during his most active period of "bombing" — painting illegally, in volume and at scale — it looked less like painting than shouting. “[My friend] said it looks like you’re screaming, but it seems like now, now that I've made a slow transition, it seems like now ‘you're okay with a gentle whisper,’” Mr. Tongue recalled. “And so when my friend said that, that really sparked something in me.” The whisper takes more patience than the scream. Mr. Tongue scouts locations days and sometimes months in advance, and once there he waits — until a car or a pedestrian passes by, for hours if that is what the wall requires. This wasn't a change of temperament, not a natural virtue. He used to go, do it and leave, spectators be damned. The waiting is what lets the work continue. Street artist Mr. Tongue paints a mural on a street, in this photo provided by the artist MR. TONGUE Where the tongue goes, which locations he chooses to paint, is a decision he makes alone and privately. Mr. Tongue is a Christian believer, and it is his faith that tells him which wall is the one. Which walls that process produces is unusual. Artists usually want the most visible surface with the heaviest traffic. Mr. Tongue often ends up in front of a moldy wall in the corner of a backstreet, and takes it. “I really believe in the power of free art,” he said. “But in order for art to be truly free, it has to be in your everyday walk. Even if an entry fee is free, you have to pay for a taxi ride or gas to get there — or even if somebody dropped you off, it's still your time, and time is money.” A piece encountered on the way to the convenience store is, by Mr. Tongue’s account, the only kind that is actually free. A main street wall piece may last 10 years and an alley one just a week; he is not prepared to say what that week did for the people who passed it. Although Mr. Tongue painted in any spot that his faith chose in the early days of his career, now — as an established street artist — he paints in legally allowed spaces and private properties upon commission. Mr. Tongue’s reading of the city of Seoul has changed more than anything else. For years he was too focused on announcing his existence to look around; it could have been Seoul, it could have been Busan. Now he can tell the neighborhoods apart by their stations and their color sense. A piece in Jung District in central Seoul, on the road running toward Myeongdong, was pitched for tourists — it was intricate, subtle and flowing rather than aggressive. A piece in Nowon District, northern Seoul, where Seoul stops and the mountains start, used greens and blues for water and trees, pink and yellow for the light hitting them — the colors the neighborhood already knows. A mural by street artist Mr. Tongue is seen on a street in Seoul, in this photo provided by the artist MR. TONGUE The artist treats Seoul’s visual density — the signage, the cables, the vents — as material rather than as an obstacle. Early on, Mr. Tongue squeezed into the nooks left between air conditioning units and bus stop signs, sometimes matching his colors so the piece half-disappeared: a lighter blue beside a blue trash bin, green on a wall behind trees. The current approach reverses that. In a visually quiet neighborhood, he uses a complex design to draw the eye. In a chaotic one, he strips it down until the simplicity is what stands out. Mr. Tongue is equally deliberate about the separation between himself and the persona, which he has protected since before the first tongue went up. He has watched other artists get absorbed by the identities they built, and he thinks about athletes — how an injury or age takes away not just a career but a self. “I have to just kind of keep telling myself that this is not who I am, this is what I do,” he said. “Other people automatically assumed it was my identity, because people assume this is who you want to be. But actually this was just my channel.” The motif itself has never felt like a cage. When a subject resists the tongue, he treats that as evidence of his own limitations rather than the tongue’s — the piece in northern Seoul after the invasion of Ukraine, a peace sign in Ukrainian colors, came of refusing to slap the motif onto a flag. It is, to his surprise, still running. A mural by street artist Mr. Tongue is seen on a street in Seoul, in this photo provided by the artist MR. TONGUE On the state of the graffiti scene in Korea, Mr. Tongue is blunter than one might expect. The activity level has gone down, not up, and more artists have taken the commercial, safer route than a decade ago. The exhibitions that now exist are largely organized by the artists themselves, which he does not see as a sign of health. “That’s how much lack of support we actually have,” Mr. Tongue said. “The artists themselves have to put on events, rather than organizations putting it on and inviting the guests. There’s a lot of logistics that go on that are a lot more complicated, and it takes away the artists from being true artists.” Enforcement has hardened over the same period, which he connects to the country’s rising profile: the more Korea is looked at, the more graffiti is read as an attack on the image. He thinks the real objection is simpler than reputation — it's that this is the one thing on the street that cannot be controlled, which is more or less the definition of the form. The piece Mr. Tongue thinks about most is one that no longer exists — a large work on a water tower visible from the Gangbyeon Expressway, up about a year before someone painted it out. He had placed it above another artist’s work without touching it, a gesture of respect he picked up from Shepard Fairey, who goes around another artist’s work or skips the wall. When Mr. Tongue’s work on the water tower was covered, the work below it was left untouched. Street artist Mr. Tongue paints a mural on a street with a colleague, in this photo provided by the artist MR. TONGUE The title he had given the work was “Babel,” after the tower in Genesis of the Bible that people built out of arrogance to reach God. “I knew that piece was going to run for 10, 20, 30 years,” he said. “So I was like, okay, I’ve secured a spot in Seoul that you can see from the highway for as long as this tower exists. And basically the mentality was, I’m going to be the most superior guy in all of Seoul.” He could not have answered that honestly a few years ago. A reckoning of sorts came after a fall through the roof of a second-story building while painting in Indonesia, which left him with scratches and no broken bones, and then three months of holding a can and finding that nothing came out. In the ordinary course of things, a buffed piece is answered by covering someone else’s, and that cover by another, until it stops being about the wall at all. Mr. Tongue, however, is at peace with the people who painted over his. He knows them. Cans of paint and brushes used by street artist Mr. Tongue are seen in this photo provided by the artist MR. TONGUE Erasure is the game in any case: landlords change, neighborhoods are demolished, and an artist who took each one personally would not last. What has lasted is the readership. Visitors here for a few months or a few years have told him that running into the tongue on a commute, or on a trip to Jeju, became a kind of companionship in a lonely stretch. Others hunt for pieces across districts in small groups, comparing finds like real-life Pokémon Go. Mr. Tongue recently finished a five-year project, not yet public, painting in every city in Korea — most of which have never had street art of any kind, where people stop to watch and occasionally pick up a can just to hold it. He is not planning to repeat the project. He would rather it made someone else restless. “Let me be the example, so that the youth in these different cities can see it, and maybe it sparks an idea — ‘Hey, I want to paint,’” he said. “There are so many talented, skillful creatives out here. They just don’t know exactly how, or what they even want to do.” If his images, now a representative part of Seoul’s — and Korea’s — streets, can inspire that way, Mr. Tongue would be content.

PERESSCIAWHOIMA

2026.08.10

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[속보] 트럼프, 폴리실리콘 산업 보호 행정명령 서명

[속보] 트럼프, 폴리실리콘 산업 보호 행정명령 서명 ▶ 자세한 뉴스 잠시 뒤 이어집니다. ※ '당신의 제보가 뉴스가 됩니다' [카카오톡] YTN 검색해 채널 추가 [전화] 02-398-8585 [메일] social@ytn.co.kr

트럼프CIA카카오

2026.08.07

팩플

NASA “한국과 달 기지 협력 논의…모빌리티, 통신 기술 주목”

카를로스 가르시아 갈란(Carlos Garcia-Galan) 미국 항공우주국(NASA) 문베이스 프로그램 총괄 책임자가 29일 서울 강남구 한국과학기술회관에서 열린 'NASA 빌딩 문 베이스(Building Moon Base)' 기자 브리핑에서 발언하고 있다. 왼쪽부터 누주드 메랜시(Nujoud Merancy) 수석 설계자, 가르시아 갈란 총괄 책임자, 에릭 마이어(Eric Maier) 국제협력 총괄, 네이선 쿠마(Nathan Kumar) 국제협력 담당. 사진 우주항공청 “니어 임파서블(near-impossible), 불가능에 가까운 도전에 한국과 함께하고 싶다.” 카를로스 가르시아 갈란 미국 항공우주국(NASA) 달 기지(Moon Base) 프로그램 총괄 책임자는 29일 서울 강남구 한국과학기술단체총연합회에서 연 기자간담회에서 이렇게 말했다. 갈란 총괄의 방한은 우주항공청과 NASA 간 우주탐사 협력 아르테미스 워크숍을 계기로 이뤄졌다. 갈란 총괄은 “50년 전엔 달에 가는 것 자체가 목표였다면 지금은 달에서 장시간 유지할 수 있는 인프라를 지으려고 한다”며 “그땐 미국의 힘으로 이뤄졌지만, 지금은 한국을 비롯한 다양한 파트너와 함께 하는 것이 차이점”이라고 설명했다. NASA는 달 기지 구축과 관련 전력을 포함해 운송, 교통, 통신 등 전 분야에서 협력 기회가 열려 있다고 밝혔다. NASA 관계자들은 달 표면 이동을 위한 한국의 모빌리티 기술에 주목했다. 누주드 메랜시 NASA 수석 설계자는 “한국과 착륙선이나 모빌리티, 컨테이너, 과학 연구 분야에서 협력이 가능하다는 분석을 마쳤다”며 “한국 통신 위성 시스템의 우수함은 과거 다누리(KPLO) 임무에서도 확인했다. 산업계 전반으로는 로보틱스, 모빌리티, 센서 분야에서 강점이 있다”고 짚었다. 논의 초기 단계인 만큼 이날 구체적인 기업이 언급되진 않았다. NASA는 이번 정부 간 대화를 시작으로 향후 민간과의 협업 가능성도 열어놨다. 갈란 총괄은 “쉽지는 않겠지만 3개월 후에는 구체적인 협업 방안을 발표할 수 있도록 해보겠다”고 말했다. 앞서 NASA는 지난 3월 이그니션 행사에서 기존의 달 정거장(Luna Gateway) 대신 달 기지 건설 계획을 밝혔다. 총 200억달러(약 29조원)를 투입해 이르면 2032년까지 우주인이 달에 상시 머무르는 준영구적 기지를 구축한다는 목표다. 3단계로 이뤄진 계획 중 현재는 무인 로버와 자원 탐사 장비들을 달 표면에 보내는 1단계를 진행 중이다. 갈란 총괄은 “NASA가 그리는 달 기지의 모습은 작은 도시에 가깝다”라며 “초기에는 로봇을 활용한 시도가 많겠지만 결국에는 인간을 보내야 한다. 한국도 인간을 수용할 수 있는 기술 정교성을 염두에 둬야 할 것”이라고 조언했다. 우주항공청은 지난 4월 발사된 유인 달 탐사선 아르테미스 2호에 국산 큐브위성 K-라드큐브를 탑재하며 NASA와 협력한 바 있다. 메랜시 수석은 “한국은 문제를 해결할 때 이전 지식을 활용할 뿐 아니라 새로운 방법을 창출하는 역량을 갖고 있다”며 “지난 경험이 이번 달 기지 구축 협력으로 이어지길 기대한다”고 말했다. 더중앙플러스 : 팩플 더 자세한기사 내용이 궁금하시다면 주소창에 링크를 붙여넣으세요. “태양을 향해 오줌을 싸라” 아르테미스 구한 기막힌 과학 1972년 아폴로 17호 이후 54년 만인 인류의 달 탐사.아르테미스 2호의 달 탐사는 단순한 우주쇼가 아니다. 미국은 왜 천문학적인 비용을 들여 다시 달에 사람을 보내고 기지를 지으려 할까? 그 이면에는 우주 경제 패권을 둘러싼 냉혹한 손익계산서가 있다. 중국의 맹추격 속에서 3000조 원 몸값을 노리는 스페이스X 등 기업들의 치열한 비즈니스 전쟁까지. 낭만을 넘어 '노다지'가 된 우주 패권 경쟁의 막전막후를 심층 분석했다. https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/25417866 장윤서 기자

스페이스X로보틱스NASACIA강남구

2026.08.02

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사망자 36명으로 늘어...'슈퍼 태풍' 북상에 비상

[앵커] 일본 구마모토를 덮친 강진으로 인한 사망자가 36명으로 늘어난 가운데 실종자 수색 작업은 사실상 마무리됐습니다. 우리나라와 마찬가지로 폭염의 기세가 강해지면서 이재민들이 고통을 겪고 있는 가운데 강력한 태풍까지 북상하고 있어 비상이 걸렸습니다. 보도에 유투권 기자입니다. [기자] 지진 발생 만 72시간이 지나면서 대형 쇼핑몰을 제외한 다른 장소에선 실종자 수색 작업이 마무리됐습니다. 7명의 사망자가 나온 쇼핑몰의 경우 공식적으로 파악된 실종자는 남아 있지 않은 가운데 굴착기를 동원한 마지막 확인이 진행되고 있습니다. 여전히 만 명에 가까운 이재민이 힘겹게 대피소 생활을 이어가고 있습니다. 수만 가구가 수돗물을 공급받지 못하고 있습니다. 당국의 집계가 속도를 내면서 재산 피해 규모도 계속 늘어나고 있습니다. 야쓰시로와 우키 등 가장 피해가 심각한 지역에선 아직 조사가 끝나지 않았습니다. [지진 피해 주민 : 이곳에서 주택 수백 채가 무너졌습니다. 복구하려면 1∼2년은 걸릴 것 같습니다.] 이런 상황에서 폭염의 기세까지 강해지고 있습니다. 이틀간 최소한 40여 명이 열사병이나 탈진 증상을 보여 입원한 것으로 알려진 가운데 다음 주 초엔 기온이 40도까지 오를 전망입니다. 여기에 이미 초강력 단계로 발달한 13호 태풍이 북상하고 있습니다. 지금까지의 예상 진로에서 조금만 동쪽으로 방향을 틀어도 구마모토에 큰 타격을 줄 수 있습니다. 지진의 충격으로 주요 하천의 제방엔 길게는 250m까지 균열이나 침하가 발생했습니다. 이에 따라 방재 당국은 콘크리트로 보강하기 위한 공사를 24시간 강행하고 있습니다. YTN 유투권입니다. 영상편집 : 서영미 ※ '당신의 제보가 뉴스가 됩니다' [카카오톡] YTN 검색해 채널 추가 [전화] 02-398-8585 [메일] social@ytn.co.kr

구마모토CIA사망자카카오열사병

2026.08.01

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[제보는Y] 초등학교 찾아가 학생 폭행...가해자는 '친구 엄마'

[앵커] 초등학교 운동장에서 학생이 다른 학생 부모에게 폭행당했다는 제보가 들어왔습니다. 아이를 주먹으로 위협하는 어른의 모습이 CCTV에 그대로 담겼는데, 경찰이 아동학대 여부를 조사하고 있습니다. 제보는 Y, 차상은 기자입니다. [기자] 초등학교 운동장에 들어온 여성이 아이를 세워두고 다그치기 시작합니다. 잠시 후 주먹으로 때리려는 시늉까지 하며 위협적...

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2026.07.29