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South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Korea AI

Analysis: South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports for the first time in H1 2026, as AI demand drove explosive growth in chip exports (asia.nikkei.com)
2 days ago Japan Korea Taiwan AI

One in three North Korean refugees from nuclear test area have mutations (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2 days ago Korea Refugee

South Korea FA 'provided "sexual entertainment" for foreign referees at massage parlours ahead of international matches including World Cup qualifier' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2 days ago Korea

SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in South Korea, including a new ~$24.7B DRAM facility in Yongin and a ~$13.3B NAND fabrication plant in Cheongju (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Korea

Fault Lines – Scarborough Shoal, South Korea at RIMPAC, shipriders (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
3 days ago Korea

A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months (www.wired.com)
4 days ago Korea

North Korea's naval buildup will stretch allied forces across the Indo-Pacific (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
6 days ago Korea

South Korea Records Its Highest Ever Temperature (news.slashdot.org)
6 days ago Korea

Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Korea AI

South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Korea AI

South Korea fines telco giant KT $39 million for customer data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago Korea

Amazon researchers link the compromises of four npm packages, including axios, over the past 18 months to the North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire Sleet (www.theregister.com)
10 days ago Korea Amazon

Amazon links Debug, Chalk NPM supply-chain attacks to North Korean hackers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago Korea Amazon

Tens of millions of South Korean retail investors, the market's biggest buyers in 2026, were caught in this week's selloff, as Samsung and SK Hynix tumble (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Korea Retail Samsung

Korean KOSPI Crashes 10.8% Today, -34% in 25 Days, after 300% Spike, as Consensual Hallucination Fades (wolfstreet.com)
13 days ago Korea

At market open, Korean chipmakers' stocks plunged, with Samsung Electronics dropping 9%+, SK Hynix down 11%+, and the Korea Composite Stock Price Index down 8%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Korea Samsung

Top North Korean colonel is executed in front of his men who were left 'deeply shaken and with pale faces' after brutal killing (www.dailymail.co.uk)
13 days ago Korea

Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Naver to help finance an AI data center in South Korea, and partners with SK Group to build more than 2 GW of AI data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Korea AI Nvidia

Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B (www.ft.com)
17 days ago Korea AI

South Korea discloses data breach impacting diplomats worldwide (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago Korea

South Korea reports that, for the first 20 days of July, chip exports climbed 180.6% from the same period in 2025; computer-related product shipments grew ~232% (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Korea

Putin thanks North Korea for helping liberate Russian territory (www.rt.com)
20 days ago Russia Putin Korea

Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago Korea Robot

America's Imperial Wars, from Korea to Iran (www.juancole.com)
23 days ago U.S. Korea Iran

Filing: South Korean authorities conducted an on-site search of Chinese chipmaker Montage's offices in connection with potential competition law violations (www.reuters.com)
24 days ago China Korea

South Korea To Launch Universal Basic AI Chatbot (slashdot.org)
24 days ago Korea AI chatbot

Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of it deploying Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot in factories (www.wsj.com)
25 days ago Korea AI Robot Boston Dynamics

Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories (www.wsj.com)
25 days ago Korea AI Robot

South Korea needs to plan for a Taiwan conflict (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
27 days ago Korea Taiwan

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