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South Korea fines US-listed Coupang ~$409M for inadequate safety systems and “negligent management” that caused a data breach affecting ~34M accounts (fortune.com)
29 days ago Korea

South Korean regulators fined Coupang $409M for a data leak in 2025 that exposed ~33.7M accounts and escalated into a diplomatic conflict with the US (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Korea

Australia should take interest in Takaichi's efforts to return abductees from North Korea (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-9 Australia Korea

Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet rising global demand for AI services and physical AI (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-8 Korea AI Nvidia

Hormuz Jolts S. Korea to Grow Wind&Solar 3X by 2030 to 100 GW (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-7 Korea Solar

Taiwan and South Korea's stock market capitalizations overtake India's as global investors favor markets with companies positioned to benefit from the AI boom (www.ft.com)
2026-6-4 Korea India Taiwan AI

LG shares jumped 300%+ this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 Korea AI Robot

Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-5-28 Korea Samsung

North Korea tests new AI-guided missile systems (PHOTOS) (www.rt.com)
2026-5-28 Korea AI

Kelp DAO says its restaked Ether token has been restored after a five-week recovery effort following a $293M exploit by North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18 (cointelegraph.com)
2026-5-26 Korea

A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-26 Korea Samsung

The African tide that can carry Korea (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-25 Korea Africa

YouTuber 'ended Korean actor's career by using AI to fake evidence he dated a child actress who later killed herself' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-5-23 Korea AI YouTuber Career

What Can North Korea Tell Us about America's Future? (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-21 U.S. Korea

Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has decided to suspend a general strike (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-21 Korea Samsung

South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $672.5M from Kakao (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-16 Korea

Iranian hackers targeted major South Korean electronics maker (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-14 Korea Iran

South Korea Floats 'Citizen Dividend' Using AI Profits (slashdot.org)
2026-5-13 Korea AI

Samsung and its South Korean labor union fail to reach a pay deal; the union has said workers will strike for 18 days from May 21 if its demands are not met (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-13 Korea Samsung

Mystery over Russian ship 'carrying nuclear reactors to North Korea' that exploded and sank in the Mediterranean (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-5-13 Russia Korea

South Korea's chance to reel in maritime influence (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-13 Korea

North Korea's battlefield dividend (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-12 Korea

SoftBank partners with South Korea's Cosmos Lab and DeltaX to mass produce next-gen data center batteries in Japan at the scale of one GWh per year in FY 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 Japan Korea

Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk In South Korea (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9 Korea Robot

Fintech app Toss, used by ~66% of South Korea's 51M people, says its FacePay service, available at 330K retail outlets, has attracted 4.8M users since September (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Korea Retail Fintech

Americans sentenced for running 'laptop farms' for North Korea (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 U.S. Korea

Analysis: South Korea's equity market overtakes Canada's as the world's seventh largest, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose stocks have more than doubled YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Korea Samsung Canada Equity

DefiLlama: investors pulled ~$14B from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290M from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280M from Drift (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 Korea

Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and a net loss of $266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-5-6 Korea 4Q

Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-5 Korea Asset

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