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Business 6 min A South Korean Law Could Block SK Hynix's Planned Memory Plant in Japan Miyagi wants the plant and Tokyo is offering subsidies to get it. The approval that decides the question is a... DA Daniel Koh 1 Sep

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Finance 7 min Korea's Wrtn Raised at 1 Trillion Won, Reported as Three Different Valuations The same Series C has appeared as over $722m, over $760m and about $870m. The won figure is the fact and the d... SA Sarah Chew 30 Aug

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Business 8 min South Korea's 800 Trillion Won Budget Is Not a Budget Yet The cabinet approves it on 1 September and the Assembly has yet to pass it. The dollar figure reported ranges... DA Daniel Koh 25 Aug

A commercial street in South Korea lined with Hangul shop signage, illustrating a report on the Korean AI Basic Act seven months after it took effect.

Privacy & Data 8 min Korea's AI Law Has Been In Force Seven Months. The Maximum Fine Is About US$20,000. The AI Basic Act and its Enforcement Decree took effect on 22 January. Penalties cap at ₩30m, are suspended fo... PR Priya Nair 22 Aug

Gloved hands holding a large processor package, illustrating a report on Nvidia's talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions.

AI & ML 8 min Nvidia Is Talking To The Korean Startup Whose Chips Compete Where Nvidia Is Weakest Jensen Huang met Rebellions' chief executive in Santa Clara. The company designs inference NPUs, is valued nea... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug

A gibbous Moon photographed against black sky, its cratered surface picked out along the terminator — illustrative; the impact site described here is not visible at this scale.

Science 7 min A Rocket Stage Hit the Moon. South Korea Was Overhead With a Camera. Danuri made eight passes over the predicted impact point, starting half an hour early, with reference frames t... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Aug

Cloud & Infra 6 min Three Singapore-Based Operators Moved Into South Korea's Data-Centre Market in Two Weeks STT GDC opened its first South Korea data centre this month, days after Keppel and Digital Edge each moved on... KE Kenji Tanaka 19 Jun

SK Hynix headquarters in Icheon, South Korea, lit at dusk as the company crosses a $1 trillion market capitalisation milestone

Finance 5 min SK Hynix Crosses US$1 Trillion, Giving South Korea Two Trillion-Dollar Companies at Once SK Hynix shares rose 9.41% on 27 May 2026, pushing its market cap to roughly US$1.07 trillion — three weeks af... DA Daniel Koh 1 Jun

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Cybersecurity 4 min South Korean Coupang Breach Hit 33.7 Million Users — What It Means for ASEAN E-Commerce South Korean e-commerce platform Coupang suffered a data breach affecting 33.7 million customers in December 2... CY Cyber Team 1 Apr