Browsing: Koreas

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South Korea’s Science Ministry attributes Coupang’s massive 2025 data leak to management failures and accuses it of defying a government order to preserve data logs (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 11, 2026

Reuters: South Korea’s Science Ministry blames Coupang’s massive 2025 data leak on management failures and accuses it of defying a…

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A look at South Korea’s Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best local AI models, aiming to compete with the United States and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 20, 2026

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Naver, South Korea’s largest buyer of Nvidia chips, pitches its AI cloud services as an alternative to countries reluctant to use U.S. or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 12, 2026

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: Naver, South Korea’s largest buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as…

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Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% rise in South Korea’s Kospi, the world’s best-performing major stock index in 2025 (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 30, 2025

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Coupang says it is offering more than $1 billion in compensation to 33.7 million customers affected by South Korea’s largest-ever data breach, after a former employee accessed the data (Shinhye Kang/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 29, 2025

Shinhye Kang / Bloomberg: Coupang says it is offering more than $1 billion in compensation to 33.7 million customers affected…

Asia

The 2 Koreas share experience in foreign wars – the diplomat

By Frank M. EverettFebruary 28, 2025

North Korea and the South could not be more different. North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, RPDC)…

ASEAN looks towards a post-WTO era – The Diplomat

India’s US tilt yields little – The Diplomat

How the Quad can be effective in a new strategic era – The Diplomat

How China’s ‘red lines’ are quietly shaping global news reporting – The Diplomat

Japan is investing in offshore wind in the UK. And at home? – The diplomat

FedEx (FDX) Q4 2026 Results

PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp Unveils Sweeping Changes in Professional Golf

Investor support for Target Chairman Brian Cornell hits record high

Lucid to lay off approximately 18% of its U.S. workforce

UPS to invest $48 million in refrigeration facilities amid GLP-1 boom

Trump fantasizes about muscle men in Pennsylvania as Republicans crash and burn

Trump allies threaten to shut down House if election rigging bill doesn’t pass

Trump’s midterm election rigging scheme resulted in a big loss

Trump collapses when reporters challenge his story of vandalism around reflecting pool

Trump is obsessed with swimming pool thinking conspiracies as the Middle East collapses

Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein’s SPAC, in a deal valuing it at around $2.5 billion and trading under the symbol AGLT (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea’s most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off (Reuters)

prices of Nvidia’s AI chips on the Chinese black market have more than doubled amid a crackdown on US exports; its flagship DGX B300 server fetched $1.1 million (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Micron and Sandisk led a massive sell-off in the technology sector on Tuesday, falling more than 13%; Western Digital fell 8%, Marvell 9%, Seagate 5%, Qualcomm 8% and Applied Materials 8% (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)

Cerebras reports first quarter revenue up 94% year over year to $193.4 million, net loss down 41% to $14 million and forecasts core gross margin to decline in second quarter; CBRS drops more than 8% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Browsing: Koreas

South Korea’s Science Ministry attributes Coupang’s massive 2025 data leak to management failures and accuses it of defying a government order to preserve data logs (Reuters)

A look at South Korea’s Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best local AI models, aiming to compete with the United States and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Naver, South Korea’s largest buyer of Nvidia chips, pitches its AI cloud services as an alternative to countries reluctant to use U.S. or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% rise in South Korea’s Kospi, the world’s best-performing major stock index in 2025 (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)

Coupang says it is offering more than $1 billion in compensation to 33.7 million customers affected by South Korea’s largest-ever data breach, after a former employee accessed the data (Shinhye Kang/Bloomberg)

The 2 Koreas share experience in foreign wars – the diplomat