Why it mattersNvidia's chips dominate global AI, so where it places research operations signals which economies it sees as strategic partners in the next…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the chipmaker is opening an AI R&D center in South Korea and has begun hiring staff.
Read MoreWhy it mattersKorea is trying to turn a winter fruit into a year-round export, a test case for how climate-stressed agriculture can use technology to sta…
South Korea's aT agency is exploring indoor smart farming to grow strawberries year-round and fill the summer export gap.
Read MoreWhy it mattersHousing affordability is a defining political and economic issue in South Korea, and shifts in the rental market signal where ordinary resi…
Seoul's low-rise 'villa' rental market is rebounding as tenants priced out of apartments drive lease volume up 7.4%.
Read MoreWhy it mattersLeveraged single-stock products are spreading globally, and Korea's experience shows which investors flock to them and how regulators try t…
Investors in their 40s bought the most of Korea's new 2X Samsung and SK Hynix leverage products in their first four trading days.
Read MoreWhy it mattersSeoul's mayoralty is South Korea's second most powerful elected office and a frequent springboard to presidential politics, so control of t…
Oh Se-hoon won a fifth Seoul mayoral term in a narrow overnight reversal of exit polls favoring his DP rival.
Read MoreWhy it mattersHanwha Aerospace is a major South Korean defense exporter, so a deadly accident at its plant and the criminal probe that follows draw scrut…
South Korean police raided three Hanwha Aerospace sites over a June 1 explosion that killed five workers in Daejeon.
Read MoreWhy it mattersThe case is one of Asia's largest consumer-finance scandals and shows how regulators weigh penalties against banks that sell complex produc…
South Korea's FSS cut planned fines on five banks over Hong Kong ELS mis-selling to about 600 billion won, less than half its earlier figure.
Read MoreWhy it mattersXenotransplantation could one day relieve the global shortage of donor organs, and this experiment pushes the field toward transplanting se…
Chinese surgeons transplanted a pig liver and two kidneys into a brain-dead man, with the organs working normally for five days.
Read MoreWhy it mattersSouth Korea is a linchpin of the global tech supply chain, so when forecasters single it out as a rare winner during a worldwide slowdown, …
The OECD raised South Korea's 2026 growth forecast to 2.6%, the biggest upgrade among G20 economies, citing a semiconductor export boom.
Read MoreWhy it mattersKorea is one of the world's most connected markets, and its platform habits show how a tech-savvy population balances loyalty to domestic g…
A South Korean government survey finds ChatGPT leads generative AI use while Naver, KakaoTalk and Coupang still dominate daily digital life.
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