Why it mattersA breach at a five-million-subscriber platform is a reminder that reused passwords expose people far beyond a single service, including int…
TVING, a top South Korean streaming service, was hacked, exposing subscriber data and triggering a government probe.
Read MoreWhy it mattersIt shows how South Korea's biggest automaker is shifting more production into the U.S. market, a trend reshaping where cars are built amid …
Kia has begun building its best-selling Sportage Hybrid at Hyundai Motor Group's new Metaplant in Georgia.
Read MoreWhy it mattersInvestment-tip scams run through messaging apps are a global phenomenon, and Korea's surge shows how quickly fraud migrates from phone call…
Korea's five biggest banks froze nearly 150,000 fraud-linked accounts in a year as stock scams replace voice phishing.
Read MoreWhy it mattersSouth Korea has long had one of the world's heaviest drinking cultures, so a broad, sustained decline signals a major social shift in a cou…
South Korean alcohol spending fell 9% in early 2026, the steepest quarterly drop in seven years across all age groups.
Read MoreWhy it mattersCheap, scalable carbon storage paired with clean hydrogen production would address two of the biggest obstacles to decarbonizing global ene…
Researchers are developing a way to bury CO2 and extract clean hydrogen at once using basalt, Earth's most common volcanic rock.
Read MoreWhy it mattersThese filings could set the price and pace for the largest wave of AI public offerings yet, shaping which companies get the funding to lead…
Anthropic has confidentially filed for an IPO ahead of rival OpenAI, while Alphabet plans an $80 billion raise for AI infrastructure.
Read MoreWhy it mattersSouth Korea is a major link in global manufacturing supply chains, so a materials squeeze on its small producers can ripple into electronic…
A KBIZ survey found 36% of South Korean small manufacturers have under a month of raw materials left amid the Middle East war.
Read MoreWhy it mattersHBM is the memory that makes modern AI hardware possible, and Samsung is one of only a few firms in the world capable of making it — so its…
Samsung revealed an HBM5 memory mock-up at Computex 2026 in Taipei, featuring new HPB heat-management technology.
Read MoreWhy it mattersKorea is one of the world's biggest energy importers with almost no domestic oil or gas, so where it buys from is a closely watched signal …
South Korea will more than triple its Canadian crude oil imports in 2026, from 4.88 to up to 16 million barrels.
Read MoreWhy it mattersThe sale of a state-owned insurer that the government has tried and failed to offload six times is a test of whether Korea can finally exit…
South Korea's three biggest life insurers unexpectedly joined the seventh attempt to sell state-controlled KDB Life.
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