Samsung, Union Restart Pay Talks 72 Hours Before 18-Day Chip Strike as Suwon Court Curbs Picket Tactics
Samsung Electronics and its largest union resumed pay talks 72 hours before an 18-day strike as the Suwon court partly granted Samsung's injunction barring plant ...
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Naver Hits Record ₩602B Quarterly R&D as Kakao Trims Spend, Pivots to OpenAI and Google
Seoul — Naver (035420.KS), the Korean internet and AI services group behind the country's leading domestic search engine, spent ₩602.0 billion ($439 million) on
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Hana Financial Group (086790.KS) Q1 2026: Net Profit Rises 7.3% to ₩1.21T as NPL Coverage Plunges 8.4pp
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KB Financial Completes Won-Stablecoin Pilot Linking Hollys Coffee QR Payments to a Three-Minute Vietnam Remittance
KB Financial demoed a won-stablecoin chain linking Hollys QR payments to a Vietnam remittance via Kaia — under 3 minutes, 87% under SWIFT.
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Korea Decree Would Bar State Support for New Capital-Area Chip Clusters, Sparing Samsung-SK Hynix Yongin Buildout
Korea's decree would deny state support for any new chip complex in Seoul, Incheon, or Gyeonggi, sparing Samsung-SK Hynix's ₩1,000T Yongin buildout.
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Uber, Naver, Alibaba Circle Korea's ₩8 Trillion Baemin as Delivery Hero Seeks Exit
Delivery Hero is selling Baemin for up to ₩8 trillion, with Uber, Naver, and Alibaba in active due diligence — but KFTC antitrust risk and slowing delivery growth...
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Korean Retail US Stock Holdings Cross ₩300 Trillion as AI Rally Outpaces KOSPI Boom
Korean retail investors — locally nicknamed "Seohak Ants" (the colloquial term for Koreans buying overseas equities) — pushed their US stock holdings above ₩300 tril
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