Three Samsung Affiliates Buy 4% of Upbit Operator Dunamu for ₩612.8 Billion, 33 Days Before Naver Absorption
Samsung Securities, SDS, and Card will jointly acquire 4% of Dunamu (Upbit's parent) for KRW 612.8 billion ($447M), 33 days before Naver Financial absorbs Dunamu in a KRW 15.1 trillion stock swap.
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HD Hyundai Heavy (329180.KS) Q1 2026: OP Doubles to ₩905B on Mipo Merger
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KB Financial Pulls Rebellions Into Korean Banking AI Stack Months Before Chip Maker's IPO
KB Financial Group signed a partnership with Rebellions on May 27 to embed the AI-chip startup's NPUs into its banking AI stack, reframing a 4-year VC relationship months before Rebellions' 2026 IPO.
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Huang-Wei Taipei Dinner Telegraphs AI Supply Crunch — and Sets the Stage for SK's Chey at GTC Taipei
Nvidia's Jensen Huang and TSMC's C.C. Wei held a closed-door Taipei dinner on May 26 over next-gen AI chip production, days before SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won meets both at GTC Taipei on June 1.
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Doosan Enerbility (034020.KS) Q1 2026: ₩27.2T Backlog Builds as Core Margin Stalls at 3.04%
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Hanmi Pharmaceutical to Debut Second Muscle-Preserving Obesity Drug at ADA 2026
Hanmi Pharmaceutical will unveil LA-MSTN, its second muscle-preserving obesity drug candidate, at the American Diabetes Association annual meeting in New Orleans on June 5-8, 2026, alongside seven other obesity-pipeline studies.
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Samsung Wage Deal Passes 73.7%, Hard-Wiring 10.5% of Chip Profit Into a Bonus Pool That Shareholders Want to Void
Samsung Electronics' joint unions ratified the 2026 wage deal at 73.7%, but a minority-shareholder group said on May 27 it will file a nullification suit against the 10.5%-of-chip-profit bonus pool as a disguised dividend that bypassed shareholder approval.
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Samsung, SK Hynix 2x Single-Stock ETFs Debut as Korea's Pre-Trade Education Site Buckles Under Retail Surge
Eight Korean asset managers debuted 18 single-stock leverage products on Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix on May 27, 2026, with KOFIA's mandatory pre-trade education site crashing as cumulative enrollees passed 200,000.
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