SK Hynix HBM Fab M15X Catches Fire Again — Second Cheongju Blaze in 11 Days, No Output Hit
SK Hynix reported a second fire in 11 days at its Cheongju M15X fab — the HBM4 plant anchoring Nvidia supply. Six workers hospitalized; the company says no production was interrupted.
Nomura Calls Korea’s Chip Supercycle “Just Beginning,” Lifts KOSPI Target to 11,000 as Foreigners Snap 24-Day Sell-Off
Nomura Securities declared at a Seoul briefing on June 12 that South Korea's semiconductor supercycle has “only just begun” — even as the KOSPI was still digest
Celltrion Touts HER2 Bispecific Cancer Data, Eyes FDA Fast-Track in 2026
Celltrion (068270.KS), one of South Korea's two largest biopharmaceutical companies by revenue alongside Samsung Biologics and best known for biosimil
Dongtan Home Prices Jump 7%, Korea Eyes Curbs Near Samsung
Home prices in Dongtan, a planned new town in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province that serves as a key dormitory district for Samsung and SK hynix chip worker
London Lists 3x Samsung, SK Hynix ETPs After Korea 2x Slump
Leverage Shares, a global issuer of leveraged exchange-traded products (ETPs), began trading two triple-leveraged single-stock products on the London Stock Exch
Samsung Pushes Foundry Breakeven to 2028 as TSMC Gap Widens to 11x
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Hanmi Semiconductor (042700.KQ) Bets ₩50B on SpaceX Pre-IPO
South Korean HBM bonder maker Hanmi Semiconductor will buy ₩50 billion ($36.5 million) of SpaceX shares ahead of its Nasdaq IPO, betting on Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor complex.
LG Energy Solution Ends Sunwoda Patent Fight in Licensing Deal
LG Energy Solution (373220.KS), Korea's largest electric-vehicle battery maker, has converted a two-year cross-border patent war into a license agreement with Chinese cell maker Sunwoda — but the f...
Kospi Jumps 4.6% on Iran Truce Hopes as Foreigners Return
South Korea's Kospi surged 4.6% to 8,123 on Friday as Trump claimed a US-Iran ceasefire. Samsung and SK Hynix led chip stocks higher; foreigners turned net buyers for the first time in 25 sessions.
Samsung, SK Hynix Weigh Chip Plants in Korea's Southwest — But Both Deny Any Decision
A wave of reports that Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), the world's largest memory-chip maker, and SK Hynix (000660.KS), the world's top supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), are weighing major ...
LG Innotek Stakes Over ₩2 Trillion on AI Chip Substrates as Gumi Lines Hit 92% Utilization
LG Innotek, the LG Group affiliate that is Korea's largest camera-module maker and one of its two major semiconductor-substrate suppliers, plans to invest more
Seoul Court Upholds KakaoPay's ₩5.97 Billion Fine Over Alipay Data Transfers
A Seoul court has rejected KakaoPay's bid to overturn a privacy fine for sending tens of millions of users' data to China's Alipay—a ruling that matters far more for what it validates than for the cas