Tech
MG Community Credit Cooperatives disclosed a breach affecting 400 insurance members, including account numbers and balances. The same day, Tving's CEO blamed "AI-based hacking" for a 39.54 million-user leak. Here's what the two cases reveal.
10/13/2026
Tech
Korea's top national university logged 28 breaches over six years and 1,132 leaked personal records, with attack attempts topping 500 a year. Why universities keep getting hit.
10/11/2026
Auto
A fire broke out at an auto repair shop in Gyeongsan, South Korea on Oct 10, knocked down in about 50 minutes with no injuries. Here's why repair garages are structurally fire-prone and what car owners should check first.
10/10/2026
Tech
Samsung's Galaxy Z8 series set a record 1.44 million domestic pre-orders, yet its mobile division is expected to post a second straight quarterly operating loss. Here's how the AI-driven memory price surge is eating smartphone margins.
10/10/2026
Tech
Coupang has filed suit to cancel a record 624.6 billion won privacy fine from Korea's data protection regulator, plus a request to suspend enforcement. Here's why the case matters for every large platform in Korea.
10/9/2026
Auto
LG Energy Solution posted record quarterly revenue and a 756 billion won operating profit in Q3, driven by North American ESS and recovering European EV battery shipments. Here's what it signals for the EV market.
10/8/2026
Tech
Kia union members and Korea's largest church both disclosed data breaches on the same day. Neither core system was hacked — the outsourced and peripheral ones were. Here's why that pattern matters.
10/7/2026
Auto
Busan is releasing subsidies for 1,520 additional EVs with 13.5 billion won in funding after high oil prices drained its second-half quota early. What it signals for Korea's EV market.
10/6/2026
Tech
Applications to Korea's four elite science institutes topped 30,000 for the first time, driven by new AI departments and semiconductor hype. Here's what it signals about talent flows in tech.
10/5/2026
Tech
Ten major Korean brokerages logged 113 IT system failures in under three years, paying out roughly 7 billion won to 19,055 customers. Half were software bugs — here's why that matters.
10/4/2026
Tech
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy SmartTag3 on October 1, with a smaller body, roughly 3x longer Bluetooth range at up to 60m, and — for the first time — location lookup from iOS devices. Here's why cross-platform support matters more than the specs.
10/1/2026
Auto
Seoul has signed an agreement with Hyundai Motor and the city bus operators' association to deploy 500 autonomous city buses by 2030. Here's what's driving it and what actually changes for riders.
10/1/2026
Auto
Korea's government-backed M.AX Alliance has launched five projects spanning autonomous driving, domestic automotive chips and shared robotaxi data. Here's why the alliance exists and what actually changes.
9/30/2026
Tech
AWS has become the first cloud provider cleared to handle NATO Restricted information across all member states. Here's what meeting NATO's D32 guidance means, how it reshapes the defense cloud race, and why it matters.
9/29/2026
Tech
Robot automation platform Bigwave Robotics debuts on KOSDAQ as four robotics, semiconductor and defense firms crowd into the same late-September listing window. Here's what's driving it.
9/28/2026
Tech
A Korean state bank research institute projects the data center AI chip market growing from $124B in 2024 to $860B by 2030. Here's why Korean firms have only 3-5 years to break into the supply chain.
9/28/2026
Tech
A 100 million won bet on Nvidia a decade ago would be worth 13.8 billion won today — beating Bitcoin. Korean chip stocks rose up to 47x. Here's the technology shift behind those numbers.
9/26/2026
Auto
At InnoTrans 2026 in Berlin, Hyundai Rotem unveiled a next-generation high-speed train concept and an AI-driven autonomous hydrogen tram. Here's why the venue matters and what it signals for Europe's rail market.
9/25/2026
Tech
Reports point to a foldable iPhone priced near $2,000. Here's why Apple is entering a market Samsung opened six years ago, how that price compares, and what it actually changes for buyers.
9/24/2026
Tech
Naver Cloud has launched DSAC, a unified DB and server access control service that automatically logs privileged activity. Here's why cloud-native access control matters now, how it differs from Korea's appliance-based incumbents, and who benefits.
9/22/2026