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• 2026.07.05 📅 A July Rate 'Super Week' Is Coming — Preview of the US CPI (14th), BOK MPC (16th) and FOMC (28-29th) Triple Header Three events will decide where rates head this half — the US June CPI (14th), the Bank ... Economy
• 2026.07.05 🏠 Seoul Jeonse About to Overtake Sale Prices — Dongtan·Giheung·Guri Hit 'Triple Regulation' Today (Late-June Housing) Seoul apartment jeonse (deposit-lease) prices are up 5.10% year-to-date, all but matchi... Real Estate
• 2026.07.05 🧠 [Weekly Review] One Meta Report Cracked KOSPI 8000 — Did the AI Chip Cycle Really Wobble? (Jun 29–Jul 5) + Next Week Outlook A single report that Meta might rent out spare GPUs sent the KOSPI down 7.89% on July 2... IT
• 2026.07.04 📉 The Day the KOSPI Cracked 8,000 — How One Meta Remark Sank Korea's Chip Titans On July 2, the KOSPI plunged 7.89% and lost the 8,000 line. Meta's plan to lease out sp... Economy
• 2026.07.03 📉 US June Jobs 'Shock' — Just 57K Added, Fed Hike Bets Cool: Won, KOSPI & BOK Meeting Explained US June payrolls rose just 57K, far below forecasts, cooling bets on a Fed rate hike th... Economy
• 2026.07.03 🟢 NVIDIA Just 'Open-Sourced' Its Own AI Models — A Full Guide to Nemotron 3, With Weights, Data and Recipes NVIDIA has released its own Nemotron 3 AI models as open models — weights, training dat... IT
• 2026.07.03 🏠 Why Seoul's Jeonse Crunch Won't Ease — Record-Low Housing Starts, and the Government's 90,000 'Non-Apartment' Bet Last month Seoul apartment jeonse prices rose the most in 11 years and 1 month. The roo... Real Estate
• 2026.07.02 📈 June Inflation Hits 3.2%, a 2.5-Year High — Fuel and 'Chipflation' Drive Up the Grocery Bill Korea's June CPI rose 3.2% year over year, the highest in 2.5 years. A 24.7% jump in pe... Economy
• 2026.07.02 🏠 Loan Curbs Couldn't Stop It: Seoul Home Prices Rise Across All 25 Districts, and Gangnam Jeonse Tops 800M Won for the First Time In June, Seoul apartment prices rose across all 25 districts and Gangnam jeonse topped ... Real Estate
• 2026.07.01 🤖 LG Electronics Launches CEO-Led Robotics Business Center — A July 1 Bet on 'Physical AI' and the Robot Race LG Electronics set up a CEO-led Robotics Business Center effective July 1. Coming about... IT
• 2026.07.01 💸 Korea's 2027 Minimum Wage: Labor 11,900 vs. Business 10,360 Won — Mid-July Showdown Explained Korea's 2027 minimum wage talks are in the home stretch. In the second revised offers, ... Economy
• 2026.07.01 🏠 [Monthly Review] One Year After the 6·27 Rules: Seoul Home Prices +11.8% — June Housing Recap and the H2 'Supply Cliff' One year into the 6·27 lending rules, Seoul apartment prices rose 11–12%, climbed for a... Real Estate
• 2026.06.30 🚀 800 Trillion Won for Chips, 550 Trillion for AI Data Centers — Korea's 'Three Mega-Projects' Explained On June 29 Korea unveiled 'Three Mega-Projects' — 800 trillion won for southwestern chi... IT
• 2026.06.30 💰 Samsung's 47% and SK's 2,964% Bonuses Rattle Japan — Why 'K-Incentives' Became the Global Pay Standard Samsung's chip division set OPI at 47% and SK hynix at 2,964% of base pay, turning Kore... Economy
• 2026.06.30 📈 Record $87.7B Exports vs First Job Drop in 17 Months — Inside Korea's 'K-Shaped' Recovery May exports hit a record $87.75 billion (+53.2% YoY), yet employment fell for the first... Economy
• 2026.06.29 🏠 Loans Curbed, Prices Climbed — One Year On, Seoul Home Prices Up ~11% as Demand Shifts to Small, Outer Homes One year after the June 27 lending curbs, Seoul apartment prices rose about 11% on the ... Real Estate
• 2026.06.29 💰 Korea's 'Youth Future Savings' Opens to All from the 29th — ₩500k a Month, Plus Up to 12% From the Government Korea's 'Youth Future Savings' account for ages 19–34 opens to all applicants regardles... Economy
• 2026.06.29 📉 Up 100%, Then -9.99% in a Day: KOSPI's H1 2026 Rollercoaster and What to Watch in July In H1 2026 the KOSPI surged roughly 100% year-to-date to a record close of 9,114.55 on ... Economy
• 2026.06.28 💸 Is the 'Cheap AI' Era Ending? — The Inference-Cost Crisis and the Coming Price Normalization Today's cheap AI prices are actually propped up by massive industry losses. OpenAI is p... Economy
• 2026.06.28 🏠 Is 'the Land of Jeonse' Fading? — Monthly Rent Tops Half of Seoul Apartment Leases for the First Time This year, monthly rent (wolse) made up 54.1% of new Seoul apartment leases — topping h... Real Estate
• 2026.06.28 🗓️ [Weekly Review] (Jun 22–28) — 'AI Memory Crunch,' Reaccelerating Inflation, Korea's Shift to Monthly Rent, Plus the Week Ahead Three threads ran through the fourth week of June (Jun 22–28): an AI-driven memory crun... Economy
• 2026.06.27 📱 Samsung Develops Industry-First 'UFS 5.0' — 2× Faster Phone Storage to Speed Up On-Device AI Samsung has developed UFS 5.0, the industry's first mobile storage optimized for on-dev... IT
• 2026.06.27 📈 U.S. Inflation Hits 4.1%, a 3-Year High — A Fed Dove Flips to 'Hike,' and the Rate Clock Runs Backward U.S. PCE inflation rose to 4.1% in May, the highest in about three years. Core PCE jump... Economy
• 2026.06.26 🏛️ 'Live In It, or Pay More' — Korea Kicks Off a Residence-Focused Property Tax Overhaul Korea's government is reworking property taxes around actual residence, spanning acquis... Real Estate
• 2026.06.26 🍎 Apple Hikes Mac & iPad Prices — 'AI Memory Crunch' Pushes Macs Up to 20%, iPads to 25% Apple raised Mac and iPad prices across the board on June 25 (Macs 15–20%, iPads 15–25%... IT
• 2026.06.25 🤖 ChatGPT Falls Below 50% for the First Time — Gemini and Claude Close In on a Multipolar AI Market By Sensor Tower's count, ChatGPT's generative-AI share fell to 46.4% by late May — belo... IT
• 2026.06.25 📊 Sentiment Is Up, but Koreans Now Expect Higher Rates and Home Prices — June Consumer Index at 106.6 Korea's June Composite Consumer Sentiment Index came in at 106.6, above 100 for a secon... Economy
• 2026.06.24 🔥 How Far Can the HBM 'Sold-Out Supercycle' Go — Tonight's Micron Earnings and Korea's Memory Battle Micron reports quarterly earnings after the close on June 24 local time. Here is the me... IT
• 2026.06.24 🏠 Seoul Apartment Prices Keep Rising in June 📈 New Highs in Gangnam Despite Tight Rules, Provinces Flat — A Look at the Widening Divide Per the Korea Real Estate Board's first-week-of-June reading, Seoul apartment prices ro... Real Estate
• 2026.06.23 🏛️ Warsh's First FOMC: A 'Hawkish Hold' — Global Markets Wobble, KOSPI Hits Record 9,000 A clear rundown of Chair Warsh's first FOMC 'hawkish hold,' the higher dot plot, and th... Economy
• 2026.06.23 ⚖️ Korea's AI Basic Act at Five Months: A One-Year Grace Period and What Companies Should Prepare A clear rundown of Korea's AI Basic Act now in force since Jan 22, 2026 — its one-year-... IT
• 2026.06.22 🏠 Seoul Jeonse Rents Hit a One-Year High — A Land-Permit-Driven Rental Crunch Spreads to Southern Gyeonggi With listings drying up after the land-transaction permit rules, Seoul jeonse rents jum... Real Estate
• 2026.06.22 💵 Won Hovers Above 1,500 per Dollar as Foreigners Keep Selling — Korea Market Check, June Korea's June market in brief — a weak won in the 1,500s, foreign net selling, and the b... Economy

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