McDonald’s Son Heung-min Cup Excluded from Korea Due to Advertising Contract Conflict

LIFE

A limited-edition McDonald’s cup featuring the face of South Korean football star Son Heung-min is not being sold in Korea. Once it became known that ...

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U.S. Tightening of China Semiconductor Controls Could Send DRAM Prices Soaring Again

KNOWLEDGE

White House eases restrictions for bargaining, while Congress seeks to tighten them by law — U.S. policy on China is split. If the hardline congressional ...

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[TechKnowledge NOW] iPhone Prices Set to Rise… Tim Cook Says ‘Increase Inevitable’ Due to 4x Memory Costs

KNOWLEDGE

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on the 17th (local time) that “price increases are inevitable,” signaling that ...

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Doubled in Half a Year… KOSPI 9000, Growing Anxiety Behind the Cheers

BUSINESS

The KOSPI has surpassed the 9,000 mark, a threshold the Korean stock market had never reached before. On June 18, the index climbed as high ...

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Government’s ‘Everyone’s Startup’ Exposes 5,000 Participants’ Ideas and Reviews—Where Was the Hole?

BUSINESS

On the 15th, immediately after the profiles were made public, access to non-public information began, and information was pulled by nine domestic IP addresses. Even ...

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Power Crunch Driven by AI Sparks Nuclear U-Turn… $12 Trillion Mega Plant for Yeongdeok

SOCIETY

With the selection of Yeongdeok in Gyeongbuk as a candidate site for a new nuclear power plant confirmed, the nuclear construction project is expected to ...

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Oil prices, interest rates, stocks all on the move… 4 ways the U.S.-Iran signing on the 19th will change South Korea’s economy [Middle East War]

BUSINESS

The world’s oil corridor, which had come to a halt, is preparing to reopen. The United States and Iran are set to sign a memorandum ...

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Foreign Investors Return… 2.7 Trillion Won Bet on Semiconductors in Three Days

BUSINESS

Foreign investors are returning to AI semiconductor stocks that had been undergoing a correction. Over the past three trading days, more than 2.7 trillion won ...

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[Analysis] U.S. Blocks AI Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Even to Allies… Why UK and Canada Demand ‘Exceptions’

SOLUTION

The U.S. government has blocked foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic’s latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, prompting allied countries such as the United ...

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Ministry of SMEs and Startups Recruits Climate Tech Startups… 140 Million Won per Project

ENVIRONMENT

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced that it will recruit startups to participate in the open innovation program “Everyone’s Challenge Climate Tech” from June ...

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[AI Knowledge Encyclopedia] Open Source Becomes the Foundation of AI Innovation

KNOWLEDGE

Open Source refers to a development method in which the source code, the blueprint of software, is made available so that anyone can use and ...

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Samsung Wins First Order for Musk’s Neuralink Brain Implant Chip

BUSINESS

Samsung Electronics’ foundry division has begun developing Neuralink’s fourth-generation brain implant chip since late last year based on a 4-nanometer process. Test chips are expected ...

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