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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-30 16:30:40

South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; the country has a population of 51.7M (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-28 13:06:29

The Lazarus group stands accused of stealing approximately 45 billion won ($30.6 million) from Upbit, South Korea's largest cryptocurrency platform.
en.yenisafak.com/world/north-k

North Korea's Lazarus hackers steal $30 million from South Korean exchange
North Korea's Lazarus hacking group is suspected of stealing approximately $30.6 million in cryptocurrency from South Korea's largest digital asset exchange, Upbit.

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-01 20:03:43

Officials accuse North Korea’s Lazarus of $30 million theft from crypto exchange therecord.media/officials-accu

Officials accuse North Korea’s Lazarus of $30 million theft from crypto exchange
Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday that South Korean government officials are involved in the investigation surrounding $30 million worth of cryptocurrency that was stolen from Upbit on Wednesday evening.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-01 08:36:07

Nvidia says it will supply 260K of its most advanced AI chips to the South Korean government and major companies, including Samsung, Naver, and SK Group (Reuters)
reuters.com/business/media-tel

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-25 20:57:27

North Korea on Thursday displayed apparent progress in the construction of a
nuclear-powered submarine,
with state media photos showing a largely completed hull,
as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited a shipyard to inspect the construction of what the North describes as
an 8,700-ton-class nuclear-propelled submarine,
which the leader has called a…

North Korea shows progress on nuclear-powered submarine
North Korea displayed apparent progress in the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine, with state media photos showing a largely completed hull as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Thursday said Kim had visited a shipyard to inspect the construction of what the North describes as an 8,700-ton-class nuclear-propelled submarine, which he has previously called a crucial step in the moderniz…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-21 20:00:49

"South Korea sets 3.5 million heat pump target in national decarbonization push"
#SouthKorea #Energy #HeatPumps

South Korea sets 3.5 million heat pump target in national decarbonization push
The South Korean government says it will deploy incentives, legal changes and industry backing to scale heat pump adoption nationwide, aiming to cut emissions from fossil fuel–dependent heating by the mid-2030s.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-30 02:40:29

Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% gain in South Korea's Kospi, the world's best-performing major stock index in 2025 (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-29 12:05:15

North Korean hacking group Lazarus is suspected to be behind a breach of around 45 billion won ($30.6m) in cryptocurrency from South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit. The group was suspected of stealing 58 billion won ($40m) worth of Ethereum from Upbit in 2019.
en.yna.co.kr/view/A…

(LEAD) N. Korean hacking group Lazarus suspected behind recent crypto hacking: sources
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korean hacking group Lazarus is suspected to be...

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-18 12:45:50

Disney and CJ ENM's Tving partner to offer bundles that combine access to Disney , Tving, and South Korean streamer Wavve at discounted rates in South Korea (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney+ and CJ ENM’s TVING Launch Landmark Streaming Partnership in Korea
The new collaboration — Disney’s first with a local OTT service in Korea — follows the company’s recent deal bringing TVING dramas to Disney+ in Japan.

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-25 18:13:14

North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine ask to be sent to South Korea: benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/north

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-22 17:53:25

South Korea to require facial recognition for new mobile numbers therecord.media/south-korea-fa

South Korea to require facial recognition for new mobile numbers
South Korea will begin requiring facial recognition when signing up for a new mobile phone number in a bid to fight scams, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-16 19:00:39

"New uses for everyday spaces: South Korea turns parking lots into solar power hubs"
#SouthKorea #SolarPower #Energy

New uses for everyday spaces: South Korea turns parking lots into solar power hubs | The Optimist Daily
South Korea will require large parking lots to install solar canopies, expanding renewable energy while offering everyday benefits to drivers.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-21 06:11:43

Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its "Facepay" service to 1M users (Nami Matsuura/Nikkei Asia)
asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Facial recognition payments grow in South Korea as tech improves
AI and 3D photography help increase accuracy, spot fakes

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-12-24 17:59:16

It’s apparent to anyone with a bit of education in technological history that this sort of thing must be possible. We have waste streams with higher concentrations of key elements than the "ore" we derive them from.
This is part of why I religiously recycle plastics even though right now they don’t really get recycled. At some point, the piles of unrecycled plastics will be a better raw material for new plastics than the dregs of petroleum we have left.

Jeff Spencer (@revjss@sfba.social)
Good news you might have missed: Researchers in South Korea have developed a new eco-friendly recycling process that recovers more than 95 percent of nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries with almost perfect purity. https://interestingengineering.com/energy/recycling-nickel-cobalt-ev-batteries

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-08 19:30:47

Congress moves to block Pentagon from cutting US troops in Europe and South Korea (Morgan Phillips/Fox News)
foxnews.com/politics/congress-
memeorandum.com/251208/p97#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 10:07:20

Naver agrees to acquire Dunamu, which runs South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in a $10.3B all-stock deal; Upbit has 80% market share in South Korea (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-01-22 22:59:25

🔋 LG Energy Solution To Sell Ohio Battery  Facility To Honda For $2.85 Billion
oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-New

LG Energy Solution To Sell Ohio Battery Facility To Honda For $2.85 Billion
South Korea's LG Energy Solution has agreed to sell the building and fixed-asset components of its Ohio electric vehicle battery plant to Honda Development and Manufacturing of America

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-24 23:53:19

Chinese leader Xi Jinping,
who told Trump that Taiwan's "return to China" is a key part of Beijing's vision for the world order.
The call between Trump and Xi came weeks after the two leaders met in South Korea, where they agreed to a "framework" for a trade deal that has yet to be finalized

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-16 17:01:21

Samsung, SK Group, and others announce billions in domestic investment after US-South Korea trade deal; Samsung plans to invest $310B and SK Group pledged $88B (Kim Tong-Hyung/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/south-korea

Samsung Electronics leads new domestic investment plans in South Korea
Samsung Electronics and other major South Korean companies have announced new domestic investment plans. This comes after a meeting with President Lee Jae Myung, who hopes to counter concerns about prioritizing U.S. investments under a recent trade deal. Samsung plans to invest $310 billion over five years to expand domestic operations, including a new production line at its Pyeongtaek hub. Hyundai Motor Group also plans to invest $86.3 billion from 2026 to 2030 in research and development. SK …

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-12-21 16:31:00

Big milestone for Australia's energy transition: Hanwha Energy just got approval for a massive 100 MW battery in southeast Queensland.
This isn't just storage—it'll capture surplus solar, power 15,000 homes during peak demand, and provide critical grid stability services.
A major step toward a more resilient, renewable-powered grid.

Korean company secures grid connection approval for its first big battery in Australia
A two-hour, 100 megawatt battery energy storage system has received approval to connect to the south-east Queensland grid and help stabilise it.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-10 09:12:33

fortune.com/2025/12/10/coupang
Wow
Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach

Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach
Nearly two-thirds of people in the country were affected by the breach, which granted unauthorized access to their shipping addresses and phone numbers.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-29 01:31:00

SK Hynix announces a new US-based "AI Company" from a restructuring of its California-based subsidiary Solidigm, and commits at least $10B to the new entity (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/01/28/sk-hynix-a

South Korea's SK Hynix to establish a special ‘AI Company’ in the U.S.
SK Hynix will set up a new U.S.-based company focused on artificial intelligence solutions, with $10 billion committed to the project.

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-12-19 13:37:20

Good Morning #Canada
The month of December will typical put a dent in your paycheck, or January if you're using your credit cards, so it's tough to save any money. Canadians rank 21st worldwide with regards to how much of our salary we put into a savings account. According to World Population Review, we put away approximately 7% of our paycheck for a #RainyDay, far behind South Korea at 35%. I'm retired and therefore not a saver at this point, but even during my most successful earnings period I can't imagine I would have been able to put away a third of my salary.
I suspect the savings percentage is driven by a small group of high wage earners as individual Canadian debt has increased. According to Equifax, total consumer debt in Canada reached $2.56 trillion at the end of 2024, a 4.6 per cent increase over 2023.
#CanadaIsAwesome
equifax.ca/business/blog/all-n

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-25 11:25:46

South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

‘Sovereign AI’ Takes Off as Countries Seek to Avoid Overreliance on Superpowers
South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their AI capabilities

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-01-07 16:00:25

"South Korea to stop breeding bears to extract their bile - but hundreds are still trapped in pens"
#SouthKorea #Bears #Animals

South Korea vows to stop breeding bears to extract their bile
South Korea officials have confirmed that the controversial bear bile farming industry will come to an end as part of an animal welfare drive.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-04 17:55:27

North Korea fires ballistic missiles as South Korean president visits China (Cassandra Buchman/Straight Arrow News)
san.com/cc/north-korea-fires-b
memeorandum.com/260104/p33#a26

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-12-05 10:10:41

*waves* at @ukmcg.bsky.social #MuseTech25 folk from #FF2025 - it'd be lovely to see more museum presentations at #FF2026 - and the

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-29 11:25:40

Coupang says it is offering $1B in compensation to all 33.7M customers affected by South Korea's biggest-ever data breach, after an ex-staffer accessed data (Shinhye Kang/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-18 12:18:51

South Korea’s government is mobilizing an all-hands response to a data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang. The CEO was forced to resign and might face charges.
When has any US company or CEO been held to this level of accountability for a breach?
koreaherald.com/article/106393

Korea launches government-wide probe into Coupang data breach - The Korea Herald
South Korea’s government is mobilizing an all-hands response to a data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang affecting more than 33 million users, establishing an

@randy_@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-10 14:47:08

Two years ago, I was in South Korea—definitely the highlight of that year. The food was amazing, the winter vibes were perfect, and everything was so affordable.
But for a long time, I’d had Japan on my list. I’ve been checking plane tickets now and then, only to watch the prices climb higher by the minute. Even though flying to Tokyo is just an hour or two longer than flying to Seoul, it’s nearly twice as expensive. So, I decided to go back to South Korea instead.
This time, I’l…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-13 15:48:27

Suspected ransomware attack threatens one of South Korea’s largest companies therecord.media/kyowon-group-s

Suspected ransomware attack threatens one of South Korea’s largest companies
Kyowon Group, a conglomerate owned by one of South Korea's richest people, is the latest company there to report suspicious cyber activity to authorities.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-17 19:45:39

Pinkfong prices its South Korea IPO at ~$26 per share, valuing the company behind Baby Shark Dance, YouTube's most-watched video with 16.4B views, at ~$375M (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/the-worlds-most-w

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-11 04:47:41

U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history

The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program,
including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea
washingtonpost.com/immigration

U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history
The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program, including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-28 09:31:05

SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $23B, above ~$22.4B est., and operating profit up 137% YoY to $13.3B, both company records, driven by AI HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/01/28/sk-hynix-s

SK Hynix smashes earnings estimates as AI memory demand drives record profit
South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, to beat estimates.

@life_is@no-pony.farm
2025-11-17 04:41:14
Das könnte in #Deutschland nicht passieren, so viele Daten hat die @Bundesregierung@social.bund.de gar nicht.

858 Terabyte Daten verloren und kein Backup (Bilder im Artikel sind gegrokt, aber die Meldung ist echt)
@…

@Life_is@no-pony.farm
2025-11-17 04:41:14
Das könnte in #Deutschland nicht passieren, so viele Daten hat die @Bundesregierung@social.bund.de gar nicht.

858 Terabyte Daten verloren und kein Backup (Bilder im Artikel sind gegrokt, aber die Meldung ist echt)
@…

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-02 12:45:02

nytimes.com/2025/11/02/world/a
“You can check if there’s a backdoor.” What a knee slapper.
That Time When China’s Leader Joked About Espionage

That Time Xi Jinping Joked About Espionage
Xi Jinping gave two cellphones to South Korea’s president, who asked how secure they were. “You can check if there’s a backdoor,” he said with a laugh.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 10:25:41

South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens (Kyu-Seok Shim/Reuters)
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific<…

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-10 10:43:50

This might qualify as a "sophisticated" cyberattack, no?
North Korean state-sponsored hackers hijacked Google accounts to remotely control and wipe smartphones and tablets held by individuals in South Korea, then exploited their KakaoTalk messenger as a channel to spread malware to their contacts

North Korean hackers hijack Google, KakaoTalk accounts to control South Korean phones: Report
The attack marks the first confirmed case of a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group compromising Google accounts. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-23 10:01:30

Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been raising pay and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (June Yoon/Financial Times)
on.ft.com/3K5zVj1

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 13:40:50

South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one person made ~$12K (John Yoon/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/02/world/a

120,000 Home Cameras Were Hacked for Sexual Videos, South Korean Police Say
The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country’s effort to stop exploitative recordings

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 08:55:39

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/features/20

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-10 08:05:49

koreaherald.com/article/106128
NK hackers hijack Google, KakaoTalk accounts to control phones: report

NK hackers hijack Google, KakaoTalk accounts to control phones: report - The Korea Herald
North Korean state-sponsored hackers hijacked Google accounts to remotely control and wipe smartphones and tablets held by individuals in South Korea, then expl

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-24 06:05:49

Over the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations (Politico)
politico.com/news/2025/12/23/t

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-19 10:06:02

Sources: South Korean antitrust officials visited Arm's Seoul offices as part of ongoing scrutiny of its licensing practices, following Qualcomm's complaint (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-02 16:33:36

At 1:09 a.m. EDT on November 2,
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, carrying Haven Demo and 17 other satellites,
including ones that will be operated by South Korea's Agency for Defense Development (ADD),
the Berlin-based company Exolaunch,
Turkey's Fergani Space,
and U.S. weather-forecasting outfit Tomorrow Companies,
and Starcloud, which carried an NVIDIA H100 AI chip to see if it’s possible to build an artificial intelligence-…

Elon Musk Launches Satellite To Test Systems For Private Space Station
SpaceX launched 18 satellites, including Haven Demo, a key test for the world's first private space station.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 09:45:08

South Korea's Kospi stock index breaks through the record 5,000 level, driven by chip stocks, led by Samsung, up ~3X, and SK Hynix, up ~4x, in the past year (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/238f5fd4-e8f6-4

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-12 04:30:55

South Korea's KT Corp. launches a sovereign cloud for Korean enterprises built on Azure, with encrypted in-memory computing and strict local data governance (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)
koreaherald.com/article/106144

KT rolls out sovereign public cloud with Microsoft - The Korea Herald
KT Corp. on Wednesday announced the launch of its public cloud service, developed in partnership with Microsoft, in a strategic bid to bolster its foothold in K

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-13 01:25:43

SK Hynix will invest ~$12.9B to build an advanced chip packaging plant in South Korea to meet rising memory chip demand, targeting completion by the end of 2027 (Reuters)
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 06:35:41

Trade data shows South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5% YoY to a record $17.26B in November, driven by strong data center demand and higher memory prices (Reuters)
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-11 11:51:30

An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/a-…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-11 07:26:02

VC fund a16z crypto says it is expanding to Asia and opening an office in Seoul, calling South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/business/2025/12/

Andreessen Horowitz Crypto Unit to Expand Into Asia With South Korea Office
The crypto VC says it's opening its first Asia-based office in Seoul.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 10:15:39

South Korea dropped Naver's and NCSoft's teams from its competition to develop its first sovereign AI model, as LG's, SK Telecom's, and Upstage's teams advanced (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-10 06:15:59

Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M people was compromised (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-14 09:55:53

In South Korea's competition to develop an indigenous AI model, three of the five finalists used foreign open-source code, which they argue is practical (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-07 06:51:03

South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists (Reuters)
reuters.com/business/media-tel

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-09 05:41:06

Swedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake (Atharva Singh/Reuters)
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-09 11:01:52

South Korean media: police raided Coupang's HQ, searching for evidence related to a historic data breach that compromised 30M people's personal information (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-14 01:45:44

OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space (OpenAI)
openai.com/index/group-chats-i

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-03 11:10:40

Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors when presenting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung with Xiaomi smartphones at APEC, amid US concerns about Huawei (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 01:40:52

Samsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale in South Korea on December 12 for ~$2,440, in China this year, and in the US as early as Q1 2026 (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
reuters.com/business/media-tel

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-02 03:40:51

Oxford Economics: the AI boom is lifting global trade, with ~60% of US data center capex spent on imported IT gear, mainly from Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
reuters.com/legal/transactiona