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South Korean online travel platform Myrealtrip aims to hit a $1B valuation in a Seoul IPO as early as H2 2027, per CEO Donggun Lee, amid a boom in tourism (Jihye Lee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

D‘Szene isch Talstraass - wo Davos am schönsten ist. Aber was macht man nicht alles, zm Vissel Kobe - Seoul schauen zu können.
#Davos #kebab

South Korean giant Coupang is lobbying the US to represent its interests as it faces 10 data leak probes; Coupang Korea CEO Harold Rogers attended Trump's SOTU (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/04e5603e-e87c-4035-90a5-03c3d1da3a2e

Is South Korea’s dominant online retailer an American company?
Coupang leans on its US domicile to lobby Washington against probes from Seoul over massive data leak

Russian Embassy in Seoul removes ‘Victory will be ours’ banner, moves Defender of the Fatherland Day event indoors after government pressure: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/25/russian-embassy-in-seoul-removes.html

Seoul plans to integrate AI chatbot Maeumi into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support before a human counselor connects (Choi Jeong-yoon/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10667846

Seoul unveils new suicide-prevention measures amid persistent deaths - The Korea Herald
Seoul is confronting persistent suicide pressures, even as its rate remains the lowest in the country, prompting the city to expand both human and artificial in

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-23/business/tech/Compl…

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
U.S. investors in Coupang sought intervention in the Korean government's probe of the e-commerce giant over a data leak, potentially escalating the domestic investigation into an international trade conflict.

A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed "RNGD" is slated to enter mass production this month (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/furiosa-chip-n…

Korea is intense in its reaction to the Coupang breach.
Coupang CEO Harold Rogers appeared before the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency as a suspect in a criminal investigation into whether the e-commerce company obstructed a government probe through an internal review of a large-scale data breach.
https://m.koreaherald.co…

Coupang CEO questioned in first police appearance over data breach - The Korea Herald
Coupang CEO Harold Rogers appeared before police Friday as a suspect in an investigation into whether the e-commerce company obstructed a government probe throu

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)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/10/a16z-cryp…

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.

Sources: Nvidia has allocated ~70% of its 2026 HBM4 demand to SK hynix; Counterpoint estimates SK hynix will account for 54% of the global HBM4 market in 2026 (Kang Yoon-seung/Yonhap News Agency)
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260128002800320