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MSCI maintained South Korea's classification as an emerging market, declining to add the country to its Developed Market Index watchlist. The decision came despite South Korea ranking as the world's 13th largest economy with a GDP of $1.7 trillion. MSCI cited persistent foreign exchange market

Chinese public security officers published a technical paper on the 4th of last month detailing cryptocurrency tracking and seizure methods. Authors Sun Shengbin from Wenzhou Public Security Bureau and Lou Yandi from Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department documented investigative

ZachXBT publicly corrected Ethereum's official X account, stating that Proton accepts only Bitcoin for subscription payments, not Ethereum. The pseudonymous blockchain investigator replied directly to Ethereum's post, attaching a screenshot and writing that Proton does not currently accept Ethereum

Naver unveiled a new AI model on the 2nd that incorporates real-life information from mom cafe posts and restaurant reviews to improve answer accuracy. The model was introduced during a session titled 'From Search to Execution: Next-Generation AI Technology Creating Naver AI Search' held at Naver

OpenStandard, a global stablecoin consortium of over 140 companies, announced the launch of OpenUSD (OUSD), a dollar-pegged stablecoin, on April 30 (local time), with plans to release it within this year. The consortium model challenges the existing duopoly of Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC by

Lemon Healthcare lists on the KOSDAQ market on July 6, while Remedy refunds subscription deposits on the same date ahead of its July 13 listing. HLgenomics continues demand forecasting through July 8 following an amended prospectus filed on July 2. Lemon Healthcare's retail subscription

Shinhan Securities and GS Entech are conducting demand forecasting sessions for corporate bond issuance, with Shinhan Securities scheduled for July 7 and GS Entech for July 8. Shinhan Securities plans to raise up to 5000 billion won while GS Entech seeks 350 billion won in funding. The bond issuance

The South Korean government and Korea Exchange announced on the 4th an acceleration of KOSDAQ market reform centered on strengthening the delisting of underperforming companies and selecting a premium tier of high-quality firms. The initiative aims to revitalize the KOSDAQ market, which has faced ch

South Korea's economy exhibited deepening K-shaped polarization in May, with diverging trends across retail sales and employment sectors. Department store sales surged 16.7% year-over-year in May while large mart sales plummeted 8.7%, according to data from the Korea Statistics Portal (KOSIS). The w

Kraken has launched a feature allowing eligible clients outside the United States to use select tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds as collateral for futures and margin trading. The exchange now accepts tokenized securities including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Strategy, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, and t

President Trump's accounts purchased up to $12.8 million in stocks on April 8, 2025, including shares of Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft, according to a 927-page financial disclosure filed this week with the Office of Government Ethics and first reported by NBC News. The S&P 500 closed 9.5% higher on A

LX International disclosed detailed climate scenario analysis results through its sustainability report on the 5th, quantifying potential carbon costs under different regulatory environments. The global resources and infrastructure company projected carbon emission trading costs could reach up to 53

Financial Supervisory Service completed its disciplinary review of MBK Partners on May 2 and decided on heavy penalties including job suspension, according to financial investment industry sources on the 5th. The decision maintains the stance from the November notification and comes after two

Korean entertainment stocks declined 40-50% over the past 4 months, with HYBE falling 50.43%, YG Entertainment down 43.72%, SM down 38.07%, and JYP Entertainment down 26.36%, according to Korea Exchange data. Securities firms attribute the decline to investment capital shifting toward AI-related sto

Kolmar Korea, a cosmetics ODM (original design manufacturing) specialist, saw its stock price surge over 31% during the week of June 26 to July 2, bringing year-to-date gains to approximately 38%. Securities firms forecast the company will deliver an earnings surprise in Q2 2025, driven by

South Korea's initial public offering market contracted sharply in the first half of 2026, with fundraising falling 49% year-over-year to 1.1327 trillion won as just 17 companies went public compared to 38 in the same period of 2025, according to KB Securities data released July 5. The decline

South Korean oil refiners face a sharp earnings decline in Q2 2026 as crude prices collapsed following a Middle East war-driven spike, with some companies turning to losses from late May. S-Oil's Q2 operating profit consensus stands at 1.0966

Samsung Electronics is set to release Q2 preliminary earnings on July 7, as KOSPI volatility intensifies amid renewed semiconductor demand concerns. According to Yonhap Infomax data as of July 3, the analyst consensus for Samsung Electronics' Q2 consolidated operating profit stands at 84.5807

Claude Fable 5 returned online July 1, and two AI benchmarking platforms published conflicting performance assessments the same day. BridgeBench reported Claude Fable 5's debugging score collapsed from 86.2 to 25.9 after reinstatement, while Arena.AI found performance largely unchanged through

Samsung Electro-Mechanics topped South Korea's KOSPI stocks with a 756.47% gain from the beginning of the year to June 30, rising from 270,000 won to 2,184,000 won, according to Yonhap Infomax. The surge was driven by strong demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) used in AI servers.