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World's Hottest Stock Market Is Crushing Wall Street—And It's Not What You'd Expect

A historic rally has put South Korea at the center of the global equity spotlight in 2025, with its benchmark index crushing Wall Street returns—but that same blistering pace is now prompting regulatory intervention.

Benzinga

Meet Tom Hur, the Pistons Superfan From Korea Who Endeared Himself to the Heart of Detroit

Detroit Pistons superfan Tom Hur traveled from Korea to watch his favorite team’s first three home games of the season and took in all the city has to offer along the way.

Sports Illustrated

“World’s Smartest Man” From South Korea Brutally Mocked For Seeking US Asylum Over “Dumb” Reasons

“The ICE members are waiting for you to lock you up in prison and then deport…”

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Stellar Blade studio swears it wasn't doing anti-small-penis 'hate speech' in art that had men in a tizz, and promises it won't ever 'tolerate' it in future

Targeting potential "crab hand" gestures has caught out several companies in South Korea.

PC Gamer

Kim Jong Un is ‘willing to engage’ with Trump and could seek summit soon, South Korea says

The Independent UK

Hegseth praises South Korea's plans to raise its military spending and boost defense capabilities

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has praised South Korea’s plans to raise its military spending, saying the Asian ally will take a larger role in defending itself from North Korean threats

The Independent UK

North Korea’s ex-ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam dies at 97, state media says

Kim Yong-nam was the former president of the Praesidium of North Korea’s rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly from 1998 to 2019.

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South Korean president calls for aggressive AI spending in budget speech

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for tripling government spending artificial intelligence infrastructure and technology in a budget speech to the legislature

The Independent UK

The same ASRock B850 motherboard kills three Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs worth $1,000 one by one in South Korea — victim used updated BIOS and never overclocked, but still lost all their processors

On QuasarZone, a South Korean forum, the user described how one ASRock B850 Pro RS killed off three different Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs one by one, despite the motherboard being deemed healthy prior.

Tom’s Hardware

Hegseth visits inter-Korean border ahead of security talks with South Korean officials

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has visited the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea

The Independent UK

Xi Jinping cracks joke about spying with phones given to South Korean president

Chinese leader says ‘check if there is a backdoor’ in reply to Lee Jae Myung’s quip about security of Xiaomi devices

The Guardian - UK

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner to play exhibition eight days before Australian Open

Alcaraz and Sinner will meet in the Hyundai Card Super Match in South Korea just weeks before potentially playing for the Australian Open title

The Independent UK

South Korea’s tattooists win legal recognition but their fight isn’t over

After 33 years underground, tattoo artists celebrate a landmark law as prosecutions continue

The Guardian - AU

"The virtuous cycle of AI has arrived" — NVIDIA's CEO believes AI can address $100 trillion of the world's industries as the market accelerates

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote speech at the APEC CEO summit in South Korea on Friday, in which he explained that the AI boom will likely only accelerate now that the industry has reached a tipping point that he calls a "virtuous cycle."

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The Independent UK

South Korea calls for greater Chinese efforts to bring North Korea back to talks

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to make greater efforts to convince North Korea to return to talks, as the two leaders agreed a set of steps to boost their economic and other ties

The Independent UK

‘King of K-pop’ Lee Soo Man on his career, a global industry and what’s next

Lee Soo Man spent three decades trying to bring K-pop into the global market, often bending but never breaking his vision

The Guardian - AU

Xi Jinping’s moment and whirlwind diplomatic tours: key takeaways from the Apec summit in South Korea

With Trump electing to fly back to Washington on the eve of the main summit, what did Apec’s remaining leaders achieve in his absence?

Fortune

Three billionaires dropped by a fried-chicken joint—and Jensen Huang bought everyone dinner

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang sparked a Korean-fried-chicken stock surge after a viral dinner in Seoul.

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The Independent UK

Xi and Carney, meeting in South Korea, try to rebuild China-Canada relations

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have taken steps to mend their countries' fractured ties

Android Central

Not launching its Trifold phone in the US is the smart move by Samsung

Samsung's Galaxy Trifold is going to be expensive and have at least a few issues. South Korea will be far more accepting of them.

PC Gamer

The US government announces strategic 'prosperity deals' with Japan and South Korea to 'drive breakthroughs' in AI, quantum computing, and more

This matches a similar deal made with the UK earlier this year.

Benzinga

Nvidia To Supply Over 260,000 AI Chips To South Korean Government, Samsung, Hyundai, SK Group

Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) has announced a deal to supply more than 260,000 of its cutting-edge AI chips to the South Korean government and some of the country’s major corporations.

The Guardian - UK

What – if anything – did Asian countries get out of Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour?

Uncertainty surrounds the signing of this week’s trade deals amid the failure to secure reciprocity from the US to cut tariffs

Marie Claire

Inside the Beauty Pilgrimage to Seoul—Do South Korea’s Skincare Treatments Really Outshine the Rest of the World?

Over 1.2 million people visited Seoul for medical tourism last year

The Independent UK

Nvidia partners with South Korean government, companies to boost AI development

Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia plans to supply its graphics processing units for projects with the South Korean businesses and government to advance the country’s artificial intelligence infrastructure and technologies

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