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Korea Development Bank

Korea Development Bank is a state-owned South Korean policy bank that finances industrial development, corporate restructuring, and infrastructure projects.

Known aliases

  • KDB

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

Naver's $10 billion Sejong build tests whether Korean lenders will hold GPU risk

Naver and Brookfield are negotiating up to $9 billion of financing for a $10 billion expansion of Naver's Sejong AI data center to 200 megawatts. Korean banks weighing a share have to judge what about 100,000 Nvidia GPUs will be worth years into a loan.

Publishers:koreaherald.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence45
investConfirmed3 publishers

KDB puts its 'Assassin(s)' film investment on the fund manager it backs

Korea Development Bank said the fund manager it backs chose to put 400 million won into 'Assassin(s)', while IBK defended its direct 2 billion won stake. About 93% of the 30.65 billion won a lawmaker questioned moved through bank-backed funds, the layer where KDB says it cannot take part.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 5%
Operator
Operator 55%
Investor
Investor 40%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

Korea's transport committee calls BYD and Tesla Korea chiefs to testify on service and FSD safety

South Korea's parliamentary transport committee called BYD Korea's head, its passenger-car chief and Tesla Korea's head to testify at its audit on Oct. 15. Both carmakers' Korean operations go on the record, and any further cost depends on what lawmakers do next.

Publishers:en.sedaily.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

Korea counts 62.4 trillion won of loan extensions inside its 102.6 trillion won Chuseok package

The Financial Services Commission's holiday tally for small firms comes to 102.6 trillion won, and 62.4 trillion of it extends maturities on loans already outstanding, leaving roughly 40.2 trillion won of new credit.

Publishers:en.sedaily.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives72
Confidence52
productOne report1 publisher

Liner's $36.1M bet is that the footnote, not the model, is the enterprise product

The Series C funds a retrieval and citation layer rather than a model. A Saudi government-backed deployment is the only enterprise proof on offer, and Liner supplied most of the rest.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption36
Hype gap+32
Incentives74
Confidence41
investOne report1 publisher

Regulators head for Sejong, and the access bill lands on the firms they supervise

The FSC relocation plan reaches Cabinet this week. The agency trades address for institutional survival, while supervised firms in the capital region absorb the access cost on an unpublished timeline.

Publishers:en.sedaily.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption16
Hype gap+14
Incentives74
Confidence38
investOne report1 publisher

The FSS relocation plan's real bill: 85.6% of staff would consider quitting

A union survey of 1,538 employees puts outright intent to leave at 69.7%, and 92.5% among under-40s. The firms the watchdog inspects would face a thinner bench for years.

Publishers:en.sedaily.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption22
Hype gap+32
Incentives76
Confidence44