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EU leaders asked the Commission on Oct. 15 to draft a tool that could block Chinese goods from the bloc entirely by year-end, Bloomberg reported. The sector safeguards for chemicals, machinery and wind turbines are still at the statistics stage.
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Samsung wants Qualcomm to fix chip overheating by mid-October or may use Exynos in the Galaxy S27 Ultra, Seoul Economic Daily reported. Samsung's mobile processor spending hit 13.8272 trillion won last year, though the Ultra's share is not public.
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Tokyo's metropolitan government and 23 wards are planning public crematoriums in the city center after annual deaths rose 67.4% between 2000 and 2024. The city's estimate puts demand at 104.5% of capacity in January 2050, Seoul Economic Daily reported.
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Japan's government has settled on leaving a 3.5%-of-GDP defense target out of its security documents, the Asahi Shimbun reported. Reaching it would add roughly 9 trillion yen or more a year to a budget of about 11 trillion.
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Korean savings banks cut delinquency to 6.04% from 8.52% largely by selling bad PF loans to funds, Seoul Economic Daily reported. Their fund certificates have more than doubled to 7.8 trillion won, so part of the loss risk stays with them.
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Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy lists 69.1 trillion won of 10-year treasury bonds, sold at about 1.6%, that mature in 2029 and 2030. Officials call the immediate cost manageable, but next year's 96.3 trillion won of net new issuance adds debt that costs more than the old paper did.
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Korea Exchange activated a buy-side sidecar on KOSDAQ at 12:55 p.m. Friday as the index rose 5.27% to 800.90, a day after closing down 7.65%. That recovers about 64% of the point loss; the reports do not include turnover data to test the liquidity case.
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Jeonnam-Gwangju, merged on July 1, plans three zones for chips, materials and renewable power to cut reliance on the capital region. Neither national designation it cites so far covers semiconductors.
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South Korea's Kospi fell to about 5,550 on Oct. 15 after US inflation came in hotter than expected. Euronews put the day's drop at 7.7%; Seoul Economic Daily counts a seventh straight loss and 55 trillion won of chipmaker buybacks now wound down.
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Flagship Companies, developer of the $2.5 billion Utah City in Vineyard, has approached large Korean builders for EPC work and investment. Vineyard sets no height or density cap beside its rail station, but buildings were about 4% of Korean overseas orders last year.
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Hampyeong County and a national livestock division agreed a fast track that cuts 18 months from moving Cheonan's breeding station. Seoul Economic Daily's report applies the 18 months to the industrial complex too, though the only dated schedule in it is the relocation's, finishing in the first half of 2030.
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CNN reports the US military has drawn up options for new Iran strikes on nuclear and energy sites, including use of the 9.8-ton MOAB. The plans are contingencies sourced to unnamed people, so the energy-supply risk they imply has no date attached.
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Trump said on Truth Social that South Korea's $50 billion investment in Alaska LNG is part of its trade deal. The Korea Herald reported that Seoul says no final investment decision has been made. Investors should treat the $50 billion as unconfirmed until one is.
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Korea's chamber of commerce sent the reform task force 75 company proposals on the 15th, with offshore wind occupancy fees the most prominent. Ulsan firms say fees tied to nearby land prices differ by more than several dozen times.
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Korea Exchange activated a sell-side sidecar on the KOSPI on Oct. 15 as the index fell about 5%. Seoul Economic Daily reported it was the second trigger in two days, after one on the 13th.
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Korea's tax on domestically produced alcohol fell 4.5% to 2.4352 trillion won in 2025, a six-year low, National Tax Service data show. Beer and diluted soju explain nearly all of the two-year drop, but four years of falling retail sales cloud the youth-drinking story.
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Nikkei reporters paid 104,000 yen for two nights in a Minato Ward condo missing from the ward's rental list. In the account Seoul Economic Daily relayed, the registered owner and the man paid contradict each other, and Shinjuku's planned ban is drawn by zone.
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Lexus Korea launched the eighth-generation ES on Oct. 13 with its first electric version, the ES 350e, starting at 71.6 million won. It priced the 350e Premium 1.3 million won under the matching hybrid, Seoul Economic Daily reported.
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Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song said on Oct 13 that policy stays restrictive until inflation is confidently converging on the 2% target. That makes easing a distant prospect for Korean borrowers and for investors in Korean assets.
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Korea's interior ministry plans to move 44 agencies and 9,929 officials to Sejong between 2027 and 2031 at a cost of about 3.2 trillion won. The Assembly's Sejong chamber is targeted for 2033, so ministries may keep shuttling to Seoul.
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