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Newest story built on koreatimes.co.kr reporting: South Korea's capital-region housing starts are headed for 81% to 88% of this year's target (October 16, 2026). koreatimes.co.kr reporting informs the Leadership and Invest desks, most often on Semiconductor Export Controls, 4F² DRAM cell architecture, and Agentic penetration testing. 11 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from August 28, 2026.
South Korea's government projects 218,000 to 235,000 capital-region housing starts this year against a 268,000-unit target. Officials ruled out new lending curbs and put any extension of land transaction permit zones off to year-end.
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Korea's KOSPI fell more than 8% on Thursday, enough to halt trading for 20 minutes, after US September CPI came in at 3.7%. The print landed on a chip sector already sliding, and the clearest sign of costlier financing sits in AI borrowers' bonds.
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CXMT, China's largest DRAM maker, says it will launch a server DDR5 RDIMM built on a 4F² cell by year-end, a design that cuts cell area about 33%. On announced dates sedaily counts it two years ahead of Samsung, though a product launch and volume production are different milestones.
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Samsung Electronics estimated third-quarter operating profit at a record 107.4 trillion won, up 782.5% from a year earlier. Its operating margin went from about 14% to roughly 55% over the year, and buyers of AI hardware are paying for that gain while memory supply trails demand.
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CrowdStrike tied AI-assisted South Korean bank attacks, run on an open-source pentest tool and DeepSeek, to a possible 26-year-old suspect in Guangdong. The reported breaches involved systems banks run for brokers and staff, so the exposure to manage sits at the bank's edge, whoever the attacker proves to be.
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Koreans buying yen are paying the least in about 18 years, as 100 yen fell into the mid-800s of won this week from about 950 in early summer. Most of the drop is the won's chip-export rally against the dollar, Korea Times figures show, so the saving depends on that boom lasting.
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Donald Trump and top US AI chiefs signed a voluntary pact with four layers of safety controls, none involving a government regulator. Any accountability a buyer can enforce still has to come from its own contracts and testing.
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Sensors and screens ride on the face at about 100 grams while the compute clips to a pocket. Meta says the display is good for reading text, and it will sell the glasses for $1,300 in spring 2027.
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Samsung Group is committing $1 billion from six affiliates to Helix, the AI infrastructure firm led by former AWS chief Adam Selipsky. Anyone who later contracts with Helix will deal with a builder whose owners also supply its power and technology.
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Three consortia will run a free tier with no usage caps on state-supplied hardware, under a rule that Korean models carry at least half the load. The ministry has published neither the cost nor a target for uptake.
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Sunday's talks in New York put an AI dialogue next to the tariff agenda before Thursday's White House summit. The concrete piece Treasury described is a channel for flagging national security AI incidents, plus a promise to meet again.
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