Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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LG Electronics, GS E&C and US firm GRC signed an MoU on October 13 to develop and validate immersion cooling for AI data centers. The companies did not disclose a budget, a timeline or a customer for the work.
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Samsung C&T, Hyundai E&C and Doosan Enerbility are weighing a 5% to 10% stake in Westinghouse, the Korea Herald and Seoul Economic Daily reported. Seoul Economic Daily put the cost near $2.8 billion, a price that depends on Westinghouse going public.
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South Korea's 2026 general government debt is 46.1% of GDP in the IMF's October Fiscal Monitor, 8.3 points below April, the budget ministry said. By our estimate faster growth explains only about 0.4 points of that, so most of the cut depends on revenue and other inputs.
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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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Hanmi's Eppe is due this month at 129,800 won wholesale for four weeks, against about 210,000 to 270,000 won for Wegovy and Mounjaro. At the 299,200 won maintenance dose, Seoul Economic Daily puts the gap at 17% to 19%.
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Ookla ranks Korea 22nd in fixed broadband at 251.33 Mbps and 6th in mobile at 250.56 Mbps, 16 places apart on a 0.77 Mbps difference. Korea's science ministry disputes the data, and the method counts Wi-Fi tests on phones as fixed.
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Hyundai Motor plans 320,000 vehicles a year of capacity at the former GM plant in Pune by 2030, against GM's 130,000. Getting there takes line speed from 21 vehicles an hour to 44.
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Korean Air booked record third-quarter revenue of 5.04 trillion won, up 26%, yet operating profit rose 12% to 421.2 billion won. Roughly 95% of the 838 billion won rise in net income came from below that line.
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South Korea's import prices rose 1.7% in September, the first rise in four months, the Bank of Korea said, as Dubai crude jumped 28.1% to $113.71 a barrel. In won terms the oil rise was about 23.8%, and export prices fell 0.8%, partly on the same stronger currency.
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LG CNS and KDDI signed an MOU pairing two LG AI platforms with KDDI's 19 Asia-Pacific sites in 15 countries. The companies did not disclose a budget or revenue target, so what exists is an agreement to look for projects.
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South Korea added 113,000 jobs in September, the Ministry of Data and Statistics reported. Health and social welfare services added 207,000 on their own, according to Seoul Economic Daily, so every other industry together lost a net 94,000.
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South Korea and Japan extended their dollar-based $10 billion swap line by three years to November 2029, at one-seventh of the $70 billion it reached in 2011. At that size the line covers a fraction of what it once did, so its value rests on the signal it sends.
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HD Hyundai reported first-half operating profit of 6.96 trillion won, up 187%, on revenue of 42.01 trillion won. Its 1.4 trillion won spent or set aside for data-center engines, servicing and a reactor facility is about a fifth of that.
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