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  • A delivery truck of South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang is driven along a road in Seoul on December 9, 2025. South Korean police raided the Seoul headquarters of e-commerce giant Coupang on December 9, over a recent data leak believed to have affected almost two-thirds of the country’s population. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images)Asia

    Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • GYEONGJU, SOUTH KOREA – NOVEMBER 1: Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung (R) are seen on a broadcast screen as they meet with other world leaders, during the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week, in Gyeongju, South Korea, on November 1, 2025. The summit focuses on trade, economic cooperation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology development among other issues. (Photo by Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)Asia

    Xi quips about backdoors during Xiaomi phone gift to Korea’s Lee

    By Gao Yuan, Yoolim Lee, and others
  • US President Donald Trump, left, greets Lee Jae Myung, South Korea’s president, outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. Trump blasted South Korea for political instability, foreshadowing a potentially rocky visit by the country’s president to the White House to discuss its framework trade and investment agreement with the US. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEconomy

    South Korea unable to pay $350 billion in cash under trade pact

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 04: Christopher Landau is seen during a confirmation hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his nomination to be Deputy Secretary of State on Capitol Hill on March 04, 2025. (Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images)Law

    US official offers regrets over detention of South Koreans

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • Han Jong-Hee, chief executive officer and vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. People flock to the gambling capital in the tens of thousands to soak up keynote events and fight through the throngs on show floors for a glimpse of some gadget that might be a harbinger of the future. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLeadership

    Samsung Electronics co-CEO dies of heart attack at 63

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A worker inspects packages at a Coupang Inc. fulfillment center in Daegu, South Korea, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Coupang, the South Korean e-commerce pioneer, has invested about $260 million in the 12-story fulfillment operation in Daegu. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Coupang’s shares climb after profit surges in competitive market

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A Samsung Electronics Co. 12-layer HBM3E memory chip on a monitor at the Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX) in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. The exhibition will continue through Oct. 24. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Samsung’s chip division underwhelms in costly AI memory race

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A woman stands next to the logo of SK hynix during a semiconductor exhibition at the COEX convention and exhibition centre in Seoul on October 24, 2024. South Korean chip giant SK hynix reported record quarterly profits on October 24, thanks to soaring global demand for artificial intelligence, and gave a positive outlook for next year. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    SK Hynix’s stock dips after profit misses lofty expectations

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • Brian Kim, founder of Kakao Corp., center, arrives at the Seoul Southern District Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, July 22, 2024. South Korean prosecutors are seeking an arrest warrant for billionaire Kakao founder Kim, a surprise twist in their ongoing investigation into alleged stock market manipulation. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Trial of founder of one of South Korea’s biggest internet firms mixes K-pop stock-rigging with pushback on billionaires

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A Samsung Electronics Co. 32GB DDR5 128GB RDIMM, high-capacity DDR5 DRAM module, arranged in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Samsung’s profit rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2024, reflecting a turnaround in the company’s pivotal semiconductor division and robust sales of Galaxy S24 smartphones. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Samsung chips boss warns that firm risks getting caught in ‘vicious cycle’ because it’s ‘hiding or avoiding problems’

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • Brian Kim, founder of Kakao Corp., arrives at the Financial Supervisory Service in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. South Korean authorities arrested Kakao Chief Investment Officer Bae Jae-hyun last week for alleged stock price manipulation connected to a high-profile bidding war over K-pop agency SM Entertainment Co. earlier this year. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    South Korea arrests the founder of one of its biggest internet companies over a K-pop stock rigging scandal

    By Yoolim Lee, Sohee Kim, and others
  • A bus from the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) outside Samsung Electronics Co.’s Seocho office building in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 7, 2024. The largest union at Samsung Electronics went on a strike for the first time in the company’s 55-year history, with the standoff over pay so entrenched that the two sides have stopped all discussions. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Samsung’s largest union goes on strike for the first time in the company’s 55-year history

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • People walk past the Samsung logo displayed on a glass door at the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on April 30, 2024. Samsung Electronics said on April 30 that its first-quarter operating profits had risen nearly tenfold year-on-year — a 931.8 percent increase — amid recovering chip prices and growing demand. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Samsung replaces semiconductor boss after it falls behind in critical AI chip market in ‘desperate attempt to inject new energy and fresh thinking’

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A woman walks past the Samsung logo displayed on a glass window at the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on April 30, 2024. Samsung Electronics said on April 30 that its first-quarter operating profits had risen nearly tenfold year-on-year — a 931.8 percent increase — amid recovering chip prices and growing demand. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Samsung joins Nvidia in AI semiconductor boom as memory chip sales help profits quadruple last year’s result

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • Samsung Electronics Co. 32GB DDR5 128GB RDIMM, high-capacity DDR5 DRAM modules, arranged in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Samsung’s profit rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2024, reflecting a turnaround in the company’s pivotal semiconductor division and robust sales of Galaxy S24 smartphones. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    The world’s biggest memory-chip maker is set to unveil a $44 billion project in Texas, notching another win for U.S. semiconductor production

    By MacKenzie Hawkins, Julie Fine, and others