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Samsung Electronics' KRW 110 trillion shareholder return: why do shareholders say they were misled?

Samsung Electronics unveiled a shareholder return plan worth KRW 90 trillion to 110 trillion, the largest ever by a Korean company. Yet among shareholders, disappointment broke out before any welcome...

This robot is mine now.

1. $325 million, the price of full ownership: Hyundai Motor Group bought the remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics held by SoftBank Group for $325 million, gaining full...

Only just beginning? The AI supercycle starts now!

AI stocks have already climbed a lot. From Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC and SK hynix to Microsoft, Google and Meta, the market has spent the past few years rapidly pricing in AI expectations...

What does Boston Dynamics mean to Hyundai?

If you ask why Hyundai Motor bought Boston Dynamics, the simplest answer is “to prepare for the machine that comes after the car.” More precisely, Hyundai, through robots,...

(Korean market) Foreign investors: am I shaking?

(As of June 2) The KOSPI broke above 8,900 intraday for the first time ever. But something is odd. Foreigners sold more than KRW 5 trillion in the morning alone. For the month of May...

X Money offers 6% interest: Can Twitter really become a bank?

In March 2026, American actor William Shatner posted a screenshot on X. Best known as Captain Kirk from Star Trek, he was showing the screen of a service he had just joined: X Money....

A Nasdaq stock paying 11.5% in monthly dividends? The truth about STRC

It pays 11.5% a year as monthly dividends. In cash, every month. It is listed on Nasdaq and trades at $100 a share. What kind of magic is this? Led by Michael Saylor...

Dunamu reaffirms “IPO right after merger” as Naver Financial deal slips three months… Dunamu is the likely name to list

1. Dunamu's results over the last three years compared. Combining the Financial Supervisory Service's electronic disclosure system with press reports dated March 31, 2026, Dunamu's figures from 2023...

Trade crypto straight from your own wallet: everything about decentralized exchanges

DEX = Decentralized Exchange; CEX = Centralized Exchange. There are centralized exchanges like Upbit, Binance and Coinbase, yet...

Retail investors fooled by the oil spike into buying green stocks are stuck. When is the real time to buy?

When war breaks out and oil prices rise, a picture naturally forms in your head: fossil fuels are shaken, so alternatives like nuclear, solar, wind, EVs and batteries will immediately come to the fore...

With split listings blocked at home, conglomerates are heading overseas. Are our shares safe?

Summary 1. The stigma that "Korean stocks are cheap" and why companies are leaving. In October 2024, Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in Mumbai. With a market cap of KRW 25 trillion at the offer price,...

HBM4, NAND and DDR demand explodes: when will the chip rally break?

With AI data center investment topping $600 billion a year, demand for HBM4, NAND flash and DDR RAM is exploding. Semiconductor stocks are riding this wave...

The end of the GLP-1 heyday? Hims’ $49 challenge and K-bio’s opportunity

"$49 vs $199": the price war has begun. In February 2026, U.S. telehealth company Hims & Hers Health threw a punch that...

Korea’s GLP-1 diet drug war: the top 5 contenders racing to “catch Wegovy”

K-bio's ambition for a KRW 100 trillion global market: who is the real alternative? Market size: Korea's GLP-1 market takes off in earnest in 2025. Global GLP-1...

HBM4: Samsung Electronics’ key to knocking on Nvidia’s door again

Recent news that Samsung Electronics is increasingly likely to supply its next-generation high-bandwidth memory, HBM4, to Nvidia is heating up the market. This is more than a simple parts supply deal...

Are AI agents eating jobs? The productivity explosion arriving with SaaS

1. AI agents: "digital assistants that take care of things on their own once you ask." In a word, an AI agent is software that, once you give it a goal in place of a person, makes its own judgments and gets the work done. Rather than simply...

Can you ‘really’ sell your coins in a crisis? Comparing Korea’s top 5 crypto exchanges

Why a "big exchange" decides survival in a crisis. The most dangerous risk in crypto investing is not just a price crash but "it looks like you can sell, yet...

Will Korea’s big three battery makers turn solid-state batteries into a ‘dream engine’?

Solid-state batteries are next-generation batteries that use a solid electrolyte instead of a liquid one, removing the fire risk of conventional lithium-ion batteries and raising energy density by more than 40%...

Nvidia H200 revives in China; Rubin at 165x keeps the 2026 AI crown

The debate over Chinese demand for Nvidia continues. After export controls prompted talk of a "collapse," the U.S. recently approved exports of H200 chips to China on conditions...

The great bank deposit “exodus”: money flowing into crypto and stocks kicks off a financial “Game of Thrones”

Demand deposit balances at Korean banks have fallen by more than KRW 30 trillion so far this year. At the five major commercial banks, they dropped to around KRW 643 trillion as of the 15th, and this trend...

Apple puts Google's brain into Siri: how a $1 billion AI alliance is shaking up the market

Apple has officially announced that it has chosen Google's Gemini AI model to power the next-generation Siri. Two companies that have long been rivals, on core technology...

Why even Morgan Stanley, Wall Street's money machine, built a Bitcoin ETF

Morgan Stanley's move to consider a Bitcoin ETF or expand related products is easily consumed as "even Wall Street has started believing in Bitcoin." But the essence of this news...

The eerie reason Tesla and Bitcoin move together like a couple

Do Tesla and Bitcoin really move in the same direction? Lately an interesting scene keeps repeating in the market. When U.S. tech stocks are strong, Bitcoin rises too, and when stocks wobble...

What are Samsung and Coinbase aiming for with their relationship?

1. This relationship is a "strategic alliance," not an "equity investment." First, let's be clear: Samsung is neither a major shareholder of **Coinbase** nor directly involved in its management. Even so...