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Samsung Electronics' opening price is set overseas overnight

It is before 9 a.m., when the Korea Exchange's regular session opens. Many people wonder whether Samsung Electronics shares will rise or fall but assume there is no way to check. But overseas DeFi...

Bitcoin is now America's weapon

Bitcoin started out as an asset no government could control. No central bank can issue it at will, no single country can take over the network, and existing...

Bitcoin's four-year cycle: where are we now?

One of the things Bitcoin investors bring up most often is the "four-year cycle theory." Simply put, centered on the halving that comes roughly every four years, Bitcoin goes through a bull market, overheating,...

How Samsung's bonus domino could shake Korea's economy and housing market

News that Samsung Electronics' management and union reached a tentative deal on a bonus of about 12% just before a general strike looks like ordinary labor news. But the essence of this event is not a pay raise...

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 guide to confusing U.S. crypto bills, from GENIUS to CLARITY

Crypto bills are pouring out in the U.S. Their names are similar and their contents seem to overlap, which is confusing, but each bill is meant to solve a different problem...

The U.S. has begun treating Bitcoin as a “strategic asset”

If Bitcoin long carried the label of "speculative asset," that frame has now officially changed, at least at the U.S. federal level. On March 6, 2025,...

What is DeFi?

The bank is where we naturally go to borrow money or earn interest. Banks manage our assets with sturdy vaults and complex screening processes...

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...

Foreigners dumping Samsung and SK hynix? “Actually, they’re on a ‘weight diet’”… the fundamentals are intact

Retail investors are growing anxious over heavy selling by foreigners and institutions centered on Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. But this selling is not due to worsening earnings...

Michael Saylor: “Bitcoin’s four-year cycle is dead”… declares the era of institutional money

The Bitcoin four-year cycle theory, long treated like a "bible" in the global crypto market, is starting to be openly rejected. The one making the declaration is none other than the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin...

Korea finally joins the World Government Bond Index (WGBI), with KRW 90 trillion set to flow in!

On April 1, 2026, Korean government bonds were officially added to the World Government Bond Index (WGBI). It came after four attempts and nearly 15 years of preparation. The government expects this inclusion to bring up to...

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...

Who wins after the Iran war ends? Finding beneficiary stocks by scenario

Scenario A: When the war is resolved – six sectors that benefit from a "golden age of peace." 1. Petrochemical winners: a plastics empire freed from the naphtha shock...

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...

RIA accounts launch on the 23rd as a lifeline for Korean investors in overseas stocks: 10 practical Q&As on avoiding a tax bomb!

The domestic market return account, designed to bring overseas investment money back to Korea, officially launched on March 23, 2026. It comes with generous capital gains tax breaks, but by the same token...

"Not rent, but injection costs"... Hanmi Pharmaceutical offers a 'people's alternative' in the KRW 2 trillion obesity drug market

Amid the Wegovy–Mounjaro price war, "efpeglenatide" targets a launch in the second half of 2026... "Securing supply stability through domestic production." "KRW 500,000 a month? Is that rent or a drug bill?" In Seoul's Gangnam...

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,...

Battery stocks face a 'perfect storm' in 2026... a supercycle driven by AI, war and solid-state batteries

A battery supercycle is about to begin, driven by the global energy security crisis and exploding AI power demand. 1. Middle East war and oil shock: accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels...

A catfish to shake up the KOSDAQ ecosystem: the challenges and outlook left by the listing of Korea's first 'KOSDAQ active ETF'

"The machines stopped, but people are still alive"... What the arrival of KOSDAQ active ETFs means. Can active strategies ease the KOSDAQ 150 concentration created by the "mechanical trading" of passive ETFs...

War broke out, so why is Bitcoin rising? This time the ‘safe haven’ formula was a little different

When war breaks out, markets usually get simple. Stocks fall, and people rush to the dollar and gold. Bitcoin was generally one of the first assets to take a hit. So...

‘Iran war’: KRW 120 trillion in dip-buying money ready to ‘move’ into Korean stocks… FOMO crowd says “finally, a chance”

From FOMO through FOPO to, now, "the beauty of waiting." As the KOSPI breaks above 6,000 in a "record-breaking bull market," an interesting phenomenon has been spotted. Korean...

Samsung and SK hynix's record corporate tax bonanza: can it rescue Korea's empty coffers?

The record sales at Samsung Electronics and SK hynix that have been heating up the stock market lately do more than excite investors; for the national economy as a whole...