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The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | tags: south korea, weapons, defense industry

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Massive bonuses for South Korea's chip workers puts central bank on inflation alert (cnbc.com)

2026-06-20 | by Lim Hui Jie Blair Baek | get Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 → | tags: bank of korea, south korea, tech industry

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Crazy Rich Returns Lure Cabbies and Even Kids to Red-Hot Asian Markets (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-19 | get Smartphone Car Mount → | tags: south korea, taiwan, japan

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The rise of fake online shopping platforms that let you pretend to buy things: Would you use a ‘dopamine site’? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-16 | get Fake Shopping Simulation Kit → | tags: foodnevercomes, south korea, dopamine site

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The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-16 | by Thomas Macaulay | get Neuralink Brain Implant Kit → | tags: brain implant, speech bci, als

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Medicube Coupon Code: 40% Off for June 2026 (wired.com)

2026-06-16 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: medicube, booster pro, korean skincare

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More than 2,000 Starbucks stores are closing early on June 22 after a promotion sparked national outrage (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-15 | get Starbucks Travel Mug → | tags: starbucks, south korea, marketing campaign

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Man Attends Video Meeting From Active Roller Coaster (futurism.com)

2026-06-14 | by Joe Wilkins | get Portable Laptop Stand → | tags: zoom, macbook, green screen

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North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-10 | by Zack Whittaker | get Cybersecurity Software Suite → | tags: hackers, korean, north

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Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders rankings: are China’s East Asian neighbours keeping pace with it? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-10 | by Plackett | tags: japan, korea, research

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Foreign investors have dumped billions of dollars of Korean stocks this year despite record rally. Here's why (cnbc.com)

2026-06-08 | by Lee Ying Shan | get Korean Stock Market Guide → | tags: foreign, foreign investors, investors

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Tracking website, food watch: South Korea is obsessing over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's visit (cnbc.com)

2026-06-05 | by Justina Lee Lisa Kim | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: huang, korea, korean

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South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-04 | get AI Image Censorship Scanner → | tags: forum, government, hardware

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South Korean Forums Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-04 | get AI Image Censorship Scanner → | tags: forum, government, hardware

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Unastella, a South Korean rocket startup that launched from home, raises $24M (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-01 | by Kate Park | get Rocket Model Kit → | tags: unastella, spacex, kerosene

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Samsung’s upcoming wide Galaxy Z Fold 8 spied in public for the first time (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-01 | get Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Case → | tags: samsung, galaxy z fold 8, ice universe

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Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-30 | get Korean Historical Data Book → | tags: joseon dynasty, observability dashboard, mandarin of heaven

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NotebookLM is quickly becoming the podcast app I didn’t know I needed (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-30 | get NotebookLM Smart Notebook → | tags: notebooklm, google, ai-generated podcasts

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'Controversial' North Korean invasion setting for next Call of Duty game (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-05-29 | get Call of Duty: Modern Warfare → | tags: call of duty, north korea, no russian

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LG might be done making TVs after nearly 60 years (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-28 | get LG OLED TV → | tags: hisense, goldstar, consumer tech

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Korean funeral services company lost $33 million of its customers' money over a bad crypto bet — firm was secretly investing client funds into leveraged crypto ETFs (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-21 | by Hassam Nasir | get Crypto Investment Security Kit → | tags: bumo sarang, leveraged crypto etf, bitmine

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Memory makers brace for hydrogen fluoride pricing shock as Hormuz blockade impacts supply chain — key etching and cleaning material faces sharp cost increase amid trade disruption (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-20 | by Jon Martindale | get Hydrogen Fluoride Chemical Supply → | tags: hydrogen fluoride, memory chips, strait of hormuz

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Samsung workers set to strike at worst possible time (theverge.com)

2026-05-20 | by Jess Weatherbed | get Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Case → | tags: samsung electronics, memory chips, union strike

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Amazon’s Kindle shutdown is sending users down the jailbreak rabbit hole (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-18 | get Kindle Jailbreak Guide → | tags: kindle, amazon, koreader

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Samsung strike involving 47,000 workers looms as South Korea’s president urges labor deal (cnbc.com)

2026-05-18 | by Lim Hui Jie | get Samsung Galaxy Smartphone → | tags: samsung electronics, samsung foundry, performance bonuses

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Can Laws Stop Deepfakes? South Korea Aims to Find Out (darkreading.com)

2026-05-18 | by Alexander Culafi | get Deepfake Detection Software → | tags: deepfakes, south korea, ai laws

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Medicube Coupon Code: 40% Off for May 2026 (wired.com)

2026-05-15 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: medicube, booster pro, korean skincare

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Iranian hackers targeted major South Korean electronics maker (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-13 | get Cybersecurity USB Data Block → | tags: muddywater, south korea, sentinelone

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Samsung’s phone production strategy may be shifting at both ends of the lineup (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-11 | get Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Case → | tags: samsung, galaxy s26, galaxy a17

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The strange reason Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-11 | get Samsung Galaxy Smartphone → | tags: dua lipa, samsung electronics, tv boxes