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South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors" (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-26 | tags: south korea, drone warriors, ahn gyu-back

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Samsung didn’t forget the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE in its One UI 8.5 rollout (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-06 | get Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE Case → | tags: samsung, galaxy z flip 7 fe, one ui 8.5

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Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | by Moon Dong Wook | get Language Learning for Korean → | tags: north korean defectors, hangul, pyongyang dialect

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South Korean Man Might Get Prison Time for Posting AI Wolf Picture (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-25 | get AI Wolf Art Print → | tags: south korea, ai wolf, prison

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South Korea Police Arrest Man For Posting AI Photo of Runaway Wolf (slashdot.org)

2026-04-24 | get AI Wolf Photo Printer → | tags: ai-generated image, daejeon zoo, south korean police

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South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | get AI Wolf Photo Printer → | tags: south korea, ai photo, wolf

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Smart Glasses Finally Found a Warm Embrace—the Theater (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-17 | get Nreal Air AR Glasses → | tags: smart glasses, theater productions, south korea

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The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy (theverge.com)

2026-04-17 | by Sarah Jeong | get South Korea Diplomatic Book → | tags: south korean, lee jae-myung, israel defense forces

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Improving cancer survival rates will require hard policy choices (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-15 | by Austin | get Cancer Research Fund Book → | tags: cancer treatment, screening programmes, south korea

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South Korea to give 7 million mobile users free unlimited data after hitting monthly caps (techspot.com)

2026-04-13 | get Unlimited Data SIM Card → | tags: south korea, sk telecom, lg uplus

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South Korea’s telecom giants surprise 7 million users with unlimited, universal internet — net access declared a 'basic telecommunications right,' 400 Kbps data after monthly plans run out (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-12 | by Luke James | get Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot → | tags: sk telecom, lg uplus, south korea

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South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | by Simon Sharwood | get Unlimited Mobile Data Plan → | tags: south korea, sk telecom, lg uplus

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South Korea moves to curb the meteoritic rise of DRAM and PC hardware prices (techspot.com)

2026-04-10 | get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM → | tags: south korea, dram, pc hardware

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Korean government to take action over soaring DRAM costs, including monitoring markets and pricing — internet data plans to be restructured and recycled PCs to be distributed to vulnerable groups (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-09 | by Stephen Warwick | get Samsung 32GB DDR4 RAM → | tags: dram, south korea, pc recycling

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Samsung is giving you another chance to not buy its incredibly expensive Galaxy Z TriFold (androidauthority.com)

2026-04-08 | get Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 → | tags: samsung, galaxy z trifold, android authority