(Photo=MotionElements) South Korea’s stock market is becoming harder for global investors to ignore as the AI boom increases demand for shares of the country’s major semiconductor companies. Its trading hours, however, have remained largely tied to the Korean business day. That is beginning to change. Korea Exchange, the operator of South Korea’s main stock markets, will open a real time

(Photo=Apple) Apple is entering a foldable smartphone market that Samsung Electronics, the South Korean technology giant behind the Galaxy smartphone lineup, has spent nearly seven years developing. The first iPhone Duo will compete directly with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8, using the same book style folding design. In the U.S., the competition begins with almost no meaningful price separation. Apple’s phone

(Photo=MotionElements) South Korea sits near the center of the global AI hardware boom, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix supplying memory chips used across the technology industry.  Yet even as that cycle supports the Korean economy, another force is beginning to work in the opposite direction. Higher interest rates are making bank deposits attractive again, raising the possibility that Korean

(Photo=Samsung) Samsung Electronics, the South Korean technology giant that makes Galaxy smartphones and is one of the world’s largest semiconductor producers, is seeing stronger early demand for its latest foldable phones as consumers show greater interest in a larger, tablet like folding design. Sales of the Galaxy Z8 series increased 8% from the previous Galaxy Z7 generation during the first

(Photo=Park Bo-gum instagram) A decade after “Love in the Moonlight,” a 2016 South Korean historical romance set in the royal court of 19th century Korea, became a television hit, its original cast is reuniting in the same costumes that helped define the series. The drama starred South Korean actors Park Bo gum and Kim Yoo jung in a romance between