(Photo=MotionElements) South Korea’s semiconductor champions are discovering that one of the biggest risks created by the artificial-intelligence boom may not come from rivals in China or the U.S. It may come from their own employees. As soaring demand for AI chips delivers record profits to Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s largest technology company and one of the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturers,

Foreign investors dumped a record $29 billion worth of South Korean stocks in May, triggering headlines about the largest monthly selloff in the history of the country’s benchmark KOSPI index. Yet beneath the headline number, a different story is emerging. The money is not leaving South Korea. It is moving. According to the Korea Exchange, foreign investors sold a net

Photo=National Tax Service (South Korea) South Korea’s government is intensifying a sweeping crackdown on company owners accused of using corporate assets to finance extravagant personal lifestyles, signaling a broader political push against what authorities describe as deeply rooted abuses inside the country’s family controlled business culture. The National Tax Service said this week it had launched investigations into 19 companies suspected of using corporate

(Photo=kakao) A labor dispute unfolding at Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s dominant messaging platform KakaoTalk, is rapidly becoming a broader symbol of the pressures facing the country’s technology industry as slowing growth collides with rising employee expectations in the artificial intelligence era. Kakao’s labor union is preparing for a possible strike after wage negotiations with management collapsed this week,

Photo=Nvidia Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang is expected to visit South Korea next week following appearances at the company’s GTC Taipei 2026 conference, according to semiconductor and technology industry officials familiar with the plans. The visit would mark Huang’s second trip to South Korea in about seven months, after attending the APEC CEO Summit in Gyeongju in October 2025. GTC