South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced sanctions against Lotte Card after a data breach last year affected nearly 3 million customers. The commission said the online payment system was hacked in September, exposing personal information stored in logs connected to online payments. Of the affected customers, about

The United States has opened Section 301 investigations into 16 countries, including South Korea, signaling the launch of what officials call “super 301” actions with no tariff ceiling. The move broadens potential U.S. tariffs beyond targeted products and could lead to varied tariff levels by country and item, depending

U.S. President Donald Trump, delivering a speech in Hebron, Kentucky, on the 11th local time, said he had “won the Iran war” and that military operations would continue until the mission is completed. He emphasized that it was not his aim to depart early, insisting that the mission must

The Trump administration is moving to deploy Section 301 of the Trade Act as a more potent, long-lasting tariff tool that could supersede the current global tariff, which is set at 10 percent and tied to a time limit. Under the existing regime, tariffs tied to a different provision (Section

Two men in their 50s were arrested by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on charges of fraud and violations of the Narcotics Control Act for a scheme that manipulated a gambling-style game at screen golf venues. Seven associates from the same golf clubs were handed to prosecutors without detention. The

Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a technique to suppress gravity-driven drainage in an inverted liquid by adding a small amount of a volatile liquid. The approach leverages surface-tension-driven Marangoni flows to counter downward drainage, reframing the classic Rayleigh–Taylor instability in interfacial fluid

A U.S. military preliminary assessment suggests the February 28 attack on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran may have resulted from a target-coordinate error based on old Defense Intelligence Agency data. The strike killed at least 175 people, including many children and teachers, according to Iranian

LG CNS is accelerating its AI transformation (AX) business by forming a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies of the United States and creating a dedicated Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) organization to drive the effort. Palantir’s offerings include Foundry, which unifies and cleans dispersed corporate data to create a data-driven

The Korea Personal Information Protection Commission announced on Sept. 12, 2025 that it had fined Lotte Card Co. Ltd. for violating the Personal Information Protection Act after a data breach that exposed resident registration numbers. The penalties total 9.62 billion won in fines and an additional 4.8 million

A market research report from TrendForce shows that last year the global contract semiconductor foundry market remained led by Taiwan’s TSMC, which approached a 70% share. Samsung Electronics, by contrast, saw declines in both revenue and market share, widening the gap between the two leaders. TrendForce tallies the top