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  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 04: Christopher Landau is seen during a confirmation hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his nomination to be Deputy Secretary of State on Capitol Hill on March 04, 2025. (Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images)Law

    US official offers regrets over detention of South Koreans

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • Han Jong-Hee, chief executive officer and vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. People flock to the gambling capital in the tens of thousands to soak up keynote events and fight through the throngs on show floors for a glimpse of some gadget that might be a harbinger of the future. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLeadership

    Samsung Electronics co-CEO dies of heart attack at 63

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A worker inspects packages at a Coupang Inc. fulfillment center in Daegu, South Korea, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Coupang, the South Korean e-commerce pioneer, has invested about $260 million in the 12-story fulfillment operation in Daegu. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Coupang’s shares climb after profit surges in competitive market

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A Samsung Electronics Co. 12-layer HBM3E memory chip on a monitor at the Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX) in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. The exhibition will continue through Oct. 24. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Samsung’s chip division underwhelms in costly AI memory race

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A woman stands next to the logo of SK hynix during a semiconductor exhibition at the COEX convention and exhibition centre in Seoul on October 24, 2024. South Korean chip giant SK hynix reported record quarterly profits on October 24, thanks to soaring global demand for artificial intelligence, and gave a positive outlook for next year. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    SK Hynix’s stock dips after profit misses lofty expectations

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • Brian Kim, founder of Kakao Corp., center, arrives at the Seoul Southern District Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, July 22, 2024. South Korean prosecutors are seeking an arrest warrant for billionaire Kakao founder Kim, a surprise twist in their ongoing investigation into alleged stock market manipulation. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Trial of founder of one of South Korea’s biggest internet firms mixes K-pop stock-rigging with pushback on billionaires

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A Samsung Electronics Co. 32GB DDR5 128GB RDIMM, high-capacity DDR5 DRAM module, arranged in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Samsung’s profit rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2024, reflecting a turnaround in the company’s pivotal semiconductor division and robust sales of Galaxy S24 smartphones. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Samsung chips boss warns that firm risks getting caught in ‘vicious cycle’ because it’s ‘hiding or avoiding problems’

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • Brian Kim, founder of Kakao Corp., arrives at the Financial Supervisory Service in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. South Korean authorities arrested Kakao Chief Investment Officer Bae Jae-hyun last week for alleged stock price manipulation connected to a high-profile bidding war over K-pop agency SM Entertainment Co. earlier this year. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    South Korea arrests the founder of one of its biggest internet companies over a K-pop stock rigging scandal

    By Yoolim Lee, Sohee Kim, and others
  • A bus from the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) outside Samsung Electronics Co.’s Seocho office building in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 7, 2024. The largest union at Samsung Electronics went on a strike for the first time in the company’s 55-year history, with the standoff over pay so entrenched that the two sides have stopped all discussions. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Samsung’s largest union goes on strike for the first time in the company’s 55-year history

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • People walk past the Samsung logo displayed on a glass door at the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on April 30, 2024. Samsung Electronics said on April 30 that its first-quarter operating profits had risen nearly tenfold year-on-year — a 931.8 percent increase — amid recovering chip prices and growing demand. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Samsung replaces semiconductor boss after it falls behind in critical AI chip market in ‘desperate attempt to inject new energy and fresh thinking’

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • A woman walks past the Samsung logo displayed on a glass window at the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on April 30, 2024. Samsung Electronics said on April 30 that its first-quarter operating profits had risen nearly tenfold year-on-year — a 931.8 percent increase — amid recovering chip prices and growing demand. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Samsung joins Nvidia in AI semiconductor boom as memory chip sales help profits quadruple last year’s result

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
  • Samsung Electronics Co. 32GB DDR5 128GB RDIMM, high-capacity DDR5 DRAM modules, arranged in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Samsung’s profit rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2024, reflecting a turnaround in the company’s pivotal semiconductor division and robust sales of Galaxy S24 smartphones. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    The world’s biggest memory-chip maker is set to unveil a $44 billion project in Texas, notching another win for U.S. semiconductor production

    By MacKenzie Hawkins, Julie Fine, and others
  • Jay Y. Lee, chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. The court is scheduled to deliver a ruling on Lee for charges involving a controversial merger of two Samsung Group units in 2015. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Samsung’s billionaire chairman can lead the company without the threat of jail time after a court acquits him of stock manipulation charges

    By Yoolim Lee, Sohee Kim, and others
  • An image of SK Hynix is seen on a wall at the company’s Bundang office in Seongnam on January 26, 2024. The world’s second-largest memory chip maker, South Korea’s SK Hynix, said on January 25, it had returned to profit after four consecutive quarters of losses driven by demand for chips used in artificial intelligence. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Indiana poised to win a $15 billion chip packaging plant from South Korea’s SK Hynix that could solve a major bottleneck in the U.S. supply chain

    By MacKenzie Hawkins, Yoolim Lee, and others
  • Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. OpenAI is focused on building a better, faster and cheaper model of its generative AI ChatGPT product, Altman has said previously. The product made AI a buzzword and kicked off a global race among tech companies to build their own versions of the chatbot technology. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is meeting the world’s top two producers of memory chips as he reportedly fundraises for his own semiconductor plants

    By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg