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  AI memory supercycle sparks Korean export renaissance The June export explosion: The AI memory supercycle and a new phase of growth for the Korean economy The June exports data offer an undeniable reason for national pride. According to Korea Customs Service preliminary data for the first 20 days of June, shipments jumped 60.4 percent on year to record $62 billion, drawing $17.5 billion in surplus. The South Korean economy is proving its critics wrong. The long, grueling winter of trade stagnation is decisively thawing, r June 23, 2026
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  True meaning of Jensen Huang's visits In the early summer of 2026, the industrial map of Asia experienced another massive tremor. Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia—one of the world's most valuable companies—embarked on back-to-back visits to Taiwan and South Korea. This was no ordinary overseas business trip or routine client management. It was an on-the-ground inspection of the new global industrial order and power dynamics forged by the AI revolution. Simultaneously, it was a strategic move to June 19, 2026
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  Editorial: AI wealth dividend debate is one Korea cannot ignore Artificial intelligence is already creating a new global order of wealth. The rise of AI has propelled figures such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei into the center of global capital markets. Companies that dominate AI chips, frontier models, cloud infrastructure and data centers are accumulating value at a pace rarely seen in modern economic history. The question is whether that wealth will ultimately benefit society as a whole. June 14, 2026
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  South Korea's 20s and 30s were born into democracy, which explains their anger On the evening of June 3, voters in Seoul's Jamsil neighborhood lined up at their polling stations and were turned away. Not by armed soldiers, but by a paper shortage. Ballots had simply run out. It sounds almost absurd — a punchline for a country that has spent decades positioning itself as a model of democratic development in Asia. South Korea holds transparent elections, produces peaceful transfers of power, and boasts one of the most digitally sophisticated elector June 10, 2026
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  A siren song from the BOK: the leverage party is over SEOUL, May 28 (AJP) -For a full year, the Bank of Korea sat motionless on a 2.50 percent benchmark while the KOSPI staged the most spectacular rally on the planet — up more than 93 percent since year-end, briefly flirting with 8,450 before Wednesday's close. On Thursday, the central bank's new governor finally said out loud what the bond market had been bracing for: the only questions left are when, how fast, and how far rates rise. A plain-spoken siren to the lever May 28, 2026
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  The executive who sent his AI to the meeting SEOUL, May 24 (AJP) - Reid Hoffman has given dozens of talks since 2024 without always being in the room. The LinkedIn co-founder built "Reid AI," a digital twin trained on 22 years of his books, speeches, articles and podcasts, using HeyGen for the face and ElevenLabs for the voice. It speaks in languages he doesn't, answers questions in his style, and stands in for him at events he never attends. It is not a chatbot. It is, by design, another him. The Wall Street May 24, 2026