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Hwaseong Dongtan-gu and Guri City apartment prices continued rising this month following their new designation as regulated zones, according to KB Real Estate's July monthly housing price trends. Hwaseong Dongtan-gu recorded a 6.25% increase in apartment sale prices, expanding 2.09 percentage

Moon Mun-young, a researcher at the Korea Insurance Research Institute, issued recommendations on the 26th for insurance companies to strengthen suitability assessments and consumer explanations for dollar-denominated insurance products amid surging sales. The recommendations came as dollar insuranc

A Korea Insurance Research Institute researcher proposed on the 26th to narrow the gap between standard auto insurance policy terms and court rulings to reduce social costs, as complaints and litigation over auto insurance claim payouts continue to rise in South Korea. Senior researcher Jeon

A 21-year-old Florida man faces a federal conspiracy charge after malware concealed in downloadable video games allegedly compromised approximately 8,000 devices and enabled unauthorized access to about 80 cryptocurrency wallets, resulting in at least $220,000 in stolen digital assets. Federal

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service issued consumer guidance on May 26 regarding domestic market return accounts (RIA), integrated management accounts (IMA), and bank exchange-traded fund (ETF) trusts. The guidance addresses growing consumer complaints as RIA account holders increased

Korean investors using RIA accounts to sell overseas stocks must verify the settlement completion date, not the order execution date, according to guidance issued by the Financial Supervisory Service on May 26. The tax deduction rate is determined by the settlement completion date, and a

South Korea's IPO market recorded 17 listings in the first half, a 59% decline from the 10-year average of 27 listings per half-year period, according to a report by Oh Gwang-young, a researcher at Shinhan Securities. The market raised KRW 1.1 trillion, down 48.7% year-over-year, marking a 30%

The U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced on July 21 that five civil forfeiture complaints seek forfeiture of more than $25 million in cryptocurrency tied to international fraud schemes targeting residents of the United States and Canada. The

LG AI Research developed a financial AI service that analyzes approximately 8,000 listed companies in the US and Korea, according to Lee Hwa-young, Executive Director of Business Development at LG AI Research, in an interview on the 24th. The AI system uses multiple specialized agents—an AI

219 Korean export manufacturers surveyed by the Korea Trade Association identified freight rate increases as their top logistics challenge in the first half, with 83.1% of respondents citing this as their primary concern. The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) reached 3,062 points on

SK Telecom announced on the 26th that it will provide its proprietary artificial intelligence model A.X K1 to startups to support the development of practical and industrial AI services. The company is participating in the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' '2026 Modu's Challenge AX-LLM' program,

Hana F&I and Meritz Financial Group are conducting bond demand forecasting this week, targeting 1500억원 each on July 27 and July 29 respectively. The move comes as the Korean corporate bond market experiences reduced summer issuance activity, yet recent successful demand forecasting by SK

Bank-affiliated securities firms in South Korea reported record-breaking profits for the first half, driven by a stock market boom that significantly increased trading volumes. NH Investment & Securities led with net profit of 965.2 billion won, up 107.6% year-over-year, while KB Securities

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance runs monthly simulated phishing attacks against its own employees through an internal red team, according to chief security officer Jimmy Su. The practice, which has been in place for three to four years, aims to improve security hygiene as social engineering attacks

Korean corporate bond yields reached multi-year highs on the 24th, with AA- unsecured 3-year bonds hitting 4.653% — the highest level since November 14, 2023. The yield surge followed investor sentiment contraction triggered by the JR Global REIT and Joongang Group incidents, alongside escalating

Coinbase announced on July 23 that it is building a quantum-resistant version of the system protecting approximately 99.9% of its custodial assets, as the crypto exchange prepares for a future where quantum computers could defeat current blockchain cryptography. Chief Information Security Officer

SK Hynix will announce its Q2 2026 earnings on the 29th, with securities firms forecasting operating profit exceeding 6.4 trillion won based on explosive memory demand and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market leadership. The projected Q2 operating profit surpasses the company's entire 2025 full-year o

KAIST and NVIDIA announced on the 26th the establishment of a joint research center to develop artificial intelligence models that understand and predict human movement. The Human Physical AI NVAITC (Human Physical AI NVAITC) will combine KAIST's human motion data and gait control technology

National Tax Service Commissioner Lim Gwang-hyeon on the 26th criticized South Korea's Long-Term Holding Special Deduction system for capital gains tax as excessively regressive. The system allows homeowners who hold and reside in properties for 10 years to deduct up to 80% of taxable capital gains

Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, and Paramount stocks declined over the recent 3-month period as of the 24th, with Netflix down 24.2%, Disney down 7.6%, WBD down 4.8%, and Paramount down 25.2% on the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street's focus has shifted from subscriber growth to return on