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Park Seok-hyun, Deputy General Manager of Woori Bank's WM Products Division, advised in an interview on the 10th that investors should temporarily increase risk asset allocation beyond the traditional 60/40 stock-bond ratio, specifically raising semiconductor exposure. Park attributed this shift to

Lee Eok-won, Chairman of South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC), emphasized on the 10th that financial institution CEOs and boards must directly oversee information security rather than delegating it solely to IT departments in the AI era. Speaking at the Information Protection Day

Korean asset management firms operating single-stock leveraged products are deploying multiple rebalancing strategies to manage portfolio adjustments as the sector's assets under management approached 17 trillion won. The firms employ intraday trading, after-hours transactions, stock lending, and

Kim Hyun-seop, head of KB Kookmin Bank's Gold & Wise The First Dogok Center, advised on the 9th that maintaining portfolio balance is more critical than selecting individual stocks during the current market rally. In an interview with Yonhap Infomax, Kim recommended holding approximately 30% of

Bybit's application disappeared from South Korea's Google Play Store search results as of 8:30 AM on the 10th, preventing users from finding or installing the crypto exchange app. Other major overseas digital asset exchanges including Binance and Bitget remain searchable and downloadable without res

FSC Chairman Lee Eok-won visited the Joint Response Team against stock manipulation office after an anniversary meeting on the 8th, personally shaking hands with staff and providing pizza. The visit came as South Korea's financial authorities intensify their crackdown on stock manipulation, with the

South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Lee Eok-won visited the Joint Response Team office on the 8th after a meeting to mark the first anniversary of the stock manipulation crackdown unit. He personally greeted approximately 100 staff members from the FSC, Financial Supervisory S

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein signed Senate Bill 257 into law on July 7, enacting a $34 billion fiscal-year budget that establishes a 6% tax on prediction market operators' net trading fee revenue effective January 1, 2027, while immediately raising the tax on licensed online sports betting

Korea Eximbank signed a memorandum of understanding with Mongolia's Trade and Development Bank (TDB) to provide $30 million in trade finance. The signing ceremony took place on the 9th with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and Mongolian President Khurelsukh in attendance. This marks the

The South Korean government selected the Gwangju military airport site on the 6th as the location for a new Honam semiconductor cluster, triggering a recovery in the long-stagnant Gwangju-Jeonnam housing market. The project involves a total investment of 800 trillion won to build four memory

Hanwha Aerospace is awaiting the US Army's Mobile Tracked Cannon (MTC) program finalist announcement expected this month, following its recent loss in the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP). The South Korean defense firm submitted its K9MH wheeled self-propelled howitzer through subsidiary Han

E-Mart sold its Seongsu-dong headquarters site to a Mirae Asset-Krafton consortium for 1.22 trillion won in January 2022, with a contract clause allowing E-Mart to re-enter as a tenant after construction completion. The sale funded E-Mart's 3.44 trillion won acquisition of an 80.1% stake in eBay

Robinhood's planned acquisition of Bitstamp represents a regulatory integration project focused on licensing and compliance infrastructure rather than traditional user growth metrics. The deal, which remains subject to regulatory approval, targets Bitstamp's established international crypto

Kia stocks rose 4.93% in July, outperforming the broader KOSPI index which fell 13.97% during the same period, as well as other Hyundai Motor Group affiliates including Hyundai Motor (-10%), Hyundai Mobis (-7%), and Hyundai Rotem (-7.17%). The stock closed at 144,800 won on the previous trading

Michael Burry, the investor known as the real-life model for the film 'The Big Short,' published a Substack post on the 9th (local time) arguing that AI investment bulls are embracing contradictory premises regarding NVIDIA stocks and hyperscaler

South Korea's construction sector fell 9.0% over a one-month period ending on '이달 8일', underperforming the KOSPI by 5.9 percentage points, but brokerage analysis indicates order prospects post-2027 are strengthening due to three government-backed mega projects and AI data center investments.

Samsung Electronics single-stock leveraged ETFs plunged over 20% in the 3 trading days following the company's record quarterly earnings announcement on the 7th, according to Korea Exchange data. Seven of the top 10 declining ETFs during this period were Samsung single-stock leveraged products,

Swift and Chainlink completed tokenized asset settlement trials using Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP). The trials tested how tokenized assets can move through existing financial systems while maintaining compatibility with traditional banking infrastructure. Swift operates g

Mantle is migrating its Super Portal from LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible Token standard to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, with the portal suspended between July 9 and July 15 during the transition. The migration follows a broader trend of projects moving away from LayerZero

South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) confirmed on the 10th that it is conducting final reviews to exclude first-round subscribers from the second National Growth Fund sales, scheduled for Q3 with 600 billion won in volume. The FSC is prioritizing citizens who missed the first-round