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How Hero Cosmetics’ CEO made once-shameful pimple patches a Gen Z status symbol
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How Hero Cosmetics’ CEO made once-shameful pimple patches a Gen Z status symbol

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A South Korean tycoon’s $1 billion divorce settlement could spur a shake-up of the country’s second-biggest conglomerate
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A South Korean tycoon’s $1 billion divorce settlement could spur a shake-up of the country’s second-biggest conglomerate

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June 28, 2024
20,000 doctors are walking off the job in South Korea to protest making it easier to get into medical school
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20,000 doctors are walking off the job in South Korea to protest making it easier to get into medical school

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June 18, 2024
Two men cook Buldak instant ramen in large metal pots
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A popular instant noodle brand just executed a first-of-its-kind product recall because it was found too spicy for Europeans

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Illegal short selling trades in South Korea could now get you life in prison
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Illegal short selling trades in South Korea could now get you life in prison

By Youkyung Lee and Bloomberg
June 13, 2024
Samsung’s largest union goes on strike for the first time in the company’s 55-year history
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Samsung’s largest union goes on strike for the first time in the company’s 55-year history

By Yoolim Lee and Bloomberg
June 7, 2024
Russia’s war in Ukraine has turned South Korea into a manufacturing hotspot as it makes weapons faster and cheaper than the U.S.
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Russia’s war in Ukraine has turned South Korea into a manufacturing hotspot as it makes weapons faster and cheaper than the U.S.

By Sangmi Cha, Soo-Hyang Choi and Bloomberg
June 6, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
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Chip-funding ‘warfare’ continues with South Korea’s $19 billion package

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May 23, 2024
U.K. Prime Minster Rishi Sunak
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Tech companies have agreed to an AI ‘kill switch’ to prevent Terminator-style risks

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May 21, 2024
Cardi B TikTok helps stock in South Korean maker of spicy instant noodles jump by 30%
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Cardi B TikTok helps stock in South Korean maker of spicy instant noodles jump by 30%

By Shinhye Kang, Jenny Lee and Bloomberg
May 17, 2024
South Korea’s president is establishing a new ministry to boost the country’s birth rate, the world’s lowest, after a bruising election loss
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South Korea’s president is establishing a new ministry to boost the country’s birth rate, the world’s lowest, after a bruising election loss

By Soo-Hyang Choi, Shinhye Kang, Seyoon Kim and Bloomberg
May 9, 2024
AI boom still running hot as SK Hynix says its already sold majority of its 2025 allotment of high-bandwidth memory chips
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AI boom still running hot as SK Hynix says its already sold majority of its 2025 allotment of high-bandwidth memory chips

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May 2, 2024
Samsung tells its executives to work a 6-day week to ‘inject a sense of crisis’ after posting its worst financial year in over a decade
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Samsung tells its executives to work a 6-day week to ‘inject a sense of crisis’ after posting its worst financial year in over a decade

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April 19, 2024
Freight wagons, loaded with newly manufactured Volkswagen AG and BMW AG automobiles, at a railway yard in Munich, Germany, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Germany exited its winter recession in the second quarter but output only stagnated, with questions about the fundamental health of Europe's largest economy remaining.
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A German Rust Belt? As Chinese EVs like BYD swarm Europe’s key markets, historic examples of deindustrialization pose a warning to the continent’s carmakers

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April 10, 2024
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Foundation laid for ‘Silicon Heartland’ in Indiana with $3.9 billion semiconductor research and development campus, South Korean CEO says

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April 4, 2024

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