Smart glasses incidents at university entrance examinations in Seoul, disclosed on October 13, have exposed a gap between checking candidates before a test and maintaining security throughout it. Devices that combine cameras and connectivity with ordinary-looking frames are increasingly difficult to identify through visual inspection alone. Reports that a candidate changed glasses after an initial check highlight the limits of treating entry screening as sufficient protection. Exam security must

LS Materials is expanding into the artificial intelligence data center (AIDC) power infrastructure market after securing a major ultracapacitor (UC) supply contract with a U.S.-based hydrogen fuel cell company.LS Materials announced on October 13 that it had signed a contract worth approximately $51.5 million, or around KRW 69 billion, to supply UCs for AI data center applications. The deal represents the largest export contract ever secured by a South Korean company in the ultracapacitor indust

LG Group is accelerating its push into the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure market as Chairman Koo Kwang-mo’s “One LG” strategy begins to translate into more concrete business opportunities through partnerships with Microsoft and Nvidia.The South Korean conglomerate is expanding cooperation with Microsoft across AI data centers, AI transformation (AX) and physical AI, while LG Electronics and LG Energy Solution are strengthening their positions in Nvidia’s AI factory ecosystem through

Samsung SDS is expanding its AI business across data centers, cloud services and manufacturing systems. The company recently agreed to invest in U.S. AI infrastructure company Helix alongside other Samsung affiliates and is developing a platform that connects production equipment with robots. Its cloud business recorded double-digit revenue growth in the second quarter. These initiatives share a common direction: supplying the computing resources AI requires and applying the technology to enterp

Capital markets are changing how they assess South Korean medical artificial intelligence companies. A few years ago, overseas regulatory milestones, including U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorizations and European CE marking, along with supply contracts with major hospitals, were considered key drivers of share prices. The ability of a technology company to enter a tightly regulated healthcare market was itself a scarce achievement. Increasingly, valuation depends on how extensivel

Samsung Electronics has set an unprecedented record by posting more than 100 trillion won in quarterly operating profit, powered by an artificial intelligence-driven boom in memory semiconductors.The South Korean technology giant said Wednesday that it expects consolidated sales of 195 trillion won and operating profit of 107.4 trillion won for the third quarter of 2026. Sales surged 126.6% from a year earlier, while operating profit jumped 782.5%, with both figures marking quarterly records.Ope

POSCO Holdings is accelerating its push into the global lithium market after completing the upstream portion of its second lithium brine plant in Argentina, strengthening the foundation for an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons of lithium hydroxide.The company held a completion ceremony on October 6 at the Hombre Muerto salt lake in Argentina, located at an elevation of around 4,000 meters. POSCO Group Chairman Chang In-hwa and senior Argentine government officials attended the event, hig

Hyundai Motor and Kia are broadening their approach to electrification, presenting a strategy that combines electric vehicles (EVs), hybrids (HEVs), extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) and fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), rather than relying on a single powertrain technology.The automakers showcased their future mobility vision and key technologies at the Aachen Automotive Colloquium 2026, held in Aachen, Germany, from Oct. 5 to 7.A key highlight was the companies’ first keynote address

LS Electric is reshaping its business strategy in Taiwan, moving beyond its traditional focus on power equipment sales to pursue larger infrastructure projects through a newly established local joint venture with affiliates of Formosa Plastics Group.The Korean power equipment and energy solutions provider said on Oct. 7 that it had signed an agreement with Taiwan-based Nan Ya Plastics and KHI to establish a joint venture dedicated to power business in Taiwan.The new company, named Nan Ya Le Xing

Hanmi Pharmaceutical has unveiled a next-generation anticancer modality designed to target not only cancer cells but also the tumor microenvironment, expanding its drug discovery efforts into a new area of oncology.The Korean pharmaceutical company said on Oct. 6 that it presented preclinical research on a small-molecule drug conjugate, or SMDC, targeting fibroblast activation protein (FAP) at Discovery on Target 2026, held in Boston from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1.The approach is designed to address so

On October 3, financial authorities in Seoul stepped up their response to a series of cyber intrusions and personal data leaks that have spread from South Korea’s major banks to savings banks and consumer finance companies. But the more important question is not how many financial institutions have been affected. It is where the attackers chose to strike.Incidents disclosed so far point not to core transaction systems such as internet or mobile banking, but to peripheral systems connected to the

The art collection amassed by the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee is being showcased in Europe, following exhibitions in the United States, as major works spanning some 2,000 years of Korean cultural heritage go on display in London.Samsung said October 1 that a gala dinner was held at the British Museum in London on September 30 to mark the opening of “Korea: 2,000 Years of Creativity,” a special exhibition jointly organized by the National Museum of Korea, the National Museum of Modern

LG Electronics is stepping up its push into the rapidly growing AI data center cooling market by expanding production capacity in the United States and South Korea.The company said on October 1 that it will build a chiller manufacturing plant in Windsor, Virginia, with production scheduled to begin in the first half of next year. The facility will cover approximately 32,000 square meters of floor space on a 170,000-square-meter site and will primarily produce air-cooled chillers for AI data cent

South Korea’s exports exceeded $120 billion in a single month for the first time in September, driven by a continued semiconductor boom and strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s September 2026 export and import report released Wednesday, exports reached $120.94 billion last month, up 83.5% from a year earlier. Imports rose 26.0% to $71.09 billion.The resulting trade surplus stood at $49.85 billion, marking the firs

South Korea could generate more than $50 billion in annual economic value from distributed artificial intelligence by 2035, as AI computing expands from centralized data centers to factories, vehicles, smartphones and robots, according to a new report from global technology policy consultancy Access Partnership.The report, titled “From Cloud to Edge: The Value of Distributed AI in South Korea,” examines how distributed AI could help the country address structural challenges including an aging po

Samsung is expanding beyond semiconductors into the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market with a combined $1 billion investment by six affiliates in U.S.-based Helix Digital Infrastructure.Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire & Marine

Celltrion is stepping up efforts to broaden its global business portfolio beyond biosimilars, using the upcoming CPHI 2026 exhibition in Milan as a platform to pursue partnerships in novel drug development, contract manufacturing and pharmaceutical supply chains.The South Korean biopharmaceutical co

Samsung Electronics has supplied its private 5G network solutions to Hana Financial Group’s new headquarters in Cheongna, Incheon, marking the first deployment of its kind in Korea’s financial sector.The project, carried out in partnership with SK Telecom, covers 16 floors of Hana Financial Group’s

KT said its proprietary AI model routing technology, AutoModelRouter, ranked second in the Acc-Cost Arena of RouterArena, a global benchmark for evaluating large language model (LLM) routers.RouterArena was developed by researchers at Rice University in the United States. The research was accepted a

The metrics used to assess the artificial intelligence rivalry between the United States and China are changing. The Sept. 24 summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping produced no clear breakthrough on AI. A U.S. proposal for mutual notification of major AI incident