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☆ Photos show the heaviest November snowfall in 100 years blanketing South Korea and causing chaos
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-28 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A snowstorm blanketed South Korea's capital on Wednesday and Thursday, photos show. Visitors enjoy the snow at the Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea's well-known landmarks, in Seoul. AP Photo/Lee Jin-manPhotos of the snowfall show South Koreans enjoying the unusual winter wonderland, the first snow of the season. Seoul, South Korea, after Wednesday's snowfall. AdvertisementThe snow caused travel chaos and road closures in South Korea.

Persons: Lee Jin, Ahn Young, joon, Yonhap, JUNG YEON Organizations: Visitors, AP, Jintaek, Getty, Reuters, Yonhap News Agency, CNN, Korea War Memorial Museum, Korea Meteorological Administration Locations: Seoul, South, South Korea, Xinhua, Wonju, Korea, Suwon

☆ Son Jun-ho: South Korean soccer player says Chinese authorities forced match-fixing confession out of him
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —South Korean soccer player Son Jun-ho tearfully denied on Wednesday accusations by Chinese authorities that he participated in match-fixing and bribery when playing in the country and said he gave a false confession under duress. “I never took part in match-fixing,” Son told a news conference. He was not mistreated during detention, Son added, but described the conditions in which he was held as harsh. The General Administration of Sport of China and the foreign and public security ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Son, who has now signed for South Korean side Suwon FC, said he hoped to continue his career.

Persons: Son, ho, “, ” Son, Jin Jingdao, Guo Tianyu, Gu Chao Organizations: CNN, South, Chinese Football Association, CFA, Administration of Sport, Chinese Super League, Shandong, Shandong Taishan FC, South Korean, Suwon FC Locations: South Korean, China, Administration of Sport of China, Shandong Taishan

☆ Three key questions that will shape whether Coach and Michael Kors owners will merge
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

In this article CPRITPR Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTPedestrians walk past a Coach store and a Michael Kors store. One of the major debates in court has surrounded who are Coach and Michael Kors' true competitors. She said in her experience, Coach, Kate Spade and Michael Kors have never come up in customer surveys or company conversations about the competition. And he said it wouldn't need to worry as much, even if Michael Kors' brand continued to be challenged. "Once they come together, if Michael Kors continues to decline, some of that decline is going to benefit the Coach brand," he said.

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☆ North Korea’s trash balloons fall near South’s presidential office
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Yoonjung Seo | Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The discovery at the presidential office Wednesday came after South Korean authorities warned the public to beware of falling objects as suspected North Korean trash balloons moved south toward the northern area of Gyeonggi province. “While monitoring trash balloons sent by North Korea in cooperation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff today, we identified trash that fell in the presidential office area in Yongsan,” the presidential security service said later in a statement. “North Korea’s actions clearly violate international law and seriously threaten the safety of our citizens,” JCS said in a statement after an earlier balloon incident. Despite repeated North Korean warnings, the South Korean activists were “not stopping this crude and dirty play” she said. The South Korean Defense Ministry said the US planes will join with South Korean F-15, F-16 and FA-50 fighters in exercises that will end August 8.

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☆ Samsung really wants to outsmart Apple in the Galaxy-iPhone battle
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

From the city of Suwon, Samsung — the family-led titan of Korean industry — has been the world's top smartphone seller, beating Apple. Last month, Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence, a vision of generative AI that will give its devices a total refresh. In doing so, Apple hopes to inspire consumers to upgrade their iPhones so they can access its suite of AI features. (Only newer models like the iPhone 15 Pro and upcoming iPhone 16 line-up will offer Apple Intelligence). It debuted Galaxy AI, its first take on generative AI features for its devices, at the January launch of its flagship Galaxy S24 range.

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☆ ‘My vision went dark’: CNN reporter experiences 6G-force before hitching a fighter jet ride
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Four South Korean F-4 fighter jets fly in formation on May 8, 2024, during a commemorative final flight of the aircraft. That test would come a few weeks before the F-4 flight at a South Korean Air Force medical facility south of Seoul. Lendon in the back seat of a South Korean F-4 Phantom flying over southern South Korea on May 8, 2024. South Korean Air Force F-4s flying in formation with two KF-21 fighter jet prototypes over southern South Korea on May 8, 2024. A total of 120 are expected to be delivered to the South Korean Air Force by 2030, and the jet is expected to be exportable.

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☆ South Korea court grants ex-Samsung exec bail in industrial espionage case
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Employees walk past the logo of Samsung Electronics during a media tour at Samsung Electronics' headquarters in Suwon, South Korea, June 13, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSEOUL, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A South Korean court has granted bail to a former executive of Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) accused of stealing sensitive information developed by the technology giant, court records showed on Tuesday. The district court in Suwon, south of Seoul, accepted a bail request for Choi on November 10, court records showed, without providing further details. Lawyers for Choi were not immediately available for comment, but a source close to Choi confirmed he had been released on bail. Samsung Electronics did not immediately provide a comment.

Persons: Kim Hong, Choi Jinseog, Choi, Ed Davies Organizations: Samsung Electronics, REUTERS, Rights, Thomson Locations: Suwon, South Korea, Rights SEOUL, South Korean, China, Seoul, South

☆ Samsung Electronics' Q3 profit falls 78% but chip loss narrows
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A worker waters a flower bed next to the logo of Samsung Electronics during a media tour at Samsung Electronics' headquarters in Suwon, South Korea, June 13, 2023. The world's biggest maker of memory chips and smartphones said operating profit reached 2.4 trillion won ($1.78 billion) in July-September, versus 10.85 trillion won a year earlier. That was in line with the South Korean manufacturer's own estimate of 2.4 trillion won published earlier this month. Revenue fell 12% to 67.4 trillion won. ($1 = 1,346.5000 won)Reporting by Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang; Editing by Christopher CushingOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Kim Hong, 1,346.5000, Joyce Lee, Heekyong Yang, Christopher Cushing Organizations: Samsung Electronics, REUTERS, Rights, South Korean, Revenue, Thomson Locations: Suwon, South Korea, Rights SEOUL, KS

☆ Samsung Elec has more than halved its stake in ASML, filings show
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A worker waters a flower bed next to the logo of Samsung Electronics during a media tour at Samsung Electronics' headquarters in Suwon, South Korea, June 13, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSEOUL, Aug 16 (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) has reduced its stake in semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker ASML (ASML.AS) by more than a half, its recent filings showed. Samsung held 2.75 million shares in the Dutch company as of end-June, the South Korean tech giant said in its semi-annual report, down from 6.3 million shares in its first quarter report. The stake that Samsung sold is worth around 2.1 billion euros ($2.29 billion) based on the latest share prices. A Samsung Elec spokesperson confirmed the stake sale but did not elaborate.

Persons: Kim Hong, Heekyong Yang, Jason Neely Organizations: Samsung Electronics, REUTERS, Rights, Samsung, South, Thomson Locations: Suwon, South Korea, Rights SEOUL

☆ The Korean War ended 70 years ago. Here's how the 'forgotten war' started.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Stephen Carlson | Task | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

This began the deployment of Task Force Smith, the first American combat troops to arrive and fight in the Korean War. It was Soviet leader Josef Stalin himself who reluctantly gave the go ahead to North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung to invade. Task Force Smith suffered its heaviest casualties during the retreat, with enemy machine gun positions hitting them from close range. Crew members give first aid to wounded soldier, during action in the Korean War. After American and UN reinforcements arrived, a counteroffensive drove the North Korean military to the brink of collapse.

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SUWON, South Korea, July 12 (Reuters) - The trial of a South Korean chip executive accused of stealing sensitive information developed by Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) began on Wednesday in a case that underscores South Korea's crackdown on industrial espionage. Prosecutors have alleged that Choi Jinseog, a former Samsung Elec executive and a South Korean chip expert, stole sensitive information developed by the world's top memory chipmaker to help his client set up a chip factory in China. The high-profile criminal case against Choi, an award-winning engineer once seen as a star in South Korea's chip industry, highlights Seoul's efforts to crack down on industrial espionage and slow China's progress in chip manufacturing. Prosecutors have also charged five former employees at Choi's chip consultancy firm, Jin Semiconductor, and a former employee at a Samsung contractor. In a letter to Reuters from prison last month, Choi rejected allegations he had sought to build a copycat chip factory in China with information illegally obtained via Samsung's supplier network.

Persons: Choi Jinseog, Choi, Kim Pilsung, Stephen Coates Organizations: Samsung Electronics, Prosecutors, Samsung, Jin Semiconductor, Thomson Locations: SUWON, South Korea, Korean, KS, China, South, Suwon, Seoul

SEOUL, June 30 (Reuters) - A South Korean chip executive imprisoned over industrial espionage charges rejected allegations he had sought to build a copycat chip factory in China with sensitive information developed by Samsung Electronics. Choi is in custody at a detention centre in Suwon, a city south of Seoul where Samsung has its headquarters. Neither Foxconn or companies contracted build the Samsung plant were accused of any wrongdoing. A NAND flash chip is a storage chip that retains data even when a device is turned off, unlike a DRAM chip which loses data when the power is off. "What we were planning to build was a R&D fab and there is no R&D fab at (Samsung's) Xian plant.

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The announcement did not name Choi and gave only limited details, although some media subsequently identified Choi and his links with Foxconn. The unreleased 18-page indictment, reviewed by Reuters, provides details in the case against Choi, including how he is alleged to have stolen Samsung's trade secrets and details about the planned Foxconn plant. Choi's Singapore-based consultancy Jin Semiconductor won the contract with Foxconn around August 2018, according to the indictment. According to the indictment, the new Foxconn plant had planned capacity of 100,000 wafers per month using 20-nanometre DRAM memory chip technology. However, Foxconn ended the contract just a year later and only paid salaries related to the project, the lawyer said.

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☆ South Korean woman accused of killing two newborns, keeping them in freezer for years
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Gawon Bae | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Seoul, South Korea CNN —Police in South Korea say they have requested an arrest warrant for a woman accused of killing two of her newborns and keeping their bodies in her freezer for years. The newborns were only a day old when they died, the official added. Police allege she strangled the girl the day after giving birth, and put the body in the freezer of her home. She is accused of doing the same to her fifth child, a boy born in November 2019. The woman is due to attend an arrest warrant hearing on Friday.

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☆ Ex-Samsung Elec executive indicted over alleged data theft for China factory
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Soo-Hyang Choi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SEOUL, June 12 (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors said they indicted a former Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) executive on Monday on suspicion of stealing the company's technology to build a chip factory in China. He worked a combined 28 years at the South Korean chipmakers, prosecutors said. The attempt to build the new plant using Samsung data, however, ended in failure due to funding issues, a prosecutor said. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has described competition in the industry as an "all-out war" amid heightened Sino-U.S. tensions. South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's top two makers of memory chips, have invested billions of dollars in chip factories in China.

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Hong Kong/Seoul CNN —South Korean prosecutors have indicted a former Samsung executive for allegedly working with competitors who tried to build a copycat semiconductor factory in China. In a Monday statement, the Suwon district prosecutor’s office said it had charged a 65-year old former employee of what it called “Company A” over data theft. Prosecutors said the executive then tried to use that information to build a “duplicate” plant in the Chinese city of Xi’an, about 1.5 kilometers (one mile) away from a Samsung semiconductor factory. News agency Yonhap identified the second company as SK Hynix, another South Korean chip giant. Reuters reported that the attempt to build the new plant using Samsung data between 2018 and 2019 ended in failure due to funding issues.

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☆ A former Samsung exec stole plans for a chipmaking plant in China — then tried to replicate it across town, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Associated Press | Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An ex-Samsung executive has been indicted on charges of stealing company secrets for a chip plant. The 65-year-old man tried to use the stolen plans to build a copycat facility, prosecutors said. The copycat chipmaking plant would have been less than a mile from Samsung's in Xi'an, China. A former Samsung executive stole blueprints and trade secrets from his ex-employer — and then tried to set up a microchip factory in China less than a mile away from Samsung's own, prosecutors said. The technology prosecutors said was stolen by the man's China-based company would have been worth at least $233 million for Samsung.

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☆ Samsung’s Consumer-Products CEO Expects Tech Slump to Persist Through 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Jiyoung Sohn | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Han Jong-hee, vice chairman and co-CEO of Samsung, speaking at the CES annual trade show in Las Vegas last year. SUWON, South Korea— Samsung Electronics Co.’s consumer gadgets chief expects demand for tech gadgets to remain sluggish through this year as high inflation, rising interest rates and a strong dollar weigh on sales. Han Jong-hee, vice chairman and co-CEO of the South Korean technology company, said he hoped the current industry downturn, which has pulled Samsung back from a run of record profits, will begin to improve in the second half of the year.

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