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OpenAI’s GPT-6 may lead to robotics breakthrough as soon as next year: Unitree founder

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Nga và Ấn Độ tuyên bố trở lại Sao Kim: Trên "hành tinh địa ngục" này, liệu sự sống có thực sự đang trôi nổi?

3 telecoms' Q3 profits to jump 84% to $1.04 bil.

Lawmakers slam Coupang for refusing to cooperate with antitrust probe

Lee orders stern response to alleged abuse of workers at car battery plant

Google Korea finally wins tax dispute against Korean tax office

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Korea's tax authority, effectively upholding a lower court's ruling in favor of Google Korea in a corporate tax cancellation case involving about 154 billion won ($115.3 million), judicial officials said Monday. The top court left intact the Seoul High Court's ruling siding with Google Korea in its corporate tax cancellation lawsuit against the head of Seoul's Yeoksam Tax Office by dismissing the defendant's appeal without substantive review Thursday, the officials said. The tax office imposed corporate and local income taxes totaling around 154 billion won on Google Korea in 2020, arguing that the company's transfer of part of its income to Google Asia Pacific based in Singapore was subject to taxation. The office classified the payments as royalty income derived from the use of copyrights and knowhow. But Google Korea took the case to court, arguing that the payments constituted business income for Google Asia Pacific and were therefore not taxable in Korea. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of Google Korea, finding that the paym

Oct 12, 2026

Celltrion Q3 operating profit tops W500 bil. mark for 1st time

Biotech company Celltrion said Monday that its operating profit for the third quarter of 2026 is expected to surpass the 500 billion won ($374.3 million) mark for the first time, driven by robust sales in global markets. In its earnings guidance released Monday, the company forecast 1.5 trillion won in sales and 510 billion won in operating profit for the three-month period, representing year-on-year increases of 45.8 percent and 69.2 percent, respectively. Both sales and operating profit reached record quarterly highs, with operating profit surpassing 500 billion won for the first time since the company's establishment. Celltrion said its profitability has improved due to a growing share of high-margin products in its sales mix and improvements in its cost structure. Earlier this year, Celltrion set quarterly operating profit targets of more than 300 billion won for the first quarter, 400 billion won for the second and 500 billion won for the third. The company said it has exceeded its targets in each of the first three quarters, demonstrating that its profit growth has progressed as p

Oct 12, 2026

Less paperwork, AI-powered banking: KakaoBank joins race for foreign customers

KakaoBank on Monday launched a range of financial services for international residents in Korea, joining local lenders in the race to attract customers from the country's growing foreign population. The new offering from the internet-only lender includes checking accounts, debit cards, overseas remittances and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered multilingual support. "Even though banking has become much more convenient for domestic customers, foreign residents still face the kind of inconvenience we experienced in the past, when we had to visit bank branches just to open an account," Bae Jung-ho, head of KakaoBank's Foreign Customer Camp, said during a press conference in Seoul. "By providing foreign residents with the same app that our 28 million customers already use, we were able to launch more than 50 services at once," he added. KakaoBank's Foreign Resident Account is available to residents aged 19 or older who have an accepted form of identification and a mobile phone registered in their name. Applicants can open an account through a mobile chatbot in about five minutes, the bank

Oct 12, 2026

Civic group files complaint against Kakao over alleged privacy law violations

A civic group filed a complaint against Kakao with the privacy watchdog on Monday, alleging that the tech giant's corporate advertising service uses personal data to target users without their consent. The Seoul YMCA said it urged the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) to investigate KakaoTalk’s Brand Message service and impose strict sanctions if violations are confirmed. The group said Kakao replaced its previous channel-based advertising service, which limited promotional messages to users who had added a business’s KakaoTalk channel, with Brand Message, which allows businesses to send ads without requiring users to follow their channels. It alleged that Kakao matches phone numbers provided by advertisers with its own user database to identify ad recipients, even though users had provided their numbers for basic messaging functions, not to receive third-party advertising. “The key alleged violations involve the unauthorized use of personal information and infringement of users’ rights,” the group said. “Although users agreed to provide their phone numbers for

Oct 12, 2026

AI pioneer sees Korea's role in developing world model

Developing industrial artificial intelligence (AI) requires "world AI" capable of understanding the physical world, and Korea has an increasingly important role to play in this field, according to Yann LeCun, widely regarded as one of the four leading figures in the global AI academia. LeCun and a number of other leading experts shared their views during the Global AI Leaders Seoul Dialogue, an event organized ahead of the fifth International Industrial AI Conference, scheduled for Tuesday in Tokyo. LeCun is a leading AI scientist, a recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, founder of AMI Labs and former chief AI scientist and vice president at Meta. He is known for pioneering convolutional neural networks, which revolutionized image recognition. He also serves as chief science adviser to Project Tapestry, an AI Alliance-led initiative to develop a large-scale AI model through federated learning, which allows AI models to learn from data stored across different countries or companies without requiring the data to be transferred to a central server. Christopher Nguyen, CEO of Aitomatic and chi

Oct 12, 2026

Air Premia captures 20% market share on LA route in 4th year of service

Korean budget airline Air Premia has captured more than 20 percent of passenger traffic carried by domestic carriers on the Incheon–Los Angeles route, marking four years of service on its flagship transpacific corridor. The airline said Monday that it transported 759,277 passengers on the route from its launch on Oct. 29, 2022, through September, recording an average share of 15.8 percent among Korean carriers over the period. Its share rose steadily from 12.9 percent in its first year to 14 percent in its second and 15.3 percent in its third, before reaching 20.8 percent in its fourth year. International demand has also grown, with passengers holding foreign nationalities accounting for 44.8 percent of total travelers over the four-year period. Their share climbed from 40.2 percent in the first year to 41.1 percent in the second and 47.2 percent in the third, reaching 49.6 percent in the fourth year. To mark the anniversary, Air Premia is offering promotional fares across five U.S. routes: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Honolulu. Round-trip fares on the Los

Oct 12, 2026

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SK Group chairman challenges court's property division in divorce suit with ex-wife

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won on Monday is said to be challenging the court's property division in his ongoing suit with his former wife, which set the wife's share at 33 percent of their shared property subject to division. The SK chairman raised the issue in a document submitted to the Supreme Court earlier in the day, as part of his appeal filed in August against the Seoul High Court's decision ordering him to pay 944 billion won ($707.8 million) in property division to his former wife Roh Soh-yeong, the daughter of late former President Roh Tae-woo. The appellate court issued the ruling in its second trial after the Supreme Court sent its previous ruling back for retrial a year earlier, determining that the former president's alleged 30 billion-won slush fund given to SK Group should not be recognized as the daughter's contribution to the marriage because it would have been illegal funds, even if it existed. In the document Chey's side submitted to the Supreme Court as part of his appeal, the SK Group chairman reportedly disputed the legality of the appellate court's latest decisio

Oct 12, 2026

MoMo: Sự tin dùng được bồi đắp qua mỗi giao dịch

MoMo là nền tảng tài chính số Việt phục vụ hơn 30 triệu người dùng, đưa chuyển tiền, thanh toán hóa đơn, mua sắm và nhiều tiện ích thiết yếu lên điện thoại. Từ một ví điện tử, MoMo đang phát triển thành “Trợ thủ tài chính với AI”, hỗ trợ quản lý chi tiêu, tiếp cận các dịch vụ do đối tác cung cấp và vận hành kinh doanh

Baseus sắp có dock 10 trong 1: Tích hợp màn hình, xuất hai màn hình 4K 60Hz và sạc laptop 100W

Oct 12, 2026

OpenAI’s GPT-6 may lead to robotics breakthrough as soon as next year: Unitree founder

Cơn sốt phim ngắn AI đầu độc sức khỏe người già và cái bẫy cảm xúc vô hình khiến con cháu giật mình

Nga và Ấn Độ tuyên bố trở lại Sao Kim: Trên "hành tinh địa ngục" này, liệu sự sống có thực sự đang trôi nổi?

3 telecoms' Q3 profits to jump 84% to $1.04 bil.

Lawmakers slam Coupang for refusing to cooperate with antitrust probe

Lee orders stern response to alleged abuse of workers at car battery plant

Google Korea finally wins tax dispute against Korean tax office

Celltrion Q3 operating profit tops W500 bil. mark for 1st time

Less paperwork, AI-powered banking: KakaoBank joins race for foreign customers

Civic group files complaint against Kakao over alleged privacy law violations

AI pioneer sees Korea's role in developing world model

Air Premia captures 20% market share on LA route in 4th year of service

Hyosung Chemical brings high-performance plastics to Europe for EVs, robots

HLB resubmits FDA application for liver cancer treatment

Claude emerges as fastest-growing AI skill in Korean job postings

Naver Map to offer voice guidance on Meta, Google, Samsung smart glasses

Gaon Cable to make nuclear power plant cables in US

SK Group opens 2-year AI academy with $2,200 monthly allowance

SK Group chairman challenges court's property division in divorce suit with ex-wife

MoMo: Sự tin dùng được bồi đắp qua mỗi giao dịch

Baseus sắp có dock 10 trong 1: Tích hợp màn hình, xuất hai màn hình 4K 60Hz và sạc laptop 100W

Game thủ sắp mất RTX 5090? NVIDIA bị đồn gom chip mạnh nhất cho AI, đưa RTX 5080 24 GB lên thay

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Sắp có điện thoại iQOO pin 9.000mAh, chip Snapdragon đầu 8, màn 185Hz, có quạt tản nhiệt