Hanwha Aerospace Explosion Incident.

• Five died. The explosion is believed to have occurred while cleaning a rocket propellant.
• This is the third fatal accident. In 2018, five died, and in 2019, three died.
• The company was held responsible for both previous accidents, but penalties were limited to fines of 30 million won and 50 million won, respectively. All company officials received suspended sentences.
• Thirteen deaths in eight years. If preventive measures were insufficient despite recurring accidents, the company could face punishment under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act.
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D-1 Keyword: Conservative Mobilization.

• 16 metropolitan areas show the Democratic Party leading in many regions, but Seoul, Daegu, and Jeollabuk-do remain tight.
• When Kyunghyang Shinmun asked experts to assess the race, Kim Bong-shin (CEO of Metavoice) and Kim Jun-il (political commentator) predicted 13 regions favoring the Democratic Party, while Yoo Seung-chan (CEO of Story Dot) and Lee Kang-yoon (political commentator) forecasted 12. Lee Jae-mook (professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) analyzed 9, and Shin Yul (professor at Myongji University) estimated 8.
• The People Power Party holds an advantage only in Gyeongsangbuk-do.
• Kim Bong-shin analyzed, “For the government-checking narrative to grow, angry voters must act—but there’s a perception that misdirected anger could wreck the economy.”
• The critical question is whether the Democratic Party will secure a landslide. Yoo Seung-chan noted, “If final turnout exceeds 55%, competitive regions could swing to the Democratic Party.”
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Cho Kuk leads, Ha Jung-woo struggles.

• We’ll know once the lid is opened. However, in the Pyeongtaek by-election, Cho Kuk (Cho Kuk Innovation Party candidate) has surged, while in the Busan Buk-gap by-election, Han Dong-hoon (independent candidate) holds the lead. There are also criticisms that conservative sentiment has been oversampled.
• Cho Kuk and Kim Yong-nam (Democratic Party candidate) have clashed over accusations of being a “fake Democratic Party.” Lee Hae-min (Cho Kuk Innovation Party lawmaker) criticized, “A chameleon-like prosecutor-turned-candidate who was once People Power Party, then Reform Party, endlessly chasing power and switching parties for nominations.” Kim Yong-nam retorted, “They are impersonating a Democratic bloc candidate” and accused them of “posing as a pseudo-Democratic Party.”
• Low voter turnout in Pyeongtaek is another variable. Analysis suggests conservative-leaning voters are highly concentrated, and fatigue from negative campaigning has mounted.
• Early voting rates: 16% in Pyeongtaek, 26% in Busan Buk-gap, and 21% nationwide.
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Who First Proposed the Information Disclosure Request System?

• Park Jong-gu (Cheongju City Council member). It began in Cheongju in 1991, spread nationwide, and led to the 1995 Information Disclosure Act.
• Who first proposed disclosing administrative expense records? Lee Chang-su (Ansan City Council member).
• Free school meals? Originated from a 2006 Geochang County ordinance.
• Medical cost support for dementia patients? Began with a Buan County ordinance.
• Lee Seung-jun (Hankyoreh Political Desk) emphasized, “The easiest and most effective way to disrupt the inertia of politics and political parties is ‘one vote.’” Tomorrow’s local elections matter.
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What Matters Now.

Jeong Cheong-rae eyes Seoul and Jeollabuk-do, Jang Dong-hyeok targets Daegu.

• Losing here means no victory celebration.
• Jang Dong-hyeok (People Power Party leader) is also sensitive about Busan Buk-gap. If Han Dong-hoon (independent candidate) returns, he could become a non-mainstream pivot for the People Power Party.
• Jeong Cheong-rae (Democratic Party leader) has his party leadership re-election riding on Seoul and Jeollabuk-do results.
• When Hankook Ilbo analyzed their statements, Jeong Cheong-rae emphasized, “Supporting Lee Jae-myung brings budget benefits,” 523 times, while Jang Dong-hyeok warned, “Lee Jae-myung offers no future,” 219 times.
• Kim Min-seok (Prime Minister) liking a critical post about Jeong Cheong-rae also sparked attention. Once local elections conclude, party leadership battles are expected to begin immediately.
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KOSPI 8,788.4.

• KOSPI briefly surpassed 8,800. Market cap stands at 7,205 trillion won.
• Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix account for 2,219 trillion won and 1,663 trillion won respectively. Together, they represent 52% of KOSPI’s total market cap.
• KOSPI’s PER is 8.1x, rising to 11.0x when excluding semiconductors. Compared to the long-term average of 10.4x, the overall market is considered expensive—semiconductors remain cheap while the broader index has risen sharply.
• Barring surprises, today is likely to continue as a ‘bullish’ session. All three major US indices climbed: S&P 500 (+0.26%), Dow (+0.09%), and Nasdaq (+0.42%).
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“600,000 Samsung Electrons and 4 Million Nix on the Move.”.

• SK Securities raised target prices for Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to 610,000 won and 4 million won respectively. (Closing prices on the 1st were 350,000 won and 2.36 million won.)
• The outlook is brighter for next year than this year.
• Operating profits are projected at 37.8 trillion won and 27.2 trillion won this year, rising to 57.0 trillion won and 42.3 trillion won next year. KOSPI operating profits are likely to exceed 1,000 trillion won next year.
• Analysts describe the current phase as “passing the 5km mark in a marathon,” with projections that Samsung Electronics’ market cap could hit $2 trillion.
• While a flood of low-cost Chinese memory chips next year poses risks, the market is likely to remain supply-driven until then.
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Can SK Hynix Catch Samsung Electronics?

• As of late last year, SK Hynix’s market cap was 67% of Samsung Electronics’—now it’s 89%.
• Year-to-date returns are 164% for Samsung Electronics and 258% for SK Hynix. A stronger premium has attached to Hynix. Based on this year’s performance, their price-to-earnings ratios (PER) are 5.8x and 6.2x respectively.
• Micron Technology’s PER is 10.2x. The narrative remains that Samsung and Hynix are undervalued. To reach Micron’s valuation, they’d need to rise nearly 40% more.
• Lee Seung-woo (Eugene Investment & Securities analyst) projected, “With no end in sight to demand, it’s hard to find reasons for a slowdown.”

Gganbu Meeting? This Time, a ‘Samso Meeting’.

• They say they’ll drink soju with pork belly in Seongsu-dong. The members include Choi Tae-won (SK Chairman), Euisun Chung (Hyundai Motor Chairman), Koo Kwang-mo (LG Chairman), and Lee Hae-jin (Naver Chairman).
• The surge in Hyundai Motor, LG Electronics, and Naver shares is also a Jensen Huang (NVIDIA CEO) effect. LG Electronics rose nearly 30% in two days.
• Speculation swirls that two topics will be discussed: Huang’s urgent need to secure memory chips and his desire to rapidly expand the physical AI market.
• Jae-yong Lee (Samsung Electronics Chairman) cannot attend due to overseas commitments.
• AI chip Vera Rubin has entered full-scale production. It will include HBM4 made by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
• Kim Doo-eon (Hana Securities analyst) said, “The era of AI confined to data centers is over—it’s now moving into factories, cars, robots, appliances, logistics, and the cloud.”
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Deep Dive.

Why Hyundai Motor Is Rising.

• Three reasons.
• First, Volkswagen, Ford, and Honda have struggled in the EV market. Excluding Chinese automakers, only Hyundai is thriving.
• Second, in physical AI, Hyundai is the top player outside of China. Google also chose Hyundai as its partner.
• Third, in autonomous driving, Hyundai is a latecomer but has no real competitors. To scale Alpamayo, NVIDIA has no choice but to rely on Hyundai. Waymo and RoboTaxi vehicles are also being contract-manufactured by Hyundai.
• Prices are also attractive. Hyundai’s market cap is 1/12th of Tesla’s and half of Toyota’s. Some analysts even predict it could catch up to Toyota.

Why LG Electronics Is Rising.

• It is all-in on physical AI. Developing robots based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor and Isaac platforms. They also manufacture actuators, a core component of humanoids.
• The AI data center market is significant. Orders for key products like chillers (cooling systems) and CDUs (coolant distribution units) have tripled.

Why Samsung Electro-Mechanics Is Rising.

• It’s not just memory. Demand for MLCCs (multilayer ceramic capacitors) is also exploding. They’ve proactively stockpiled inventory, and double-booking has increased.
• Flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) is also a critical component.
• With long-term supply agreements (LTA) growing, it’s a market where the asking price is the price.

Samsung+SK Hynix Invests in Anthropic.

• Its enterprise value is $965 billion. It has surpassed OpenAI, valued at $852 billion. Investment commitments from hyperscalers like Amazon alone reach $15 billion.
• The exact investment amounts from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix were not disclosed, but the significance lies in their shared move to play a larger game.
• There is also a possibility that Anthropic will outsource custom AI chip production to Samsung Electronics.
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“Reinventing the PC.”.

• “A laptop for people who do things ordinary computers can’t.” A notebook computer with NVIDIA chips is coming. Microsoft unveiled the ‘Surface Laptop Ultra’ with NVIDIA chips.
• It can run AI models with up to 120 billion parameters. NVIDIA is making a big deal out of it, claiming, “We’ve redefined the PC.”
• If computers for the past 40 years were tools to execute tasks, the NVIDIA laptop is an AI agent that handles things autonomously.
• Shares of Qualcomm and Intel plummeted immediately after the announcement.
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Without Semiconductors, 4,100?

• Lee Jae-myung (President) singled out a Chosun Ilbo article for criticism.
• Sharing the article titled “Stock market lost in illusion… Kospi 4,100 without semiconductors” on X, he quipped, “Would anyone say Son Heung-min is just an average person if you subtract his soccer skills?”
• The Chosun Ilbo piece cited a report by analyst Heo Jae-hwan (Eugene Investment & Securities) titled ‘The Shadow of the Semiconductor Giant.’ Heo analyzed, “There’s no sign of the concentration phenomenon easing.”
• According to Heo’s analysis, the semiconductor sector now accounts for 55% of the Kospi’s market capitalization. Yet the sector’s projected profits for this year are expected to exceed 70% of the entire Kospi’s earnings. The implication: semiconductors remain the most attractive—and their dominance will only deepen.
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Semiconductor Power Overtakes Oil Power.

• Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Chevron—the three oil giants—have a combined market cap of $2.7 trillion,
• while Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology—the three semiconductor leaders—reach $3.7 trillion.
• At the end of last year, the figures were $2.3 trillion and $1.1 trillion, respectively. The tables have turned.

Another Take.

Why Fewer Hallucinations Are More Dangerous.

• As AI hallucinations decrease, people are more likely to overlook its errors. Obvious hallucinations can be detected, but plausible falsehoods are easier to fall for.
• The shift from generative language models to agentic engines has made human intervention (humans in the loop) more difficult.
• Dan Klein (UC Berkeley professor) noted, “This system is not a ‘truth engine’ but merely a ‘plausibility engine.’” It’s about optimization, not truth.
• Harvard Business Review warned, “We may be overestimating our ability to verify AI-generated content while underestimating how easily we could be manipulated in reverse.”
• A study by Boston Consulting Group experts found that when they pointed out AI errors, the system tried to persuade them instead of reflecting or correcting.
• Some argue hallucinations cannot be eliminated because efficiency and cost are inversely proportional.
• Axios pointed out, “The time spent reviewing AI-generated results could cancel out the time originally saved.” This suggests a growing tendency to cut corners.
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AI Learning Manufacturing Tacit Knowledge.

• POSCO has a position called a charging operator. It’s a core process of blowing oxygen into molten iron from a blast furnace. Lee Young-jin (charging operator) said, “While techniques can be taught through manuals, the intuition to assess the state of molten iron requires years of accumulated experience.”
• Nowadays, AI learns the know-how of charging operators. By deep-learning tasks that 30-year veterans once handled, deviations have been reduced. The government even provides subsidies.
• Manufacturing tacit knowledge contains contextual information that’s hard to verbalize. Input amounts vary with temperature and humidity, and soldering techniques must adapt accordingly. There are times when judgment must rely on intuition and tactile senses. Though still in training, concerns arise that once trained, AI might replace workers.
• A representative of a solution development company interviewed by The Hankyoreh said, “While the business intent is good, societal agreements or directions should have been discussed first regarding disclosing one’s lifetime of accumulated manufacturing expertise.”
• The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions noted, “Workers’ skills and experience are not mere data but the result of labor accumulated over long periods,” adding, “It must be pursued in a way that balances industrial competitiveness with labor rights protection.”
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Surplus Tax Revenue to National Wealth Funds.

• Koo Yoon-cheol (Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs) appeared on Sampro TV and said, “We will grow it as a future asset” and “We will boldly invest 20 trillion won + alpha.” The plan is to invest in semiconductors, secondary batteries, biotech, and displays.
• Series B or Series C stage companies are being mentioned—expansion and scale-up phases, respectively.
• Critics point out overlaps with the already sold-out National Growth Fund.
• Chosun Ilbo praised the direction in an editorial: “Correct approach.” The argument is that “instead of scattering funds as cash handouts like livelihood support, it should be reserved as assets to discover future growth engines.”
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War of Ideologies? Chosun Ilbo’s Framing.

• Chosun Ilbo’s emphasized messages are as follows: First, the boycott movement against Starbucks is intensifying in Gwangju; second, there are even pro-Starbucks rallies in Seoul; third, a boycott movement against Chinese milk tea franchises is unfolding; fourth, workers are getting caught in the crossfire.
• The headline’s “Freedom of a Cup of Coffee” is a phrase borrowed from Jang Dong-hyeok (People Power Party leader).
• Chosun Ilbo even dragged in the Fukushima wastewater controversy—ultimately arguing that only fisheries market vendors will suffer.
• Seo Yi-jong (Seoul National University professor) argued, “If politicians instrumentalize ordinary citizens’ daily lives to fuel ideological polarization, it could destroy people’s lives.”
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The Fix.

AI Firms Must Hand Over Half Their Shares.

• Bernie Sanders (U.S. Senator) argues: AI didn’t fall from the sky—it’s built on our collective intelligence and knowledge accumulated over generations. Have AI companies paid their fair share?
• Bernie Sanders plans to propose an AI sovereign wealth fund bill. The plan envisions taxing 50% of shares from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. Two changes can be expected.
• First, citizens can participate in deciding the future of technology. “The fate of humanity shouldn’t be decided in Silicon Valley boardrooms.”
• Second, profits can be shared. Bernie Sanders emphasized, “If wealth is created from public resources, that wealth should be shared by the people.”
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6 Days a Week for 500,000 Won: A Hairstylist’s Tears.

• Many salons hire interns as freelancers, denying them base pay or holiday work allowances. Some even deduct 1 million won per month under the guise of training fees.
• Fake “under-five-employee” businesses are also common. Since workplaces with five or more employees face stricter regulations, salons often reclassify interns as freelancers to reduce their official headcount. Ha Eun-sung (labor attorney at Saetbyeol Labor Law Firm) argued, “If employers intentionally underreport regular staff numbers or disguise workers as freelancers, punitive damages should apply.”
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ICYMI.

“I Rise to Speak…”.

• In Korean, it’s roughly equivalent to “I will speak,” but the phrase is rarely used in the UK. Yet its appearance in the British Parliament has surged.
• In 2024, it was used 231 times; by September 2025, the count had jumped to 635.
• Tom Tugendhat (UK Conservative Party MP) noted, “Labour MPs are drafting their speeches with ChatGPT.” The AI may have learned common U.S. congressional phrasing and Labour is now replicating it in the UK Parliament.
• A parliamentary aide interviewed by the Financial Times remarked, “If we outsource everything to AI, aren’t we just proving that our own jobs can be done by AI?”
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Juvenile Reformatories Are Bursting at the Seams.

• Juvenile detention admissions rose from 1,361 in 2021 to 2,532 last year. 15% are repeat offenders.
• In the UK, regional youth justice agencies oversee cases from police intervention to post-release support. Over the past decade, juvenile offenders have decreased by 70%.
• Jang Su-yong (Protection Officer) noted, “Systematic government management of at-risk youth is essential to prevent them from becoming adult criminals.”

Worth Reading.

Germany’s Real Problem.

• Konstantin Richter (author) analyzes. Once celebrated for efficiency and order, the German economy is in terrible disarray. The issues are threefold.
• First, the capital problem. More than half of many German companies’ shares are now owned by foreign investors.
• Second, the education problem. While Germany was once praised for its vocational training system, there are no applicants now. Math and natural science scores are also not what they used to be.
• Third, the labor market problem. Germany’s welfare state system is too costly. Mutual trust between labor and management has also collapsed.
• Could AI be an opportunity? If it can upgrade manufacturing, then yes. However, Richter noted, “The confidence of the world’s third-largest economy has vanished.”
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The Era of the “Gongdol” Millionaire.

• “When profits exceed common sense, it’s time for societal dialogue on a ‘sharing rule’—principles of distribution.”
• Shin Jae-yong (Seoul National University professor) argued, “We should welcome the rise of the ‘gongdol’ millionaire.”
• “It’s only right that graduates of technical high schools, junior colleges, or tech majors are prioritized over doctors earning 600 million won by shooting lasers on skin in Gangnam Station,” he said.
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It’s Not Different—It’s Wrong.

• Yoo Jeong-hoon (lawyer) stated, “Calling 5.18 a riot and mocking it with a ‘Tank Day’ event is not a difference of opinion—it is wrong.” “It is an act of denying historical facts, the collective awareness shared by our society, and the official evaluations established by the state.”
• Yoo Jeong-hoon warned, “If we stand by while wrongdoing is mistaken for mere difference, the democracy we’ve cherished will gradually erode.”
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Presidential X and Lee Jae-myung’s X.

• Presidential social media carries heavy responsibility. Every citizen sees it.
• It’s often unclear whether posts are written in an official capacity or reflect the private sentiments of individual Lee Jae-myung—and they’re not free from criticism over election interference or the misuse of state power.
• Lee Young-tae (Korea Ilbo columnist) urged, “I earnestly request that only the president’s social media remain, and Lee Jae-myung’s be put aside,” adding, “That’s the fair way to wield the president’s power of speech and writing.”
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Feedback.

3-Year Anniversary Feedback Compilation.

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