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KakaoBank disables downloadable PDF loan packs and routes borrowers through authenticated chat flows after regulators shut shared recruiter lookup portals industry-wide on Oct. 8.
The U.S. vendor said an unidentified operator used a Chinese-developed penetration-testing platform and large language models to hit loan-inquiry and mobile work systems at several major lenders, as Seoul regulators keep emergency reviews running.
Shinhan and peer banks disabled or throttled external loan-recruiter lookup services before regulators’ Oct. 8 deadline to close the contractor portals blamed for recent customer-data thefts.
Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service shared two dozen suspicious internet addresses with seven breached lenders and set a Thursday deadline for fixes, as police assigned four teams from its cybercrime unit to trace coordinated intrusions.
Naver Cloud executives prepared a national audit brief arguing sovereign cloud regions should expand as the science ministry audits public-sector AI procurement rules written after the AI Basic Act took effect in January.
Seoul Southern District Court granted injunctions halting Korea Exchange delisting steps against Juyeon Tech and KM Pharmaceutical, ruling accelerated market-cap thresholds lacked proportionality.
President Lee Jae Myung ordered a sector-wide response after mutual finance and capital firms disclosed breaches alongside Shinhan, KB and Hana, pushing confirmed personal-data losses past 60,000 lines.
Samsung SDS opened a third immutable backup vault for Gangnam finance tenants, offering air-gapped snapshots and four-hour recovery tests certified under Korea’s cloud-security framework for securities firms.
SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus now require facial recognition, a mobile ID or same-day resident certificates when customers open or port mobile lines.
AhnLab’s ASEC team linked a state-sponsored campaign to watering-hole attacks on two widely deployed Korean financial security products, chaining Struggle and Brandoor backdoors and tying one cluster to Gunra ransomware activity.
LG Uplus activated standalone 5G cells at three Incheon cargo warehouses Oct. 1 to back temperature sensors on pharmaceutical and seafood pallets before the winter peak.
Samsung said Sept. 23 it validated 16-gigabit LPDDR6 at up to 10.7 gigabits per second on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, clearing a path for higher-bandwidth on-device AI phones.
NCSOFT pushed the console release of Throne and Liberty to the first quarter of 2027 after Unreal Engine 5 shader bugs surfaced in certification builds for PlayStation and Xbox.
Hanwha Aerospace Co. disclosed exploratory maintenance talks for Korea’s KF-21 fighter with Mexican officials in a post-summit regulatory filing, linking Lee’s defense MOUs to export logistics without announcing a sale.
President Lee Jae-myung's Mexico trip produced 17 MOUs, but the document with a longer tail is the 2026–2030 joint action plan naming aerospace, the defense industry and stable supply chains alongside AI.
An Industry Ministry briefing points to a Texas gas-fired power project as a possible first draw on Seoul's $350 billion U.S. investment pledge, with shipbuilding still the biggest slice.
KT Corp. brought hundreds of rural 5G cell sites in Gangwon back online after a planned Chuseok maintenance window that briefly left highland towns on LTE fallback while tower crews swapped radios and backup batteries.
Naver Cloud Platform added edge bandwidth and autoscale rules ahead of Chuseok after last year's map routing and Naver Pay spikes lagged during expressway congestion windows, routing traffic through regional points of presence tied to Korea Expressway rest-area Wi-Fi partners.
Kakao Mobility resumed feeding real-time bus arrival data to Naver Map after a consent and caching dispute settled, restoring parity for Seoul commuters who split navigation apps during the Chuseok return week.
LG Innotek began shipping under-display camera module samples to domestic foldable phone makers ahead of a 2026 hinge refresh, pairing higher pixel aperture with diffraction-masking films tuned for Korea’s late-year flagship cycle.
KT has opened a limited production pilot that wraps quantum-enhanced VPN tunnels around data links from Incheon Airport cargo-hall X-ray scanners to customs clearance servers, after plain IPSec paths failed a penetration review.
POSCO DX is running a Pohang yard pilot that lets battery forklifts keep a single private 5G session as they move between outdoor slab storage and indoor coil bays, after handoffs on public LTE repeatedly dropped telemetry feeds.
SK Broadband opened a fixed-wireless access slice in Daegu’s west-side industrial belt, dedicating 5G capacity to factory roof cameras after wired fiber slips missed a robotics line go-live date.
LG Display began volume shipments of 27-inch WOLED gaming panels to domestic monitor assemblers ahead of fall retail resets, pairing 240Hz modes with factory-calibrated color sheets Korean brands use to dodge import duty on finished displays.
LG Uplus hung Open RAN small cells above Incheon Airport’s cargo aprons so forklift telemetry and customs scanners can stay on a segregated 5G slice while passenger terminals keep vendor-locked macro gear during a two-quarter pilot.
KT wired its 300-kbps quantum key distribution testbed into KISTI’s Daejeon research-campus fiber ring so QKD sessions can share dark fiber with KREONET science traffic without ripping out legacy multiplexers ahead of a defense-sector pilot.
Naver Cloud opened a sovereign AI zone inside its government-certified regions so ministries can run HyperCLOVA and partner models on dedicated GPU pools with CSAP controls, extending Clova Studio for Gov beyond the first forty agencies.
SK Telecom is testing 28GHz small cells on two Gangnam office towers so enterprise tenants can benchmark private backhaul before Chuseok lease renewals, using gear that stays inside building-owned spectrum allocations rather than the carrier’s cancelled national mmWave licence.