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Samsung’s 107.4-trillion-won preliminary operating profit stole Thursday’s headlines, but substrate and packaging vendors say lead times and test capacity—not wafer demand—are where margins are thinning.
Samsung Electronics’ Thursday filing put third-quarter consolidated revenue at 204.8 trillion won and operating profit at 106.1 trillion won, leaving phones and networks as a footnote until the Oct. 29 division report.
Hanwha Ocean told lawmakers it will bring Ulsan dry-dock utilization logs to Tuesday's industry audit as liquefied natural gas tanker export slots cleared the Chuseok backlog without new delivery slippage.
POSCO Holdings said its Ulsan stainless lines restarted after a Gaecheonjeol maintenance window, citing steadier nickel input costs and export orders from Southeast Asian appliance makers.
Heavy exporters from Ulsan shipyards to Suwon chip plants booked dollar forwards after the won closed at 1,350.6 on Friday, locking in holiday-week revenue before the Bank of Korea’s Oct. 22 rate decision.
Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il convened regulators and the land minister on Friday, pledging deeper Treasury cuts and buybacks if yields stay elevated.
A tribunal reaffirmed Seoul's liability over the 2015 Samsung C&T–Cheil merger after the UK High Court sent the hedge fund's ISDS case back for a narrower damages review.
The National Assembly passed Game Industry Promotion Act amendments on 1 October requiring offshore publishers to prioritize Korea-incorporated agents, answer user-harm complaints, and cooperate with MCST and GRAC data requests—with network restrictions for chronic non-compliance after a six-month grace period.
Trade Minister Kim Jung-kwan told reporters he protested to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after a White House factsheet suggested Seoul had locked in Alaska LNG and nuclear investments that remain subject to commercial reviews and domestic approval.
Korea Customs said September exports reached $65.95 billion on a preliminary tally released Oct. 1, with semiconductors at $16.61 billion and autos at $6.4 billion leading the record month.
Jeonse looks like prepaid rent, but landlords price the lump sum like a bond yield—and when safe rates moved, the deposits moved with them.
Samsung Electronics and five group affiliates pledged a combined $1 billion to KKR’s Helix Digital Infrastructure on Sept. 29, joining Nvidia and other anchor investors in a bet on hyperscale AI campuses and the power lines behind them.
A Seoul court rejected Coupang’s bid to halt a Fair Trade Commission on-site probe, letting regulators restart an investigation into whether the e-commerce giant shifted discount costs onto suppliers.
POSCO International is replacing corroded jetty valves at Yeongil Bay before the first Q4 methane carrier call, keeping winter LNG slots on schedule for Pohang-area buyers.
Hyundai Motor Co. registered a preliminary Monterrey EV parts logistics hub with Mexican regulators, turning one of President Lee Jae Myung’s Korea–Mexico summit memorandums into a filing that names battery-module handling and nearshoring timelines.
President Lee Jae-myung closed his Mexico state visit with 17 MOUs and a 2026–2030 joint action plan, putting CEPA at the center of Seoul’s push for an investment framework.
Samsung Electronics' union says it will launch a full strike after post-adjustment mediation failed Friday, as Seoul weighs emergency powers and a court order keeps only semiconductor safety crews at normal staffing.
Hanwha Philly Shipyard's 47-acre PIDC lease at the Philadelphia Navy Yard gives the group's U.S. expansion a concrete footprint as Lee and Trump talk warship construction and a $150 billion shipbuilding slice.
CJ Logistics added overnight belt sorts at its Mapo and Songpa hubs as Chuseok return traffic pushed inbound parcel counts past last year’s post-holiday peak, with expressway congestion slowing feeder trucks from Gyeonggi.
Emart expanded Chuseok eve click-and-collect windows at Seoul big-box stores after city traffic controls and expressway taper rules slowed same-day delivery vans, steering holiday grocery orders into timed parking-lane pickups instead of apartment lobby drops.
President Lee Jae Myung and President Donald Trump said strategic investment talks are advancing under their $350 billion framework after a 30-minute UNGA meeting that also touched on shipbuilding, nuclear-powered submarines and North Korea dialogue.
Samsung SDI told investors it will add a third Hungarian module assembly hall at Goed to serve European automakers that signed 2027 volume letters, keeping cathode cells shipped from Korea while module margins stay in euro contracts tied to EU battery rules.
Hankook Tire circulated a 2027 EV sourcing price grid to European automakers after board approval in Daejeon, tying silica tread compounds and rolling-resistance bands to volume tiers that start at 400,000 units.
POSCO’s Busan coil export desk is holding September tonnage near flat even as Liaoning blast furnaces take staggered overhauls that trim slab inflows from Chinese affiliates.
Hyundai Motor’s full-time union opens a pre-Chuseok wage table with management at Ulsan as the automaker schedules a holiday production pause, keeping bonus instalments and subcontractor pass-through on the agenda before lines go quiet.