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South Korea's Agency for Defense Development completed its first flight test of an indigenous hypersonic glide vehicle on Thursday, with President Lee Jae Myung watching from a secure situation room.
Your Daily UpdateYour Daily Update for 2026-10-09 — cash equities pause for a long weekend after chip profit-taking, regulators extend cyber alerts, and Kiwoom clinches the KBO wild card on run differential.
Lead storyPackaging Bottleneck Weighs on Memory Suppliers Even as Samsung Posts 107.4-Trillion-Won Q3 ProfitSamsung’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.
StocksHangul Day Freezes Kospi at 6,625.93 Until Tuesday Reopen as Derivatives Stay Active
SecurityFSC Extends Caution-Level Cyber Alert After Credential Dumps Follow Portal Blackout
PoliticsOpposition Demands Closed Briefing on Ukraine Detainee Leak After Envoy Recall
ScienceKARI Releases Telemetry Showing Fifth Nuri Mission Inserted 15 CubeSats Into Planned Orbits
SportsKiwoom Heroes clinch fifth place and a wild-card berth while Lotte Giants miss the KBO postseason on run differential after a rain-shortened week reshuffled the standings.
A four-day market break should not give the government cover to delay publishing long-term liabilities for the youth pension plan while chip profits dominate headlines.
The Financial Services Commission keeps its caution-level cyber alert active after dark-web posts advertised fresh loan-portal credentials tied to the Oct. 8 recruiter shutdown.
A Ministry-led hospital AI ethics panel flags fabricated drug-interaction warnings in two Seoul pilot chatbots, urging human pharmacists to remain in the loop before discharge summaries go out.
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.
BC Card links Korail app top-ups to transit-mile accrual through the Hangul Day long weekend, when cash-market closures push card spend toward domestic rail and highway rest stops.
Cash equities shut Friday through Sunday for Hangul Day while Thursday’s 2.62 percent Kospi drop to 6,625.93 leaves futures and options desks to price chip risk into Tuesday’s reopen.
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.
The KIA Tigers and LG Twins entered the final regular-season weekend with identical .547 winning percentages, fighting for third place and home-field advantage in the Oct. 14 wild-card round.
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