Monday Seoul desks track EV tire contracts, cathode IRA audits, card reload caps, and cloud key mandates after the Chuseok lull

Monday's Korea Daily Update — twenty-four stories on Hankook EV pricing grids and GS Retail pharmacy fees, LG Energy Solution cathode guides and SK Biopharm label volatility, Woori and KB card bundles, LG Display OLED panels and SK Broadband FWA slicing, Naver and Upstage AI stacks, Dunamu stablecoin sandboxes and TwoPlan payroll float, Bucheon SIM farm raids and NHN Cloud CMK rules, boiler and Kospi settlement opinion, jeonse ballot pilots, KRISS fog lidar, Samsung Medical RSV kiosks, MBC drama remasters, Ansan multicultural calendars, Gangwon salamander buffers, Seoul compost RFID, and Jeju ferry motorhome queues.

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Korea returns from holiday with export contracts, battery compliance, consumer-finance guardrails, and public-sector cloud rules all moving on the same Seoul morning.

Hankook Tire maps European OEM EV contract pricing for 2027 while GS Retail renegotiates CVS Korea franchise fees in Gangnam.
LG Energy Solution lifts cathode shipment guidance after a U.S. IRA credit audit; SK Biopharm whipsaws on cenobamate EU monotherapy timing.
Woori Card pins KakaoPay auto-reload limits after teen scam rings; KB Kookmin bundles jeonse guarantee fees with mortgage rate locks.
Naver HyperCLOVA X opens Gyeonggi municipal chatbot sandboxes; Upstage packages law-firm RAG stacks for Seoul district court filings.
Police seize a Bucheon SIM farm ahead of remittance season; NHN Cloud mandates customer-managed keys on public-sector Kubernetes tenants.
Interior Ministry schedules tenant ballot pilots after jeonse disputes; Jeju ferry operators add standby vehicle queues for return-week motorhomes.

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