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Buyback cliff meets 6,971 Kospi as Seoul tightens offshore game agents
Thursday’s Korea edition tracks Samsung’s final scheduled buyback block, new Game Industry Promotion Act agent duties, an FSS inspection at Shinhan Bank after a 25,000-record leak, and National Assembly floor fights over tattoo licensing.
StocksKospi Closes at 6,971 as Samsung Executes Final Scheduled Buyback Block
The Kospi closed at 6,971.35 on 1 October, up 1.95 percent, as Samsung Electronics executed the final two-million-share tranche of its scheduled buyback on 2 October while SK hynix nears a mid-October repurchase end and foreigners net sold despite roughly fifty issuers buying shares Thursday.
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BusinessParliament Tightens Offshore Game Agent Duties After Loot-Box Complaint Backlog
SecurityFSS Sends On-Site Team to Shinhan Bank After AI-Assisted Leak Hits 25,000 Borrower Records
TechnologyAhnLab Ties Financial Security Software Holes to State-Sponsored Watering Hole Intrusions
PoliticsPPP Filibuster Blocks Tattoo Artist Act as DPK Adopts Kim Tae-gyu Expulsion Line
AIUpstage Commits to State Frontier AI Venture as CEO Sets Four-Month DeepSeek Catch-Up Goal
SportsSamsung Lions Run Five-Game Streak as Lee Jae-hyun Sets Franchise Shortstop Homer Mark
EntertainmentResurrection Man: The Red Opens Fourth as Beelzebub Tazza Sequel Tops One Million Tickets
HealthKDCA Lines Up 12.33 Million Free Flu Doses While Paid Market Faces 370,000-Shot Gap
SciencePAL-XFEL Pulses Capture Azobenzene Light Switch in Picoseconds for Drug-Design Work
OpinionEditorial: Profit-Linked Safety Fines Need Payroll Audits Contractors Cannot Game
Credit CardsKB Card Ties Annual-Fee Cashback to 100,000-Won Spend Before October 31 Cutoff
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Editorial: Profit-Linked Safety Fines Need Payroll Audits Contractors Cannot Game
Parliament’s new industrial-safety fines of up to five per cent of operating profit punish repeat fatal accidents, but contractors can still hide payroll on sister companies unless revenue audits follow the same paper trail ministries demand for submarine budgets.
PPP Filibuster Blocks Tattoo Artist Act as DPK Adopts Kim Tae-gyu Expulsion Line
People Power Party lawmakers filibustered the 2 October plenary session, blocking a bipartisan Tattoo Artist Act that health committee leaders had already cleared, while the Democratic Party adopted a party-line resolution urging expulsion proceedings against PPP Rep. Kim Tae-gyu over televised remarks on insurrection law.
PAL-XFEL Pulses Capture Azobenzene Light Switch in Picoseconds for Drug-Design Work
A KAIST–IBS team used PAL-XFEL X-ray liquidography to capture picosecond intermediates when azobenzene bends under laser light, settling a long debate over rotation versus inversion for photopharmacology switches.
KDCA Lines Up 12.33 Million Free Flu Doses While Paid Market Faces 370,000-Shot Gap
KDCA secured 12.33 million free influenza doses for this season’s national program but warned paid-clinic supply could tighten after manufacturers delayed lot releases, with only 370,000 extra shots negotiated for private payers.
Resurrection Man: The Red Opens Fourth as Beelzebub Tazza Sequel Tops One Million Tickets
Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Resurrection Man: The Red opened fourth on 1 October with 42,872 admissions while Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub crossed one million tickets, splitting holiday audiences between R-rated franchise sequels and imported anime leaders.
Samsung Lions Run Five-Game Streak as Lee Jae-hyun Sets Franchise Shortstop Homer Mark
Samsung Lions beat Hanwha 3–2 in Daegu for a fifth straight win as Lee Jae-hyun’s two-run homer set a franchise shortstop season record and Koo Ja-wook kept the KBO batting lead at .371.