J.P. Morgan Accelerates Trials to Tokenize Carbon Credits Will the Voluntary Carbon Market, Long Criticized for Its Opacity, Face Upheaval? From Stocks and Bonds to Hard-to-Securitize Assets, Tokenization Expands J.P.

Tongyeong, Hongseong, and Geumsan Cut Ties With Theborn Korea Mounting Controversies Fuel Rapid Decline in Consumer Sentiment Carefully Built ‘Goodwill’ Image Backfires Like a Boomerang Baek Jong-won, CEO of Thebor

LG Chem Offers Voluntary Retirement to Employees Under Wage-Peak System Lotte Chemical Accelerates Restructuring of Facilities Nationwide How Japan Led—and Succeeded—in Petrochemical Industry Restructuring LG Chem has begun offering voluntary ret

Trump Trade Advisor: “If Tariff Policy Is Overturned, America Is Finished” Massive U.S. Fiscal Deficit Covered by Tariff Revenues? Tariff-Driven Inflation Intensifies, ‘Sneakflation’ Fears Spread A senior U.S.

U.S. to establish a national economic security fund using investments from Korea and Japan. Fund, created through tariff negotiations, channels capital into Hanwha’s U.S.

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“AI Took My Job”: Youth employment plunges in certain sectors. Repetitive and easily automated roles are being replaced the fastest. Yet new jobs are emerging, signaling a major AI-driven industrial shift. Generative AI is increasingly seen as limit

Trump says the Pentagon “won wars when it was once called the Department of War.” He signals willingness to go on the offensive, having already struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in June. Military pressure on Venezuela also escalates, raising fears of imminent conflict.

“AI Can Suffer Too”: Anthropic highlights the need for AI welfare. Is conscious AI just an illusion born from system misinterpretation? Microsoft’s AI lead raises concerns over AI psychosis and related risks. In Silicon Valley, so-called “AI welfare

Canada withdraws part of its retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. Move seen as effort to prevent companies from leaving Canada. EU also accepts unfavorable terms to avoid deeper losses. Canada has partially withdrawn its retaliatory tariffs

“GPT-4o Makes a Comeback” as Korean ChatGPT Usage Climbs OpenAI Adjusts GPT-5 Personality Amid Concerns Over ‘AI Psychosis’ User Backlash Forces Company to Restore Access to Earlier Models OpenAI’s generative AI tool “ChatGPT” has reached its high

Fed Officials Say “Not Enough Data to Cut Rates” Trump’s Tariff Shock Seen Driving Central Bank Caution Some Experts Still Argue for Interest Rate Cuts The U.S.

Is Washington using subsidies to take equity stakes in semiconductor firms? The move evokes parallels with Egypt after the Suez Crisis and Russia following the Ukraine war. Analysts warn of shaken investor confidence and the risks of creeping nationalization.

China and India Resume Trade at Three Border Points "U.S.

Trump Seeks Putin–Zelensky Bilateral Talks U.S., Europe, and Ukraine Form Tripartite Security Committee With U.S.

The Born Korea Faces Image Crisis Amid Criticism of CEO Baek Is the Culture of Celebrity Backlash Going Too Far? Calls Grow for Both Social Reflection and Institutional Reform Baek Jong-won, CEO of The Born Korea /

Myanmar’s Rare Earth Mining Surge Poisons the Mekong Rebel Forces Seize Key Extraction Sites China Seen as the Real Power Behind the Militias The environment along the Mekong River, which runs through Southeast Asia, is worsening

GPT-5’s advanced capabilities cause a dramatic surge in power consumption Developer OpenAI acknowledges the growing challenge Big Tech companies rapidly building new data centers, heightening risks of power shortages Analysts warn that OpenAI

Samsung Electronics to invest $172 million in a new research center in Yokohama, Japan Strengthening advanced semiconductor “packaging” capabilities for next-generation chips Korea’s packaging technology still trails behind Taiwan’s cutting-edge leadership

North Korean Hacker Group Kimsuky Continues to Target South Korean Government Agencies APT37, APT38 Also Launching Wide-Scale Cyberattacks Could a Nation-State Be Behind the SKT Hacking Incident? North Korean hacker groups have car