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A massive cyberattack ran in parallel with the U.S.-Israel airstrike on Iran. Iran's Ministry of ICT declared a top-level cyber emergency, and as Iranian-linked hackers prepare retaliatory cyberattacks, Korea's AI foundation models, aerospace, and CBDC infrastructure are emerging as potential targets.
MWC 2026 opened on March 2–5 in Barcelona, Spain, under the theme 'The IQ Era (Intelligence Through Connectivity).' Samsung, LG, and 182 other Korean companies are fiercely competing in agentic AI, 6G, and satellite communications.
According to an exclusive Korea JoongAng Daily report (3/3), Samsung Electronics' Taylor plant mass production has been pushed back from H2 2026 to early 2027. This creates a major variable for the $16.5 billion Tesla AI6 chip contract and Samsung's 2nm foundry competition against TSMC.
South Korea's National Tax Service (NTS) published a press release promoting seizures from tax delinquents that included a photo of a Ledger cold wallet with the seed phrase fully visible — resulting in the theft of approximately ₩4.8 billion (USD 4.8M) worth of PRTG tokens within minutes. The incident has raised serious questions about the government's ability to securely manage digital assets.
Samsung Electronics' Pyeongtaek Campus P4·P5 construction sites, which had halted due to oversupply in early 2024, have resumed full operations. More than 20,000 workers from across the country have been working 2 hours of overtime daily since February, pushing to shorten the construction timeline. Upon completion, production capacity for HBM4 DRAM will increase by 100,000–120,000 wafers per month.
Nineteen years after Google's first request in 2007, the South Korean government has conditionally approved the overseas export of 1:5000 high-precision map data. Despite a triple safeguard of military facility masking, coordinate restrictions, and domestic server processing, this decision marks a historic inflection point where US-Korea trade negotiations, domestic IT competitiveness, and national security concerns all converge.
LG Energy Solution, Samsung SDI, and SK On are making a full pivot to AI data center and humanoid robot batteries at 'InterBattery 2026' (March 11–13, COEX), moving past the EV slump. The robot battery market is forecast to grow from $2.9 billion in 2026 to $4.7 billion in 2030, at a CAGR of 12.5%.
In Q3 2025, the combined market share of TCL, Hisense, and Xiaomi (31.8%) surpassed Samsung and LG (28.5%) for the first time. Chinese TV brands are rapidly catching up in Mini LED and AI features while directly targeting the premium segment — foreshadowing a 'second Japan reversal scenario.'
Nineteen years after its first request in 2007, the South Korean government has conditionally approved Google's export of 1:5,000 high-precision map data. Google Maps can now offer full navigation and turn-by-turn directions in Korea — and Naver Maps and Kakao Map, which have dominated the domestic market, are bracing for a direct hit.
The Galaxy S26 series, unveiled as the '3rd-generation Galaxy AI phone' at Galaxy Unpacked on February 25, is approaching its pre-order deadline of March 5. With a regional chipset split between Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Exynos 2600, pricing from ₩1,254,000 (S26) to ₩1,797,400 (S26 Ultra), early pick-up from March 6, and the official launch on March 11 — here are 5 key criteria to decide whether to buy now or wait.
MWC 2026 officially opened on March 2 in Barcelona, Spain, under the slogan 'The IQ Era.' With 2,900+ companies from 205 countries attending, SKT's A.X K1, Huawei's SuperPoD, and Deloitte's agentic AI forecast all proved from day one that AI has completely taken over the center of the telecom industry.
Samsung Electronics has declared it will convert all of its domestic and overseas production facilities into 'AI-Driven Factories' by 2030. This strategy — combining Agentic AI, digital twins, and humanoid robots — goes beyond simple automation to herald the dawn of an 'autonomous manufacturing era' in which factories make their own decisions and take action.