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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.
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.
President Lee Jae-myung departs on March 1st (Independence Movement Day) for back-to-back state visits to Singapore (~3rd) and the Philippines (3rd~4th). His first ASEAN tour since taking office, with AI infrastructure, nuclear energy, and defense cooperation as the key agenda.
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has completed a record-breaking $110 billion private funding round from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank. The company's valuation surged to $730 billion, setting a new all-time high in the AI industry, as the race for AI infrastructure dominance enters a historic new phase.
Virtual girl group HUNTR/X from Netflix animation 'KPop Demon Hunters' swept the Billboard Hot 100 #1, the 2026 Grammy Awards 'Best Song Written for Visual Media', and the 2026 Golden Globes Best Original Song with 'Golden'. Holding onto #1 on the Billboard Korea Global K-Songs chart for the week of February 28, the K-pop history written by 'non-existent idols' continues.
Virtual idol group PLAVE's 'BBUU!' achieved 11 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Korea HOT 100 for the week of February 28, 2026. Their success — dominating the K-pop mainstream chart long-term through music and talent alone, erasing the boundary of being 'virtual' — signals a paradigm shift in the idol industry.
Hyundai Motor Group signed an agreement on February 27, 2026, to invest ₩9 trillion (approximately $6.3 billion) in Saemangeum, North Jeolla Province, to develop an AI data center, robot factory, and hydrogen plant. With an expected 70,000 jobs and ₩16 trillion in economic impact, this marks the formal beginning of Korea's manufacturing industry's 'Physical AI' transformation.
Just three days before the 107th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement, AI-generated videos demeaning independence fighters are spreading on social media. Prosecutors and police have declared strict punishment for AI deepfake videos ahead of the June 3 local elections, but gaps in technology regulation and legislation are enabling the distortion of historical memory.
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won projected that SK Hynix's 2026 operating profit could exceed $100 billion (approx. ₩145 trillion), while simultaneously warning that a '$100 billion loss' is equally possible. This article analyzes the two faces of the HBM golden age and AI volatility.
Google released the first beta of Android 17 in February 2026, fully banning portrait-mode lock on tablets, foldables, and desktops. This means hundreds of thousands of apps must completely redesign their UI, marking the dawn of Android's 'landscape mode unification' era.
On February 26, 2026, the KOSPI closed at 6,307.27, breaking through the 6,300 mark just one day after surpassing 6,000. Fueled by Nvidia's earnings surprise, Samsung Electronics (+7.13%) and SK Hynix (+7.96%) both hit all-time highs, driving the index up by 3.67%.
As generative AI becomes mainstream, Korean police are increasingly prioritizing ChatGPT conversation logs over KakaoTalk chats and web searches during digital forensics. In the Gangbuk motel serial murder case, a suspect's AI queries proved decisive in establishing premeditated intent, and the legal community now faces new challenges surrounding privacy, evidence admissibility, and the risk of evidence destruction.