Oct 19, 2026 – Oct 23, 2026
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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
October 23, 2026
— All the News That Matters —
EXECUTIVE BRIEF
This week's tech landscape was shaped by controversies over AI-driven personalized pricing and Nvidia-led shifts in the Korean semiconductor supply chain. We also explore key economic issues impacting your wallet, including Seoul's monthly rent share surpassing 50% for the first time, inflation threatening grocery prices, and foreign media warnings regarding the National Pension Service. Dive into this week's must-read news, featuring compelling success stories of domestic startups thriving amid global economic uncertainty.
Newsletter: 3rd Week of October 2026 — Samsung Electro-Mechanics Secures KRW 3.7T Investment
ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
- Ex-TMON Couple Bootstraps Baby Carrier Company Without External Funding
- Matin Kim Merges with Parent Company HAGOhaus, Unifying Governance 5 Years After Daemyung Chemical Acquisition
- 'That Price' Only on Your Phone: Why the U.S. is Cracking Down on AI Pricing
- [Lunchbox] Seoul's Monthly Rent Share Surpasses 50% for the First Time: Why Jeonse is Disappearing
- Backed by Nvidia, but Enscale's IPO Faces Power Supply Hurdles
- [Global] A Single Index Crashed the Market: Why MSCI's 'Exclusion Warning' Hit Indonesia
- SpaceX Says 'Price per Watt is Rising,' CoreWeave Says 'No Revenue per MW'
- Boards and Packaging Lined Up by Nvidia's 'Advance Payments': A Map of K-Back-End Beneficiaries with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Joining
- 5% Borrowing Rates and Riots in the Streets: France's Vicious Cycle of Debt and Politics
- [Foreign Perspective] '182 Trillion Won Evaporates as Samsung and SK Hynix Waver': Why Foreign Media Sounded the Alarm on Korea's National Pension Service
- [Lunchbox] Producer Prices Up 7.7%: Are Oil Prices Now Hitting the Dinner Table?
- GaeNyeomWonRi, Boasting 50% Profit Margins, Expands into English Academies
- The Italian Company Snapping Up Evernote and AOL: Berkshire Hathaway Makes its Second Investment
- Halved After the Sunscreen Controversy, Purito Bounces Back Overseas
- [Lunchbox] A 10-Year-Old Vulnerability in PHP, Used by 75% of Websites? Summarizing 'PHP2Shell' Found by AI
- 4th Week of October IPO Market: 7 New Listings and 5 Public Subscriptions
- From 'Retail vs. Chairman Stocks' to Penny Stock Delistings: A Weekly Review of Capital Market System Reforms
- [Lunchbox] Phase 3 mRNA Cancer Vaccine 'Reduces Recurrence by 42%,' so Why Did Moderna's Stock Plunge 17%?
- [Weekly M&A] Nvidia and Tesla Invest KRW 3.7 Trillion in Samsung Electro-Mechanics: Long-Term AI Board Supply Through 2029