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China's May exports plummeted, 'year-end bottom of the second half of this year' China's May exports plunged four times more than expected, prompting analysts to "decrease further in the second half of the year and hit the bottom at the end of the year." On the 22nd of last month, Deputy Prime Minister Choo Kyung-ho presented the 'lowest point in May' at the National Assembly, strengthening econ..

Securities companies Samsung ‘buy stocks at the low point in May’ vs. 2Q profits plummeted by 99% compared to the previous year As securities companies issued reports recommending Samsung Electronics stock purchases, the semiconductor bottom in May was continuously disseminated through the media, and Samsung Electro-Mechanics' operating profit in the second quarter was expected to drop by 99% co..

Supply Chain Agreement ‘Exclusion of Workers’ Participation in Tariff Reduction’ Korea’s ‘Crosshairs’ A new system in which workers’ representatives participate in international supply chain contracts through the “Labor Rights Advisory Committee” and “tariff authorization” is excluded has been concluded as the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). The Biden administration signed a suppl..

Yoon Seok-Yeol ‘Semiconductor Supply Chain’, US-Japan ‘Advanced Semiconductor Alliance’ Samsung ‘Investment in Japan’ The Yoon Seok-yeol regime jointly agreed on the 'semiconductor supply chain' at the Korea-US summit, and the following US-Japan summit agreed on the 'high-tech semiconductor alliance', and ahead of the Hiroshima G7 Korea-US-Japan summit, Samsung invested '300 billion won in Japan..

Google Pixel Fold launched in May, Samsung search engine ‘MS Bing from Google’ split up Google launched its own foldable smartphone and developed Magi as a new AI-based search engine, while Samsung started a separation process to change its search engine from Google to MS Bing. Google's 'Pixel Fold' smartphone will be announced at the 'Developer Conference' in May. Regarding this, Yomiuri said o..

China announced a “cyber security investigation” into the US Micron, and Japan announced the US’s “export control of chip manufacturing equipment” on the 1st. The South China Morning Post (SCMP) said in an interview with Wang Lifu, an analyst at ICwise, a Shanghai-based semiconductor research company, “China’s recent investigation into Micron Technology, the largest memory semiconductor producer..

Semiconductor production plunged 17.1% in February, the largest decline in semiconductor production since December 2008 (-18.1%) during the financial crisis, and Samsung Electronics' operating profit in the first quarter was expected to drop by 89%. According to the data from the National Statistical Office for February, the mining industry (11.9%) increased from a decrease in manufacturing (-3...

The trade deficit reached $5.3 billion in February, and the cumulative trade deficit between January and February reached $17.95 billion, 39% of last year's annual trade deficit of $47.785 billion, which was already the largest on record, came out in two months. With negative growth In the fourth quarter of last year, which turned around, GDP growth was -0.4%, falling 0.7%p behind the average of..

Intel is emerging as a new powerhouse in chips by ‘expanding’ its chip test packaging plant in Vietnam as a solution to its excessive concentration in China and Taiwan on chips. Reuters reported on the 10th that Intel is investing an additional $1 billion from the existing $1.5 billion to expand its semiconductor chip testing and packaging plant in Vietnam. The chip packaging and test plant in t..

The trade deficit recorded a record high of $12.7 billion in January, with the 11th consecutive month of trade deficit concentrated in neighboring countries. South Korea's export decline is China's third consecutive month of decline since October last year, Japan's export decline for 9 consecutive months since April last year, and Taiwan's export record of 3 consecutive months of decline since S..