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Finance

KOSPI falls below 5,300 on U.S. tech stock weakness

South Korea's KOSPI started weaker after tech shares slumped on Wall Street overnight, with semiconductor stocks leading the declines. As of 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, the KOSPI was down 69.62 points, or 1.30 percent, at 5,301.48. Retail investors were net buyers, while foreigners and institutions were net sellers. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell more than 3 percent each. The KOSDAQ was also lower.

Industry

Korea Post enters special delivery period for 2026 Lunar New Year holiday

Korea Post will enter an emergency work system from Feb. 6 to support safe and speedy mail delivery, the Ministry of Science and ICT’s Postal Service said on Wednesday. It will run a special mail-handling period through Feb. 20 and expects about 12.32 million parcel items nationwide. Korea Post plans to operate 24 sorting hubs and three logistics centers at maximum capacity and strengthen safety measures for workers amid severe winter weather.

AI & Enterprise

AhnLab says phishing texts impersonating financial institutions up 343 percent in Q4

AhnLab said it released a report analyzing phishing text messages detected from October to December using its agentic AI-based security platform, AhnLab AI Plus. It said financial institution impersonation accounted for 46.93 percent of attacks, up 343.6 percent from the prior quarter. Government and public agency impersonation followed. URL insertion was used in 98.89 percent of lures, it said.