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Runningcore and bag customising sweep 2025 fashion-beauty market as tastes fragment

South Korea's fashion and beauty market in 2025 was shaped by increasingly segmented personal tastes rather than a single dominant trend. Musinsa's year-end report said consumer keywords combining lifestyle and preferences spread, led by runningcore, bag customising and niche perfumes. Based on Musinsa Store data from Jan. 1 to Dec. 12, membership topped 16 million and searches reached 425 million. Running-shoe sales rose about 83 percent year on year.

AI & Enterprise

Nvidia's Groq acquisition sends message to AI data center market

Nvidia’s effective $20 billion acquisition of AI inference chip startup Groq may have implications beyond the AI chip market, with analysts highlighting cooling technology and high-performance memory as key issues. UncoverAlpha lists five motives, including energy, HBM, CoWoS packaging, liquid-cooling data center bottlenecks and competition. Groq’s LPU does not require liquid cooling or HBM, potentially easing supply-chain constraints. Groq chips also use embedded SRAM and can be made on older nodes.

Industry

Pearl Abyss supports Indonesia school repairs with Black Desert players

Pearl Abyss said on Dec. 31 it donated 50 million won to help restore overseas schools damaged by disasters, in the name of Black Desert players, through an in-game event. The game ran the Olvia Academy donation event from Dec. 3 to 17, allowing players to participate in building a school in-game. The company delivered the funds to Good Neighbors. The donation will be used to repair a school in Indonesia’s Bogor region.