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Korea Cable TV Association selects 16 outstanding local channel programmes for first and second quarters

The Korea Cable TV Association on Sept. 16 held its 67th awards ceremony for outstanding cable TV local channel programmes for the first and second quarters of 2026. It selected 16 winners from 93 finalists, including 8 news reports, 6 regular programmes and 2 specials. The winners covered issues such as disputes over power facility expansion, social isolation among the elderly, rental deposit fraud, housing polarization, sustainable tourism and the limits of a multi-member constituency system.

Games & Commerce

HYBE posts Q2 operating profit of 170.9 billion won, up 159.3 percent

HYBE reported a second-quarter operating profit of 170.9 billion won, up 159.3 percent from a year earlier, in a preliminary tally filed on July 28. Revenue rose 105.5 percent to 1.45 trillion won and net profit climbed 613 percent to 109.8 billion won. The company said quarterly sales and operating profit hit record highs, supported by artist comebacks, world tours and higher merchandise and licensing revenue. Weverse monthly active users reached 14.43 million.

AI & Enterprise

South Korea AI investment should focus on building moats in infrastructure bottlenecks

Cho Yong-min (조용민), CEO of venture investment firm Unboundlabdev, said South Korea should concentrate AI investment on infrastructure bottlenecks to expand its stake in the global AI market, rather than competing with big tech on general-purpose model performance. He identified four key bottlenecks: memory, interconnect, thermal management and power. Cho said competitiveness comes from deep integration into customers’ work, and urged government policy to target value chains where Korea is strong and future bottlenecks.