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Pearl Abyss files corporate value plan, confirms first dividend and share cancellation

Pearl Abyss moved to boost corporate value by adopting a shareholder return policy that includes its first dividend since founding, along with large-scale cancellation and additional purchases of treasury shares. The company filed a voluntary 2026 corporate value plan and a decision on share cancellation on June 9. It plans annual dividends equal to 10 billion won or 10 percent of net profit, whichever is larger, and will cancel 1,403,945 shares on June 12.

AI & Enterprise

AI demand squeezes PC components market, motherboard sales set for record slump

The PC motherboard market is expected to contract sharply this year as rising AI demand concentrates semiconductor supply on the enterprise market, an analysis showed. Higher prices for memory, CPUs and storage are slowing consumer upgrades and new PC purchases. Major manufacturers have cut sales targets, with the top four vendors forecast to see motherboard sales fall about 28% from a year earlier. Some assessments say the downturn is structural rather than seasonal.

Games & Commerce

Krafton says quarterly results hit record high as PUBG IP sales top 1 trillion won

Krafton said it posted record quarterly revenue and operating profit on solid growth in its PUBG: Battlegrounds intellectual property. It said first-quarter sales rose 56.9 percent from a year earlier to 1.37 trillion won and operating profit rose 22.8 percent to 561.6 billion won. PUBG franchise revenue topped 1 trillion won for the first time. The company also outlined plans spanning new game IP, its Raon AI models and a joint venture for autonomous driving services.