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Jiyoung Sohn

ARTICLES BY JIYOUNG SOHN

Coupang Inc. delivery trucks are parked at the company's fulfilment centre in Goyang, South Korea. (Bloomberg)

Breach at South Korea’s equivalent of Amazon exposed data of almost every adult

4 min read . 16 Dec 2025

SK Hynix Inc.'s 12-layer HBM4 memory chips on display. Chey Tae Won, the billionaire chairman of South Korea's second-largest conglomerate SK Group, projected strong demand for AI over the next few years. (File Photo: Bloomberg)

Sovereign AI takes off as countries seek to avoid overdependence on superpowers

4 min read . 25 Nov 2025

The data-center project comes as the South Korean government has been pushing to expand the country’s computing infrastructure. (REUTERS)

A big data center planned in South Korea could be built and run by AI

1 min read . 11 Nov 2025

Ahead of looming tariffs, Hyundai in March pledged roughly $21 billion in U.S. investments that would manifest before Trump’s second term ended. (REUTERS)

Hyundai gets cold shoulder from Trump despite charm offensive

11 min read . 08 Oct 2025

A banner depicting US President Donald Trump is held by a protester at Incheon Airport on September 12, 2025, as hundreds of South Korean workers return from Atlanta following a US immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG plant. (Photo: AFP)

Confusion, anger, relief: Korean engineer tells of week in US ICE detention

3 min read . 12 Sept 2025

A production line at the Hyundai facility. Photo: Anna Ottum for WSJ

Hyundai raid exposes shortage of visas for Asian companies trying to move staff

4 min read . 09 Sept 2025

South Korean lawmakers on December 14 voted to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol (image in the poster) from office for his failed attempt to impose martial law last week. (Photo: AFP)

South Korea impeaches President Yoon Suk Yeol over martial-law decision

4 min read . 14 Dec 2024

President Yoon Seok Yeol faced demands to resign after his short-lived attempt to impose martial law was voted down by lawmakers and brought thousands of protesters to the streets. (Photo: AFP)

South Korea’s martial-law chaos deepens, with a suicide attempt and raids

3 min read . 12 Dec 2024

Lee Jae-myung has declined to say whether he would seek the office of South Korean president again. (Tim Franco/Inland for WSJ)

He might be South Korea’s next president.

5 min read . 09 Dec 2024

Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung. Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

South Korean president faces impeachment motion after declaring martial law

1 min read . 04 Dec 2024

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump stands on stage with former first lady Melania Trump, as Lara Trump watches, at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center on 6 November 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP)

America’s friends and foes brace for a new world under Trump

6 min read . 06 Nov 2024

Though it is the world’s top memory-chip maker, Samsung is trailing its competitors in high-bandwidth memory chips, a type integral to AI computing. (AFP)

Samsung’s chip technologies fall behind in early innings of AI game

4 min read . 08 Oct 2024

At the centre of the dispute is Korea Zinc’s Onsan smelter in the city of Ulsan, South Korea, (Bloomberg)

The $1.7 billion takeover brawl fueled by a fear of China

6 min read . 29 Sept 2024

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s campus in Hsinchu, southwest of Taipei. Photo: An Rong Xu/Bloomberg News

Chip giants TSMC and Samsung discuss building middle eastern megafactories

4 min read . 23 Sept 2024

The South Korean show ‘Physical: 100’ has been a global success for Netflix. (Netflix)

Netflix is trying to get you hooked on more reality TV with better dubbing

4 min read . 01 Sept 2024

Climate activists gathered in Seoul on the day of the ruling. (Reuters)

South Korean children sued the government over climate policy. They just won.

3 min read . 29 Aug 2024

Electric vehicles await shipment at a port near Ulsan, South Korea. (Bloomberg)

German luxury, Chinese battery: Fire calls for disclosures on key EV component

2 min read . 13 Aug 2024

Police moved a burnt-out Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle from the underground parking lot of an apartment building in Incheon, South Korea, on Monday. Photo: Yonhap News/Zuma Press

Huge fire sparked by a Mercedes-Benz EV adds to safety concerns dogging industry

3 min read . 07 Aug 2024

Striking Samsung workers are demanding greater pay and benefits from the world’s largest memory-chip maker. REUTERS

The new threat to the chip industry: Worker unrest

5 min read . 26 Jul 2024

Since January, Samsung has rolled out many of the same AI features that Apple has promised, REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (REUTERS)

To see the future of AI on iPhones, check out Samsung

5 min read . 10 Jul 2024