August 9, 2026
Stories from this day
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Issues · 2 min readKorea's special counsel system, explained — who investigates when prosecutors can't
Each special counsel is created by its own law, for one case, and disbands afterward
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Tech · 2 min readSovereign AI, explained — why nations treat AI like energy security now
Sovereign AI means the full stack — data centers, power, chips, models — under national control
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Economy · 2 min readHow a Fed cut reaches Korean wallets — deposits first, loans last
A Fed cut eases won-weakness pressure, widening the Bank of Korea's room to follow
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Tech · 2 min readFormal proofs, explained — the machinery that makes AI math believable
Formal proofs encode every logical step in languages like Lean for mechanical checking
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Issues · 2 min readKim retakes the lead by 0.86 — a 5.67-point Jeju-Incheon win flips the race
Jeju-Incheon round: Kim Min-seok 47.75%, Jung Chung-rae 42.08%, Song Young-gil 10.17%
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Issues · 2 min read95.3 gigawatts — Korea's power demand is 1.8GW from its all-time record
Friday's peak demand of 95.321GW is this summer's high — 1.8GW below the 97.1GW record
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Issues · 2 min read'Number-smoothing' at the ballot office — Korea's election-commission probe widens
Joint task force raids nine more election commission offices, including Gangnam and Seocho
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Tech · 2 min readNAVER's 55-megawatt start — a $10bn sovereign AI factory rises in Sejong
NAVER builds an NVIDIA DSX-based AI factory at its Sejong hyperscale campus, live at 55MW in H1 2027
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Tech · 2 min readAn AI touched ten open math problems — and a Fields Medalist nodded
OpenAI's internal model Astra claims to have solved or advanced ten open problems
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Economy · 2 min readSeoul's first session after the jobs shock — a Monday morning checklist
Friday's US close left two signals at once: payrolls fell, indexes hit records