August 11, 2026
Stories from this day
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Economy · 3 min readKOSDAQ jumps 6.97% while foreigners pull $1bn out of KOSPI — one country, two markets
KOSDAQ 854.47 (+6.97%) — buy sidecar triggered around 9:50 a.m., the 31st sidecar of 2026
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World · 3 min readHormuz deal odds fall to 9% — and another tanker burned while the talks were on
Prediction markets put an Aug 15 deal at 9%, down 39 percentage points
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Tech · 3 min readMeta put a 30B agent model on a laptop — Apache 2.0, no server required
Muse Glimmer 30B — distilled from Muse Spark 1.2, weights released under Apache 2.0
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Issues · 3 min readKorea's ballot recount is stuck on one question — who gets to do the counting
Democratic Party and Rebuilding Korea Party: proceed on Aug 18. People Power Party: tie it to the special counsel
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Sports · 2 min readKorean baseball stopped for five days of heat — and pushed 25 games into November
25 games cancelled Aug 5–9; all ten clubs return Aug 11, with KIA and NC playing for the first time in 11 days
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Tech · 3 min readHot Chips 2026: Samsung brings the base die, SK hynix brings the packaging
Samsung presents HBM base die; SK hynix presents HBM advanced packaging
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Economy · 4 min readKorea's property tax rewrite — living in the home is worth 500 million won
Deduction: 1.4bn won if you live in it (up from 1.2bn), 900m won if you don't — a 500m won gap on the same single home
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Issues · 4 min readWhat a recount is — and why counting again is never just counting
Two routes: judicial verification inside an election lawsuit, and negotiated verification during a legislative inquiry
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Tech · 4 min readOn-device AI explained — what changed to let big models run without a server
Memory is the binding constraint — cutting bits per parameter is what puts a 30B model on personal hardware
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Economy · 3 min readDubai, Brent, WTI — the oil price in the headlines is not the one Asia pays
The three differ by origin, quality and trading form — quality runs WTI > Brent > Dubai