August 14, 2026
Stories from this day
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Economy · 3 min readKOSPI closes at 6,813.34 on August 13, 2026 — but KOSDAQ managed only 0.29%
Close 6,813.34 — up 234.30 points (+3.56%). Open 6,773.92, intraday high 6,895.63
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Economy · 3 min readS&P 500 closes at a record 7,798.99 on August 13, 2026 — the Dow added 0.13%
S&P 500 7,798.99 (+50.49, +0.65%) — record close, beating the 7,757.64 set on August 7
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Economy · 3 min readUS July PPI came in flat at 0.0% on August 13, 2026 — one core measure rose 0.4%
Headline 0.0% MoM (forecast +0.2%) and 4.7% YoY (forecast +4.9%, June 5.5%)
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Tech · 4 min readDeepSeek V4-Pro launches — 1.6 trillion parameters, 49 billion switched on
V4-Pro-0813: 1.6tn total parameters, 49bn active per token, 1M-token context, 384K max output
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Issues · 3 min readKorea's ruling party picks a leader on August 17 — 71% of votes are still uncast
Cumulative standing: Kim Min-seok 46.01%, Jung Chung-rae 44.53% — a gap of 1.48 points
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World · 3 min readTwo Russian grain terminals stopped — Chicago wheat jumped 4% the same day
Two grain terminals stopped work — a loading gallery collapsed and several silos were damaged
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Issues · 3 min readHomeplus reopened 67 stores on August 13 — exactly one month after closing them
July 13 temporary closure → August 7 soft reopening → August 13 full reopening, exactly one month
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Issues · 3 min readKorea's substitute holiday is Monday August 17, 2026 — Liberation Day fell on a Saturday
August 15 (Sat) Liberation Day → August 17 (Mon) substitute holiday; the break runs August 15–17
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Economy · 4 min readWhat is PPI — the inflation gauge that moves before consumer prices
PPI is the seller's price, CPI is the buyer's price — the same inflation measured at different stages
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Tech · 4 min readWhat is a context window — a model does not read all million tokens
Context window = total tokens visible in one request, input and output combined