August 21, 2026
Stories from this day
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Economy · 3 min readKOSPI closes at 6,852.58 on August 20, 2026 — 381 points back in one session
Close — KOSPI 6,852.58 (+5.89%), KOSDAQ 840.89 (+1.99%): the same threefold gap as the day before, inverted
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Economy · 4 min readSamsung's 100 trillion won shareholder return — it is dividends, not cancellation, because of a 10% ceiling
Size — in the 100tn won range, derived from the company's standing rule of returning 50% of free cash flow. Some outlets cite 150tn–160tn
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Economy · 3 min readS&P 500 closes at 7,641.16 on August 20, 2026 — the buyback relief lasted one session
Indexes — S&P 500 7,641.16 (-0.87%), Dow 52,759.21 (-1.32%), Nasdaq Composite 26,067.17 (-1.00%)
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Tech · 3 min readAnthropic posts $11.6bn in Q2 revenue — passing OpenAI's $6.7bn for the first time
Revenue — Anthropic $11.6bn (from $4.8bn), OpenAI $6.7bn (from $5.7bn). Growth of over 100% against 18%
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Issues · 3 min readKorea's chief justice nominated two justices in writing on August 18, 2026 — and skipped the visit
Nominees — Son Bong-gi (Daegu District Court) and Kim Seong-su (Seoul High Court), for two vacancies
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World · 3 min readTrump pushes for a November meeting with Kim Jong-un — the venue floated is Shenzhen, not Seoul
Report — WSJ on August 18, citing US officials. Timing as early as this autumn; venue floated as APEC in Shenzhen in November
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Economy · 5 min readWhat a special dividend is — and why the word 'special' is not about size
Definition — a one-off payout on top of the regular dividend, carrying no commitment to recur
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Issues · 4 min readWhat Korea's Supreme Court nomination power is — when the chooser and the appointer differ
Structure — the chief justice nominates, the National Assembly consents, the president appoints. All three steps are required
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Tech · 4 min readWhat Claude Code is — and how it differs from asking a chatbot
Form — a tool that runs in the terminal. Given a natural-language instruction, it reads, edits and executes
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World · 4 min readThe history of US–North Korea summits — what Singapore, Hanoi and Panmunjom actually agreed
June 12, 2018, Singapore — the first summit. A four-point joint statement pledging security guarantees and complete denuclearisation, with no deadline or verification