SK hynix has developed a 238-layer NAND flash chip, the most advanced from the chipmaker to date. The company on Wednesday introduced a sample of its new 238-layer 512 gigabyte TLC 4D NAND flash memory chip for the first time at the Flash Memory Summit 2022 in Santa Clara, California.  

Samsung Engineering and five other Korean companies signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysia’s state energy company to establish a carbon value chain between the two countries, the companies said Wednesday.

The presidential office gave U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a muted welcome to Seoul after her highly controversial visit to Taiwan. Asked whether Pelosi would get a meeting with President Yoon Suk-yeol, a presidential official said Wednesday morning, “At this point there are no plans.”     

Korea surpassed 20 million total Covid cases on Wednesday, but health authorities said they're sticking to their focus on protecting vulnerable groups and not resuming restrictions on the general populace. Newly confirmed Covid cases exceeded the 110,000 mark for the second day in a row Wednesday, bringing the cumulative total of confirmed cases to 20,052,305, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).   

Members of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI), a coalition of a dozen countries including the Netherlands, Germany, Japan and the U.A.E., called for a complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear weapons at the UN nonproliferation conference on Tuesday.    

Prosecutors are building a case against former government officials involved in the forced repatriation of two North Korean fishermen, sources told the JoongAng Ilbo on Wednesday. The case is expected to pick up speed now that two key figures in the case returned to Korea in the past week.  

Coupang Play released a statement on Wednesday addressing the complaint raised by director Lee Zoo-young of its original series “Anna,” who claimed a day before that the streaming service made major edits to the series without her consent. The streaming service said it was initially very supportive of the director and the production team, however, found out that the “director’s editing direction became significantly different from what was initially agreed with us.”  

Tving original series “Yumi’s Cells” (2021-22), which wrapped up on July 22, was a first in many ways for the local TV industry and had, quite literally, many shoes to fill to satisfy the original fans of the massively popular Naver Webtoon of the same title.