SIA data: global semiconductor sales declined 3% YoY in September, the first drop since early 2020; South Korean chip manufacturing dropped by 3.5% YoY (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

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SIA data: global semiconductor sales declined 3% YoY in September, the first drop since early 2020; South Korean chip manufacturing dropped by 3.5% YoY  —  Global chip sales contracted for the first time since early 2020, in a blow to South Korea’s economy which is highly geared to the industry …

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South Korea’s trade ministry data shows its DRAM chip exports fell 24.7% YoY in August 2022, the biggest drop since 2019, indicating a deepening slump in demand (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korea’s trade ministry data shows its DRAM chip exports fell 24.7% YoY in August 2022, the biggest drop since 2019, indicating a deepening slump in demand  —  South Korea’s exports of its most lucrative memory chip fell by the most since 2019, indicating a deepening slump in technology demand central to global economic growth.

A South Korean court issues an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and five others located in Singapore, following the collapse of LUNA and UST (Hooyeon Kim/Bloomberg)

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A South Korean court issues an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and five others located in Singapore, following the collapse of LUNA and UST  —  A court in South Korea issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of the Terraform Labs cryptocurrency ecosystem …

Chip-related stocks slump in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan after US curbs on China; the PHLX chip index fell to its lowest level since November 2020 on Monday (Naoto Hosoda/Bloomberg)

Naoto Hosoda / Bloomberg:
Chip-related stocks slump in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan after US curbs on China; the PHLX chip index fell to its lowest level since November 2020 on Monday  —  Chip-related stocks in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan slumped as traders returning from Monday’s holidays reacted …

Sensor Tower: Apple’s App Store net revenue fell by around 5% in September, the steepest drop since 2015, as gaming revenue declined by 14% (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Sensor Tower: Apple’s App Store net revenue fell by around 5% in September, the steepest drop since 2015, as gaming revenue declined by 14%  —  – Apple’s App Store revenue declined about 5% in September, according to Morgan Stanley, the steepest drop since the bank started modeling the data in 2015.

South Korean financial super app Toss raised $405M Series G at a 9.1T won valuation, or ~$7B, after a 8.5T won valuation in June ’21; Toss Bank has 5M users (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Kate Park / TechCrunch:
South Korean financial super app Toss raised $405M Series G at a 9.1T won valuation, or ~$7B, after a 8.5T won valuation in June ’21; Toss Bank has 5M users  —  Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss, has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued …