AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoBadminton: An Se-young won the Korea Open in Yeosu, tying her own record with 11 international titles this season for the second year in a row. She has lost just once in 72 matches this year. Markets: Foreign investors sold nearly 8 trillion won in Samsung Electronics and SK hynix shares last week as an AI-driven tech sell-off battered Korean stocks. Samsung, meanwhile, reported a record 214.8 trillion won in cash at quarter’s end. Demographics: First-grade enrollment is expected to fall below 300,000 next year for the first time. Regular jobs among workers in their 20s have also declined for 15 straight quarters, while people 60 and older accounted for nearly three-quarters of the latest increase in regular employment. Tourism: South Korea’s tourism deficit widened to nearly $500 million in September, despite expectations that foreign arrivals will top 20 million this year. Security: Washington urged coordinated action against North Korean cybercrime after a major Binance theft, while Seoul’s expanded naval mission near the Strait of Hormuz is set to feature in talks with U.S. officials.
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