1. SK Hynix has once again posted record-breaking performance, surpassing 100 trillion won in quarterly sales for the first time. The company announced that its third-quarter sales reached 104.6 trillion won, with an operating profit of 83.3 trillion won. Its operating profit margin stood at a staggering 80%, meaning it made an 80 won profit out of every 100 won in sales. However, net profit dropped by 58% compared to the previous quarter to 39.8 trillion won. This was due to 11.6 trillion won in foreign exchange losses caused by a falling exchange rate and 22.9 trillion won in investment asset valuation losses. Citing increased demand driven by AI investments, SK Hynix projected that memory demand will outpace supply until 2030, and emphasized plans to implement 100 trillion won in shareholder returns, including cash dividends and the purchase and cancellation of treasury shares.
2. A fire that broke out in Guryong Village in Seoul yesterday afternoon was finally extinguished early this morning after 13 hours, scorching an area equivalent to 26 football fields. Driven by strong winds exceeding 5 meters per second at the time, the flames spread rapidly across various parts of the village. During the firefighting operations, which prompted a Level 2 response, crews faced difficulties due to a shortage of nearby firefighting water supplies. Thirty-nine residents and others evacuated on their own, preventing major casualties. One woman in her 30s twisted her ankle while evacuating and is currently receiving treatment at a hospital. Police and fire authorities have launched joint inspection procedures to determine the cause of the fire and are questioning the person who reported the fire and witnesses.
3. Successive hacking breaches have been confirmed at Daishin Securities, Mirae Asset Global Investments, and cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb. At Daishin Securities, it was found that the personal information of some 38,000 customers, as well as encrypted securities accounts and deposit/withdrawal account numbers, had been leaked. Mirae Asset Global Investments also stated that it detected unauthorized external access to some of its web systems and rushed to block it. Bithumb confirmed that an unauthorized outsider accessed its internal mobile system yesterday and leaked employee information. The Financial Supervisory Service has deployed an emergency on-site inspection team to investigate the circumstances of the incidents and the scale of the damage, though it has not yet been confirmed whether these recent hacks were caused by generative AI, which has been sweeping the financial sector.
4. Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian senator who refused to accept his defeat after losing the presidential election, violated a travel ban issued by the local Supreme Court and fled to the United States. Bolsonaro departed for the U.S. with his wife and two daughters yesterday, local time, two days after his election defeat. Citing multiple U.S. government sources, CNN reported that Bolsonaro has already arrived in the U.S. and that President Trump directly approved his entry. President Lula strongly criticized Bolsonaro's actions as disgraceful. Analysts predict that this situation will negatively impact not only Brazil's internal political landscape but also relations between the United States and Brazil.
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