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Asian Semiconductor Stocks Plunge as TSMC, Kioxia Drop Sharply The declines were particularly pronounced in Japan. As of 2:20 p.m. Korea time on the 28th, Japan's Nikkei 225 index plummeted by more than 4%, falling below the 62,000 mark for the first time since late May, while the TOPIX also dropped by about 3%. SBS Jul 28, 2026 3:35 PM

CIA and Mossad Go All Out to Track Down Mojtaba... "No Phone or PC Use for 5 Months" Central Intelligence Agency and Israel's Mossad are going all out to locate Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, according to the British daily The Times. SBS Jul 28, 2026 3:32 PM

Xi Jinping Emphasizes Role of Overseas Chinese, Urging Contribution to National Unification and Ethnic Rejuvenation According to China's state-run Xinhua News Agency, President Xi stated in recent directives regarding overseas Chinese affairs that the party's policies concerning overseas Chinese must be thoroughly implemented to further rally the hearts and strength of overseas Chinese communities. SBS Jul 28, 2026 3:24 PM

Asian Semiconductor Stocks Sell Off, TSMC and Kioxia Plummet The decline was particularly steep in Japan. At 2:20 p.m. today, Japan's Nikkei 225 index plummeted by more than 4%, falling below the 62,000 mark for the first time since late May, while the TOPIX index also dropped by about 3%. SBS Jul 28, 2026 3:22 PM

Blaming Korea? Nikkei Flashes Warning as JPY 6 Trillion Margin Trading Debt Rocks Japanese Stock Market An analysis suggests that the extreme volatility of South Korean semiconductor stocks, including Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, is shaking up even the Japanese stock market. SBS Jul 28, 2026 3:09 PM

North Korea Holds Massive 'Victory Day' Events; Kim Jong-un Spotted 'Tearing Up' at Concert with Daughter Ju-ae North Korea has consolidated regime unity by holding large-scale events for the 73rd anniversary of the so-called Day of Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (the date of the armistice agreement signing). SBS Jul 28, 2026 2:33 PM

Moonshot Reveals K3 License Terms: "Open Source, But Ultimately Paid" Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI has released "Kimi K3" as an open-source model, but The New York Times has analyzed that most users will "ultimately end up using it as a paid service." Chinese AI firm Moonshot AI released the weights and programming code of its ultra-large AI model "Kimi K3" on the 27th, local time. SBS Jul 28, 2026 2:08 PM

Takaichi Announces Plan for Ministerial Meeting on Heatstroke as Victims Surge Amid Scorching Heat in Japan Prime Minister Takaichi particularly emphasized that she would enhance the effectiveness of these measures by incorporating the latest knowledge and technology. SBS Jul 28, 2026 2:04 PM

Following SpaceX, SK Hynix ADR Drops Below IPO Price Amid Wall Street Struggles for Super Rookies With this year's "super rookies" on the U.S. stock market showing sluggish stock performance, market observers are raising concerns about whether this downturn might impact upcoming mega-IPO events, including OpenAI. SBS Jul 28, 2026 1:58 PM

"GPT Hacking Incident is a 'Wright Brothers' Moment... AI Could Be Exploited in Jeonse Fraud" Just as the rudimentary airplane that could fly for less than 30 seconds eventually became popularized thanks to continuous technological advancement, this is a warning prediction that AI threats in the security domain could also become much larger due to subsequent technology. SBS Jul 28, 2026 1:55 PM