Economy
- Venture Business Association launches HR community ‘HR Link’ with a forum event.
- Domino’s Pizza offers a promotion with triple avocado shrimp pizza and chicken toppings.
- Samsung’s 5th generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM3) fails to meet Nvidia’s standards, leading to a drop in stock price.
- KOSPI falls to 2750 due to foreign and institutional selling.
- Tesla announces disappointing quarterly results, causing a sharp decline in stock price.
Politics
- Han Dong-hoon is elected as the new leader of the People Power Party and visits the National Cemetery as his first official schedule.
- Democratic Party’s Kim Du-kwan describes political tension with President Yoon Suk-yeol as a ‘chicken game.’
- A balloon filled with waste, sent by North Korea, is found within the Yongsan Presidential Office grounds.
- Democratic Party’s acting representative Park Chan-dae emphasizes the need to overhaul disaster safety measures in response to climate change.
- Former People Power Party member Yoo Seung-min urges the party for fundamental reforms towards ‘reform conservatism.’
Society
- Kyung Hee University’s research team develops a real-time vascular monitoring fluorescent sensor to prevent cardiovascular diseases.
- KCC Glass opens the 6th and 7th ‘HomeCC Classrooms’ in Suwon to improve educational environments at child welfare facilities.
- Malaria spreads to central Seoul, raising alarms.
- Bithumb withdraws a 4.0% annual deposit interest rate for customers’ won deposits.
- Incidents of men stalking a woman by frequently visiting her home are reported.
Culture
- The late Kim Min-ki, the director of Hakchon Theater, is laid to rest.
- Seoul Business Agency launches a new exhibition at the beauty complex ‘B the B’ at DDP.
- The youth choir ‘Youth Choir’ wins the grand prize at the World Choir Games.
- Starbucks Korea introduces the ‘Regional Collection Annyeong Series’ MD to enhance regional visits.
- Seoul Ballet Company, the nation’s first public contemporary ballet company, officially debuts in August with ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
Technology
- Nexon opens ‘MapleStory Café’ at the Nexon Computer Museum in Jeju.
- NCSoft opens an official ‘Discord’ channel for ‘Throne and Liberty’ user communication.
- Krafton collaborates with Samsung to optimize ‘Dark and Darker Mobile’ for Galaxy smartphones.
- Riot Games confirms that the popular girl group ‘Aespa’ will not be part of ‘Valorant Champions Seoul 2024.’
- Com2us Platform introduces the blockchain-based B2B voting solution ‘X-PLANET VOTE.’