Photo=Motionelements As employers compete for technology workers and seek new ways to improve productivity, weight-loss drugs are emerging as an unusual new employee benefit in South Korea—a trend that could eventually interest U.S. companies and investors watching the expanding role of GLP-1 drugs in workplace health programs. Pearl Abyss, a publicly traded South Korean video-game developer, recently began subsidizing Mounjaro

(Photo=MotionElements) Wall Street has spent much of the artificial intelligence boom focused on processors and the enormous data centers being built around them. The next constraint, however, may come from a less visible part of the AI infrastructure chain. Memory chips are becoming increasingly difficult to secure as spending on AI servers accelerates, potentially setting up one of the tightest

Photo=Motionelements South Korea’s narrowing gender pay gap is becoming an increasingly important workforce issue for companies and investors as demographic decline tightens the country’s labor supply. The latest figures suggest that businesses able to retain and advance more women could gain an advantage in a market where experienced workers are becoming harder to replace—a trend U.S. investors may increasingly factor

Photo=Motionelements South Korea’s rapid currency rally is creating a widening divide across the country’s stock market, favoring businesses with heavy dollar costs while squeezing exporters. For U.S. investors, the shift is turning foreign-exchange exposure into a more important factor in Korean equity valuations, with airlines and steelmakers gaining an edge as automakers and semiconductor producers face margin pressure. The won

Photo=KAI South Korea’s next Nuri rocket launch is set to test more than satellite-deployment technology: It will offer investors a closer look at the country’s transition toward a commercially driven space industry, with private companies taking a larger role in launch operations and satellite infrastructure. The mission is scheduled for October 7, and 15 satellites have now arrived at the