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The AI Power Trade at 63x vs. the Same Trade at 40% Off: What US Investors Miss About Korea’s Grid Trio

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GE Vernova trades at 63x and Vertiv at 52x+ — while Korea’s transformer trio sits 40% off its highs with a record ₩32.35T (~$21.5B) order backlog.

Korea Is Writing Its Own GENIUS Act — for the Won. Here’s Who Benefits

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The GENIUS Act was built to export the dollar; Korea’s won stablecoin bill defends the won. Until Seoul settles who issues, it’s a legislation trade.

Why Is the Kospi Down Today? The July 7 Crash in 7 Numbers

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Samsung posted the biggest quarterly tech profit in history — and the Kospi fell 4.91%, tripping a circuit breaker. Seven numbers explain the crash.

The ‘Next Japan Trade’ Paradox: Korea Copied Japan’s Playbook, Hard-Coded It Into Law — and Foreigners Still Sold $97 Billion

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Korea copied Japan’s governance-reform playbook, then went further and wrote it into law. So why did foreign investors dump a record ₩148 trillion in H1…

Korea’s ‘New Japan Trade,’ One Year In: Did Copying Japan Actually Work?

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Global funds call Korea “the new Japan trade.” One year into the Value-Up push, buyback cancellations hit records and the law now forces them — yet…

Korea Just Announced Its Own ‘Stargate.’ Watch the Capex, Not the ₩1,000 Trillion Headline.

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Korea unveiled a ~₩1,000 trillion ($720B) AI and chip mega-plan — a “Korean Stargate.” But it’s built differently from the US version, and the president…

Forget the Chips for a Second. AI’s Real Bottleneck Is Power — and Korea Quietly Owns Pieces of It.

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Everyone is buying the AI chip story. But data centers don’t run on GPUs alone — they run on electricity, and electricity is now the bottleneck. Here is a map of the AI-power supply chain, read two ways (vertical and horizontal), and where Korea’s manufacturers sit in it.