#korea-datacenters

#korea-datacenters

The UK has about 1.59GW of currently installed datacentre capacity at just under 190 sites. If we add existing capacity to that which is planned to complete by 2030 and which has planning consent, we get 4.9GW.

South Korea imports about 45 percent of its naphtha, a critical petrochemical feedstock, with roughly 77 percent of those imports historically arriving from the Middle East. That supply line is now, for all practical purposes, severed.

Samsung has reportedly swapped out its homemade OLED panels in some mid-range models for the Chinese CSOT-made OLEDs, aiming to reduce overall costs and avoid raising consumer prices.

In recent weeks, China approved the world's first commercial brain-computer interface medical device and unveiled a five-ton class electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that has already completed a public flight.

"The ecosystem has realized that if they don't latch on to this next wave, they might end up being digitally colonized. Economic gains flow to the country that converts raw material into finished goods-and, in this case, the raw material is data."

"The CEO said: Koreans don't do sci-fi," Park recalls. "It's a Hollywood thing. The budgets are too big. It doesn't really make sense. It will never look real."

Naver reported 2025 revenue of 12.35 trillion won ($9.15 billion) and operating profit of 2.21 trillion won ($1.64 billion), up 12.1% and 11.6%, respectively, from a year earlier, during its fourth-quarter earnings call. Fourth-quarter revenue rose 10.7% to 3.20 trillion won ($2.37 billion), while operating profit increased 12.7% to 610.6 billion won ($453 million), lifting the operating margin to 19.1%.