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Christian Davies

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Christian Davies is the FT's Seoul bureau chief, covering South Korea and North Korea. He was previously based in Warsaw.
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  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    News in-depthSemiconductors
    Semiconductor giants race to make next generation of cutting-edge chips

    TSMC, Samsung and Intel battle to create ‘2 nanometre’ chips in moves that will shape the future of $500bn industry

    Mobile phones and logos of Samsung and TSMC
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    Inside BusinessSouth Korean business & finance
    South Korean display industry still paying a heavy price for Chinese deal

    Court battle over tech leakage puts spotlight on rise of Chinese company that gained from a Hyundai unit acquisition

    A woman walks past an advertisement for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    OutlookNorth Korea
    The upside-down world of North Korean elections

    Polls are valued more for propaganda value than democratic choice

    An image released by North Korea’s state news agency showing citizens lining up to vote
  • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
    Aerospace & Defence
    South Korean defence industry rides global order wave

    After decades of preparation for war with North Korea, the country has become a top 10 defence exporter since the start of Ukraine conflict

    South Korean engineers work on a K-9 self propelled howitzer at Hanwha Aerospace factory in Changwon
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    North Korea
    North Korea scraps military agreement with Seoul as tensions rise

    South Korea had partially suspended the deal after Pyongyang launched its first spy satellite

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, centre right, and his daughter, centre left
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    Batteries
    South Korean EV battery makers lay off workers and scale back investments in US

    LG Energy Solution and SK On slowing their expansion in response to sluggish demand

    The LG Group headquarters in Seoul
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    North Korea
    North Korea claims to have launched its first spy satellite

    Pyongyang’s third attempt follows Russia’s pledge to support Kim Jong Un’s space ambitions

    The Malligyong-1 military reconnaissance satellite was launched on Tuesday night, according to North Korean state media
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    Lee Jae-yong
    Prosecutors seek 5 years for Samsung chief for alleged stock manipulation

    Lee Jae-yong also accused of orchestrating $3.9bn accounting fraud in connection with 2015 merger

    Lee Jae-yong
  • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
    South Korean business & finance
    Global banks criticise South Korean short selling ban as ‘phantom farce’

    Regulators seen to be appeasing retail investors ahead of parliamentary elections next year

    A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    South Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korea shoots for the stars in Asia’s space race

    Seoul has big ambitions for independent launches and a GPS-like satellite network

    People in Seoul watch a television screen showing live footage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching with South Korea’s first lunar orbiter Danuri
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    The Big Read
    Kim Jong Un’s comeback

    Despite sanctions, the North Korean dictator has built up alliances with Russia and China and continued to develop nuclear weapons

    Montage image of Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and a missile
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    Poland
    Multibillion-dollar South Korean arms deals at risk after Polish election

    Seoul worries political change and lack of funds could scupper Warsaw’s plans to buy tanks, howitzers and rockets

    Camouflaged howitzers manouvering
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    Europe Express
    How von der Leyen managed Ukraine’s EU membership hopes Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why South Korea questioned the EU’s stance on state aid

    Ursula von der Leyen and Volodomyr Zelenskyy in front of the Ukraine and EU falgs
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    South Korean business & finance
    South Korea bans short selling until 2024

    Kospi stock index rises as much as 4% after regulator vows to investigate ‘naked’ short selling by institutional investors

    A screen displays the Kosdaq figure at the Korea Exchange in Seoul on Monday
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    News in-depthNorth Korea
    Flights tracking North Korean sanctions busters anger China

    Beijing sees western surveillance of illicit oil shipments as pretext to expand military operations in Pacific

  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    The Big Read
    How solid-state batteries could transform transport

    Toyota appears close to a manufacturing breakthrough that could accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. But will the technology ever be commercially viable?

    Toyota’s Land Cruiser SE concept car, unveiled this month, against a background of battery icons
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Semiconductors
    Chipmaker SK Hynix says it opposes merger between Kioxia and Western Digital

    South Korean company’s sign-off is needed for Bain Capital’s attempt to create a US-Japan chip champion

    SK Hynix logo
  • Sunday, 22 October, 2023
    South Korea Society
    South Korean Christians turn to AI for prayer

    Pastors welcome the time technology frees up so they can spend longer with followers but caution against overuse

    Smartphones showing bible app Meadow
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    InterviewSouth Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korea says China must push Pyongyang to curb nuclear plans

    Kim Yung-ho admits sanctions regime is ‘not working’ as North Korea and Russia pursue closer ties

    South Korea’s unification minister Kim Yung-ho
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    News in-depthNorth Korea
    The last Covid reopening? North Korea eases its pandemic self-isolation

    Kim Jong Un seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing and Russia while maintaining coronavirus-era controls

    Kim Jong Un at a launch ceremony of what he says is a new nuclear attack submarine on September 6
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Global InsightGeopolitics
    Japan and South Korea’s rapprochement is shakier than it looks

    Tokyo may need to show genuine compassion over forced-labour issue to establish partnership with Seoul that lasts

    Yoon Suk Yeol, left, Joe Biden, centre, Fumio Kishida
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    News in-depthNorth Korea
    North Korea leans on Russia to bolster weapons trade

    US warns Pyongyang will ‘pay a price’ for arming Moscow in Ukraine conflict

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, right
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    North Korea’s Kim plans to visit Putin in Russia to discuss arms sales, says US

    Moscow is seeking more weapons supplies from Pyongyang to use in Ukraine war

    Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    North Korea
    Russia proposes joint naval drills with North Korea and China

    Exercises would be a first for Pyongyang as it tightens ties with Moscow

    An image taken from TV footage of Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese politburo member Li Hongzhong
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    FT SeriesThe battery revolution
    Why the EV battery race needs a recycling revolution

    Uncertainty over which cells will power tomorrow’s cars among factors complicating efforts to reuse raw materials

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