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■ NVIDIA without Jensen Huang… Will there be changes in the Korea-AI alliance?

With the sudden resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the domestic artificial intelligence (AI) industry is watching the impact on cooperation in the physical AI field such as graphics processing unit (GPU) supply, large-scale AI infrastructure investment, and autonomous driving and robots. As NVIDIA has announced that it will maintain existing contracts and product development plans, the general view in the industry is that there is not a high possibility that there will be immediate disruption in supply or business. However, there are observations that the schedule and priorities for next-generation GPU volume allocation, additional investment, and technical support may vary depending on the judgment of the new management.

■ KOSPI, which rose up to 3% during the day despite ‘Jensen Huang’s retirement’, closed down 0.98%

With Nvidia CEO Jensen Hwang resigning, KOSPI started with a strong upward trend on the 13th, but then reversed course and ended up down nearly 1%. On this day, KOSPI closed at 5,290.53, down 52.20 points (0.98%) from the previous day. The index started at 5,452.41, up 109.68 points (2.05%) from the previous day, and jumped to 5,504.44, up 3.03% at one point in early trading, touching the 5,500 mark.

■ Yun chuckled, “The military was withdrawn, but the civil war continues?”… A rebuttal to the comprehensive special investigation

In response to the 2nd Comprehensive Special Prosecutor's Team Kwon Chang-young's judgment that the end of the rebellion following the December 3 emergency martial law was not the lifting of martial law but the passing of the impeachment bill against the president, former President Yoon Seok-yeol countered, saying, "It is difficult to understand that (the civil war) continued even after the martial law situation was completely lifted." Former President Yoon said this at the first trial of the first trial on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of the exercise of rights held on the 13th at the Seoul Central District Court Criminal Agreement Division 38-1 (Chief Judges Jang Seong-jin, Su-young Jeong, and Young-gak Choi). The comprehensive special prosecutor's team indicted former President Yoon in August, saying that immediately after declaring martial law on December 3, he ordered the National Security Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a message to the United States, Britain, Japan, and the European Union (EU) to the effect that martial law was justified.

■ 'Man in his 50s who murdered a teenager' arrested... “Concern about destroying evidence and running away”

A man in his 50s suspected of murdering a 15-year-old girl in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul was arrested on the 13th. On this day, Kang Young-hoon, chief judge in charge of warrants at the Seoul Northern District Court, issued an arrest warrant for Mr. A (59), who is suspected of murder, after holding a pre-arrest interrogation (warrant substantive examination) without his attendance, saying, "There is concern about destruction of evidence and escape." Mr. A is suspected of killing Ms. B (15), a victim of her son's sexual crime, at a shared lodging in Jeongneung-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul on the 10th of this month. He was arrested in a drunken state at the hotel in the early morning of the 11th.

■ Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs "The stork follows the stork..." Targeting the Cheonghae unit

A spokesperson for Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a warning message that appears to be targeting the Korean government's policy of expanding the mission of the Cheonghae Unit, citing a Korean proverb. On the 12th (local time), Esmail Bagai, spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, posted on his In the English post, a sentence with the same meaning was used and the source was cited as a 'Korean proverb.'

■ Korea Zinc wins against Youngpoong in the second trial of the ‘new share issuance dispute’… 1st trial overturned

Korea Zinc won the second trial of a lawsuit between Korea Zinc and Youngpoong over the legality of the issuance of new shares allocated to a third party in the early stages of the management dispute. The first trial ruling, in which Youngpoong won, was overturned. On the 13th, Seoul High Court Civil Division 18-3 (Judge Jin Hyun-min, Wang Jeong-wook, and Park Seon-jun) ruled that the plaintiff lost the lawsuit filed by Youngpoong against Korea Zinc to confirm the invalidation of new stock issuance.

■ Woori Bank President Jeong Jin-wan was reappointed for one year… A signal for the appointment of the 5th bank president

Woori Financial Group decided to reappoint Woori Bank President Jeong Jin-wan, becoming the first major financial holding company to signal the appointment of the next bank president. Woori Financial Group held a subsidiary CEO candidate recommendation committee (self-recommendation committee) on the 13th and recommended current President Jeong Jin-wan as the next Woori Bank president candidate. The appointment of President Chung will be finalized through the bank's general shareholders' meeting scheduled for the end of this month.

■ Yoo Hong-jun, who stepped down as museum director, is making another rumor… Suspicion of ‘self-registration’ of home wall

It was belatedly revealed that the former head of the National Museum of Korea, Yoo Hong-jun, included the wall of a house owned in his wife's name among the cultural heritage registered while he was the head of the Cultural Heritage Administration. According to the National Heritage Office and the Government Official Gazette on the 13th, the 'Old Wall of Buyeo Bangyo Village', which became a nationally registered cultural heritage in 2006, includes the wall of 'Hyuhyudang', known as the house of former director Yoo. In Volume 6 of ‘My Cultural Heritage Exploration’ published in 2011, former Director Yoo revealed that he built a country house in the Bangyo-ri area with the meaning of ‘a house to rest and rest’ (休休堂).

■ Medical community complains to UN about ‘seizure and search of pediatric emergency room’… “Threat to the right to life”

The medical community submitted a petition to the United Nations, claiming that the police's search and seizure of the Pediatric Emergency Medical Center at Ajou University Hospital violated the patients' right to life and the human rights of the medical staff. According to the medical community on the 13th, three organizations, including the Korean Medical Association, the Korean Emergency Medicine Association, and the Korean Academy of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, submitted an urgent complaint to the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) regarding the recent police search and seizure of the Pediatric Emergency Medical Center at Ajou University Hospital. These organizations defined this search and seizure as a serious violation of human rights and a threat to the patient's right to life by state public power, and criticized the "seizure and search of the emergency center as an atrocity by public power unprecedented in the world and a national disgrace."

■ After 8 years of fleeing overseas, Beom LG repatriates 3-year-old Koo Bon-hyeon from Cambodia… stock price manipulation

Koo Bon-hyeon (57), the third generation of the LG family, who had been on the run abroad for eight years to avoid an investigation into stock price manipulation, was caught by an investigative agency and repatriated to Korea. On the 13th, the Financial Crimes Investigation Unit of the Metropolitan Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced that Mr. Koo, who is suspected of fraudulent transactions under the Capital Markets Act and embezzlement and breach of trust under the Specific Economic Crimes Act, was repatriated from Cambodia and arrested on the 9th. From February 2016 to December 2017, Mr. Koo is accused of acquiring a KOSDAQ-listed company without capital, raising the stock price by falsely making favorable announcements, and then selling borrowed-name stocks to make unfair profits.