AI Takes Over Broadcasting: SOOP Develops AI Streamers

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1. AI as Streamers: SOOP Leaps Forward With '5 Billion Communication Data Points'

- Key Summary: Live streaming platform SOOP has begun developing an AI streamer service based on approximately 5 billion real-time communication data points annually. About 15,000 streamers are active on SOOP, conducting 7 million broadcasts per year, with total viewing time over the past 30 days reaching 115 million hours. Using this data, SOOP is developing in-house a Large Video Model that integrally processes video, audio, and behavioral information, and is successively launching customized services including generative AI 'SAVYG' for streamers, video assistant 'SOOPI' for users, and AI manager 'SARSA.' Lee Kyung-hwan, head of SOOP's AI Lab, said, "SOOP's AI services help streamers conduct content more easily and help users find their preferences."

2. Jusung Retail Subscription Success: Competition Ratio 2,784-to-1

- Key Summary: Jusung, a company specializing in ultra-precision motion control, recorded a competition ratio of 2,783.89-to-1 in its retail subscription held on the 18th and 19th of this month, receiving a total of 402,395 subscription applications. The margin deposit was tallied at approximately 6.9597 trillion won, the third-highest competition ratio among this year's KOSDAQ-listed companies after Polled (487580) and MakinaRocks (477850). In the institutional demand forecast, 2,252 domestic and foreign institutional investors participated, recording a competition ratio of 1,295-to-1, and the offering price was set at 12,500 won, the top of the desired band, recognizing a market capitalization of 150.6 billion won. Choi Dong-su, CEO of Jusung, said, "Through ultra-precision motion control technology, we are expanding the proportion of semiconductor sales and concentrating on the aerospace field as a next-generation growth engine."

3. DayOne Company (373160), Operator of Fast Campus, Suffers Personal Data Breach

- Key Summary: At DayOne Company (373160), which operates online education platform Fast Campus, an abnormal intrusion into the computer management system occurred on the 9th of last month, and personal information of instructors and customers was stolen. The scale of the breach is estimated at a minimum of several hundred thousand to a maximum of 1 million people, with eight affiliated platforms including Fast Campus, Coloso, and Zerobase involved in the incident. For some instructors, sensitive information including names, phone numbers, account numbers, resident registration numbers, and credit card numbers was reportedly leaked. After recognizing the incident, DayOne Company filed reports successively with the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Personal Information Protection Commission. Meanwhile, the company said it does not hold sensitive information such as customers' resident registration numbers, so there was no leak of such information.

4. Exchange Pushback Over 'Kalshi' Bitcoin Futures, Compounded by Trump Family Investment Controversy

- Key Summary: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, a U.S. derivatives exchange operator, filed a lawsuit in the Washington, D.C. federal court in protest against a decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC, the U.S. derivatives market regulator) to allow prediction betting platform Kalshi to launch bitcoin perpetual futures contracts. Kalshi's products allow leveraged investment of up to 50 times with cryptocurrency prices as the underlying asset, and according to CryptoQuant, global perpetual futures trading volume last year surged 29% from the previous year to $61.7 trillion. While CME claims that Kalshi enjoyed regulatory arbitrage by utilizing a designated contract market license with low regulatory barriers, a CFTC spokesperson countered that it was "afraid of fair competition." In addition, conflict-of-interest concerns have intensified following revelations that Trump Jr., the eldest son of U.S. President Donald Trump, serves as an adviser to both Kalshi and Polymarket, and invested in Polymarket through venture capital firm '1789 Capital.'