Kyunghan Kim 金敬翰

Views expressed here are my own.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I would like to thank all those who have prayed for me in recent days. I wish to express my particular gratitude to the doctors, nurses and all the staff of the Gemelli Hospital. This experience has made me feel particularly close to all those who are living with illness or infirmity. Now that I have overcome this delicate phase I will gradually resume my activities, always with God’s help and your prayers.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Jeanette and I are united in prayer for @PONTIFEX’s health following his recent diagnosis.

May the Lord give him strength and the Holy Spirit guide the medical professionals taking care of the Holy Father.

[Kyunghan Kim 金敬翰 @chinggi]

If true, it is a huge decision made amid the interests of Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo.

[Jukan @jukan05]

[Exclusive] SK hynix Begins Groundwork on Japan Fab

SK hynix has begun construction work for a memory semiconductor fab in Japan, just one month after the company said "nothing has been decided."

According to industry sources on the 28th, SK hynix has reportedly started groundwork for a semiconductor fab in Japan's Tohoku region. "It's unclear whether it will be a standalone fab or a joint venture with Kioxia, but it's true that foundation work is underway on site," an industry source said. "It shows how strongly SK hynix wants to enter the Japanese market."

The source added, "SK hynix has recently been asking domestic component suppliers to expand supply volumes. It's a sign the company is moving aggressively to respond to the memory supply shortage."

As recently as a month ago, SK hynix said a memory fab in Japan was "under review" and that "nothing specific has been decided." If true, the company moved at remarkable speed, beginning site preparation within a single month.

The Tohoku region is a major cluster for Japan's semiconductor and electronic components industries, with Iwate Prefecture at its core. Iwate hosts the Kitakami fab of Kioxia, a leading NAND flash maker, along with Japan Semiconductor, which makes microcontrollers (MCUs) and power MOSFETs, and Amkor Technology, which handles back end processing. Auto parts maker Denso and global chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron also have operations there. Adding the SK hynix memory fab now under construction would give the region a memory ecosystem spanning front end to back end processes.

This is also why Tohoku emerged as a leading candidate after SK Group Chairman Chey Tae Won said in August that the group was considering a joint memory fab in Japan. At the time, Chey said SK was "considering anywhere with abundant power and water," which further raised the odds of a move into Tohoku. Iwate in particular is known for excellent water infrastructure, given the concentration of semiconductor companies there.

If SK hynix builds a fab in Tohoku, Japan will complete a semiconductor triangle alongside TSMC in Kyushu and homegrown foundry Rapidus in Hokkaido, effectively linking the entire country through the semiconductor industry.

Meanwhile, SK hynix maintains that nothing has been decided yet. "The Japan memory fab is currently under review," a company official said. "Nothing has progressed beyond that."

[Kyunghan Kim 金敬翰 @chinggi]

这么看好。

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@whyyoutouzhele 我的儿子正在学习普通话

[Kyunghan Kim 金敬翰 @chinggi]

頼む。

[日本経済新聞 電子版（日経電子版） @nikkei]

【日経特報】米財務長官が首相・財務相・日銀総裁と会談へ　11日訪日、円安議論
https://t.co/0OcsuKg2sO

[Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 @Lingling_Wei]

Iran. North Korea. Taiwan. China's diplomatic overtures extend well beyond the Middle East ahead of the Trump/Xi summit. “Beijing’s diplomacy is designed to send a message to the White House."

https://t.co/nm6ywJJcrH via @WSJ

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

BREAKING Trump tells AFP he believes China got Iran to negotiate

[Kyunghan Kim 金敬翰 @chinggi]

Only when the tide goes out.

[Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 @Lingling_Wei]

Nine years ago in Beijing, Trump offered to help Xi negotiate the status of Taiwan-an idea Beijing dismissed as the naive bluff of a political novice. Today, Xi is taking Trump’s ambivalence about Taiwan more seriously. with @learyreports 🧵https://t.co/Phis4bNw6E via @WSJ

[Satoshi Ikeuchi 池内恵 @chutoislam]

交渉した国はどんどんホルムズ海峡を出ていく。機雷はまだ意味のある規模では撒かれていない。今後米国・イスラエルがホルムズ海峡の島や沿岸部に上陸作戦を行えば、機雷が撒かれる可能性は高まる。その場合、取り残された船員は本当に出て来れなくなる。一刻も早く出してもらうように交渉するべき。

[人民日報 People's Daily @PDChinese]

【外交部：中方對日本不法之徒強行闖入中國駐日本大使館深感震驚】外交部發言人林劍24日在例行記者會上答問時說，3月24日上午，一名自稱為日本自衛隊現役官員的不法之徒翻牆強行闖入中國駐日本大使館。此人承認自身行為非法，威脅要以“神的名義”殺死中國外交人員。中方對這一事件深感震驚，已向日方嚴正交涉、提出強烈抗議。

林劍說，有關事件嚴重違反《維也納外交關係公約》，嚴重威脅中方外交人員人身安全和外交設施安全，性質影響極為惡劣。這一事件再次反映出日本國內極右翼思潮和勢力十分猖獗，“新型軍國主義”成勢為患，也暴露日本政府在歷史、台灣等涉及中日關係重大核心問題上的錯誤政策流毒深重，日方對自衛隊人員失管失教，未能履行對中國使領館和外交人員的安保責任。

林劍說，中方要求日方立即徹查事件，嚴懲有關人員，給中方一個負責任的交代。日方必須切實保障中國駐日使領館館舍及人員安全，在對華政策上反思糾錯，從根本上杜絕此類事件再次發生。國際社會應高度警惕日本國內加速右傾化和自衛隊擴軍失管的危險動向。

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Always hilarious to read China's transcripts of Trump-Xi calls because you can always find these incredibly sophisticated classical Chinese references with layers of implied meaning that you just know completely went over Trump's head.

It's like Xi is speaking to Trump as if addressing a fellow scholar of classical statecraft and the guy is like "so we're doing 25 Million Tons of soybeans for next season, that's a lot of beans folks!"

This time it's particularly funny because the Chinese transcript (https://t.co/C1cRm5NOYH) has Xi telling Trump: "It is always right to do a good thing, however small, and always wrong to do a bad thing, however small."

This proverb might not sound like much but it's actually extremely meaningful when you understand the reference.

Those are in fact the parting words of Liu Bei, the legendary emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era, to his son and heir Liu Shan right before dying. The original text is this:

"Do not do a bad thing because it is small; do not neglect a good thing because it is small. Only through wisdom and virtue can one earn the allegiance of others." ("勿以恶小而为之，勿以善小而不为。惟贤惟德，能服于人" - Wù yǐ è xiǎo ér wéi zhī, wù yǐ shàn xiǎo ér bù wéi. Wéi xián wéi dé, néng fú yú rén)

Why did he say this? Two reasons:

1) Because his son Liu Shan was notoriously mediocre in ability and weak in character. The meaning is basically: I don't ask you to be brilliant but at least please maintain basic moral standards because the stakes are too high.

2) The Kingdom - Shu Han - had very unstable foundations, beset by threats both internal and external. Internally, national strength was severely depleted and popular confidence shaken by military defeat. Externally, the powerful states of Wei and Wu (the other 2 kingdoms of the "Three Kingdoms") loomed. Liu Bei, who had risen from nothing through benevolence and moral authority, knew that if his heir couldn't at least hold the line on basic decency, the whole edifice would crumble.

The outcome, as you'd expect, was that what his father told him completely went over Liu Shan's head. Shu Han collapsed.

Liu Shan's nickname was "Adou" (阿斗) and, to this day, his name is synonymous with hopeless incompetence with the very famous idiom "Adou who cannot be propped up" ("扶不起的阿斗", Fú bù qǐ de ādǒu). When you tell someone in China that he is an "Adou", it's very insulting.

Now, to be fair, even most Chinese wouldn't get this reference from the transcript. To most of them, "It is always right to do a good thing, however small, and always wrong to do a bad thing, however small" is just an idiom. Which is of course meaningful in and of itself when Xi tells this to Trump: it is used in daily life as a way of telling someone to maintain basic decency.

But for those who catch the historical reference it's devastatingly precise. Let's just say Xi's speechwriters earned their salary on this one 😏

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

The New York Fed reached out to potential trading counterparties at the direction of the U.S. Treasury on Friday for so-called rate checks in the Japanese currency market, fueling speculation about possible intervention

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

FFS

[Kyunghan Kim 金敬翰 @chinggi]

A long-awaited done deal!
Joint Fact Sheet on President Donald J. Trump’s Meeting with President Lee Jae Myung https://t.co/G3pbsvVatZ

[Dan Ives @DivesTech]

Great to be on @SquawkBoxEurope with @CNBCJulianna and @cnbcKaren discussing the watershed Nvidia deal for Samsung just announced and why this is so important to the South Korea market in this AI Revolution 🔥🏆🐂🎯📺🇰🇷🍿📺👇@CNBC @CNBCi @CNBC

https://t.co/SBaarwEGgT

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.

"I think we're going to have a fantastic relationship for a long period of time, and it is an honor to have you with us."

[Jukan @jukan05]

LOL — apparently, the chicken restaurant where Jensen Huang, Lee Jae-yong, and Chung Eui-sun are meeting is called Kkanbu Chicken.

It was reportedly chosen by NVIDIA, and “Kkanbu” is a Korean slang term meaning a close friend, partner, or teammate — it became globally known from the Netflix drama Squid Game, with the line “We’re kkanbu, aren’t we?”

What do you think it means?

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Trump at the 2025 APEC CEO Summit South Korea 🇺🇸🇰🇷

"Together we're solving the challenges that no one before has ever been able to solve... From San Francisco to Seoul... we're strengthening old friendships, forging new bonds... & creating a dramatically better world for our children & generations to come. "