A roundup of Kodak's rise and fall from Yonhap News Economy TV. It reports that Kodak, a 130-year company that once ruled 90% of the global film market, sealed away in a vault the digital camera it invented first in the world in 1975 to protect film sales with 70% margins, and sold the photo-sharing site Ofoto it acquired in 2001 for a mere 270 hundred-million won in April (month 4) 2012, missing the chance to grow a photo SNS. It contrasts that with Instagram selling for 1 trillion and 2 thousand hundred-million won the same month. It reviews the post-bankruptcy disgrace: the 2018 KodakCoin issuance and miner rentals, then the 2020 announcement of a 9,200 hundred-million-won COVID loan that sent the stock up 2,750% before the loan was scrapped over management's self-granted stock options. It sees the 2026 turnaround as coming from analog film itself. Young people tired of AI imagery embraced film sentiment as demand grew 2-fold in 5 years, and pressure from the film-preservation alliance led by director Christopher Nolan brought a mandatory-purchase deal with 6 Hollywood majors in February (month 2) 2015, returning the movie-film unit to profit in 2016. It closes with orders surging 127% since Oppenheimer, plant expansion, direct-distribution rights recovered after 14 years, and the lesson of surviving by returning to essentials.

Yonhap News Economy TV

Fall of the film empire

The digital camera sealed in a vault and the SNS sold for a pittance

The theme-stock years: KodakCoin and miner rentals

The COVID loan announcement and insider-trading disgrace

The film revival fueled by AI fatigue

The Rochester plant saved by director Nolan

A 127% order surge and recovered distribution rights

Why is 'film' hot in the AI era? Why Kodak is back | just the essentials in 3 minutes

The discussion compares the 8-day, over 20 percent consecutive decline with the IMF, financial crisis and COVID episodes in Goldman Sachs long-run statistics, diagnosing last Thursday and Friday as the bottom zone given no domestic internal crisis. It cites KOSPI PBR around 1 and won strength at a 2-year high as bottom evidence, and lays out the conditional path that a halt in AI investment could sink investment, wealth effects and consumption together into a US recession. It flags foreign selling of 20 trillion won and a weak rebound of only hundreds of billions of won after options expiry as a flow burden, stressing position sizes that let you sleep at night plus spare money and a long horizon. It presents Chinese firms' reported US withdrawal as a reflected-benefit case for 2nd batteries while also flagging halved lithium prices and Europe's approach to China as risks. It relays the interpretation that Tesla's flying-car demonstration sets up a SpaceX merger ahead of the December (month 12) shareholder meeting, voicing concern about 1-person decision-making concentration. It sees limited further downside in Korea trading under 5 times versus Taiwan and Philadelphia Semiconductor at 18 to 19 times and China STAR50 at 40 times. It reads the crash in leveraged neo-cloud names like CoreWeave against resilience at Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft, with bond markets also favoring strong borrowers, as a selection signal rather than a collapse of all investment. All directional views are the speakers' conditional judgments and do not confirm any near-term price forecast.

SamproTV 3PROTV

CoreWeave and Nebius plunge 25 percent yet Big Tech holds: what happened in the AI cloud market | Myeong Minjun, Seo Sujin, Song Jaegyeong [Beginner Rescue]

Sosumonkey reviews a sea of red: Nasdaq down 5.5%, semis down 11.8%, 8 straight sessions lower. He explains CoreWeave's business and the FT founder interview's insurer and chip-loan trigger. He relays weakest-link fears: 15% funding rates, the 1000 default line breached, and 60% 5-year default odds. He reports Oracle's credit gauge worsening from 200 to 300 plus Nvidia ties and Jensen's soothing. He covers Broadcom and Intel capital warnings, Gartner's 80% wipeout thesis, and Musk's memory attacks. He urges short-term caution on pre-midterm watchfulness with the VIX at 20 and his crisis gauge. He presents below 20 extreme fear and single digits as the contrarian split-buy zone. All directional views are the speaker's conditional judgments, not confirmed short-term price forecasts.

Sosumonkey

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In the 10/19 broadcast, the KOSPI opened in fear of a crash as Samsung Electronics and Hynix plunged over 6 percent, then reflected the rebound in United States overnight futures to rally into the close, defending the prior low with a meaningful bullish candle. The speakers argue the market looks too cheap to push lower here, citing a KOSPI PBR of 1.2 to 1.3, ROE of 25 to 30 percent, and a PER in the 6 range excluding Samsung and Hynix. They welcome the return of foreign spot buying of 6,900 and pension buying above 2,000 in hundred-million-won units, but warn against calling a V-shaped rebound as foreigners sold nearly 1 in futures against individual selling above 2 in trillion-won units, with Samsung possibly boxed between 20 and 23 in ten-thousand-won units. On the AI funding gap, they note CoreWeave contracted 4.3 to 4.5 gigawatts against only 1.5 operating, Nebius operating below 1 gigawatt, and fewer than a handful of 50 neo-cloud firms operating 1 gigawatt or more, similar to the Oracle shock episode. Secondary batteries (2) snapped back after Samsung SDI's premarket plunge of nearly 7 percent on news of a collective China exit from the United States via Taiwan DigiTimes, with EcoPro, POSCO group names, lithium plays, and cell makers strong and LG Energy Solution at a short-term high. Strength spread to autos, robots, HVM superalloys, space, bio, solar, and ESS, alongside Tesla damage, hopes for orders shifting to Korea, and the view that a United States-China compromise would hurt Korea. They flag Thursday-dawn Meta earnings and investment plans, the expansion of Muse beyond North America, neo-cloud CDS premia, a memory rebound, Treasury yields, and the midterms as variables, and for tomorrow watch SK Hynix follow-through, defending 5,500, and possibly testing 5,900 to 6,000 on United States strength. All directional views are the speakers' conditional judgments and do not confirm any short-term price forecast.

815 Money Talk

[Real Market Talk] KOSPI rebounds on 7,500 of foreign buying in hundred-million-won units, but it is too early to relax — the signal to check tomorrow | Representative Lee Kwon-hee

A Money Never Sleep New York editor unpacks the Tesla-SpaceX merger talk sparked by the Roadster reveal, centering a Barclays report. With the regular shareholders' meeting due before 12/6/2026, concluding this year requires a formal announcement between October (10) and mid-November (11). Three merger rationales are named: physical-virtual AI vertical integration and governance cleanup for the 1,190 hundred-million-dollar Terra chip project. Most decisive is the control math giving Musk 56% of votes from a 37% stake in the combined firm. Assuming SpaceX at 2 trillion 1 hundred billion dollars and Tesla at 1 trillion 5 hundred billion, an all-stock takeover looks likely. Tesla holders must weigh indirect investment effects against sharing long-term funding burdens. Security reviews, China data issues and shareholder consent stand as barriers, with 20s-of-percent year-end odds and three checkpoints to watch. Every directional outlook is the speaker's conditional judgment and does not settle any near-term price forecast.

Money Never Sleep

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Oh Tae-min frames US debt as an interest/funding-cost and confidence issue rather than simply insufficient cash. Stablecoins may increase Treasury demand and dollar use without directly eliminating debt principal. He distinguishes private stablecoins from CBDC politics/privacy and exchange rates from long-run purchasing power and reserve-currency preference. Gold and Bitcoin are compared through scarcity, portability and generational preference, but stock-to-flow ratios do not guarantee demand or price. Long-term Bitcoin optimism coexists with near-term election, cycle and whale-transfer risks; price levels are conditional personal views. Ethereum is discussed as a tokenization platform whose use does not automatically deliver token returns, with competition, adaptation and Bitcoin correlations important. The closing allocation is a personal hypothetical answer, and title multiples, prices, legal/holding/historical-return claims are not verified individualized advice or guaranteed returns. All directional outlooks are the speaker's conditional judgments and do not establish a definitive short-term price prediction.

Money Inside

'If You Have 1 Ten-Million Won': Dollars, Bitcoin and a 10-Fold Asset Claim | Oh Tae-min, Part 1

Chesley Executive Director Park Se-ik answers comments by likening stock investing to sports, a training process where, since conceding goals is unavoidable, you lose less and strike when it counts. He stresses an unbroken attitude through Messi's comeback title and Kim Yuna's practice volume, and clarifies that his own wrap account has not been halved. He covers the controversy over the National Pension domestic-stock target rising from 14.9 to 20.8 percent with demands to disclose the decision basis, and criticizes 2-times and 3-times leveraged products as casino-style gambling. He argues the pension should have sold as planned when its weight reached 28 percent instead of skipping sales amid foreign selling, contrasting Hynix at 300 with a 200-range alternative in ten-thousand-won units. He traces the divergence of 79 versus 16.5 percent in GNI gains with 88 in excess tax revenue in trillion-won units, corporate net funds at a record surplus of 67 trillion plus 1 thousand hundred-million as transcribed, and household deposits down 27 trillion plus 3 thousand hundred-million as transcribed with debt topping 2,000 trillion. He calls the present mix of rising rates and debt burden the fittest time in a 4 ten-thousand-dollar income era to gather fallen quality stocks. He covers the Solidigm pre-IPO and SK advance-stake dispute with a 90 acquisition now argued above 11 times in hundred-million-dollar units, and presents dual listing as a discount born of missing United States-style 80 to 90 percent payouts, countering that LG Ensol should have kept 34 percent and paid out 40 to 50 percent instead of holding 82 percent, with a United States listing and sale-payout fix. All directional views are the speakers' conditional judgments and do not confirm any short-term price forecast.

Chesley TV

[Womae Sinbak / 26.10.19 Monday as dated] Now, as rates rise and debt grows, is the time to gather blue chips | Chesley Investment Advisory Executive Director Park Se-ik

The broadcast tracks the KOSPI falling 7 straight sessions from the 7 thousand line on October (month 10) day 6 to 5,668 on October (month 10) day 16, contrasting a 40 percent plunge from 9,385 4 months earlier with a 4.8 percent Nasdaq dip over the same stretch. It blames foreign selling, with 42 trillion won out in a month and 200 trillion won since January, absorbed by 93 trillion won from individuals and buybacks. It diagnoses missing buyers in Samsung's closed buyback, SK Hynix's 40 trillion won program 90 percent done, and the NPS out of ammo after failing to rebalance at the top. It cites an estimated 182 trillion won paper loss and vanished Q2 189 trillion won gains, relaying the audit excuse that rules demanded selling 8 thousand hundred-million won daily. It sees semiconductor fundamentals as solid on TSMC and ASML's Q3 beats and raised guidance, yet names the Broadcom CEO's funding-constraint remark the top risk. It reports CoreWeave's 17 percent single-day and 33 percent ten-day crash with bond yields spiking to 15 percent, likening the build-first, cash-later structure and Big Tech order and collateral disputes to real-estate PF. It covers an Australian neo-cloud's 50 hundred-million-dollar IPO failure and the 600-times-revenue dispute, plus CXMT's 4F-squared DRAM claim and the Micron-Hynix pricing row. All directional views are the speakers' conditional judgments and do not confirm any near-term price forecast.

Syuka World

Foreign net selling of 200 trillion won: are the ants the fleeced ones?

In a 10/19 indicator-tracking show, Alsangmu looks back on a day the KOSPI flipped plunge fears into a higher close. The plunge merely halted, not bottomed, he draws the line, requiring confirmation from the US market and tomorrow's rebound. He welcomes long-absent foreign net buying paired with individual selling, yet calls it no trend reversal. He technically reviews the KOSPI candle, Nikkei 225 and Nasdaq charts, and dollar-won's break of 1,330 won. He walks through the US 10-year settling near 5%, Korean bonds and WTI, judging Samsung and Hynix a rebound, not an uptrend. CoreWeave loss doubts, long JGBs, gold, China GDP and US earnings dates headline this week's variables. He keeps Sunday's weekly strategy, buying dips near the close and trading the response. Every directional outlook is the speaker's conditional judgment and does not settle any near-term price forecast.

Alsangmu

Relieved for now, but watch the US market; too early to cheer [Indicator Tracker 1019 Mon]

Amid volatile markets, the broadcast sees no evidence yet to judge AI finished, explaining with a bean-noodle analogy that data-center demand persists. SemiAnalysis forecasts over 50GW added in 2027 alone, a record year against claims that half that, 25GW, would already be huge. 50GW matches all humanity built through 2026, citing satellite photos of 24.3GW under construction across 40 sites and before-after shots of wasteland turned giant factories. The report's proprietary leading indicators confirm 1 trillion dollars in non-cancellable leases as the core basis for the aggressive 2027 to 28 outlook. Citing Factfulness, it argues smooth construction never makes news while problems get amplified. Quarterly megawatt-scale starts surged in Q1 and Q2, led by Hyperscalers 1 and 2, whose identities Q3 earnings will reveal. Construction that took 19 months in 2024 now takes 3 months in 2026 via modular methods, while the non-US share fell from 35 to 28 percent, leaving 70 percent built in America. All directional views are the speakers' conditional judgments and do not confirm any near-term price forecast.

Lee Hyoseok Academy

Rebutting the AI-is-over claim with a bean-noodle analogy

The 2027 50GW outlook and satellite evidence

Factfulness and starts-and-earnings verification

Modular high-speed building and America's 70 percent

They said AI data centers failed, yet wasteland became giant factories: the real America in satellite photos

A learning note on Kodak, which once ruled 90% of the film market — its bankruptcy, theme-stock wanderings, and a film revival in the AI era — tracing 130 years of the film giant.

Why is 'film' hot in the AI era? Why Kodak is back | just the essentials in 3 minutes

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