Jaeyune Ryu's team at Seoul National University raised selectivity for lactones and epoxides from about 16% to 97% by redesigning the reactor around local pH. Its levers were electrode spacing and electrolyte flow, so cell shape now counts alongside catalyst choice in oxygen-driven oxidation.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
KAIST and Seoul National University's AgSpec nearly doubles accepted draft length for coding agents by indexing files in the diff and JSON forms agents emit. It lives entirely in the retrieval index and leaves model weights untouched.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence40
Ultium Cells, GM's venture with LG Energy Solution, will finish retooling its Tennessee plant for LMR cells by 2028, aiming at LFP cost with 33% more density. The plan puts a date on a U.S.-made cell meant to sit between low-cost LFP and energy-dense high-nickel chemistries.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Physicists at two Seoul universities map one atom's interaction with light as a semi-infinite graph and place weak through deep-strong coupling on one scale. The work is theory, and its use for devices depends on whether the index tracks something a lab can measure.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives35
- Confidence50
Jongno Academy counted 99,883 early applications at Pusan, Chonnam and Chungnam for 2027, up 11.6% in the first cycle after each was promised 70 billion won a year, with 63% of the gain at Pusan alone.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
A Seoul National University group rearranged a self-splicing intron so bacterial transcripts join their own ends inside the cell. Most of the extra protein came from mRNA that lasts longer, and the design worked in three hosts.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives65
- Confidence58
Ring-shaped polylactide mixed much further into a chemically identical layer than the linear version of the same chain length. A prediction from 1986 finally has a direct measurement at a real polymer interface.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence57
The three-year treasury yield closed at 4.014% and WTI at $102.48, the KOSPI gave up the 7,000 level, and the money leaving Korea's safest funds landed in brokerage accounts with margin debt already at 32.36 trillion won.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption61
- Hype gap+19
- Incentives46
- Confidence41
A new model has the world's largest carbon sink turning into a source once concentrations start falling, with two heat-driven feedbacks amplifying the outgassing for centuries after net zero and capping what removal delivers.
Reality
- Evidence57
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
A Seoul National University team varied the ozone dose during deposition, then watched 10-nanometre films crystallize under synchrotron X-rays, and the vacancy-rich ones crystallized later while holding on to the nonferroelectric phase.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence55
A team led by Ho Won Jang used language models to pull 1,202 property records out of published work, screened about 150 million candidate compositions down to 37, and synthesized two.
Reality
- Evidence63
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives62
- Confidence58