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Korea Quantum Computing to List on Nasdaq via Charlton Aria

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October 8, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Korea Quantum Computing Co., Ltd. and Charlton Aria Acquisition Corporation will host an investor webcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss their proposed business combination. The agreement, announced on October 7, 2026, will result in the combined company trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “KQC.” The webcast will feature remarks from KQC’s Chairman Ji Hoon Kweon, CEO Joon Young Kim and Charlton Aria CFO Paul Strickland, covering KQC’s quantum computing offerings and commercialization strategy.

KQC and Charlton Aria Review Proposed Nasdaq Listing

Korea Quantum Computing (KQC) intends to begin trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol “KQC” following a proposed business combination with Charlton Aria Acquisition Corporation. The companies announced on October 7, 2026, that they have entered into a definitive agreement for the transaction, which is anticipated to finalize during the first half of 2027, pending shareholder approval from Charlton Aria and an extension of their business combination deadline.

KQC Parent, the Delaware-based parent company of Korea Quantum Computing Co., Ltd., will remain the ultimate owner of the combined entity, with Charlton Aria becoming a wholly owned subsidiary. The presentation will focus on KQC’s offerings in quantum computing and quantum-safe security, including current customer projects and its commercialization strategy. KQC, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Busan, South Korea, assists enterprises in adopting quantum technologies and securing their data against future threats.

The company’s Qubiteer platform uses artificial intelligence to translate complex business challenges into models suitable for both classical and quantum computing methods. KQC also provides access to quantum computing systems from D-Wave and integrates post-quantum cryptography products for clients in finance, industry and the public sector. According to company materials, “KQC helps enterprises put quantum computing and quantum-safe security to work,” and an on-demand replay of the webcast will be available on the Investor Relations section of KQC’s website at www. kqcquantum. com.

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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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