Latest on Korean Startups

South Korea-based metaverse platform Maxst Co. made a strong debut on the country’s tech-heavy junior bourse Kosdaq on July 27 with its share ...

South Korea-based fitness content startup DevUnlimit Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence-based fitness platform that gamifies exercise rou...

South Korea’s metaverse gaming market is about to heat up with the country's leading 3D avatar platform Zepeto rolling out a game development ...

South Korea’s e-commerce platform TMON Inc., majority-owned by KKR & Co. and Anchor Equity Partners, will postpone its plans for initial p...

South Korea’s largest multichannel network (MCN) company Sandbox Network Inc. has made another major step forward in expanding its China busin...

IMB Dx Inc., a South Korean biotechnology startup focusing on diagnostic devices, plans to develop a platform that can detect early-stage cancer wit...

Displays are everywhere – refrigerators, automobiles, and even robots. And this display boom has sparked a fresh opportunity for 4by4 Inc., a ...

South Korea-based e-commerce startup RXC has secured around 20 billion won ($17.5 million) in a seed round -- an impressive and rare amount consider...

South Korea’s financial regulator Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) on July 16 requested correction of Kakao Pay’s IPO registration st...

South Korea's largest travel platform Yanolja has raised 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) from the Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Vision Fund II, marking t...

A consortium led by global investment firm Affinity Equity Partners is the most likely candidate to acquire South Korea’s second-largest food ...

South Korea-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Rebellions Inc. is drawing industry attention as AI chips become mainstays of the semiconduct...

South Korea-based Seven Brau Co., or 7brau, is poised to become the country's second craft brewery to make a trading debut, following the footsteps ...

Samsung Electronics Co. is betting big on non-fungible token (NFT) companies through its venture capital unit Samsung Next, headquartered in Mountai...

South Korea-based fintech startup Qraft Technologies Inc. captured the attention of Wall Street in May 2019, when it listed two artificial intellige...

Delivery Hero SE has requested up to another six months to sell South Korea's No. 2 food delivery platform Yogiyo, the estimated value of which was ...

South Korea-based 3D animation company SAMG Entertainment Co. is enjoying great success in China and Latin America thanks to its animation series' p...

RBW Inc., the label behind K-pop star Mamamoo, is looking to go public after HYBE Co., the music and entertainment agency behind BTS, made a big h...

South Korea-based grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp., referred to as Oasis Market, has attracted 50 billion won ($44 million) from global private...

In February 2020, a South Korean broadcasting network aired a virtual reality (VR) reunion between a grieving mother and her late daughter. The docu...

South Korean game developer Krafton Inc. has decided to lower its initial public offering share price amid criticism over its high valuation followe...

South Korean startup Atlas Labs is making it easier for people to keep track of their phone conversations via Switch, an app that uses artificial in...

San Francisco-based startup Impressivo is seeking partnerships in the fitness and healthcare sector as the company aims to bridge the fitness and he...

South Korea-based mobile financial platform Toss is en route to becoming the country's first fintech decacorn, or a company valued at over $10 billi...

South Korea-based artificial intelligence startup Voyager X Inc. has successfully raised around 30 billion won ($26.4 million) in a Series A funding...

A self-driving car needs to pass all sorts of tests before setting off for the open road. It needs to experience different types of roads, terrain f...

South Korea-based game publisher Krafton Inc.'s highly-anticipated initial public offering is raising concerns that it may be overvalued. The compan...

Imagine getting this text from your favorite K-pop group member: “Hey, what did you eat for lunch? Can’t wait to see you at the concert ...

South Korea's island of Jeju is famous for its native citrus and pork. It's also where Shin Woo-sup, the founder of startup studio Futurera, came up...