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Corporate strategy
Samsung looks to metaverse, robots for future growth
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. is eyeing the metaverse and robotics as keys to the global tech giant’s future. At the same time, it is ...
Mar 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Edtech startup Riiid joins Fast Company's list of most innovative firms
South Korea’s AI education startup Riiid has made it onto Fast Company's annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Since 20...
Mar 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
AI startup InterMinds builds Smart Stores with conglomerates
Convenience stores are hotbeds for South Korean IT companies to test their artificial intelligence (AI) technology.That is because the establishment...
Mar 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chief Executives
Thanks to deep learning, we're in biggest tech boom cycle: GFT Ventures
"We believe we're in one of the biggest technology boom cycles,” said Jeff Herbst, co-founding managing partner of Palo Alto-based GFT Venture...
Mar 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG AI Research: Foundation of group’s long-term future
Artificial intelligence that composes music and creates images, a forecasting model that reduces the development period of customized anticancer dru...
Feb 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG AI Research forms 'Hyperscale' AI alliance with 13 companies
LG AI Research unveiled an alliance network consisting of 13 corporations and organizations based in South Korea and abroad on Tuesday. There a...
Feb 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Live commerce platforms like Grip to keep growing in Asia Pacific: Google
In April 2021, there were some 200 unicorns in the Asia Pacific region, second only to the United States which had 290 startups each valued at $1 bi...
Feb 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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SK Group head Chey to assume chair post at SK Telecom
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won will assume an additional post as a chairman of SK Telecom Co.The conglomerate’s holding company SK Inc. announ...
Feb 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chief Executives
AI translation service Iyuno SDI chair expects continued surge in demand
“As demand for over-the-top (OTT) services grows, so will the bid for companies that provide translated subtitles in multiple languages,&rdq...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
KT provides AI-powered voice recognition service to Mercedez
South Korea’s top wireless carrier KT Corp. announced Thursday that it has launched an AI-powered voice recognition service for Mercedez-Benz ...
Feb 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
With Samsung’s new Bespoke lineup, it’s home made perfect
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled a new lineup of its flagship Bespoke home appliances, including a newly introduced premium line of Besp...
Feb 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix develops memory chip with computing capabilities
SK Hynix Inc. has developed a next-generation memory chip with computing capabilities, which the company says will provide solutions for data conges...
Feb 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG's AI designer debuts at New York Fashion Week
South Korean fashion label Greedilous showcased its 2022 Fall-Winter collection on the main stage of the New York Fashion Week on Monday local time....
Feb 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Smilegate’s Lost Ark becomes second most played game on Steam
Smilegate Entertainment Inc.’s Lost Ark has become the second most played game within a couple of days after its launch on Steam, the world&rs...
Feb 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
AI startup OnePredict gears up for $25 mn funding round
South Korean AI solutions provider OnePredict is set to begin a 30 billion won ($25 million) funding round. The Seoul-based startup provides in...
Feb 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver recruits two AI scholars based in US
Naver Corp. is ramping up its recruitment of global talent in artificial intelligence. The South Korean tech giant announced Monday that it h...
Jan 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Megazone Cloud to attract up to $336 mn for 2023 IPO
Megazone Cloud Corp., a leading cloud service provider and the first Korean business partner of Amazon Web Service (AWS), plans to attract 300 billi...
Jan 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI humans take quantum leap in Korean entertainment and media
At first glance, ETERN!TY is similar to other K-pop bands – dancing to upbeat music and the female members donning pink tennis outfits. W...
Jan 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korean AI startups blaze trails in overseas markets
Artificial intelligence-powered image analysis company Alchera Inc. is working with PG&E (The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in t...
Jan 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
SoftBank invests $146 mn in AI startup Qraft
SoftBank Group Corp. is investing $146 million in South Korea’s artificial intelligence company Qraft Technologies, Inc. The investment includ...
Jan 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SK Networks invests in AI-based US healthcare startup LVIS
South Korea’s SK Networks Co. said on Tuesday it joined a $15 million in Series B-2 funding for US healthcare startup LVIS Corp.LVIS, headquar...
Jan 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial Intelligence
IGIS invests in Kakao Enterprise for AI-embedded real estate
IGIS Asset Management Co. and its venture capital affiliate are slated to invest 10 billion won ($8.3 million) in Kakao Enterprise Corp., an artific...
Jan 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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CES 2022
Samsung ushers in era of bespoke homes with AI butlers
Samsung Electronics Co. is showcasing an unprecedented immersive home electronics experience at CES 2022 (Jan. 5-8.) YOUR HOME AS A METAVERSE...
Jan 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom taps AI expert as new technology chief
SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile carrier, has tapped its e-commerce arm's chief executive and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Lee Sang-h...
Jan 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Former K-pop dancer turns to AI for personal training services
When Dia Kang first moved to Silicon Valley in October 2016 to create a dance app to learn K-pop moves, there was no worldwide pandemic. By Jan...
Jan 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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SK Telecom and KT to compete in AI chipmaking
SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp. are poised to go head to head in manufacturing chips for artificial intelligence. The telecom giants will utilize their...
Jan 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Telecom giant KT to develop its own NPU, AI ecosystem
Telecommunications giant KT Corp. announced concrete plans to launch its artificial intelligence infrastructure business by joining forces with indu...
Dec 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Heavy to showcase autonomous ship at CES 2022
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, the world’s largest shipbuilder, is set to showcase its latest and next-generation mobility technology related...
Dec 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG unveils multimodal ‘supergiant AI’ with unprecedented parameters
LG Corp.'s artificial intelligence research institute unveiled what it dubs a “supergiant AI” on Tuesday.The big reveal was for EXAONE, ...
Dec 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Robots, AI replace human workers at Kia’s EV6 manufacturing factory
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has unveiled the automated manufacturing process at its smart factory for the EV6, its firs...
Nov 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Samsung's financial arms beat No.1 banking group KB in profit
- 2 Korea’s airlines plagued by elevated fuel costs, strong dollar
- 3 LG Uplus offers Korean Air gift cards to 5G subscribers
- 4 SK Bioscience sells stake in US vaccine developer Novavax
- 5 Naver Cloud takes the lead in Korea’s public AI business