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Business & Politics
Korea's Yoon presses banking, telecom sectors over inflation
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday called for measures to stabilize mounting price pressure caused by "oligopolies" in the banking an...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program
South Korea's NHN Cloud announced on Wednesday that it had become a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP), which is a partner program created...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Kakao Mobility fined $20 million over unfair taxi-hailing service
Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, has been fined 25.7 billion won ($20.3 million) for discriminating agai...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai Elevator's open API sees rapid expansion of participants
Hyundai Elevator Group announced on Tuesday that its open API (application programming interface), which was launched in March last year, has seen r...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor offers Bluelink free to new customers in US
Hyundai Motor Co. in a world first is offering lifetime membership of its connected car care service Bluelink free to new customers in the US, judgi...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix: key beneficiaries of ChatGPT fever
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, stand to benefit from the global popularity of ChatGPT. ...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean AI chip developer Rebellions releases Atom SoC
South Korean AI chip developer Rebellions Inc. announced on Monday the release of its AI chip Atom, a system-on-chip (SoC) designed for data centers...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG provides electronics service training to Cambodian youths
LG Electronics Inc. said on Sunday that it is offering technology training to help talented Cambodian youths become more self-reliant.For four days ...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom doubles capacity of its AI service's supercomputer Titan
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. on Sunday said it had doubled the processing capacity of its supercomputer Titan, the brain of its artificial intellige...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
AfreecaTV, VTVCab agree on live streaming platform service in Vietnam
South Korea's video streaming platform AfreecaTV Co. said Wednesday that it has agreed with VTVCab, a member of Vietnam's largest state-run TV...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hyundai Card to provide Apple Pay in South Korea
Apple and Hyundai Card on Wednesday officially announced the launch of the simple payment service Apple Pay in South Korea.The American tech giant s...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Fintech firm Kakao Pay logs first yearly net profit in 2022
Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., posted a net profit last year for the first time since its ...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Cheil Worldwide sets up Maghreb corporation in Morocco
South Korea's leading ad agency and marketing company Cheil Worldwide has established a corporation in Casablanca, Morocco, in the Maghreb to broade...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Jeju Air resumes daily flights to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vientiane
South Korea's low-cost carrier Jeju Air Co. said on Monday that it would run daily flights from Korea to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and V...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics exhibits Art Lab in New York
LG Electronics Inc. recently introduced "LG Art Lab," a non-fungible token art trading platform mounted on LG TVs, through a large display board in ...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
NHN Dooray, HandySoft join forces to develop advanced collaboration tools
NHN Dooray, a provider of online collaboration tools, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with HandySoft, Inc., South Korea's leading gro...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK to buy Japanese nursing home and care service for $300 mn
MBK Partners, the largest private equity firm in Northeast Asia, is set to acquire Japanese senior nursing care service company Unimat Retirement Co...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
KAL introduces self-service bag drop for domestic flights
South Korea's flagship carrier Korean Air Lines Co. is the first airline in the country to adopt self-service bag drop on domestic flights.The compa...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK Ecoplant passes industry-first carbon reduction target verification
South Korea's construction and engineering company SK Ecoplant Co. said on Thursday that it has passed the greenhouse gas reduction target verificat...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
NGeneBio to launch precision cancer test service in Thailand
South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. has partnered with MP Group, a large consignment testing agency in Thailand, to launch a precis...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea Customs Service to advance Tanzania's e-customs clearance system
The Korea Customs Service said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Tanzania Revenue Authority for cooperati...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate
Woowa Brothers, the parent company of South Korea's food delivery app Baedal Minjok, on Wednesday spun off its professional service robot unit into ...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea's credit card approval volume hit all-time high last year
The annual card approval amount in South Korea exceeded 1,000 trillion won ($811.4 billion) for the first time ever. This is largely because of "ret...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Tmap, Shinsegae I&C sign agreement for EV charging collaboration
Tmap Mobility said on Monday that it has signed an agreement for the electric vehicle charging business with Shinsegae I&C, an IT service affili...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Kakao Mobility to pursue joint development with 4 major delivery services
South Korea's transportation company Kakao Mobility on Monday said it concluded a "delivery service business agreement for joint development of the ...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korea's venture capital investment falls 12% last year amid downturn
South Korea's venture capital investment last year fell more than 10% from a year ago due to the economic downturn caused by a series of global rate...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hyundai Dept. Store introduces AI chatbot service Jellppo
Hyundai Department Store Co. said on Sunday that it would introduce the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Jellppo." Jellppo is an AI-based one-o...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea's Bespin Global launches all-in-one AIoT
South Korea's cloud solution provider Bespin Global said on Thursday that it would launch "IoTOps," a software as a service (SaaS)-based artificial ...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
NHN Cloud joins ranks of unicorns with $120 mn funding
NHN Cloud Co., a computer clouding service provider, has raised 150 billion won ($120 million) from South Korea-based IMM Investment, joining the ra...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korea's waste recycler ReCo lands $11.8 million in investment
South Korea's startup ReCo, which runs the comprehensive waste collection and transportation service UpBox, on Wednesday said it attracted Series B ...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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- 3 Taihan Cable wins $630 mn power grid project in Singapore
- 4 Korean startup scene is gloomy, say 2 out of 5 startup CEOs
- 5 MBK ups stakes for Korea Zinc to match buyback offer