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Fintech
Kakao Pay’s tie-up with Alipay spurs growth in China
BEIJING – Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is rapidly growing in China’s fintech...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung releases Galaxy Watch6 Classic PXG edition
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will begin limited-time offers of the "Galaxy Watch6 Classic PXG edition," in collaboration wi...
Sep 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao Mobility to build mobility-customized GenAI platform
South Korea's Kakao Mobility has announced a vision to build an evolved platform with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) specialized for mob...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung releases Galaxy Z Fold5 Thom Browne edition
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will unveil the Galaxy Z Fold5 Thom Browne edition, a foldable smartphone created in collabora...
Sep 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
SK Group, NPS may exercise put option on Masan without gain
South Korean institutional investors, including SK Group and National Pension Service (NPS), are likely to only recover their principal without prof...
Sep 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao Mobility to collaborate with Indonesia on digital economy
South Korea's Kakao Mobility announced on Tuesday that it is discussing ways to collaborate on building the digital ecosystem with major platform co...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Virtual bands, emerging stars to fuel global K-pop craze
Virtual bands have emerged as new stars to accelerate the K-pop craze across the world. An artificial girl quartet attracted more than 25 million vi...
Aug 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung releases Frame Disney 100th anniversary edition
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will unveil the lifestyle TV "The Frame Disney 100th Anniversary Edition." This edition, comme...
Aug 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang, Kakao Healthcare sign business agreement
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Friday that it has signed a business agreement with Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare...
Aug 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
NCSOFT gears up to take on Naver, Kakao for AI language model
NCSOFT Corp. has unveiled a large-scale Korean language model as the first South Korean game developer to advance into the local-language generative...
Aug 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean LLM war intensifies to fend off ChatGPT
South Korean technology companies, both big and small, are rushing to advance Korean large language models (LLM) to fend off the pioneering chatbot ...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kakao Healthcare signs agreement with Novo Nordisk for digital service
Kakao Healthcare Corp., a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced that it has signed on Tuesday a business agreemen...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
KDB girds up for Korean Air-Asiana deal collapse with Plan B
The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) is looking for alternative options to sell Asiana Airlines Inc. to prepare against a possible collapse of...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mobile networks
Kakao to release super-large AI model, superapp
Kakao Corp. on Thursday announced that it will transform South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging app KakaoTalk into an AI-powered platform com...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
KakaoBank posts record H1 profit; costs hurt Kakao Games’ Q2 earnings
KakaoBank Corp., a leading South Korean internet-only bank, saw its first-half net profit rise to a fresh record high, driven by decent growth in in...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
K-pop powerhouse SM to launch US office with Kakao
K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment Co. and Kakao Entertainment will jointly launch an office in the US later this year to boost their global business...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao Brain unveils AI development library Trident
Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced on Tuesday that it has released a performanc...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia Sportage celebrates milestone of 7 mn sales in 30 years
Kia Sportage has sold more than 7 million units since its launch three decades ago, celebrating the milestone with a special edition of its fifth-ge...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Kakao Piccoma tops in Japanese app market sales in H1 2023
Kakao Piccoma, a Japanese subsidiary of Kakao Japan Corp. and the global leading webtoon platform achieved the top position in the first half of 202...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Why do so many S.Korean innovators bow out following success?
Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of the global luxury goods leader LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is well known for sporting a full head of...
Jul 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
GM Korea releases new Trailblazer geared for S.Korean market
General Motors (GM) Korea on Wednesday launched the domestic sale of its new model of the small SUV Trailblazer customized for the South Korean mark...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
CJ Olive Young opens premium cosmetics mall
South Korea’s top beauty chain CJ Olive Young on Monday launched the premium store Lux Edit online to roll out products from both big names an...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
EcoPro, Hanwha Ocean, JYP among top MSCI inclusion candidates
EcoPro Co., Hanwha Ocean Co., JYP Entertainment Corp. and Kumyang Co. are the top candidates for inclusion in the MSCI Korea Index when the global s...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy Solution to expands BaaS with Mintech
South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. partners with Mintech Co., a battery diagnostic solution provider, to expand its Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) b...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao Brain releases new AI artist Karlo 2.0
Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp., revealed its latest AI image generation model Karlo 2....
Jul 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao Entertainment launches AI brand Helix
South Korea's Kakao Entertainment on Thursday launched the artificial intelligence (AI) brand Helix, with its first service Helix Push recommending ...
Jul 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Kakao Pay launches ATM service in Japan, Vietnam, Laos
South Korea’s Kakao Pay Corp. on Wednesday said it started an overseas withdrawal service at automatic teller machines (ATM) in partnership wi...
Jul 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
LG Uplus, Kakao Mobility to form EV charging JV
South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. and transportation company Kakao Mobility announced on Monday their strategic allian...
Jul 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Dongwon F&B selects virtual human family as brand model
South Korea's food and beverage company Dongwon F&B Co. announced on Friday that it has selected a virtual human family as the model for its pre...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Kakao Healthcare to build metaverse healthcare platform
Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao, announced on Wednesday that it has been selected as the final operato...
Jun 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)