Kakao digital wallet

Blockchain-focused venture capital firm Hashed says it is determined to show how pervasive the digital ledger technology is in our society – t...

Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea's top mobile messenger app, is in the final stages of talks to buy a controlling stake in SM Entert...

The South Korean stock market rose across the board on Thursday, reacting positively to the election of former prosecutor generator Yoon Suk-yeol as...

Former prosecutor general Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday was elected South Korea's next president, pledging drastic deregulation and investor-friendly m...

South Korea is the world’s second-most attractive wine market, outranked by only the United States, according to London-based consumer researc...

Kakao Corp., the No. 1 digital comics platform in Japan, will expand deeper into the neighboring country's comics market by launching a platform whe...

‘Beyond Korea’ is South Korean tech juggernaut Kakao Corp.’s new vision for the future. Kakao’s new CEO nominee Namkoon...

From home workouts to math and science courses, thousands of apps now available on LG smart TVs are blurring the lines between TVs and smartphones.S...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled a new lineup of its flagship Bespoke home appliances, including a newly introduced premium line of Besp...

South Korea's NCSoft Corp., the publisher of the popular mobile game Lineage series, on Tuesday reported a worse-than-expected operating profit in 2...

Shares in South Korean gaming companies have been on a losing run since the start of the year, giving up about half of the gains they enjoyed late l...

South Korea’s tech giant Kakao Corp. reported 4Q revenue of 1.78 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in 2021, a 45% jump on-year. The figure is slight...

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is expected to be a key beneficiary from production disruption...

Kakao Corp. announced Sunday that it plans to launch the European version of its webtoon subscription service in either April or May of this year....

South Korea’s game developers are in a tight race to create their own digital tokens and to build viable ecosystems that utilize these cryptoc...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) will launch real-life, offline tests for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) project on Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy ...

Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, on Thursday announced a new chief executive nominee as the company ...

Ahead of the 20th presidential election slated for March 9, candidates from both parties have vowed to legislate and systemize digital assets if ele...

Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea’s capital market giant, is set to enter the digital asset business, starting with a digital asset cus...

South Korea's leading telecom operator KT Corp. has entered into a strategic alliance with the country's No. 2 lender Shinhan Bank, involving a $370...

WeMade Co., a South Korean video game developer, has come under criticism for the massive unnoticed selling of its cryptocurrency WEMIX, allegedly i...

Alex Young-joon Ryu, a nominee for new co-CEO of South Korea's top mobile messenger app Kakao Corp., on Monday offered to step down, after his dispo...

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...

South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment Corp. has bought the world’s top Asian fantasy web novel platform Wuxiaworld, based in the US, to expa...

High price tags of target companies can be justified if you understand long-term trends of the industry and have expertise in the sectors, Conni Jon...

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. plans to adopt Siemens AG's smart factory technology to accelerate the digitization of its battery manufacturi...

Meta fashion, a combination of fashion, metaverse, and NFT, is becoming a global trend. The MZ generation, as those in their 20s and 30s are ca...

In August, a Morgan Stanley report on the semiconductor industry, “Winter is coming,” fueled debate on whether chip prices were peaking ...

Krafton Inc., one of South Korea’s major game developers, is entering the metaverse space by investing 5 billion won ($4.2 million) in Zepeto,...

Kakao Corp., an operator of South Korea's top mobile messenger app KakaoTalk, has set its sights on the digital healthcare market, launching an in-h...