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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung unveils full 2023 new smart monitor lineup
Samsung Electronics Co. will release a new lineup of smart monitors with significantly enhanced home office and personalized features.According to S...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean AI startup Liner Launches multilingual AI chatbot
South Korean AI search platform Liner announced on Wednesday the launch of a groundbreaking interactive search chatbot called "Liner Chat," designed...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Saramin launches AI interview coaching service for job seekers
South Korean career matching platform Saramin (formerly SaraminHR Co.) said on Tuesday that it has unveiled an AI interview coaching service t...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
South Korea groans under snowballing national liabilities
South Korea’s liabilities ballooned last year following heavy fiscal spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic to buttress growth in Asia...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea to focus on secondary batteries, lunar landing vehicles
The Korean government has decided to develop electric vehicle batteries that can travel more than 600 km on a single charge and lunar landing vehicl...
Apr 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Robot dog Spot joins in S.Korea’s World Expo bid efforts
Spot, a dog-like robot developed by South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor-owned Boston Dynamics Inc., has joined in the country’s bi...
Apr 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT launches cloud-based engineering platform
KT Corp., South Korea's largest telecommunications company, announced the launch of its cloud-based high-performance engineering platform service on...
Apr 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
S.Korea to cut COVID-19 quarantine from seven days to five in May
South Korea’s mandatory quarantine for confirmed COVID-19 patients from May will be cut from seven days to five, as the country is expected to...
Mar 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Clearstream acquires QFI status from S.Korea's National Tax Service
Korea Securities Depository announced on Wednesday that Clearstream, the operator of the International Central Securities Depository (ICSD), had obt...
Mar 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korea's Cafe24 launches customized enterprise service
South Korea's global e-commerce platform Cafe24 Corp. announced on Tuesday the launch of a new page called "Cafe24 Enterprise Service," which is des...
Mar 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hanjin launches global C2C purchase platform Hoot Town
Hanjin Transportation, a logistics and B2B/B2C delivery business subsidiary of South Korea’s Hanjin Group, has launched Hoot Town, a global co...
Mar 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's E-Mart24 provides VAT refund service for foreign visitors
E-Mart24 Inc., the convenience store chain unit of Shinsegae Inc. Group, announced on Tuesday that it will resume the value-added tax (VAT) refund s...
Mar 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Hyundai Glovis, GS Energy jointly pursue clean hydrogen biz
South Korea's logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. on Monday said it signed a memorandum of understanding on the clean hydrogen and ammonia business...
Mar 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea's Riiid launches learning platform to prep for US SAT, ACT tests
South Korea's Riiid, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based provider of educational solutions, on Monday said it has launched R.test, an AI diagnosti...
Mar 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai Motor, Kia partner with DeepX to develop robotics services
South Korean carmakers Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have partnered with DeepX, a domestic startup that specializes in designing AI semiconductors...
Mar 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korean fashion platform Ably attracts $39 mn before Series C round
South Korea’s Ably Corp., operator of the fashion shopping app Ably, has attracted 50 billion won ($39 million) via venture debt amid the slow...
Mar 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Samsung Pay adds Visa to overseas payment service
South Korea's mobile payment and digital wallet service Samsung Pay will allow its Visa-affiliated credit cards issued in the country to make overse...
Mar 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea's Kolon Group takes first step successfully in space launch vehicle biz
South Korea's Kolon Group announced on Wednesday that Kolon DACC Composite participated in the launch of the first private test launch vehicle in Ko...
Mar 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea Western Power lands nation's first solar power order in Oman
Korea Western Power Co. (KOWEPO) has won its country's first project in solar power generation in Oman.The company on Tuesday announced its successf...
Mar 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Elon Musk’s SpaceX set for tie-up with KT SAT for Starlink service in Korea
SpaceX, the rocket and spacecraft manufacturer founded by Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk, will likely join forces with KT Corp. to lau...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
S.Korean LPs name 41 best alternative asset managers
Blackstone, Hamilton Lane, HarbourVest Partners and Audax Private Equity were jointly named the most preferred PE firms by South Korean institutional ...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
Korea's LG CNS launches cloud cost optimization service
LG CNS, a South Korean company specializing in digital transformation, announced on Tuesday the launch of its new service called "FinOps" Clinic.Fin...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK C&C, Naver Cloud team up to boost AI services for Korean companies
SK C&C, a leading information technology service provider in South Korea, has announced a partnership with Naver Cloud to develop ultra-large ar...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
NHN, KT, Naver to jointly build AI semiconductor farm
Three large cloud service providers (CSPs) in South Korea will participate as a team in the project K-Cloud pursued by the government to verify dome...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao halts its own AI chatbot beta service a day after release
Kakao Corp., South Korea’s platform giant operating the country’s No. 1 chat app KakaoTalk, has introduced its first artificial intell...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Startup Innospace launches Korea’s first private projectile
South Korean space startup Innospace said on Monday it has launched a suborbital test projectile, the country’s first private launch vehicle, ...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean startup Jobis&Villains expands to UK with tax return service
Jobis&Villains Corp., a South Korean startup that offers a tax return service called “3o3,” said on Friday that it had set up a loca...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Tmap Mobility, SWM to collaborate in autonomous driving area
Tmap Mobility Co., a Korean navigation app company, announced on Friday a business agreement to promote cooperation in autonomous driving technology...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification
South Korea’s top search portal Naver Corp. said on Friday that it had received a global certification for its compliance management system fr...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service
Upstage, a South Korean AI tech startup, has unveiled a new version of its generative AI chatbot powered by GPT-4, to become the first to offer Open...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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