NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

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...

Kakao Mobility fined $20 million over unfair taxi-hailing service

 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...

Hyundai Elevator's open API sees rapid expansion of participants

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...

Hyundai Motor offers Bluelink free to new customers in US

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...

Samsung, SK Hynix: key beneficiaries of ChatGPT fever

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. ...

S.Korean AI chip developer Rebellions releases Atom SoC

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...

LG provides electronics service training to Cambodian youths

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 ...

SK Telecom doubles capacity of its AI service's supercomputer Titan

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...

AfreecaTV, VTVCab agree on live streaming platform service in Vietnam

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...

Hyundai Card to provide Apple Pay in South Korea

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...

Fintech firm Kakao Pay logs first yearly net profit in 2022

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 ...

Cheil Worldwide sets up Maghreb corporation in Morocco

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...

Jeju Air resumes daily flights to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vientiane

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...

LG Electronics exhibits Art Lab in New York

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 ...

NHN Dooray, HandySoft join forces to develop advanced collaboration tools

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...

MBK to buy Japanese nursing home and care service for $300 mn

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...

KAL introduces self-service bag drop for domestic flights

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...

NGeneBio to launch precision cancer test service in Thailand

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...

Korea Customs Service to advance Tanzania's e-customs clearance system

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...

S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate

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 ...

Korea's credit card approval volume hit all-time high last year

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...

Tmap, Shinsegae I&C sign agreement for EV charging collaboration

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...

Kakao Mobility to pursue joint development with 4 major delivery services

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 ...

Korea's venture capital investment falls 12% last year amid downturn

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...

Hyundai Dept. Store introduces AI chatbot service Jellppo

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...

S.Korea's Bespin Global launches all-in-one AIoT

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 ...

NHN Cloud joins ranks of unicorns with $120 mn funding

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...

S.Korea's waste recycler ReCo lands $11.8 million in investment

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 ...

Korean Air to resume flight services on four European routes

Korean Air to resume flight services on four European routes

Korean Air Lines Co. will resume operations on four European routes, including Prague, the Czech Republic, sequentially from March for the first tim...

KT Skylife offers Disney Plus service via its channel

KT Skylife offers Disney Plus service via its channel

KT Skylife Co.,the satellite TV service subsidiary of South Korea's telecommunications-oriented KT Group, said on Wednesday that it is offering Disn...

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