LG Uplus’ platform push gains traction with active venture funding
LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, which has joined its two bigger local rivals in a race to expand non-telecom servi...
Korea Credit Data raises $75.7 million from Morgan Stanley
Korea Credit Data (KCD), a South Korean fintech startup focusing on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised 100 billion won ($75.7 mi...
POSCO Int'l marks 1st animal vaccine exports
POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea's steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Thursday t...
Ildong Pharma to export high blood pressure treatment to China
South Korea's Ildong Pharmaceutical Co. on Tuesday said it will export benidipine hydrochloride, a raw material used in the treatment of high blood ...
Korea taps Greyhound Capital, Headline Asia as venture fund managers
South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced the results of selecting global fund management companies for the year 2023 on Monday. The chos...
SK Telecom expands its Web3 ecosystem
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. has joined hands with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, to expand its Web3 ecosystem.Both compa...
Samsung's new US chip fab wins first foundry order from Groq
Samsung Electronics Co. has bagged the first foundry order for its new factory that will be up and running later next year in Taylor, Texas, from Am...
Samsung C&T sells 150-MW solar power project in US
South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. on Wednesday said its US-based green energy affiliate Samsung C&T Renewables sold a project for construction...
English tutoring startup Ringle accelerates service diversification
SILICON VALLEY – Ringle English Education Service, a South Korean startup operating a one-on-one English tutoring platform, is actively seekin...
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 ...
S.Korea's Twelve Labs ranks among world's top 50 generative AI startups
South Korea’s Twelve Labs was included as the only Korean company in CB Insights’ first annual GenAI 50 ranking, a list of the world&rsq...
Hyundai Steel develops industrial neutron analyzer jointly with startup
Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea's second-largest steelmaker, announced on Thursday that it has successfully collaborated with the in-house startup 3I...
LG Electronics to form $100-million global startup fund
LG Electronics Inc. has committed over $100 million to a startup fund to unearth new technologies in sustainable energy, digital health, artificial ...
S.Korean LLM by Upstage beats global benchmark ChatGPT
The latest artificial intelligence model of South Korean AI startup Upstage scored higher than ChatGPT by global AI giant OpenAI in a world-recogniz...
S.Korea to form $6.2 bn corporate venture capital fund pool by 2025
The South Korean government and the private sector will jointly create a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund pool worth more than 8 trillion won ($...
S.Korea's NGeneBio establishes US corporation NGeneBioAI
South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Monday that it has established an artificial intelligence (AI) precision diagnosti...
KT invests over $11 mn in AI software company Moreh
South Korea's KT Corp. will invest 15 billion won ($11.6 million) in Moreh, a Seoul-based artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure software compa...
Fabless FADU taps institutional demand to raise about $151 mn
FADU Technology, the first unicorn in South Korea’s semiconductor sector, has embarked on a process to raise up to 193.8 billion won ($151 mil...
S.Korea proposes extended tax breaks for reshoring companies
The South Korean government and the ruling party proposed longer-term tax cuts for companies that bring production back home to reinvigorate the cou...
S.Korea’s Brand X establishes Taiwanese corporation
South Korea's media and e-commerce company Brand X Corp. announced on Friday that it has established a Taiwanese corporation. The move seeks to ampl...
Nanotech startup Deepsmartech crowned at D.Day’s July demo day
Nanotech startup Deepsmartech celebrated its victory Thursday at July D.Day, held on Jeju Island, a South Korean resort isle poised to become the co...
Shinhan Bank's Chinese corporation issues $69 million in yuan bonds
The Chinese corporation of South Korea’s Shinhan Bank on Thursday said it issued 500 million yuan ($69.6 million) in bonds, a first in China b...
Lotte Materials invests in French silicon cathode materials startup
Lotte Energy Materials Corp., formerly Iljin Materials and now a copper foil manufacturing subsidiary of South Korea's Lotte Chemical Corp., on Sund...
Naver supports startups using HyperCLOVA X
Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., announced that it conducts the project "Naver AI Rush 2023" from Friday until the end of the ...
Everon attracts $39 mn thanks to hot VC demand for EV charging
Everon, one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle charging infrastructure and management service providers, raised 50 billion won ($39 m...
Go bolder with regulatory reform to foster unicorns in Korea: KERI
Regulatory reform is still slow in South Korea, obstructing innovation in technologies and industries, and the government must take bolder action to...
SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups
SK Telecom Co. and Hana Financial Group are strengthening their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). They are jointly fosteri...
Ad-tech unicorn Moloco’s endeavor to unlock potential continues
SILICON VALLEY – Moloco Inc., a Silicon Valley-based ad-tech solution startup valued at more than $2 billion, is dreaming big to become a vers...
Korean startups feel bite of funding drought in H1
The drought in venture capital funding worsened in South Korea in the first half of this year, taking an especially heavy toll on platform and b...
AI startup Liner adds GPT service to Samsung Internet Browser
South Korea’s Liner, an artificial intelligence search platform startup, on Thursday announced the release of Liner Copilot, an extension for ...
