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Big tech has begun its encroachment on the South Korean webcomics market, largely dominated by local players over the past two decades, fanning fear...

South Korea’s platform giant Kakao Corp. will roll out Kanana, a conversational AI agent-integrated messenger app, in the first half of next y...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, announced on Friday that it signed a business agreement with Samsung C&...

South Korea’s antitrust body has fined Kakao Mobility Corp., the country’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, 72.4 billion won ($54.9 mi...

OpenResearch, an AI search service founded by former Kakao Brain CEO Kim Il-Doo, said on Thursday that it got a seed round 10 billion won ($7.5 mill...

Hoban Construction Ltd. announced on Friday that it has signed a business agreement (MOU) with Kakao Mobility and Bear Robotics to standardize the o...

South Korea’s Kakao Pay Corp. said on Monday that it signed a green premium purchase agreement with Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the So...

South Korea's Kakao Corp. said on August 23 that its mobile solution development subsidiary dK Techin Corp. will merge with its AI technology affili...

In the second quarter of this year,  the market share of Samsung Electronics Co. in the South Korean smartphone market slightly increased, whil...

South Korea's Kakao Mobility announced on Wednesday that it partnered with Hoban Hotels & Resorts to operate the robot delivery service Bring at...

Hyundai Mobis Co.'s efforts to build a better tomorrow don't stop at developing future mobility technologies like autonomous driving, connectivity a...

South Korean mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. said on Thursday that it will accelerate its artificial intelligence push by launching a conversation...

South Korea's Hyundai Elevator Co. said on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kakao Mobility Corp. to commercializ...

Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., reported a sharp decline in second-quarter earnings on Wednesday d...

South Korean mobility platform Kakao Mobility said on Monday that it launched an overseas car rental service accessible through its Kakao T app.The ...

Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is set to issue an estimated 280 billion won ($203.2 million) wort...

South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Group announced on Thursday that it nurtured 136 impact businesses (Impact-Ups) in seven years to create social v...

Kakao Enterprise, an AI-based cloud solutions service subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced on Thursday that it started the Rocket La...

South Korean private equity investments declined last year for the first time since 2016 due to interest rate hikes, high inflation and the Korean w...

Marine Innovation Co., a South Korean eco-friendly social venture company sponsored by the country’s top energy firm SK Innovation Co., is par...

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, and the country’s largest taxi-hailing platform Kakao Mobility Corp. officia...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s top ride-hailing service provider, on Tuesday introduced the release of its global app, taking on global g...

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it launched the Samsung CSR Mobile Magazine, an online webzine dedicated to highlighting the compan...

South Korea's Kakao Mobility Corp. announced on Friday that it signed an agreement with Archer Aviation, the US-based urban air mobility (UAM) aircr...

HL Mando Corp., an electric vehicle and self-driving system developing unit of South Korea's HL Group, announced on Thursday that it signed a busine...

South Korea’s entertainment and content industries suffered from hasty expansions with investments of billions of dollars in the global market...

Seoul-based private equity firm STIC Investments is set to sell Coop Marketing, South Korea’s largest mobile coupon platform company that oper...

South Korea's Hanwha Vision Co. announced on Monday that it joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), an international initiative for corpora...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing platform, is set to make inroads into the electric vehicle charging market by setting...

In the past 10 years, Kim Ki-jun has been on the hunt for deep technology startups that will have a significant societal impact, and he will continu...