mobile payment systems

South Korea is building a smart farm in the Middle East desert with technology enabling the growth of various crops while minimizing water consumpti...

Hanwha Aerospace Co., a unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, is developing system technology for small projectiles that launch a satellit...

GS Retail Co. is investing 65 billion won ($55 million) in Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea's No.1 taxi-hailing app, adding to its recent series of...

South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis Co., an auto parts unit of Hyundai Motor Group, has unveiled a foldable steering wheel along with other technologi...

Samsung Electronics Co. is supplying one of its latest advanced chips to Volkswagen AG for the German carmaker’s in-vehicle infotainment syste...

One store Co., the South Korean homegrown app store developed by the country’s top online platform Naver Corp. and three telecom carriers, is ...

Young-joon Ryu and Min-soo Yeo, slated as Kakao Corp. co-CEOs come March Korea’s largest mobile messenger provider Kakao Corp. is slated ...

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday appointed its strategy chief Cho Joo-wan as the company's new chief executive officer, in a major resh...

Viva Republica Inc., a leading South Korean fintech unicorn and operator of mobile financial super app Toss, is investing $5 million in Republic, a ...

South Korea has developed its own signal control system for a radar reconnaissance satellite to be launched next year, the system being a key techno...

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading South Korean defense company, is close to a record $3.5 billion deal to export its surface-to-air missile system to the Unit...

Lineage W, developed by South Korea’s NCSoft Corp., has swiftly reclaimed the top spot in the country's mobile gaming market just three days s...

SEOUL—Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to continue charging South Korean app developers a service fee for in-app purchases, even as users fo...

Netflix Inc. has confirmed it will focus on partnerships with South Korean internet service providers (ISPs) through its in-house distribution netwo...

Kakao Corp., best known for South Korea’s top mobile messenger app KakaoTalk, has become the country’s top platform company in terms of ...

South Korea’s top mobile game Odin: Valhalla Rising will be launched Taiwan in the first quarter of next year as its developer Lionheart Studi...

South Korea-based mobile financial platform Toss, which has been expanding its operations across the financial sector, is set to foray into the mobi...

South Korea's Halla Group, the parent company of automotive parts maker Mando Corp., will combine its two autonomous driving business units into a s...

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that South Korea’s mobility sector has undergone a period of rebirth in 2015 when the country&rsqu...

Shares of South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. have fallen to their lowest level in nine months, bucking the trend of its global peer...

South Korean millennials and Gen Zers have become the world's biggest spenders on mobile games with the MZers accounting for over 90% of domestic mo...

Shares of South Korean eco-friendly battery materials manufacturers have been soaring in September, with high expectations on big revenue jumps th...

Kakao Group’s payment services unit Kakao Pay Corp. has pushed back its IPO to November due to growing concerns regarding the impact of regula...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing company, has indefinitely postponed its planned initial share sale, as its parent, Ka...

Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of KT&G Corporation, has set up its first interactive cafe in the global market where...

Car-sharing platform SoCar Mobility Malaysia has raised around 65 billion won ($55.6 million) from South Korean private equity firm EastBridge Partn...

Toughening regulations on big tech firms in South Korea are impacting the IPO timeline of Kakao Pay Corp. and Kakao Mobility Corp. According to the ...

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday imposed a fine of 207.4 billion won ($180 million) on Google, alongside a correction order, aft...

South Korea's antitrust body has launched an investigation into Kakao Mobility Corp. on allegations of discrimination against taxi drivers not subsc...

SEOUL—South Korea’s app developers can soon sidestep the digital tollway mandated by Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Goog...