Roborock’s privacy policy fuels data leak fears over Chinese goods
A new personal data processing policy from Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock is raising fears that consumer data could be leaked to or misused by ...
Korean LCCs boost travel demand to global tourist hubs
South Korean low-cost carriers (LCCs), including Air Premia Inc. and Air Busan Co., have been expanding into underserved smaller cities, but also dr...
RaonSecure to supply biometrics to SBI Sumishin Net Bank
South Korean cybersecurity firm RaonSecure Co. said on Monday it signed a $2.5 million contract with SBI Sumishin Net Bank, the largest internet ban...
LG Group carries out modest management reshuffle
Cho Joo-wan will continue to lead LG Electronics Inc. as chief executive after its parent LG Group on Thursday carried out modest reshuffles in its ...
KakaoBank, SCBX to open internet bank in Thailand
South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. said on Sunday it partnered with Thailand’s financial giant SCBX to establish a local virtual bank. ...
Naver to set up Middle Eastern headquarters in Saudi Arabia
Naver Corp., which has been actively seeking to unlock opportunities in the Middle East with its new growth engines artificial intelligence, cloud a...
SK Telecom logs higher quarterly profit on AI, lower costs
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, reported a higher quarterly profit as its cost-cutting and strong artificial intelligence (A...
KT introduces 10 GB Combo Internet
South Korea's KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it introduced Combo Internet technology to its network, enabling the provision of 10-gigabit Inte...
KT launches Genie TV Tab 3
South Korea's KT Corp. launched the tablet-type Internet TV device Genie TV Tab 3 on Thursday.The Genie TV Tab 3 can be used to watch live channels ...
Toss Bank exceeds 10 mn customers
South Korea’s fintech platform Toss Bank saw that its subscribers surpassed 10 million. According to the company, it's been two years and...
S.Korea's Upstage to develop on-device AI Office
South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Thursday that it will co-develop and commercialize On-device AI Office with ...
LG Uplus, Nokia validate 6G cloud tech
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Friday that it has verified 6G cloud technology in collaboration with Nokia.This technology enhances the s...
KT’s 2023 sales rise to all-time yearly high on wireless, internet business
South Korea’s leading telecommunications company KT Corp. on Thursday posted record annual sales revenue for 2023, buoyed by steady growth in ...
Korea’s 6G frequency bands picked as standard candidates
Sixth-generation (6G) communication frequency bands proposed by South Korea have been adopted as global standard candidates by the industry's freq...
Kakao bets on AI bot for breakthrough
Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant chat app KakaoTalk, will seek a breakthrough with an artificial intelligence-powered bot a...
Samsung Elec to develop spam filter with public web body
Samsung Electronics Co. and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding on minimizing damage t...
KT internet TV shines after embracing OTT content
KT Corp., South Korea’s top telecom operator, has bucked the trend in the internet TV market, where over-the-top players such as Netflix Inc. ...
KT develops network diagnostic solutions
South Korea's KT Corp. has developed a solution called "DX Care" that allows for easy and fast diagnosis of corporate intranet quality issues. KT's ...
Incheon Airport’s cumulative passengers surpass 800 mn
Incheon International Airport, which opened in 2001, has surpassed a cumulative total of 800 million passengers. Incheon International Airport Corpo...
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 ...
KT to cooperate with Mongolian gov't on DX techs
South Korea's telecom service provider KT Corp. disclosed on Monday its plans to collaborate with the Mongolian government to usher in a digital tra...
Hanwha Systems pursues space internet service
South Korea's Hanwha Systems Co. on Tuesday announced completion of its registration the day before as a facility-based communications operator with...
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 ...
S.Korea's KakaoBank to launch internet bank in Thailand
South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. has begun its advance into Southeast Asia through a tie-up with a financial company in Thailand. KakaoBank on Friday ...
S.Korea's Jeju Dream Tower Casino exceeds $7.6 mn in net monthly sales
Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., broke the 10 billion won ($7.6 m...
S.Korea seeks to restore volume of int'l flights to pre-COVID-19 levels
Resuming flights from Incheon International Airport to and from Prague, Czech Republic, and Zurich, Switzerland, to expand its air traffic, South Ko...
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...
S.Korea's K Bank posts highest net profit in 2022
K Bank, a South Korean Internet-only bank, reported a net profit of 83.6 billion won ($63.6 million) in 2022, which nearly quadrupled compared to th...
LG U+, Plana jointly research data transmission tech for urban air mobility
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. and Plana, a domestic startup for urban air transportation (UAM) craft, have signed a business deal on joint research o...
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 ...
