Amazon, Alibaba, TikTok up ante to woo Korean beauty brands
Riding the wave of global enthusiasm for K-Beauty, e-commerce powerhouses like Amazon and Alibaba are racing to bring South Korean cosmetics and bea...
Baby Shark video creator files for Kosdaq IPO
The Pinkfong Company Inc., the creator of the billion-view video Baby Shark, has launched the process of an initial public offering on South Korea&r...
DOR sets sights on TikTok-like virtual world for gamers
South Korean startup DOR Corporation has thrown down the gauntlet to Discord, a popular global social platform for gamers, with its TikTok-like soci...
Naver recruits 500 creators for Clip
South Korea's Naver Corp. said on Monday it will recruit 500 creators for Clip in the first half of 2025, the company's short-form platform from Dec...
Influencers wield greater marketing power in S.Korea
Merch reliance on digital content creators for marketing is on the rise in South Korea, allowing some influencers to enjoy handsome earnings from em...
Hudson AI dreams of a world without language barriers
South Korean startup Hudson AI is striving to break language barriers with its artificial intelligence-powered voice dubbing technology, enabling gl...
SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol
Seung Yoon Lee, a South Korean startup creator, was in his early 20s when he co-founded Radish Fiction Inc., a US-based mobile fiction platform, in ...
Google to target global webtoon sector with Korean creators
BENGALURU – Google is teaming up with South Korean creators to target the global webtoon industry, spurring expectations that global Big Tech ...
South Korean webtoon makers in quandary after pandemic
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic a few years back, social distancing was the rule of life. People stayed at home, with many of them killing ti...
HYBE accelerates transition into platform company
HYBE Co. is accelerating its push to transform into a platform company as it prepares to launch a new digital fan community platform. This platform ...
YouTube, Coupang offer Shopping affiliate program in Korea
YouTube has started offering its Shopping affiliate program in South Korea in partnership with the country’s No. 1 e-commerce platform company...
Japan’s heavy hand with Naver: Uneasy sign for market economy
Recent actions by the Japanese government and chief executives of LY Corp. and SoftBank Corp. are raising eyebrows, leading many to question whether...
Korea’s Smilegate unveils new RPG Chaos Zero Nightmare
Smilegate, the South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, on Monday unveiled a teaser for an upcoming role...
Hancom to unveil document creator like Mircrosoft's Copilot
Hancom Inc., a homegrown office suite developer in South Korea, is set to speed up its artificial intelligence business with a beta service of AI-po...
TikTok to host offline concert in S.Korea
TikTok announced on Friday that it will hold its first-ever offline live concert, "TikTok Stage The Shout," in South Korea on the 9th of next month....
Creator of Baby Shark, Pinkfong to launch music variety show
The lovable children’s characters Pinkfong and Baby Shark will soon star in a music variety show for their legions of global fans.The Pinkfong...
S.Korea’s web novel sector hits $750 mn in value: Study
South Korea's rising web novel industry, which has seen popular works like "Reborn Rich" and "The Red Sleeve" made into TV series, has exceeded 1 tr...
Naver to launch short-form service on portal’s front page
South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. said on Wednesday it is strengthening its short-form content service on surging demand for video c...
Why do so many S.Korean innovators bow out following success?
Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of the global luxury goods leader LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is well known for sporting a full head of...
S.Korea's beauty platform Hwahae opens flagship store on TikTok
South Korea's mobile beauty platform Hwahae has opened a flagship store on TikTok (Chinese name Douyin). Hwahae's operator Birdview announced t...
TikTok embraces BTS' 10th debut anniversary hashtag campaign
Global short-form video platform TikTok announced on Friday that it will collaborate with "2023 BTS Festa" to celebrate BTS' 10th debut anniversary ...
Jaeger-LeCoultre unveils project with S.Korean artist
The Swiss luxury watch and clock maker Jaeger-LeCoultre on Monday unveiled "Origin," a collaborative work with South Korean digital media artist Y...
U.S., South Korea Vie Over Extradition of Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon
The U.S. and South Korea are both seeking to extradite captured crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon from Montenegro, authorities in the tiny European nation...
S.Korea's Aekyung opens Luna brand store on Chinese TikTok
Aekyung Industrial, a South Korean consumer products company, announced on Thursday the opening of a stand-alone brand shop for their make-up specia...
Genie's overseas sales of music sources surge with K-pop boom
Genie Music Corp., a music content distributor of South Korean telecommunication giant KT Corp., said on Jan. 19 that its overseas sales of music so...
Daesang F&B changes company name to Daesang Dives
A South Korean food and beverage company Daesang F&B changed its name to Daesang Dives, the company said on Monday.Daesang Dives is a combinatio...
Korean kids' future career choices are athletes, teachers, YouTubers
A survey revealed that the number of middle and high school students who opted for computer engineers and software developers as their future career...
Fintech co. Awake Corp. provides financial management tool to creators
South Korean fintech startup Awake Corporation won the hearts and wallets of judges at the D.Day X D.Camp event on Thursday, garnering 20 million wo...
Korean teens prefer TikTok over KakaoTalk, says survey
South Korean teens appear to prefer to do their social networking on TikTok over KakaoTalk, as short-form videos surge in popularity worldwide. ...
Korea's top mobile game Odin creator Lionheart eyes IPO in H2
Lionheart Studio Corp., South Korea’s leading game developer behind the mobile game Odin, has begun the process to go public with its July 22 ...
