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 ...

Korea to allow non-profits to buy bad consumer loans

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has proposed regulatory changes that would allow non-profit organizations to purchase bad loans from individ...

Hyundai CEO Muñoz named MotorTrend Person of the Year

South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer José Muñoz was picked as the most powerful figure in the in...

Lotte Duty Free unveils robot bartender in Gimpo Int'l Airport

South Korea's Lotte Duty Free said on Thursday it placed its AI-based robot bartenders in Gimpo International Airport.Lotte Duty Free offers robot...

S.Korean gov't to lift two-bottle limit on duty-free alcohol

South Korean government will lift the number restriction of duty-free alcohol bottles for inbound travelers and halve the patent fees to boost the d...

S.Korea's personal mobilities firm GCoo enters Africa

South Korean personal mobility (PM) company Gbike, the operator of PM sharing service platform Gcoo, said on Wednesday it started the electric kick ...

Macrogen's GenTok to feature on Samsung Health app

South Korea's biotech company Macrogen, Inc. signed a supply agreement to integrate its genome analysis platform, GenTok, into the Samsung Health ap...

Coupang launches Rocket Pet Doctor 2.0 with personalized pet nutrition

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, said on Wednesday that it has launched "Rocket Pet Doctor 2.0," an upgraded personali...

Naver to lead hyper-personalized shopping trends with super app

Naver Corp., South Korea's largest internet portal, will launch an AI-driven shopping app in the first half of 2025 to boost its lackluster e-commer...

SK Telecom unveils AI personal agent Aster for global users

SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday unveiled an AI-driven personal assistant Aster (A*) that understands users' intentions and goes beyond answering simple qu...

After 37 years of use, Kim returns trusty microwave to Samsung with love

For 37 years, a simple microwave made by Samsung Electronics Co. sat in the kitchen of Kim Kyu-won, providing much more than convenience.It was ther...

Pulley Campus, Yonsei Univ. to co-work on educational AI services

Freewheelin, which operates the AI courseware Pulley Campus for university education, said on Friday that it signed an industry-academia cooperation...

S.Korea's Xingxing to merge Kickgoing

Pump Co., the operator of South Korea's personal mobility (PM) sharing service Xingxing, said on Monday that it will merge with Wololo, the company ...

Sovereign wealth fund KIC shortlists three CEO candidates

South Korean sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has shortlisted three candidates as the next chief executive officer, who will...

GIC taps its real estate expert Jasmine Loo as new Korea head

Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund with around $770 billion in assets under management, has t...

South Korean brokerages woo super-rich to make them even richer

South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, have largely built their wealth through hard work, savings and ...

Samsung Bespoke refrigerator sells 3 mn units in five years

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that the cumulative sales of its Bespoke refrigerator in the South Korean market have surpassed 3 milli...

SK Telecom invests $10 mn in Perplexity

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Thursday that it invested $10 million in Perplexity, the US-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...

KB Securities sees wealth management assets surpass $43.6 bn

South Korea's KB Securities announced on Wednesday that its wealth management assets surpassed 60 trillion won ($43.6 billion) this month.This is fi...

Everybot buys AI mobility company hycore

South Korea's service robot company Everybot Inc. acquired AI robot mobility specialist hyCore to expand into the personal mobility sector. Everybo...

Hana Bank launches All-care Solution for Real Estate Wealth

South Korea's Hana Bank announced on Tuesday that it launched the premium real estate wealth management service Hana Real Estate All-care Solution i...

SoftBank-backed Balancehero still hungry for bigger market

In India, the world’s most populous country, about 1.2 billion people are estimated to have no credit score because most are unbanked, meaning...

NH Investment gets APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules

South Korea's NH Investment & Securities announced Friday that it obtained the global personal information protection certification APEC Cross-B...

LG OLED TV's new theme: Empathetic, personalized AI

LG Electronics Inc., the world’s No. 1 OLED TV producer, defines artificial intelligence as empathetic intelligence for customers. On Wednesda...

Big Tech engineers rush to Korea’s AI chip startups as potential looms

Big Tech engineers are flocking to South Korea’s promising startups specializing in artificial intelligence chips, a fast-growing sector in th...

Some 6 out of 10 working Korean women choose to be child-free

More than 60% of South Korean women from their mid-20s to their mid-40s who are currently working have no plan to have children although nearly all ...

SK Telecom sees rise of personal AI assistants as game changer

BARCELONA – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, sees the emergence of personal artificial intelligence assistants as a gam...

LG launches new 14-person dishwasher

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Thursday that it released the 14-person LG Dios Objet Collection Dishwasher," which enhances space efficiency and c...

Woori Financial to bolster private banking service: chairman

Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, will reinforce its wealth management service for high-net-worth...

Samyang buys specialty chemical maker Verdant for $257 mn

Samyang Specialty Solutions LLC, a leading chemical and food products maker in South Korea, has entered into an agreement to wholly acquire Texas-ba...