Language learning app Speakeasy joins ranks of unicorn startups

Language learning app Speakeasy joins ranks of unicorn startups

Speakeasy Labs Inc., a South Korea-focused language learning app operator, has joined the ranks of unicorn startups after raising $78 million at a v...

Cookie Run: Tower of Adventures named Google Play's Best Game

Cookie Run: Tower of Adventures named Google Play's Best Game

"Cookie Run: Tower of Adventures", the globally popular mobile game of South Korean game developer DevSisters Corp., was selected the Best for Googl...

Doosan Bobcat RogueX2 wins Red Dot Design Award

Doosan Bobcat RogueX2 wins Red Dot Design Award

South Korea's Doosan Bobcat said on Friday that its construction equipment RogueX2 won the prize in the Design Concept category at the Red Dot Desig...

S.Korea’s NPS investment arm suffers from chronic understaffing

S.Korea’s NPS investment arm suffers from chronic understaffing

South Korea’s largest institutional investor, the National Pension Service (NPS), managing 1,150 trillion won ($870.6 billion) in assets, stru...

Samsung’s first AI tablet comes with MediaTek's Dimensity processor

Samsung’s first AI tablet comes with MediaTek's Dimensity processor

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday unveiled its first AI-enabled tablet, the Galaxy Tab S10 series, powered by the high-end Dimen...

SK Telecom, KT win at Leading Lights Awards

SK Telecom, KT win at Leading Lights Awards

SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp. received the Leading Lights Awards 2024. SK Telecom and KT were named winners of Outstanding Use Case: AI/Machine L...

LG Display to sell its last LCD plant to CSOT for $1.5 bn

LG Display to sell its last LCD plant to CSOT for $1.5 bn

South Korea’s LG Display Co. plans to sell its liquid crystal display (LCD) panel plant in Guangzhou, China, to TCL China Star Optoelectronics...

Samsung sets sights on next-generation memory CXL DRAM

Samsung sets sights on next-generation memory CXL DRAM

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is setting its sights on next-generation memory technology, dubbed CXL, to lead the artificial intel...

S.Korea's 4by4 to supply AI solution to Cakap

S.Korea's 4by4 to supply AI solution to Cakap

4by4 Inc., a South Korean content AI solution company, announced on Thursday that it signed a supply contract for its image enhancement AI solution ...

KT launches Genie TV Tab 3

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 ...

POSCO restarts furnace after upgrade with smart system

POSCO restarts furnace after upgrade with smart system

POSCO, the world’s seventh-largest steelmaker, on Thursday restarted a blast furnace in South Korea following a revamp applying a smart system...

Cosmax develops smart color matching AI system

Cosmax develops smart color matching AI system

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics manufacturer specializing in original design manufacturing (ODM), built a makeup product development ...

SK C&C unveils enterprise-tailored sLLM

SK C&C unveils enterprise-tailored sLLM

SK Inc C&C (SK C&C), the information technology service unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Monday that it launched Solur LLM...

LG Uplus unveils Yonsei Univ. Metaverse Campus

LG Uplus unveils Yonsei Univ. Metaverse Campus

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Tuesday that its university metaverse platform Uverse unveiled a dedicated metaverse campus called Meta Yo...

Private education spending in S.Korea hits new record high

Private education spending in S.Korea hits new record high

South Koreans’ spending on private education hit a new record high of 27.1 trillion won ($20 billion) in 2023, as the government’s annou...

Kia streamlines global sales service for EV transition

Kia streamlines global sales service for EV transition

Kia Corp., a South Korean carmaker under Hyundai Motor Group, has drastically reorganized its global after-sales service operations to offer more sy...

Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab Active5 enterprise version

Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab Active5 enterprise version

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday that its enterprise version of the tablet Galaxy Tab Active5 started to sell on business-to-business (...

Naver to develop HyperCLOVA X-based edu service

Naver to develop HyperCLOVA X-based edu service

South Korea’s Naver Corp. announced on Friday that its cloud computing unit Naver Cloud, Daekyo, and NSDevil will co-work to develop education...

Korean learning platform Elice raises $14.9mn from Vertex

Korean learning platform Elice raises $14.9mn from Vertex

Elice Inc., a South Korean startup offering an all-in-one digital learning platform for teachers and corporations, will transform into an artificial...

Naver Whalebook supply volume triples in 2023

Naver Whalebook supply volume triples in 2023

South Korea's Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., announced on Friday that the distribution volume of Whalebook has tripled compa...

SK Telecom to launch telescope content service Starhug

SK Telecom to launch telescope content service Starhug

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Friday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for providing the "Starhug" service, a remot...

Coupang opens its second logistics center in Taiwan

Coupang opens its second logistics center in Taiwan

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s leading e-commerce platform, has opened its second fulfillment center in Taiwan and plans to open a third one ther...

LG Uplus developing communications GenAI ixi-GEN

LG Uplus developing communications GenAI ixi-GEN

South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. on Sunday said it is developing the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ixi-GEN.The large language model (...

Hyundai Mobis develops one-touch automatic parking tech

Hyundai Mobis develops one-touch automatic parking tech

South Korea's leading automotive parts maker Hyundai Mobis on Tuesday announced its Mobis Parking System (MPS) 1.0P (Premium), a performance-improve...

Daedong Mobility rolls out docent chair robot

Daedong Mobility rolls out docent chair robot

South Korea’s Daedong Mobility on Monday announced its hosting of an interactive event featuring two docent chair robots with self-driving and...

Samsung releases Frame Disney 100th anniversary edition

Samsung releases Frame Disney 100th anniversary edition

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will unveil the lifestyle TV "The Frame Disney 100th Anniversary Edition." This edition, comme...

Samsung’ Galaxy Tab selected as top tablet in Australia

Samsung’ Galaxy Tab selected as top tablet in Australia

Samsung Electronics Co.'s tablet Galaxy Tab has secured the top spot in consumer satisfaction in Australia.According to Samsung Electronics on Monda...

LG Elec. showcases micro LED optimized for business spaces

LG Elec. showcases micro LED optimized for business spaces

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday that it has launched a micro light-emitting diode (LED) signage, LG MAGNIT All-in-One, to t...

S.Korea's Krafton establishes AI game subsidiary

S.Korea's Krafton establishes AI game subsidiary

South Korea's leading game developer Krafton Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has established a new independent studio called ReLU Games.Krafton ...

S.Korea's game companies wage all-out offensive to recruit AI talent

S.Korea's game companies wage all-out offensive to recruit AI talent

The race in South Korea to secure artificial intelligence (AI) know-how in the video game industry, the hottest trend in the field, is intensifying ...

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