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Tech, Media & Telecom LG Uplus, GSMA sign Open Gateway agreement

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Monday that it signed an agreement with the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) to parti...

Banking & Finance BC Card, Uzbekistan to connect payment network

South Korea's BC Card said on Monday that it signed a contract with Uzbekistan's state-run payment operator National Interbank Processing Center (NI...

Fintech Korea’s BC Card starts QR code payment service in Malaysia

South Korea’s credit card issuer BC Card Co. introduced its QR code payment service in Malaysia through cooperation with the country’s n...

Fintech Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech

Webcash Global, an affiliate of South Korea's Webcash Co., announced on Tuesday that it has recently signed a business agreement with BC Card Vietna...

Banking & Finance Korea's BC Card launches Trip.Pass for foreign visitors

South Korea's BC Card announced on Tuesday that it launched a "Trip.Pass Card" and "Trip.Pass QR Payment Service" for foreign tourists with the dome...

Banking & Finance Taiwan QR code to be available at BC Card merchants in S.Korea

South Korea’s BC Card announced on Wednesday that it will introduce the Taiwanese QR payment method TWQR in the domestic market for Taiwanese ...

Fashion The Nature Holdings goes after green fashion with Brompton

Brompton Bicycle will pursue a greener world with sustainable clothing that is stylish but durable alongside its Korean partner The Nature Holdings ...

Tech, Media & Telecom Naver integrates points program with Samsung Pay

The online money and points of South Korea's Naver Pay, an affiliate of the country's largest web portal Naver Corp., can now be used at offline sto...

Fintech Alipay’s Ant becomes No.2 shareholder of S. Korea’s Toss Payments

Ant Group Co., the operator of China’s biggest mobile payment platform Alipay, has become the second-largest stakeholder of Toss Payments, the...

Blockchain BC Card to develop NFT as used luxury item receipt

South Korea’s BC Card on Sunday said it has applied for two domestic patents for payment receipt-based non-fungible token (NFT) technology to ...

Travel & Leisure Staying 5 hours on cruise ship in Busan raises sales 30%: study

With the resumption of international cruise ship travel to South Korea, domestic credit card company BC Card says daily sales in commercial district...

Travel & Leisure Korea’s outbound travelers spend 20% more on-year in H1: BC Card

South Korea’s outbound travelers spent 19.8% more in the first half of this year compared with a year ago amid a revival in overseas tourism, ...

Banking & Finance S.Korea's BC Card to enter Kyrgyz payment market

South Korea's BC Card will make a full-fledged entry into the Central Asian payment market by establishing a card payment joint venture in Kyrgyzsta...

Chief Executives LG Chem’s CEO searches for talent in Japan to lead new growth engines

Vice Chairman and CEO Shin Hak-cheol of South Korea's largest chemical company LG Chem Ltd. is looking for talent in Japan to lead his company's thr...

Fintech BC Card, KTO to promote mobile payment for foreign tourists

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has announced a new partnership with BC Card and the Korea Easy Payment Foundation to introduce a mobile paymen...

Tech, Media & Telecom KT, Eluon aim to use domestic equipment for 5G network

South Korea's KT Corp. on Tuesday said it developed a small cell gateway with partner and tech startup Eluon.The small cell gateway is a system that...

Blockchain BC Card applies for patent for offline asset authentication via NFT

South Korea's BC Card on Sunday said it applied for a domestic patent for a non-fungible token (NFT) that can verify a user's asset details using bl...

Banking & Finance BC Card signs contracts for Indonesia's digital payment project

BC Card Co., a South Korean credit card company, said on Friday it has signed two contracts to provide digital payment services for Indonesia’...

Tech, Media & Telecom BC Card shows one-stop payment int'l network at MWC 2023

BC Card, the only credit card company from South Korea taking part in this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, is displaying at ...

Business & Politics KT Group signs MOUs with Mongolian firms to explore joint opportunities

South Korea's KT Group has signed multiple memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the Mongolian government and economic delegation to explore pote...

Banking & Finance BC Card signs strategic partnership deal with Mongolian Central Bank

South Korea's credit card issuer BC Card said on Monday that it has signed a strategic partnership deal with the Bank of Mongolia.With this collabor...

Banking & Finance BC Card eyes Central Asian payment market entry this year

South Korea's financial services company BC Card said on Wednesday that it would seek to enter the Central Asian market this year on the back of its...

IPOs Internet lender K Bank gets green light for IPO

South Korea’s first internet-only lender K Bank on Tuesday received preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange to go public on the country&r...

Banking & Finance South Korea’s Shinhan launches credit card in Vietnam

South Korea’s Shinhan Card Co. launched its first credit card in Vietnam to expand its business portfolios into overseas markets as the sector...

Banking & Finance Korea’s BC Card to buy Indonesian IT firm for SE Asia biz growth

BC Card Co., a South Korean financial services provider, agreed to acquire an Indonesian IT company as it expands its businesses into overseas marke...

Korean games Oasys aims to be blockchain gateway for S.Korean game developers

Singapore-based Oasys has an ambitious goal to revolutionize the gaming industry by making blockchain games cheaper to develop and faster to play &n...

Pension funds NPS makes strategic investment in BC Partners with Blackstone

The National Pension Service has made an investment in BC Partners by acquiring a stake in the UK private equity firm through a Blackstone fund, acc...

Leadership & Management Serial entrepreneur builds gateway for cloud services

“You see all of these buildings? All of the companies in these buildings will become our clients."These were the words of Lee Han-joo, chief e...

Korean-Americans on Wall Street Korean social network-turned-Wall Street gateway

Korean investment bankers are more visible on Wall Street than ever before. Between 2010 and 2020, some 120 bankers, of Korean origin, landed covete...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd., wholly owned by Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., is seeking to raise between €100 million ($107 million) an...