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Tech, Media & Telecom Kakao to launch conversational AI platform for B2C commerce

South Korean mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. said on Thursday that it will accelerate its artificial intelligence push by launching a conversation...

Mergers & Acquisitions Doosan Robotics, Bobcat ordered to clarify merger deal

South Korean regulators have ordered Doosan Robotics Inc. to amend the securities prospectus it submitted last week for its merger with Doosan Bobca...

Korean stock market SK Hynix: More room for share price rise after bull run

SK Hynix Inc.'s market value broke through the roof to top 150 trillion won ($110 billion) on Monday, becoming the second stock in South Korea to re...

Electronics Samsung’s The Frame selected as display for Art Basel

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that its TV The Frame was selected as the official display for the world's largest art exhibition Art Ba...

Artificial intelligence Korea’s LG telecom unit unveils AI agent with own technology

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, has introduced an artificial intelligence agent platform based on its own ixi AI technolog...

Artificial intelligence Upstage releases Solar API for Free

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Feb. 22 that it released the beta version of its open-source small lan...

Travel & Leisure South Korea’s luxury hotels bask in return of tourists post-pandemic

South Korea’s luxury hotels are enjoying the return of tourists following years of COVID-19 restrictions, which significantly hurt their sales...

Electronics Samsung Galaxy S24 heralds dawning of AI smartphone era

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled its latest flagship smartphone Galaxy S24 series, which it calls an “AI...

Artificial intelligence Upstage installs Solar in KakaoTalk AI services

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) tech startup Upstage announced on Thursday that its small language model (SLM) Specialized and Opti...

Electric vehicles Carmakers to expand affordable EV, hybrid lineups in Korea

Carmakers in South Korea are slated to unveil new electric vehicle models at cheaper prices next year to revive the sputtering EV market and also ro...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Telecom launches call recording service for iPhone

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. has rolled out an iPhone app using artificial intelligence (AI) that allows users to record calls on their smartp...

Artificial intelligence Naver’s 'Cue:' throws down the gauntlet to MS Bing Chat

Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant web portal operator, on Wednesday launched a beta service of its new generative artificial intelligence te...

Artificial intelligence GenAI startup Wrtn’s cumulative subscribers exceed 1 million

South Korean generative AI startup Wrtn Technologies announced on Tuesday that it has surpassed one million cumulative subscribers to its service.Wr...

Travel & Leisure Hanatour launches real-time travel info-sharing chat app

South Korea's leading travel agency Hanatour Service Inc. has launched the location-based travel-specialized open chat service app called "Hana Open...

Electronics LG Electronics cuts H1 costs by $1.6 billion on stable supply chain

LG Electronics Inc. has slashed raw material and transportation costs by 2.12 trillion won ($1.6 billion) in the first half thanks to a stable sup...

Tech, Media & Telecom Korea's new superconductor will be verified: research team

Global scientists will be able to replicate South Korean researchers’ recent findings of room-temperature superconductor in around a month, de...

Tech, Media & Telecom S.Korean academics to verify truth of room-temperature superconductor

The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics has recently established a verification committee composed of experts in response to the ongo...

Bio & Pharma Lemonex signs MOU with WHO mRNA vaccines tech hub

South Korea's gene therapeutics developer Lemonex announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the World Health ...

Tech, Media & Telecom LG Uplus offers foreign language chat service for customers

LG Uplus Corp., a South Korean telecom operator of LG Group, said on Tuesday that it had launched a foreign language chat service for its customers,...

Korean startups Profit matters for survival of startups amid investment drought

As venture capitalists tighten their purse strings amid looming recession fears, only startups with killer products that generate profits are well-p...

Travel & Leisure Stay-in-hotel trend for the holidays revs up luxury hotels

Luxury hotels in South Korea are enjoying the emerging trend of Koreans choosing relaxing vacations at hotels, rather than taking holidays overseas....

Food & Beverage CJ CheilJedang launches new Bibigo kimchi in Europe

Korea's leading food processing company CJ CheilJedang said on Monday that it has launched Bibigo sliced kimchi for export in Europe, which can be s...

Behind the Scenes Corporate restructure inevitable at Smilegate as founder faces divorce

South Korea's fifth-richest man Kwon Hyuk-bin and his wife Lee Hwa-jin appear to be headed for divorce, according to industry insiders on Monday.&nb...

Blockchain Blockchain-based messenger 'Block Chat' debuts

South Korea's Blockchain Labs, which developed the Coov app for electronic certification for vaccination against COVID-19, on Tuesday said it has re...

Travel & Leisure Hotel Shilla's biz hotel to post record guest room sales

When Hotel Shilla Co. CEO and Samsung Group heiress Lee Boo-jin said in a shareholders’ meeting in March that the Korean hotel company will br...

Bio & Pharma Medipost to expand CDMO business with 10 new clean rooms in Korea

Medipost Co, a South Korean biotechnology company, is expanding its cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO)...

Cryptocurrencies LG Elec unveils new NFT platform, aims to turn living room into art gallery

LG Electronics Inc. announced Monday it has launched its very own non-fungible token (NFT) platform, LG Art Lab. Now available in the United St...

Korean stock market Foreign stock buying on weaker won: Bucking the trend?

When a country’s currency weakens, foreign investors flee the local markets as a softer foreign-exchange rate usually means fragile economic f...

Earnings Kakao to bolster open chat, ad services for growth

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Kakao Corp. on Thursday unveiled plans to bolster its open chat and advertising businesses to a...

Earnings Kakao CEO vows messenger app reform as Q1 misses forecasts

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Kakao Corp. plans to drastically change the way KakaoTalk, the country’s top mobile messe...