privacy violations

Cryptocurrencies Dunamu slapped with 3-month business suspension order

Dunamu Inc., the operator of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, has been hit with a three-month partial business suspension ...

Short selling S.Korea mulls fines on Barclays, Citi for short-sale violations

South Korea’s financial authorities are considering fining British multinational investment bank Barclays plc and US investment banking group ...

Banking & Finance Mirae Asset gets int'l privacy protection certification

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities Co. said on Monday that it won the international personal information standard ISO 27701 certification after un...

E-commerce S.Korea fines AliExpress $1.4 mn for alleged privacy breach

South Korea’s privacy authority is punishing AliExpress with measures including a $1.4 million fine for allegedly not providing measures to pr...

ESG Hyundai, Kia to require stricter ESG compliance from subcontractors

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group plans to require stricter environmental, social and governance compliance from its partners st...

ESG POSCO Future M publishes responsible minerals report

South Korea's POSCO Future M Co. announced on Tuesday that it released a responsible minerals report detailing establishing a sustainable supply cha...

Banking & Finance 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...

Batteries S.Korea to probe Chinese batteries' alleged patent violations

South Korea will investigate alleged patent infringement by Chinese makers of smartphone batteries and high-nickel cathodes upon requests by LG Chem...

Korean games Nexon fined over MapleStory in-game item selling

South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. was fined 11.6 billion won ($8.9 million) for allegedly misleading its customers over in...

Short selling HSBC, BNP Paribas reported to Korean prosecutors for naked shorting

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd. (HSBC) and BNP Paribas CIB have been reported to South Korean public prosecutors in violation of ...

Electronics ITC launches probe into Samsung’s suit vs China’s BOE over OLED

The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided to launch an investigation into a complaint filed by South Korea’s Samsung Display Co....

Tech, Media & Telecom New Mercedes E-Class, world’s first to use LG’s SPM display  

LG Display Co., the world’s leading organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker seeking to cement its market leadership, is supplying its ...

Electric vehicles France’s new EV subsidy bill may violate Korea-EU FTA: KITA

The South Korean auto industry has called for an amendment in France’s new subsidy policy for electric vehicle purchases after voicing concern...

Shareholder activism S.Korea files to revoke PCA ruling in favor of Elliott

South Korea has decided to challenge an international arbitration tribunal’s decision a month ago ordering the Korean government to compensate...

Regulations Korea to require pre-disclosure of major shareholder stake sales

South Korea is set to require pre-disclosures of major shareholders’ listed company stake sales in an aim to prevent tumbles in stock prices.A...

Regulations Korea to allow investors to sell stocks at pre-split-off values

South Korea is set to allow individual shareholders to sell their stocks at prices before a split-off if they oppose a company’s separation pl...

Electric vehicles Korean PM Han says EV tax credits may violate FTA rules

The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) appears to have violated the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the country and South Korea, Korean Prime Minis...

Cryptocurrencies Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon faces arrest warrant in South Korea

A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant to Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency ecosystem that imploded earlier this year. ...

Tech, Media & Telecom South Korea fines Google, Meta $72 million for privacy violations

South Korea’s privacy protection regulator on Wednesday levied millions of dollars in fines on Alphabet’s Google LLC and Facebook operat...

Electric vehicles Korea may file complaint with WTO against US' Inflation Reduction Act

The South Korean government is considering filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the US' new Inflation Reduction Act (IR...

Aerospace & Defense S.Korean LIG Nex1 to develop jammers against drones from the North

South Korea’s major defense maker LIG Nex1 Co. plans to develop drone jammers that can force small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to go off c...

Electric vehicles Seoul says US tax credit bill risks violation of FTA, WTO

South Korea has conveyed concerns to the US about its legislative move to remove tax credits from electric vehicles produced outside of North Americ...

Retail Korea’s GS Retail fined $18.7 million over unfair dealings with contractors

South Korea’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday slapped GS Retail Co., a GS Group unit that operates the country’s second-largest convenien...

Tech, Media & Telecom Google stops KakaoTalk updates over violation of external payment policy

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has halted updates to Kakao Corp.'s KakaoTalk, South Korea's most popular messaging app. An employee of Kakao told...

Corporate restructuring Dongwon restructuring plan faces shareholder backlash

A South Korean leading seafood and logistics conglomerate Dongwon Group’s corporate restructuring plan hit a roadblock as institutional invest...

Business & Politics S. Korea to track engineers' travel to control tech leaks

South Korea will create a roster of engineers in its core business sectors to monitor their travel in and out of the country. The decision aims to...

Patent disputes Samsung sued by ex-patent chief over IP infringement

A former vice president of Samsung Electronics Co., who led the South Korean tech giant's seven-year patent fight with Apple Inc., has sued his ex-e...

Tech, Media & Telecom S.Korea fines Facebook, Netflix over privacy infringement

South Korea’s privacy regulator Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has fined major global platform companies for their infringe...