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South Korea will expand startup nurturing programs into overseas venture companies launched by Koreans from next year as the country is stepping up ...

Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday it has spun off three promising in-house startups, which the South Korean automotive group has nurtured as part ...

Korea Credit Data (KCD), a South Korean fintech startup focusing on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised 100 billion won ($75.7 mi...

SILICON VALLEY – Ringle English Education Service, a South Korean startup operating a one-on-one English tutoring platform, is actively seekin...

South Korean technology companies, both big and small, are rushing to advance Korean large language models (LLM) to fend off the pioneering chatbot ...

South Korea’s Twelve Labs was included as the only Korean company in CB Insights’ first annual GenAI 50 ranking, a list of the world&rsq...

Viva Republica Inc., South Korea’s fintech unicorn operating mobile financial platform Toss, is at a crossroads as its second attempt to sell ...

South Korea’s major boiler manufacturers are stepping up overseas expansion to diversify beyond the saturated domestic market, setting their s...

The latest artificial intelligence model of South Korean AI startup Upstage scored higher than ChatGPT by global AI giant OpenAI in a world-recogniz...

The South Korean government and the private sector will jointly create a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund pool worth more than 8 trillion won ($...

FADU Technology, the first unicorn in South Korea’s semiconductor sector, has embarked on a process to raise up to 193.8 billion won ($151 mil...

Nanotech startup Deepsmartech celebrated its victory Thursday at July D.Day, held on Jeju Island, a South Korean resort isle poised to become the co...

South Korea’s leading fashion platform Musinsa said on Wednesday it has attracted 240 billion won ($189.7 million) in its Series C funding rou...

Everon, one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle charging infrastructure and management service providers, raised 50 billion won ($39 m...

Regulatory reform is still slow in South Korea, obstructing innovation in technologies and industries, and the government must take bolder action to...

SILICON VALLEY – Moloco Inc., a Silicon Valley-based ad-tech solution startup valued at more than $2 billion, is dreaming big to become a vers...

The drought in venture capital funding worsened in South Korea in the first half of this year, taking an especially heavy toll on platform and b...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, will provide its foundry clients with state-of-the-art technology to support th...

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday that they have invested extra 2 billion won ($1.54 million) in BOS Semiconductors, a vehicle ...

Since the advent of the AI-powered chatbot sensation ChatGPT, the battle to win AI talent across companies large and small has intensified, threaten...

SK Square Co., the intermediate holding company of South Korea’s SK Group, has liquidated Grab Geo Holdings, a joint venture with Grab Holding...

Metaverse platform startup Spatial aims to grow into a company that allows users to enjoy interactive content together, as COVID-19 has increased th...

Among 10 major economies worldwide, South Korea's global share of unicorn companies, or startups with a corporate value of over $1 billion, has shru...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will establish the world’s largest startup campus in the capital city of South Korea by 2030, benchmarking S...

The healthcare, manufacturing, mobility and retail sectors were slower to adopt digital technologies than the telecom and e-commerce industries in...

South Korea's advanced tech startup Wrtn Technologies, a major player in generative artificial intelligence (AI), has attracted investment of 15 bil...

The Middle East is emerging as a key export market for South Korean small enterprises and startups desperate for global expansion to tide over the e...

Sam Altman, chief executive of Microsoft-backed OpenAI and ChatGPT creator, said on Friday that he hopes to collaborate with South Korean developers...

Craft beers and highballs from emerging breweries and distilleries are poised to disturb the South Korean alcoholic beverage market dominated by gia...