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SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol
Aug 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Kyobo Life, Japan’s SBI to team up on security token, digital finance
South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Group and Japan’s SBI Group have entered into a strategic business partnership agreement to expand the...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Nexon opens blockchain game corporations in UAE
South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. opened its corporations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the end of last year to stre...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
SK C&C to build Hana Securities STO system
South Korea's SK C&C announced on Tuesday that it will supply its blockchain service platform ChainZ Security Token (ChainZ ST) to build the syst...
Nov 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
KT provides digital document storage for Shinhan Bank
South Korea's KT Corp announced on Friday the launch of a new digital document storage service at Shinhan Bank, linking with a public electronic docu...
Sep 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Mirae Asset teams up with Polygon Labs for tokenized securities
South Korea’s Mirae Asset Securities Co. has partnered with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, for financial tokenizatio...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Hana Bank to enter digital asset custody sector with BitGo
South Korea's Hana Bank on Tuesday said it signed a strategic business agreement with BitGo, a Palo Alto, California-based global digital asset custo...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
FNSValue, UN agency to provide passwordless authentication for fintech
South Korean blockchain company FNSValue Co. on Monday signed a partnership agreement with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Unite...
Aug 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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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 c...
Aug 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
SK Telecom expands its Web3 ecosystem
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. has joined hands with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, to expand its Web3 ecosystem.Both compan...
Aug 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
BOK, Samsung to develop offline CBDCs using Galaxy devices
South Korea’s central bank and Samsung Electronics Co. have joined hands to further advance the country’s offline central bank digital cu...
May 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
WeMade signs MOU with Ministry of Investment Saudi Arabia
South Korea's game publisher WeMade Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Investment o...
Apr 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Blockchain game startup Gomble gets seed round
South Korean blockchain gaming startup Gomble announced on Monday that it has successfully secured its first institutional investment. The seed fundi...
Apr 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Netmarble unveils Union Tokenomics for Marblex's MBX ecosystem
Netmarble Corp. announced on Thursday that its blockchain subsidiary Marblex has launched the Union Tokenomics, token economic system for the MBX eco...
Apr 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Korea's Mirae Asset, SK Telecom tie up for security token ecosystem
Mirae Asset Securities Co. and SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top brokerage house and mobile carrier, are set to join hands to establish an ecos...
Mar 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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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 blo...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Digital wallet Klip sees its subscriber number surpass 2 million
Ground X, Kakao Corp.'s blockchain technology subsidiary, said on Monday that the number of cumulative subscribers to its digital asset wallet "Klip"...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Blockchain co. Reality Reflection's board to discuss mangement reshuffle
The South Korean blockchain ecosystem is facing a string of management disputes, hit by worsening conditions of the global cryptocurrency market. Met...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Vertu, Motorola, Xiaomi eye Korean smartphone market as LG exits
South Korea’s smartphone market is notoriously hard for foreign mobile phone makers to crack. So hard that some people call it the “grave...
Nov 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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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 rel...
Nov 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
About 1,000 attend Upbit Developer Conference preliminary events
South Korea’s unicorn startup Dunamu Inc. hosted two preliminary events for the Upbit Developer Conference (UDC) scheduled for later this month...
Sep 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
S.Korean firms adopt the x-to-earn model for data, community building
South Korean companies are embracing the x-to-earn (X2E) business model, by which users earn rewards by playing online games and accomplishing other ...
Aug 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
S. Korea's digital asset exchange operators bulk up despite crypto winter
Despite being in crypto winter, or a period in which prices of major cryptocurrencies have slid and stayed low for weeks on end, South Korea's bigges...
Aug 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Hong Kong-based Crypto.com acquires South Korean exchange OK-BIT
Hong Kong-based Crypto.com announced Monday it finalized the acquisition of a 100% stake in South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange operator OK-B...
Aug 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
SK Telecom launches NFT marketplace open beta service
South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. launched an open beta service of its non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace TopPort as the comp...
Aug 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
S.Korean conglomerates look to paint future with NFTs
The non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem has penetrated into mainstream society. NFTs are digital assets that represent objects in the physical world, ...
Jun 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
South Korean tech juggernauts turn their characters into NFTs
South Korea’s tech behemoths are turning the companies’ characters into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with the aim of creating an intellectu...
Jun 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Hanwha Solutions CEO meets with US blockchain VCs
President and co-CEO of Hanwha Solutions Corp. Kim Dong-kwan met with heads of major blockchain venture capital firms while visiting the United State...
Apr 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Samsung, LG, SK step up push into blockchain market
Top South Korean conglomerates such as Samsung, LG and SK are stepping up efforts to build a presence in the blockchain and crypto-asset markets, a t...
Mar 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Krafton signs MOU with Solana for blockchain-based games and services
South Korea’s leading game developer Krafton Inc. announced Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with San Francisco-based Solana L...
Mar 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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