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E-commerce
Luxury fashion platform Balaan files for court receivership amid slump
Mar 31, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
US Chamber of Commerce sees Korea’s business penalties as trade barrier
The US Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest lobbying group, told Washington that South Korea’s penalties on businesspeople are amon...
Mar 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
Naver recruits 500 creators for Clip
South Korea's Naver Corp. said on Monday it will recruit 500 creators for Clip in the first half of 2025, the company's short-form platform from Dece...
Dec 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
Airbnb Korea to evict listings not submitting business license
Airbnb Korea announced on Tuesday that it will require new listings on the platform to submit business registration information and a business licens...
Sep 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea’s MeatBox to go public despite other failed grocery platform IPOs
MeatBox Global Inc., South Korea’s online livestock product sales platform operator, aims for an initial public offering valued at up to 28.5 b...
Sep 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Korean IT giants drop fandom platforms, help HYBE dominate
South Korean game developer Neowiz has sold its fan engagement platform unit, joining the moves by local IT giants such as Naver Corp. to pull out of...
Aug 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korea’s Tmax Group buys back software developer for $612 mn
South Korea’s Tmax Group bought back the software making unit it had sold to a local private equity firm two years ago to try to boost synergy ...
Aug 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LG to seek most of profit from new growth engines
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, aims to generate most of its profit from future growth drivers by 2030 as the South Kor...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver Cloud takes the lead in Korea’s public AI business
South Korean online giant Naver Corp.'s cloud subsidiary is expanding its presence in the country’s public artificial intelligence market by wi...
Aug 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
SoftBank-backed Tridge in trouble amid Korean startup doom
Tridge Co., South Korea’s first agricultural product and food trading platform operator invested in by SoftBank Group Corp., is in financial tr...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
Lotte Home Shopping's Bellygom debuts in Taiwan, Japan
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Wednesday that its character Bellygom will enter the Taiwanese and Japanese content market,following T...
Jul 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea’s edtech startups defend against global giants with AI
South Korea’s major online adult education platforms improved their earnings powered by classes on artificial intelligence, defying concerns ov...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korean fashion platform Ably to raise $144 mn from Alibaba, others
Ably Corp., South Korea’s top online fashion platform operator, is set to raise 200 billion won ($144 million) from foreign investors such as C...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean IT firms prefer engineers with business capabilities
More South Korean information technology companies are seeking engineers with business capabilities as artificial intelligence is expected to take ov...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Affluent Gen Xers lead e-commerce shopping in South Korea
Affluent Generation Xers, also pioneers in the digital landscape who navigated the early days of personal computing and witnessed the advent of the i...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SoftBank-backed Korean flea market app sees overseas growth
Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market service provider, enjoyed growth in other countries with its Karrot app briefly ...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung unveils next-gen signage platform for B2B push
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top TV maker by sales, on Monday launched a next-generation signage operations platform to boost its prese...
Jan 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung Elec unveils new image sensors for robotics, XR
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Tuesday introduced new image sensors tailored for advanced content platforms ...
Dec 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Kakao taps venture capital unit head as new CEO to lead reform
Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform under fire for its extremely aggressive business expansion, tapped its venture capital unit head...
Dec 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Korean digital comics boost Naver Webtoon’s biz in Japan
Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, enjoyed robust business in Japan with a record gross merchandise value (GMV) this ...
Dec 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
SK gives up e-commerce platform management
SK Group, South Korea's No. 2 conglomerate, gave up its online retail platform 11Street Co. as financial investors are now able to sell off their sta...
Nov 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Pharmteco launches new viral vector platforms, key for CGT
SK Pharmteco Co., South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has recently introduced two ...
Nov 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Kakao bets on AI bot for breakthrough
Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant chat app KakaoTalk, will seek a breakthrough with an artificial intelligence-powered bot af...
Nov 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung to launch cloud gaming service for Galaxy users
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, is set to unveil a cloud gaming service for mobile devices as it seeks new profit so...
Oct 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Why do so many S.Korean innovators bow out following success?
Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of the global luxury goods leader LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is well known for sporting a full head of ...
Jul 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG unveils upgraded hyperscale AI for future businesses
LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Wednesday introduced an upgraded hyperscale AI to be used for its future growth engines...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Koreans maintain designer love with used items, 'quiet luxury'
South Koreans are maintaining their love for premium fashion items with purchases of used luxury items and "quiet luxury" goods amid a slowdown in As...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
S.Korea’s contents export size surpasses home appliances, textiles
South Korea's contents export size recorded $13.3 billion last year, surpassing the export values of home appliances ($8 billion) and textile product...
Jul 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
A Goliath vs. Davids battle in the S.Korean OTT market
Netflix Inc. is poised to further distance itself from its money-losing local peers in the South Korean video streaming market this year, as it makes...
May 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon targets entertainment business in Japan
Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, is targeting the entertainment sector in Japan as it aims to expand its intellectu...
May 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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