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Apple's mobile payment service, Apple Pay, is set to launch domestically in South Korea on March 21, according to industry sources on Monday.With th...

Investors welcomed the end of a fierce month-long battle between HYBE Co. and Kakao Corp. over control of South Korea’s K-pop pioneer SM Enter...

(All dates in 2023) -- Jan. 15: Align Partners Capital Management filed proxy litigation against SM Entertainment Co. Founder Lee Soo-man and seven...

South Korea's HYBE Co., the company behind the global sensation BTS, said on Sunday it has decided to pull out of the face-off with Kakao Corp. for ...

The bull run in shares of SM Entertainment Co. may deal a heavy blow to Kakao Corp. ’s 1.25-trillion-won ($950 million) takeover bid for the K...

Kakao Brain, a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Kakao Corp., launched an open beta version of "B^ EDIT," a web service tha...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s dominant mobile platform, will launch a takeover bid for SM Entertainment Co., according to people with knowledge o...

HYBE Co. has raised its stake in the K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. by merely 0.98% in a tender offer, after just one institution and minority i...

Apple Pay, the mobile payment service by iPhone maker, is set to launch in as early as two weeks in South Korea, home to the world’s largest s...

HYBE Co. is tightening the reins in its fight against Kakao Corp. for control of SM Entertainment Co. by raising up to 1 trillion won ($768.6 millio...

A South Korean court on Friday ruled in favor of SM Entertainment Co. Founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man to block the company from sellin...

South Korea’s dominant mobile platform Kakao Corp. will kick off its healthcare services this year with the launch of a diabetes monitoring ap...

South Korea’s HYBE Co. lost its first battle against dominant local mobile platform Kakao Corp. over SM Entertainment Co. as the label behind ...

Kakao Impact, a corporate foundation of Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform company, said on Tuesday it has agreed to work with the...

BC Card, the only credit card company from South Korea taking part in this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, is displaying at ...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s dominant mobile platform, said on Monday it would mobilize all possible countermeasures against HYBE Co. ’s a...

Kakao Brain, a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Kakao Corp., said on Sunday it plans to set up a fund of up to 10 billion ...

HYBE Co., the label behind the global sensation BTS, is considering legal action to invalidate an undisclosed deal between SM Entertainment Co. and ...

Samsung Electronics Co. and South Korea's Naver Financial have formed a simple payment service alliance in which users of Samsung Pay can make simpl...

South Korea’s chemicals-to-construction conglomerate Hanwha Group expects its high-stakes solar energy business to pay off amid industry forec...

HYBE Co., the label behind the world’s top boyband BTS, said it does not plan to raise its buying price for SM Entertainment Co., denting hope...

Kakao Enterprise, a leading IT platform business operator in South Korea, recently announced its "Matching 2.0" strategy to enhance the quality of s...

South Korea is set to attract global talent with high salaries for a planned government space agency as the country aims to boost long-term growth i...

On Tuesday, Kakao Brain, the AI unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced the development of a new text-based motion generation model, called "FL...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, has been fined 25.7 billion won ($20.3 million) for discriminating agai...

Netmarble Corp. announced that the webtoon "MAVE: Another World," based on the virtual girl group, will be available on KakaoPage and Kakao Webtoon ...

SM Entertainment Co., a South Korean music label widely credited as the pioneer of K-pop, has emerged as a new battlefield between HYBE Co., the age...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s No. 1 mobile messenger platform, will launch Korean language-specific, vertically-integrated AI service this year s...

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment arm of South Korean tech firm Kakao Corp., has been added to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Kor...

South Korea’s game publishers reported dismal quarterly earnings, deepening concerns over their outlook this year amid doubts over measures su...