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Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment and digital wallet service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is seeking to acquire Loca Mobility Corp...

Shilla Duty Free, Korea's leading duty-free shop chain, is opening a metaverse beauty class in collaboration with Gucci Beauty.The company will intr...

The Korea Securities Depository said on Wednesday that 225.5 million shares of a total of 58 listed stocks registered as mandatory escrow will be li...

Medical data platform operator JNPMEDI Inc. announced on Tuesday that it raised 14 billion won ($10.3 million) in a Series A round. Pavilion Ca...

Indoor golf facilities’ revenue in South Korea has skyrocketed amid the pandemic, thanks to millennials and Generation Zers' soaring consumpti...

NCSOFT Corp. on Monday unveiled the gameplay trailer for LLL, its new shooting game for PCs and consoles to be released worldwide in 2024, for the f...

South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. announced its third-quarter earnings on Nov. 3, including quarterly operating profit of 150.3 ...

South Korea’s antitrust body is set to strengthen reviews on acquisitions for different businesses in the platform industry to resolve the pro...

South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. is facing increasing concern over its growth strategies centered on business expansions throug...

The firm dollar is causing South Korean companies to postpone or cancel their plans to buy overseas firms for future growth as the US currency&rsquo...

The number of subscribers to the mathematics education app Qanda exceeded 74 million as of earlier this month. It is rare for an app developed ...

Naver Corp. is set to take over US Poshmark Inc. for some $1.6 billion to make inroads into the e-commerce sector in North America as South Korea&rs...

South Korea’s Samsung Display Co. announced the world’s first 17-inch slidable display PC prototype at the Intel Innovation developer co...

South Korea’s largest mobile payment app KakaoPay has bought a stake in the country’s No. 1 electronic payment system provider, accordin...

Kakao Mobility Corp., which runs South Korea’s most popular taxi-hailing app, and top Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co. have agreed to launch...

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

Shares in EcoPro BM Co., a cathode material maker used in electric vehicle batteries, topped the list of South Korean stocks, for which an increased...

Kakao Enterprise Corp. is poised to become a private 5G network provider, for use within the parent company Kakao Corp. and for serving outside clie...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. is accelerating a digital economic system on its metaverse platform ifland, the telecom giant ...

LG Electronics Inc. announced Monday it has launched its very own non-fungible token (NFT) platform, LG Art Lab. Now available in the United St...

South Korea’s tech behemoth Naver Corp. is poised to strengthen its short-form content service on surging demand for video content that is les...

South Korea’s Naver Webtoon Corp. is seeking to increase the number of its paying subscribers as the company is shifting its business paradigm...

Angered by what they deem to be an unfair rewards system and poor customer service, South Korean players of Kakao Games Corp.’s Japan-created ...

Metaverse game platform PlayTogether, operated by South Korean game developer Haegin Co., ranked second in global metaverse app downloads during the...

South Korean teens appear to prefer to do their social networking on TikTok over KakaoTalk, as short-form videos surge in popularity worldwide. ...

Kakao Corp. is looking to add display advertising to South Korea’s largest messaging app KakaoTalk, as well as the fintech apps developed by i...

South Korea's Kakao Corp. has terminated talks with MBK Partners to sell a stake in Kakao Mobility Corp., the country’s No. 1 taxi-hailing app...

Daedong Corp., South Korea’s leading tractor and farm machinery maker, has attracted 10 billion won ($7.6 million) from Kakao Mobility Corp. t...

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 bigge...

South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. is set to provide K-content to viewers of Peacock, a streaming platform of US media and ente...