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SHIFT UP Corp., known for its subculture games, is eyeing an initial public offering (IPO.) The game design and development studio confirmed th...

South Korean startup Danggeun Market, the operator of the country’s largest neighborhood marketplace app Karrot, is ramping up efforts to incr...

South Korea’s Naver Webtoon Corp. has been successful in the domestic market with its loyal subscribers willing to pay to read a diverse libra...

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 ...

Korea Credit Data (KCD), a South Korean data solutions provider for small business owners, has become a Korean unicorn, or an unlisted company with ...

Celltrion Inc., South Korea’s biopharmaceutical giant, made a foray into the digital healthcare sector for its future growth by launching a sm...

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

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...

“Even though different countries have varying living conditions, we all share the common goal of decorating our spaces,” Jay Lee, CEO of...

South Korea’s contactless healthcare service app Allacare, launched last year, adheres to its business ethics: direct delivery of prescribed d...

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Kakao Corp. on Thursday unveiled plans to bolster its open chat and advertising businesses to a...

App operators in South Korea are in stiff competition to create super apps – as clear winners have emerged in different business sectors.The d...

South Korea’s Kakao Corp. has voluntarily removed an external payment link from the country’s largest messaging app KakaoTalk in complia...

South Korean startups that exceed $1 billion in valuations, known as unicorns, are pushing back their initial public offering (IPO) dates.The move c...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has halted updates to Kakao Corp.'s KakaoTalk, South Korea's most popular messaging app. An employee of Kakao told...

South Korea’s leading telecom operator KT Corp. will offer a broader range of services for foreign subscribers ahead of an expected surge in f...

SK Telecom Co., a South Korean major mobile carrier, is strengthening its spam call filtering system to prevent voice phishing. The system blocked 3...

South Korea’s adult audio content platform for women raised money to make inroads into Japan as a start of its global business.Sensual Moment ...

Imagine making a doctor’s appointment with a click of a button on a smartphone app. Once at the clinic or hospital, the app will guide the use...

Childcare app operator Piloto won first place at the May startup demo event hosted by D.Camp.  The startup accelerator’s parent company,...

One Store Co., South Korea's homegrown app store, will venture into Taiwan and Southeast Asia within the year, aiming to crack Google and Apple's du...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and its spin-off investment firm SK Square Co. joined hands with Europe’s largest teleco...

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Kakao Corp. plans to drastically change the way KakaoTalk, the country’s top mobile messe...

South Korean game developer and publisher Pearl Abyss announced Tuesday the mobile version of its cross-platform MMORPG Black Desert has claimed f...

Chunmyung and Company, the operator of its namesake fortune-telling app, announced on Tuesday it has secured Series A funding worth five billion w...

One Store Co., investment firm SK Square Co.'s homegrown app store, is gearing up for an initial public offering to be held in May. The local app st...

South Korea's top online fashion platform Musinsa is in the last stages of talks to acquire a domestic rival that caters primarily to Japanese shopp...

South Korea’s major tech companies such as Netmarble Corp., NCSoft Corp., Kakao Corp. and DoubleUGames were selected among the world’s m...

Nexon Co.'s Dungeon & Fighter Mobile has elbowed out NCSoft Corp.'s Lineage W to rank as the most popular Korean mobile game in the week since i...

South Korea’s online game developers are intensifying their efforts to build and incorporate their own payment systems to wipe out hefty commi...