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Why Korea’s teens are abandoning KakaoTalk for Instagram
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Kakao enters emergency mode after founder’s arrest
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FTC fines Kakao Mobility $55 mn for alleged unfair taxi-hailing service
A Kakao T taxi in Seoul (File photo by News1) South Korea’s antitrust body fined Kakao Mobility Corp., the country’s…
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KakaoTalk to adopt full-screen ads as sales, profit growth stunted
KakaoTalk is Korea’s top messenger app Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messenger and chat app KakaoTalk, will…
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Mobility firms, banks replace battery, K-culture stocks in KEDI 30 Index
ETF (Courtesy of Getty Images) Mobility, financial services and biotech companies have elbowed out battery and entertainment stocks in the…
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OpenResearch gets $7.5 mn seed round
Former Kakao Brain CEO Kim Il-Doo OpenResearch, an AI search service founded by former Kakao Brain CEO Kim Il-Doo, said…
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Korea’s AI, robot startups shine despite funding drought
A humanoid robot provides information to a visitor for at a technology event in Seoul on June 19, 2024 (File…
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No Korean firms make it to Korea’s top five mobile games list
Ares-Rise of Guardians, a popular MMORPG released by Kakao Games on July 25, 2023 No South Korean game titles developed…
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Hoban partners with Kakao, Bear Robotics for robot-based services
Hoban Construction Ltd. announced on Friday that it has signed a business agreement (MOU) with Kakao Mobility and Bear Robotics…
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Kbank aims for IPO at a $4 bn valuation in Q4
Kbank, a South Korean online bank, is preparing to list on the main bourse Kospi at an estimated corporate value…
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YC-backed Relate defies conventional wisdom for deeper integration
(Courtesy of Pixelic) It may look like David versus Goliath, but Y Combinator-backed Relate has found a sweet spot where…
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Kakao Pay to run Pangyo office with renewable energy
Kakao Pay, a unit of South Korean tech conglomerate Kakao (Courtesy of Kakao Pay) South Korea’s Kakao Pay Corp. said…
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Korean IT giants drop fandom platforms, help HYBE dominate
BTS concert in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 15, 2022 (File photo by Big Hit Music, HYBE’s wholly-owned subsidiary) South…
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Kakao to merge dk techin and Kakao Brain
South Korea’s Kakao Corp. said on August 23 that its mobile solution development subsidiary dK Techin Corp. will merge with…
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SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol
PIP Labs CEO and Story Protocol Co-founder SY Lee Seung Yoon Lee, a South Korean startup creator, was in his…
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Korea Investment, most generous venture capitalist in H1
(Courtesy of Getty Images) Korea Investment Partners Co. spent the most on local startups among venture capitalists in the first…
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Alipay’s rise puts Korea on alert to private data breach
A store in Myeong-dong, Seoul South Korean fintech companies’ customer data transfer to Alipay, a Chinese payment platform, sets off…
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Samsung’s Monimo set to disrupt Korea’s financial app market
Monimo mobile app launched by Samsung Financial Networks in April 2022 (Courtesy of Samsung Financial Networks) Samsung Group, South Korea’s…
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Google to target global webtoon sector with Korean creators
(Captured from Dashtoon website) BENGALURU – Google teamed up with South Korean creators to target the global webtoon industry, spurring…
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NCSOFT taps ex-Pearl Abyss US head to lead N.America unit
Jin Jeonghee was appointed as the new head of NC America NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s major gaming company, said on…
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Kakao to launch conversational AI platform for B2C commerce
Kakao’s headquarters in Seoul (Courtesy of Yonhap) South Korean mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. said on Thursday that it will…
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Hyundai Elevator joins forces with Kakao Mobility for integration services
Cho Jae-cheon, CEO of Hyundai Elevator (left) and Ryu Geung-seon, CEO of Kakao Mobility South Korea’s Hyundai Elevator Co. said…
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Kakao Games reports sharp drop in Q2 operating profit
Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., reported a sharp decline in second-quarter…
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Kakao Mobility launches overseas car rental service
South Korean mobility platform Kakao Mobility said on Monday that it launched an overseas car rental service accessible through its…
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S.Korea’s early-stage VC funding down amid dearth of targets
A rendering image of the Seoul Unicorn Startup Hub facility to be built in Seongsu-dong by around 2030 Early-stage startup…
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Hana Financial mulls non-banking M&As for growth: CEO
Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo speaks at the sidelines of the 2024 CEO Summer Forum hosted by the Federation…
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Samsung, SK Hynix lead value increase in NPS’ local shares in Q2
Image of Samsung’s high bandwidth memory chip HBM3E 12H DRAM (Courtesy of Samsung) The second-quarter rally of Samsung Electronics Co.…
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Gmarket CEO vows to reclaim top with know-how from Alibaba, Coupang
Gmarket’s offline sales event in Seoul (File photo, courtesy of Gmarket) A new chief executive of South Korea’s Gmarket Inc.…
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Kakao supports startups with cloud services
Kakao Enterprise, an AI-based cloud solutions service subsidiary of South Korea’s Kakao Corp., announced on Thursday that it started the…
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Shinhan Card, KakaoBank to team up for PLCC
South Korea’s Shinhan Card Co. and the domestic internet bank KakaoBank Corp. said on Wednesday that they signed a business…