Engadget

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

DeepSeek, the massively popular Chinese AI assistant, has been temporarily unavailable from app stores in South Korea since February 15. DeepSeek is also blocked on South Korean government and military devices. DeepSeek only established a local presence in South Korea on February 10.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 18, 2024

BYD will launch its compact electric crossover, the Atto 3, in South Korea on Jan. 15, marking its entry into a major Asian market and the start of competition with Hyundai on its home turf, Korea JoongAng Daily reported.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2022

SpaceX launches South Korea’s first moon mission : South Korea has launched its first-ever lunar mission — a lunar orbiter “launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket” ahead of plans to land on the surface some time in 2030.

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TechSpot

JUNE 26, 2024

The fire happened at a two-story building run by primary battery manufacturer Aricell. The company, which reported $3.5 million in sales last year, makes lithium batteries for sensors and radio communication devices. Fire officials say around 35,000 battery units were stored in the warehouse. Read Entire Article

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TechNode

JANUARY 17, 2025

BYD is taking orders for its Atto 3 electric crossovers in South Korea at a starting price of 31.5 Another two models, the Seal electric sedan and Sealion 7 crossover will hit the market in the second half of this year, Inchul Cho, managing director at BYD Koreas passenger-car business, said on Thursday.

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TechSpot

MAY 22, 2020

Samsung has talked a lot about its ambitions around building more manufacturing capacity for next generation silicon, both for its own custom chips as well as serving the needs of others like Apple, Google, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Amazon. The plan announced at the Foundry Forum will take ten years to.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Bank of Korea (BOK) rolled out details on its pilot program for its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), stating that 100,000 selected Korean citizens will join the trial in the fourth quarter of next year. The participants will be able to buy goods with tokens in the form of CBDC issued by commercial […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechSpot

JUNE 2, 2022

According to multiple South Korean publications, many Android apps in the country have started increasing in-app purchase prices to maintain revenues while paying the Google Play Store's required commission fees.

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TechSpot

JULY 12, 2024

Announced by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), the laser weapons were developed by the South Korean military with Hanwha Aerospace Co. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Korea Herald reports that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family recently announced their decision to change the law out of respect for youths’ rights.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2020

Drones remind citizens in Seoul, South Korea, to wear masks and observe social distancing guidelines. South Korea has done a remarkably good job of combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

South Korea’s telecommunication regulator, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), said Friday that it plans to levy fines on Google and Apple, which could total up to $50.5 million, for violating the country’s in-app payment law.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

According to a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday, South Korea plans to invest at least KRW 34 trillion ($23 billion) to help companies develop cutting-edge technologies in the fields of batteries and biotechnology. The Finance Ministry is expected to discuss legal amendments related to the initiative in parliament this March.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Phase one of the mission aims to put a probe into orbit around the Moon. It’ll carry a handful of useful instruments including ShadowCam, a NASA instrument that will map the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon to search for minerals that could be harvested to support future missions.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Seoul Main Customs Office announced that for three years starting in August 2020, individuals in South Korea operating "Company A" smuggled US-made semiconductor integrated circuits into China. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JULY 6, 2024

A South Korean research team led by Director Jo Moon-Ho of the Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids within South Korea's Institute for Basic Science has made a significant advancement in semiconductor and nanomaterial technology that could lead to the development of much smaller, more efficient, and more powerful.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 14, 2020

The solar-powered shelters have been installed in the capital city of Seoul along major bus routes in the Seongdong district. Passengers must stand in front of an automated thermal-imaging camera, and the sliding door will only open if a temperature under 99.5F is detected. There's another camera installed lower down.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Twitch plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27, it said, after finding that operating in one of the world’s largest esports markets is “prohibitively expensive.”

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TechSpot

AUGUST 9, 2022

On Tuesday, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced it is investigating Apple, Google, and the local One Store, for allegedly violating its app payment processor law. The South Korean regulator could charge the companies up to two percent of their average annual revenue.

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TechSpot

APRIL 8, 2022

Since Intel's initial announcement of the Arc series last August, its earliest products were expected to arrive in the first quarter of this year. Last month the company confirmed the laptop GPUs were coming on March 30 – technically the very end of Q1. However, stores like Amazon and Newegg.

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TechSpot

JULY 10, 2024

Now, a team of researchers from South Korea's Pusan National University has developed a new method around the same technology that is approximately 40 percent more energy-efficient than current techniques. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JANUARY 1, 2025

A total of 22,883 EV9 models built at Kia's plant in Gwangmyeong, South Korea, between September 25, 2023, and October 15, 2024, may be missing mounting bolts for the second and/or third-row seats. This information comes from documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Read Entire Article

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TechNode

JULY 9, 2024

Chinese electric vehicle maker Zeekr is looking to enter South Korea by 2026, with plans to open showrooms in Seoul and the nearby province of Gyeonggi by next year, parent company Geely said last week in response to questions from Bloomberg.

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TechSpot

MAY 11, 2024

According to ETNews, it will also launch a pilot line for its next-gen packaging in Sejong, South Korea, in the fourth quarter – one quarter ahead of schedule. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JUNE 21, 2024

Samsung has just launched the GalaxyBook Edge 4, its first new Arm-based Copilot+ PC, but it comes with a big asterisk – at least in South Korea. The tech giant is warning its home country buyers that these new AI-powered machines could struggle to run some popular apps. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 5, 2024

A study by MIDiA Research surveyed 9,000 gamers across several countries including the US, UK, Germany, and South Korea. New research shows a massive generational divide in game genre preferences. It found that online player-vs-player games are more popular than single-player ones among audiences aged 16-24. Only 30% of this.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This investment round, led by South Korea's AFW Partners and Samsung Securities, signals the emergence of another Nvidia competitor. Tenstorrent, a Santa Clara, California-based startup, has secured nearly $700 million in funding, catapulting its valuation to $2.6 Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In July last year, Naver, maker of the search engine known as the “Google of South Korea,” opened its new second headquarters, Naver 1784. The building’s name refers to a year commonly associated with the Industrial Revolution.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 25, 2021

The proposed law is a revision of the Telecommunications Business Act, making app store operators unable to force developers to use specific payment systems, such as those controlled by the app store operators.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 19, 2022

Samsung has announced a special Pokémon edition Galaxy Z Flip 3, which comes with Pikachu cases, Pokédex phone pouch, and other Pokémon accessories.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Krafton revealed its latest project at the G-Star 2023 summit in Busan, South Korea. Called InZoi, the life simulator features gameplay similar to The Sims but uses Unreal Engine 5 to present far more realistic graphics. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 15, 2023

According to a report out of South Korea (via NotebookCheck), Samsung is planning to launch its 'Galaxy Glass' mixed reality headset during the first half of next year to compete with the Vision Pro. While it was originally scheduled to hit the market at the end of 2024, the company. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JULY 13, 2022

This isn't something that's available in the US, at least not yet, but you can find it on the carmaker's websites in countries including South Korea, the. In what looks like a near Diablo Immortal-level of microtransaction BS, BMW is offering optional extras in its vehicles for a monthly cost.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

An oversupply of DRAM and NAND in South Korea this year has seen SSD prices fall by over 30% since January. In April, Samsung confirmed it was preparing to reduce its chip output in the hope that scaling back production would keep prices from dropping any further. The company slashed. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Una Brands , a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has partnered with South Korean peer KlickBrands to expand its footprint in South Korea. . The strategic partnership will help South Korean e-commerce brands grow domestically and make inroads into more countries in Asia.

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TechSpot

JUNE 30, 2022

Samsung has officially started mass production of chips at its Hwaseong facilities using a 3nm process node and gate-all-around transistors. In doing so, the Korean tech giant has managed to beat rival TSMC in the race to develop leading-edge manufacturing techniques for the growing performance and energy-efficiency demands of the.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Solana Ventures and Solana Foundation have set up a $100 million investment and grant fund to deploy capital into South Korean web3 startups, Johnny Lee, general manager of games at Solana Labs, told TechCrunch. The fund will focus on gaming studios, GameFi, NFTs and DeFi in South Korea.

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