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May 22, 2019 Technology

European nations pitch to attract Korean startups at EXIT Daejeon 2019

European countries pitched to attract South Korean startups during an event held at the Global Startup Festival Daejeon 2019 on Wednesday. During a sideline event called Startup Talk Concert with Fo...

[Herald Interview] Line pushes Thai startups to scale up

BANGKOK -- Thailand, an ASEAN country with a population of 69 million, is messenger platform Line’s second-largest market after Japan. In fact, 90 percent of the country’s mobile internet users are c...

May 18, 2019
Technology
[Herald Interview] ‘Time to nurture investment culture in S. Korea’: KVCA chairman

South Korea’s venture capital industry finally appears to be headed toward a boom, after going through a rough patch during the dot.com bubble in the early 2000s and the global financial crisis that ...

May 7, 2019
Industry
CJ to shut down Bibigo in China by August

CJ is shutting down its loss-making Korean restaurant chain Bibigo in China, with a plan to dissolve the unit by August this year, according to an industry source. The move is part of restructuring ...

April 24, 2019
Industry
K-pop star Park Yoo-chun tests positive for drugs

A hair drug test for K-pop singer and actor Park Yoo-chun has returned a positive result, according to police here. Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, which is investigating Park’s case, recei...

April 23, 2019
Social affairs
A look at what’s behind Smilegate RPG’s IPO push

For the first time since it was founded in 2002, South Korean game developer Smilegate is out to list an affiliate in a bid to diversify its portfolio. Smilegate is the developer of hugely popular s...

April 10, 2019
Technology
E-Land to sell K-Swiss to Chinese company

South Korea’s retail firm E-Land World is set to sell its subsidiary K-Swiss to a Chinese sports brand six years after it purchased the US company, industry sources said on April 10. E-Land World is...

April 10, 2019
Industry
[Weekender] Coworking biz ushers in golden age

The concept of the “sharing economy” has caught on in Korea, but not as much as the enthusiasts had imagined. Uber, the most controversial example, was unable to enter for legal reasons, and others s...

March 7, 2019
Industry
[Weekender] Startup innovation can solve Korea’s quagmire of aging society

A key hurdle the Korean economy faces is the fast-aging population. One way to coax a soft-landing of this problem is to speed up deregulation so that local startups can carry out innovation and imp...

January 31, 2019
Industry
[Weekender] Pinning fresh hopes on ‘sandbox’ phenomenon

It’s far from perfect, but South Korea’s latest adoption of a regulatory sandbox may provide some relief to the country’s startups, according to the head of one of the largest and oldest startup asso...

January 31, 2019
Industry
Blockchain-based messenger app BeeChat offers versatile services

As blockchain-backed services move to embrace the masses, one startup aims to serve the fast-growing community of enthusiasts, followers, experts, investors and engineers who have yet to find a “go-t...

June 26, 2018
Technology
Woori Bank CEO to seek overseas investors

The head of Woori Bank, South Korea’s recently privatized lender, will soon embark on a trip to find investors to take over the government’s remaining stake, the bank said Friday. Woori Bank CEO Lee...

April 7, 2017
Finance
[Newsmaker] ‘Europe’s unitary patent system will bring benefits to Korean firms’

South Korean companies will benefit from the upcoming unitary patent system in Europe, which simplifies and lowers the cost of applications, the European Patent Office’s principal director for unitar...

April 7, 2017
Industry
[News Focus] Gold mine or land mine? Kepco weighs NuGen

South Korea’s state-owned electricity supplier is toying with the option of joining a nuclear plant project in the UK, weighing the pros of expanding its global account and the cons of entering the s...

April 6, 2017
Industry
Kakaobank gets final approval

Kakao Bank, the mobile bank of Kakao Corp., won its final regulatory approval Wednesday. The Financial Services Commission held a meeting Wednesday and gave the green light to Kakao Bank to operate ...

April 5, 2017
Finance

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