South Korea

Samsung labor union orders members back to work and a 'tactical transition' to ongoing action

Actions haven't stopped Chaebol from commencing mass production of new mobile memory

On-Prem06 Aug 2024 | 1

South Korea creates $445M bailout fund after payment glitch trips up e-commerce giant

Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors

Software30 Jul 2024 | 9

South Korea orders 'Star Wars' lasers to blast Northern drones out of the sky

Ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side

Offbeat12 Jul 2024 | 43

South Korean Samsung union strikes again in bid to chip away at production

It'd be a shame if something happened to that HBM fab, warns NSEU

Personal Tech10 Jul 2024 | 1

Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor's update systems to spew malware

Notorious 'Andariel' crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack

Malware Month02 Jul 2024 |

Korean telco allegedly infected its P2P users with malware

KT may have had an entire team dedicated to infecting its own customers

Security27 Jun 2024 | 8

South Korean lithium battery plant blaze kills at least 23

National Fire Agency responds with inspection of 213 batt-related workplaces

On-Prem25 Jun 2024 | 16

Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough up $4.5B, liquidate self

South Korean outfit that triggered the world's 'Crypto Winter' will melt away after SEC order

Personal Tech17 Jun 2024 | 17

SK hynix shimmies towards AI silicon by driving merger of South Korean Nvidia challengers

Sapeon and Rebellions think they can do better together

Systems13 Jun 2024 |

South Korea targets Moon and Mars landings after launching unified space agency

Meanwhile, North Korea's latest rocket fails

Public Sector28 May 2024 |

Thanks for the memory, South Korea tells nation's chip makers – now build processors

President warns of 'all-out national warfare' around silicon as he announces $19B development package

Systems24 May 2024 | 4

Top AI players pledge to pull the plug on models that present intolerable risk

Seoul Summit follows up Bletchley Declaration with more non-binding and vague promises

AI + ML22 May 2024 | 15

Once Alibaba’s main investor, SoftBank sheds remaining stake

SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company

PaaS + IaaS14 May 2024 | 1

Fraudsters abused Apple Stores' third-party pickup policy to phish for profits

Black Hat Asia Scam prevalent across Korea and Japan actually had some winners

Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 2

Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships

Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones

AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 8

Samsung strikes trouble as unions threaten walkouts, regulator swoops

Oh great – another potential kink in the silicon supply chain

On-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 3

Naver debuts multilingual HyperCLOVA X LLM it will use to build sovereign AI for Asia

Because English isn't the only language

AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |

It's 2024 and North Korea's Kimsuky gang is exploiting Windows Help files

New infostealer may indicate a shift in tactics – and maybe targets too, beyond Asia

Research21 Mar 2024 | 5

Korea's SK Innovation liquidates Chinese battery subsidiary

The Chaebol that also runs chipmaker SK hynix lacks energy to run multiple middle kingdom entities

Offbeat14 Mar 2024 |

South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites

Plans to digitally transform trees

Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 1

South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China

Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too

Public Sector13 Mar 2024 |

Japan orders local giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks

Government mighty displeased about a shared Active Directory that led to a big data leak

Security06 Mar 2024 | 2

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong acquitted of stock manipulation charges

What a surprise, said no one

Legal06 Feb 2024 | 5

Seoul restores smartphone subsidies because premium handsets are apparently essential

Buyers in Samsung's home will be offered cheaper Galaxies

Personal Tech24 Jan 2024 | 8

Kia crashes CES with modular electric vehicle concept

CES It's about time someone figured out how to make swappable bits for EV skateboards

Personal Tech10 Jan 2024 | 41

Philippines, South Korea, Interpol cuff 3,500 suspected cyber scammers, seize $300M

Alleged crims used AI to pose as friends, family, romantic partners – and sold dodgy NFTs

Cyber-crime20 Dec 2023 | 5

Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs

The idea that Big Content should pay network operators is in trouble

Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 | 32

Korean peninsula space race sees South and North launch tit for tat spy sats

North claims it took photos of stuff. South points to success of homegrown booster

Offbeat05 Dec 2023 | 8

Samsung creates a group dedicated to inventing whatever comes next

Exec who led memory and battery businesses to global dominance gets the job of defining Chaebol's future

Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 2

Crypto crasher Do Kwon's extradition approved, but destination is unclear

Hey Google, are the jails nicer in South Korea or the US?

Cyber-crime27 Nov 2023 | 4

Foxconn founder Terry Gou quits Taiwan presidential race

Asia In Brief PLUS: Japan, UK, Italy, collab on new fighter jet; Korea's CBDC trial; Toshiba to delist

Offbeat27 Nov 2023 | 2

North Korea readies third attempt at 'spy satellite' launch

What a coincidence! The South is just about to lauch one, too. And it probably won't be junk like the hermit kingdom's recent efforts

Science21 Nov 2023 | 3

South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians

They'll have a top speed of 15km/h and need insurance before they roll

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 27

Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill

Nothing is certain except death and taxes

Legal06 Nov 2023 | 7

‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities

Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence

Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 51

South Korea accuses North of Phish and Ships attack

Kim Jong-un looks at industry's progress with green eyes, says South Korea's spy agency

Cyber-crime05 Oct 2023 |

The clock is ticking and Korea wants to know if its chipmakers will get their export license extension

SK hynix and Samsung do so much memory-making in China, ending sanction exemptions would be extraordinary

Systems22 Sep 2023 | 7

Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung

Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract

Systems21 Sep 2023 |

South Korean telco SK Broadband and Netflix call a truce in network payment fight

Maybe better together? Duo announce AI and entertainment product partnership

Legal18 Sep 2023 | 3

South Korea's Moon orbiter snaps India's lander

As Japan's space agency preps a rover to land on Martian moon Phobos

Science13 Sep 2023 | 7

SK hynix says no Huawei its memory should be in Chinese wonder-phone

The Mate 60 Pro keeps making waves – this time worrying Korean chipmaker

Legal08 Sep 2023 | 21

Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss

Mega-corp has mastered the complexity of numerous technologies but it took several scandals to impart this obvious lesson

Legal29 Aug 2023 | 8

Neighbors angry as another North Korean 'satellite' launch attempt fails

US, Japan, and South Korea are well and truly over this sham

Science24 Aug 2023 | 19

South Korea's biggest mobile telco says 5G has failed to deliver on its promise

Inflated expectations and an underdeveloped ecosystem have led to consumer disappointment

Networks21 Aug 2023 | 36

South Korea 'puts the brakes' on Google's app store dominance

Starts monitoring developer deals after first slapping the G-force with substantial fine

Personal Tech16 Aug 2023 | 6

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 | 184

North Korean satellite had no military utility for spying, says South Korea

Lends credence to theory that Pyongyang is testing ballistic missiles against international rules

Security06 Jul 2023 | 20

Singapore tells crypto operators: act like grown up financial institutions

Digital payment skeptics of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but grifters and crims

Black Hat and DEF CON05 Jul 2023 | 10

Japan kind-of nationalizes key chipmaking material-maker JSR

If the US or Europe dare criticize this deal, it would be rank hypocrisy

On-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 9

Montenegro jails Do Kwon, accused of causing $40 billion LUNA crash

Crypto villain's passports were as fake as his stablecoin

Legal20 Jun 2023 | 11

North Korea created very phishy evil twin of Naver, South Korea's top portal

Think of it as a fake Google tuned for credential capture and you'll understand why authorities want to kill it

Security15 Jun 2023 | 9

Broadcom squeezed Samsung, now South Korea's squeezing back – hard

Updated Regulators won't accept proposed remedy for nasty parts deal – but EU may have accepted VMware deal

Virtualization14 Jun 2023 |

India probes medical info 'leak' to Telegram

Asia In Brief PLUS: Vietnam's free domain names for youngsters; China's Cuba spy base; Hyundai and Samsung team for car chips; and more

Security13 Jun 2023 | 2

You might have been phished by the gang that stole North Korea’s lousy rocket tech

US, South Korea, warn 'Kimsuky' is a very sophisticated social engineer

Security02 Jun 2023 | 13

After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds

Nuri rocket has done the business – now to get into the business

Science26 May 2023 | 3

US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat

Sound like anyone you know?

Systems24 May 2023 | 17