South Korea

South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro

'Navix' follows OpenELA rules, comes with ten years support, and is already used in production at scale

OSes10 Dec 2024 | 14

China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats

Asia In Brief PLUS: Politician thought Korea's martial law declaration was a deepfake; Apple finds a billion for Indonesia; China worries about open source intel; and more

AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 9

China sends cloud powered by homebrew Loongson CPUs into space

Asia In Brief Plus: Korea cracks down on Temu; US, Vietnam, sign infosec pact; India extends controversial hardware import law; and more

Off-Prem24 Nov 2024 | 5

India's Moon orbiter was shifted suddenly to avoid Korea's and NASA's craft

Apparently there's not enough space in space

Science22 Nov 2024 | 31

Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened

Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up

Science19 Nov 2024 | 23

Southeast Asian nations revise semiconductor strategies as Trump's shadow looms

Analysis Korea wants to get rid of overtime cap while Japan splashes cash with vague funding

Systems13 Nov 2024 | 4

Continuity of CHIPS and Science Act questioned in a Trump presidency

Asia In Brief Plus: A premium minimum wage for Malaysian datacenter workers; N Koreans maybe discover spicy content; S Korea fines Meta for data misuse, and more

Systems11 Nov 2024 | 34

Former SK hynix chip engineer gets 1.5 years in prison for IP theft

Printed around 4,000 pages of tech before leaving for a job at Huawei

Systems08 Nov 2024 | 10

Officials warn of Russia's tech-for-troops deal with North Korea amid Ukraine conflict

10,000 of Kim Jong Un's soldiers believed to be headed for front line

Security07 Nov 2024 | 45

Someone's tried sneaking semiconductor secrets out of South Korea's patent office

Government hardens up infosec to stop this - as you would when Samsung and SK hynix are massive parts of your economy

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 5

Imagine a government that told Big Tech to improve resilience – then punished failures

It's happening in South Korea

Off-Prem01 Oct 2024 | 16

Samsung fined just $8K for exposing chip fab workers to X-ray radiation

Nothing says 'oops' like a penalty that won’t even dent the electronics giant’s coffee budget

Offbeat26 Sep 2024 | 16

SK hynix begins mass production of 36 GB 12-layer HBM3E

Should be Jensen Huang's hands in less than 60 days

Storage26 Sep 2024 | 2

Telegram apologizes to South Korea and takes down smutty deepfakes

Unclear if this is a sign controversial service is cleaning up its act everywhere

Public Sector04 Sep 2024 | 10

Crypto boss finds fraud trial a serious pain in the neck

Thankfully his injuries are not life threatening

Legal30 Aug 2024 | 10

LG Electronics aims to become a datacenter cooling player, with aircon and immersion tech

2030 vision also calls for its appliances and televisions to turn you into a subscription cash cow

Cloud Infrastructure Month22 Aug 2024 | 4

Over 40 million Kakao Pay users' data somehow ended up with Alipay

Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity

Security15 Aug 2024 | 10

Chinese satellite broadband launch rocket breaks up into space junk

Asia In Brief Plus: Vietnam's PM leads chips push; Tesla backs out of Thailand; Drones fly trash off Everest; and more

Science12 Aug 2024 | 25

South Korea to force e-commerce marketplaces to pay vendors faster

Platforms owe billions after they stopped paying and sent thousands of SMEs into cashflow crunches

Software07 Aug 2024 | 9

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