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Google stops enforcing Play store payment rules in India
$276 million in fines will do that to a monopolist
Software02 Nov 2022 | 4
Terraform Labs and crypto bro Do Kwon face $57 million court case in Singapore
But will Kwon show up in court? Probably not.
Legal01 Nov 2022 | 10
Your new career plan: Go to jail for bribery, get busted taking drugs, be appointed chair of Samsung
It worked for Lee Jae-yong, who now gets to handle a nasty profit plunge
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 9
Blazing South Korean datacenter operator raided by cops, blames its own batteries
Asia In Brief PLUS: Australia boosts data breach fines; India outlet drops Meta allegations; AWS spices up Thailand's cloud; and more
Off-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 2
Kakao CEO quits, South Korea hits emergency button after dire datacenter blaze
Almost, but not quite, that moment of Big Tech accountability you've been waiting for
Off-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 5
Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants
Sub-par disaster recovery plans leave Naver and Kakao with savage service interruptions
Off-Prem17 Oct 2022 | 7
South Korea cancels passport of Terraform Lab's Do Kwon
Whereabouts of wanted cryptobro unknown, but he's reliably on Twitter
Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 1
Chipmakers still shoveling cash into new fabs as demand slows
Worldwide investment set to grow 9% to new high of $99b
Systems28 Sep 2022 | 2
Interpol seeks Do Kwon, man blamed for $40b crypto implosion
Founder of firm at center of fraud claims says he's 'not running' right now. Ditched the Fitbit, have you?
Personal Tech26 Sep 2022 | 4
Where in the world is Terraform Labs' alleged crypto-crasher Do Kwon?
South Korean prosecutor believes he is on the run from charges laid over Luna stablecoin crash
Legal19 Sep 2022 | 8
Arrest warrant issued for Do Kwon – the man blamed for 'crypto winter'
Terraform Labs CEO was boss of the TerraUSD and Luna crypto crash. South Korea wants him in cuffs
Legal15 Sep 2022 | 32
Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea
Both search giant and Facebook parent claim they play by the rules, will challenge decision
Security14 Sep 2022 | 4
SK hynix to plow $11b into South Korean fab complex
Leadership believes path to recovery is through investing in times of crisis
Systems06 Sep 2022 |
Korea to attend 'Chip 4' meeting as global doubts mounts over US initiative
Fellow group member Taiwan claims it never got the invite
Systems22 Aug 2022 | 4
South Korea cracks down on unlicensed foreign crypto businesses
Financial Services Commission also creates a digital assets task force
Legal18 Aug 2022 | 2
Samsung heir pardoned after doing time for bribery
Government said they need the Samsung boss back at work to deal with South Korea’s looming economic crisis
Legal15 Aug 2022 | 15
South Korean regulator worried Apple, Google, may be working around app store payment choice law
Feels some actions may amount to coercion to stick with giants' own payment schemes
Legal10 Aug 2022 | 10
South Korea's lunar orbiter launches and phones home happily
Moon probe will play BTS to test space internet. Also for fun
Networks05 Aug 2022 | 31
Samsung boss likely to be pardoned for bribery
Apparently the company and the country need him at work – crooked or not
Personal Tech28 Jul 2022 | 11
South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs
Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese
Legal25 Jul 2022 |
South Korea's Kakao removes external payment method amid Google Play standoff
Google gets its way after meeting with internet company and Korea Communications Commission
Applications11 Jul 2022 | 3
UK, South Korea strike data-sharing pact
Time to bone up on Hancom Office, the productivity suite that's big in Korea – and nowhere else
Software06 Jul 2022 | 22
Liftoff at last for South Korean space program
Satellite-deploying rocket finally launches – after a few setbacks
Science22 Jun 2022 | 4
South Korea's space ambitions stuck on the launchpad
Second Nuri rocket stalls with problem similar to those that caused first mission to mostly fail
Science16 Jun 2022 | 6
South Korean and US presidents gang up on North Korea's cyber-offensives
Less than two weeks into his new gig, Yoon cozies up to Biden as China and DPRK loom
Security23 May 2022 | 3
Biden tours Samsung fab, talks chip cooperation with South Korea
Factory is a model for one the company has planned in Texas
Systems20 May 2022 | 8
South Korea's homegrown web giant Naver plans global growth push
Aims to reach a billion users with expanded cloud, and lots of cartoon content
Software14 Apr 2022 | 2
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong in trouble again – this time over financial filings
Fair Trade Commission concerned false paperwork took years to decipher
Legal12 Apr 2022 | 2
Google snubs South Korea's app store payments law
US giant's ban on in-app links to non-Play-Store payment options not in the spirit of SK law
Applications06 Apr 2022 | 16
Tomorrow Water thinks we should colocate datacenters and sewage plants
If it can cut energy requirements for both, this idea might not stink after all
On-Prem02 Apr 2022 | 92
Alibaba Cloud opens first South Korean datacenter
Better late than never – all its global and Chinese hyperscale rivals are already there
Off-Prem31 Mar 2022 |
Google opens Play Store to third party payment systems – starting with Spotify
Did lessons learned from South Korea make it all less scary?
Personal Tech25 Mar 2022 | 8
US exempts South Korean smartphones from Russia export bans
Whitegoods and cars also allowed to cross the border
Personal Tech03 Mar 2022 | 36
IBM merges 13 APAC nations into one regional organization
And calls it 'ASEANZK' (gesundheit) to reflect inclusion of Australia, New Zealand, Korea and all of ASEAN
On-Prem17 Feb 2022 | 1
Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins
At last, a worm that improves security
Security28 Jan 2022 | 36
Korea gives a $7.5bn nod to the metaverse and AI projects
Move over K-pop, the K-metaverse is coming
AI + ML26 Jan 2022 | 1
Cloudflare signals big Asian push, starting in Singapore
Seeks salespeople focused on expansion – and casinos – and adds a trio of senior managers
Networks24 Jan 2022 | 1
Korean semiconductor outfit Magnachip no longer merging with Chinese private equity Wise Road Capital
Wanna play on a US stock exchange? You'll need US regulators on side
On-Prem15 Dec 2021 |
South Korea sets site reliability engineering standards for Big Tech
Wants Google, Meta, Netflix and locals to work harder on uptime, warn locals of outages in Korean
Off-Prem08 Dec 2021 | 5
Korea gives Google and Apple another kick for requiring their own payment systems
All your apps – or a percentage of revenue – are belong to us
Software18 Nov 2021 | 7
Netflix shows South Korea a rerun of 'We Won't Pay Your Telcos For Bandwidth'
Season Two looks like it'll be a courtroom drama
Networks08 Nov 2021 | 39
South Korean telco goes down, blames DDoS attack, later admits its BGP broke
Good thing the government didn't crank up the national alert system or anything ... Oh no, it did
Networks26 Oct 2021 | 7
After more than a decade of development, South Korea has a near miss with Nuri rocket test
Nation playing catch-up following release from 1979 ban
Science21 Oct 2021 | 10
Google won't fight South Korea's new app store payment laws requiring third-party payments
But will 'examine options that allow us to maintain the service fees that keep Android free'
Legal06 Oct 2021 | 11
Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'
You better cough up for all this bandwidth, says broadband biz
Networks01 Oct 2021 | 153
Korea's NAVER Cloud outlines global ambitions, aim to become Asia's third-biggest provider
Alibaba is number two in much of the region, but is a bit on the nose right now
Off-Prem17 Sep 2021 |
South Korea surfs silicon shortage to record tech exports
42.4 per cent increase in chip sales, and smartphone shipments did even better
On-Prem17 Sep 2021 |
South Korea fines Google ₩207 billion for forking up attempts at creating Android variants
LG and Samsung probably aren't smiling – and not only because that sum translates to a tolerable US$177M
Software14 Sep 2021 | 6
ASEAN bloc agrees to work on digital trade pact that might get real by 2025
South Korea wants to play, too, and has just the model it thinks will do the trick
Off-Prem14 Sep 2021 | 1
South Korea to sign up for Digital Economic Partnership Agreement
NZ, Singapore, and Chile are other - and smaller - current signatories to pact that's hoped to set regional agendas, so this is a fillip
Off-Prem13 Sep 2021 | 1
Epic Games asks for Apple's help to put South Korea's alternative app payments law to work
Promises to offer App Store as an option, but needs its developer account to be reinstated to do that
Personal Tech10 Sep 2021 | 18
They've only gone and done it – South Korea forces Apple, Google to allow alternative app store payment systems
Big Tech warns favoring SK players won't go down well – yet South Korea loves its software
Applications01 Sep 2021 | 11
South Korea says 2022 moonshot on track, will test interplanetary internet and search for water
Orbiter nearly built ahead of ride with SpaceX in August '22. But first, a home-grown rocket launch in a month or so
Science31 Aug 2021 | 3
South Korea may ban Apple, Google from forcing store payment systems on app devs
Korean firms also keen to be your Seoul provider, says expert
Applications26 Aug 2021 | 8
Video game curfew for South Korean teens to be more permissive by end of 2021
Decade-old policy starting to look silly amid myriad of online late-night vices available to them
Personal Tech26 Aug 2021 | 4
Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog
Hands Zuck its second-largest fine ever, also makes Netflix pay up and warns Google to be more obvious about privacy
Legal26 Aug 2021 | 22
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong awarded Get Out Of Jail Free card
South Korea needs Samsung monopolising effectively as it pursues industry development plans
Legal10 Aug 2021 | 12
South Korea reports export boom in silicon, wireless comms, and instant noodles
Makes sense really
Offbeat26 Jul 2021 | 2
South Korea tables law to remove app stores' in-app purchase monopolies
Perhaps coincidentally, Google extended deadline of enforced Play-to-Pay on the very same day
Legal21 Jul 2021 | 11
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