South Korea

White House ban on US chip cash going into China ruffles South Koreans

Pretty awkward for Samsung, SK Hynix and their Middle Kingdom fabs

Systems02 Mar 2023 | 3

Europe to consult on making Big Tech pay for the networks it floods

Continental bloc also greases the skids to usher in the gigabit age in two or three years

Networks24 Feb 2023 | 32

US to impose caps on Korean chip shops working in China

Multilateral trade actions also aim to stop China and Russia using biotech to create 'super soldiers'. Really!

Systems24 Feb 2023 | 4

Smile! South Korea's moon orbiter sends back first snaps of Earth

Danuri probe is ready to spend its planned year testing space internet, spotting radiation and/or water

Science14 Feb 2023 | 5

India's IT minister denies targeting Chinese apps for bans

Asia In Brief PLUS: Toshiba acknowledges buyout bid; BTS member Jungkook's hat lands online seller in strife; and more

Software13 Feb 2023 |

South Korea to treat crypto tokens and virtual assets as if they were securities

‘Food does not change no matter what bowl it is served in’ says regulator

Legal07 Feb 2023 | 5

South Korea makes crypto crackdown a national justice priority

It's listed alongside issues like tackling gang violence, drugs, and sex crimes

Cyber-crime31 Jan 2023 | 2

China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis

Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more

On-Prem30 Jan 2023 | 6

India floats plan to make big tech pay for news, walks back government censorship

Asia In Brief PLUS: Taiwan’s new supercomputer; China-linked cybercrims strike; Australian content clampdown; and more

Security23 Jan 2023 | 2

Microsoft fumbles zero trust upgrade for some Asian customers

Enhanced access privileges for partners choke on double-byte characters, contribute to global delays

Security13 Jan 2023 | 4

South Korea to offer tax breaks to hedge semiconductor woes

Large chip manufacturers may be offered tax credits of up to 15% to invest in the country

Systems03 Jan 2023 |

North Korea using freelance techies to fund missiles and nukes

You won't see 'Agent of vile murderous autocracy' on their CVs. Or their faces on vid chats

Security09 Dec 2022 | 7

North Korea hits new low by using Seoul Halloween tragedy to exploit Internet Explorer zero-day

Evil, pure and simple

Cyber-crime08 Dec 2022 | 13

It’s 2022 and a Korean web giant only now decided to write a DR plan

Kakao discovers the importance of resilience after fire wiped out its services

Off-Prem08 Dec 2022 | 5

Samsung, Korean IT giant Naver to build AI hyperscale chip

Meanwhile, Samsung appoints its first female president

AI + ML06 Dec 2022 |

Apple to end policy that charged South Korean devs higher App Store commissions

Korea's antitrust org to develop a platform to respond to Big Tech’s sneaky ways

Software23 Nov 2022 | 1

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