South Korea

‘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 | 183

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 | 12

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

Korea hopes US will extend sanction exemptions for SK hynix and Samsung

Stuck in the middle or not, supply chains – and the Korean economy – must carry on

Legal10 May 2023 | 1

China's Mars rover finds signs of 'modern' water

Asia In Brief AWS adds Korean support; Singtel creates InfraCo; Philippines SIM registration drive extended

Science01 May 2023 | 4

South Korea prosecutes Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin

Alleges large scale fraud, embezzling, and maybe even bribery, before crypto collapse

Legal26 Apr 2023 | 5

Hyundai to develop a Moon rover (to launch, not because the roads are so bad down here)

Japan's Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, are already pondering what it takes to make a MoonMobile

Science21 Apr 2023 | 11

China reportedly let AI control a satellite, which then observed rivals India and Japan

Asia in Brief Plus: Warren Buffett’s TSMC worries; CHIPS Act bits China; Japan’s quantum investment; and more

AI + ML16 Apr 2023 | 2

South Korea fines Google $32M for using market power to stymie rival app store

Forced developers to sign exclusivity agreements in return for promises of going global

Legal11 Apr 2023 | 5

Samsung takes $3.1B gamble on OLED displays for tablets and notebooks

That must be why PC sales are down – the blacks just aren't inky enough

Systems04 Apr 2023 | 18

Korea passes tax break-driven 'Chips Act' as protectionism fears mount

Plus: Complains criteria for foreign companies to access US funding too strict. It's not a great sign, is it?

Systems30 Mar 2023 | 3

Where in the world is Terraform Labs villain Do Kwon? Montenegro, actually

Probably in a jail cell, waiting to be extradited stateside

Legal24 Mar 2023 | 12

South Korea fines McDonald's for data leak from raw SMB share

British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec

Security23 Mar 2023 | 2

US details CHIPS Act rules that give China and South Korea some comfort

Allows a little expansion of output from existing Middle Kingdom facilities

Legal22 Mar 2023 |

Samsung to splurge $230B on five new chip plants for South Korea

Will build out domestic industry while it builds out US domestic industry...

Systems15 Mar 2023 | 1

South Korea warns US: The CHIPS Act leaves a sour taste

Minister wants to protect Samsung, SK hynix, from having to give up the crown jewels to score subsidies

Legal09 Mar 2023 | 18

South Korea moves to resolve WWII dispute with Japan that troubles tech supply chains

Nations edge closer to an acceptable settlement on reparations for forced labor

Legal07 Mar 2023 | 24

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