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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 | 7
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
South Korean uni installs lavatory that pays out when you spend a penny
Eco-friendly convenience repays deposits using world's first craptocurrency
Bootnotes12 Jul 2021 | 22
Seoul adopts AI for suicide prevention on Han Bridge: Uni boffins train machine learning model on rescue teams' data
System trains itself to spot suicidal behavior and alert a controller
AI + ML01 Jul 2021 | 7
In South Korea the new normal future of work is ... a 52-hour work week! (Down from 68)
New rules kick in for small businesses on July 1 and, despite three years’ warning, the government still sees a need for extra support
Legal24 Jun 2021 | 18
South Korea’s nuclear research agency breached by North Korea-affiliated cyberattackers, says malware analyst group
Think tank says inconsistencies in story were not a cover-up — just a mistake from “working-level staff”
Security21 Jun 2021 | 16
South Korea bans 1700 tech products for using forged test reports
Huawei, Cisco, and Samsung caught out as US-based testing labs allegedly sent work to China
Legal18 Jun 2021 | 12
South Korea has a huge problem with digital sex crimes against women says Human Rights Watch
Big tech and local authorities are both far from helpful when victims try to delete unauthorised images or prosecute creeps
Security17 Jun 2021 | 9
South Korea’s data watchdog barks warnings at Microsoft and five local firms
Fines, fines, everywhere there's fines
Security10 Jun 2021 | 2
South Korean regulator to probe in-app payments, creates new 'team' to look into digital ads
The usual suspects are accused of anti-competitive behaviour, naughtiness with data
Legal07 Jun 2021 |
South Korea's first fully indigenous rocket now on launch pad, ready for tests
Plans test launch this year, satellite-lifting in 2022 and moonshot not long after
Science02 Jun 2021 | 12
South Korea rounds up chipmakers and hyperscalers to build AI and server processors
Data center companies and chipmakers have signed an agreement as the government seeks to deglobalize their supply chain
On-Prem02 Jun 2021 | 4
South Korea to build an exascale supercomputer running local CPUs by 2030
Hopes to start selling ‘em too, because China and Japan are heading the same direction and aren’t good at sharing
HPC28 May 2021 | 2
South Korea plans large scale quantum cryptography adoption, thanks in part to tech partnership with USA
Also steps into future by allowing plug to be pulled on 2G networks
Security25 May 2021 | 4
South Korea creates ‘metaverse alliance’ to build an open national VR platform
Virtual world ethics and industry development also on the agenda
Software18 May 2021 | 3
South Korea creates $451bn semiconductor stimulus package
Samsung and SK Hynix singled out as nation tries to become a titan
On-Prem14 May 2021 | 6
South Korea orders urgent review of energy infrastructure cybersecurity
No prizes for guessing why, as Colonial Pipeline outage stretches patience and looks like lasting a week
Security12 May 2021 | 11
Korean app-maker Scatter Lab fined for using private data to create homophobic and lewd chatbot
Users weren't warned conversations on chat apps were being used to build a bot. And parents weren't told their young kids had signed up
AI + ML29 Apr 2021 | 18
South Korean regulator recommends Apple be prosecuted for hampering fair trade probe
Alleges staff took down the internet when investigators visited, even got a little physical
Legal31 Mar 2021 | 10
Google may slash Play developer fees in South Korea
Reportedly dangles same deal as Apple’s for smaller devs, in one of the few markets it doesn’t utterly dominate
Software16 Mar 2021 | 1
South Korea kills ActiveX-based government digital certificate service
Service was so unpopular, getting rid of it was an election policy
Security10 Dec 2020 | 10
Apple coughs $84m to settle South Korean market abuse case
Promises to support local businesses and stop forcing local carriers paying for ads and iThing fixes
Personal Tech25 Aug 2020 | 4
South Korea joins the ‘we’re going to be self-sufficient in more tech and then export bucketloads’ club
President chooses chip factory to expands program aimed at reducing dependence on Japan
Legal10 Jul 2020 | 14
What could possibly make a cranky crocodylomorph more terrifying? How about one that chases you on its hind legs?
Oh snap! Evidence of new bipedal alligator ancestor found in South Korea
Science11 Jun 2020 | 25
South Korea announces tech New Deal to stoke post-coronavirus economy
Robots! 5G! AI! Stimulus cash to float all the tech buzzwords
Science11 May 2020 | 1
Seoul cycle, rinse and repeat: South Korea kicks Japan off white list
Or why My Chemical Romance broke up
Legal12 Aug 2019 | 8
Who's for another trade war? Japan hits South Korea, Seoul survivor promises to retaliate
Movement of LEDs and chipmaking gubbins to be slowed
On-Prem02 Aug 2019 | 15
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