South Korea

Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs

Asia in Brief PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more!

Public Sector01 Dec 2025 | 13

Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later

Talk about buyer’s remorse

Cyber-crime28 Nov 2025 | 6

Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting

Asia In Brief PLUS: Active noise cancellation for entire rooms; More trouble for Korea Telecom; The Wiggles apologize for bad batteries; and more

Security17 Nov 2025 | 23

North Korean spies turn Google's Find Hub into remote-wipe weapon

KONNI espionage crew covertly abused Google’s Find My Device feature to remotely factory-reset Android phones

Cyber-crime11 Nov 2025 | 8

China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones

South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping

Security04 Nov 2025 | 22

Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline

Asia In Brief PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more!

Off-Prem28 Sep 2025 | 5

Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea

Analysis Nice plans for US manufacturing you had there, shame if something was to happen to them

On-Prem16 Sep 2025 | 196

Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT

Kimsuky gang proves that with the right wording, you can turn generative AI into a counterfeit factory

AI + ML15 Sep 2025 | 9

Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해

Early 2000s joke now serious problem for coffee shops in the Land of the Morning Calm

Offbeat13 Aug 2025 | 38

Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion

Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct'

Cyber-crime13 Aug 2025 | 18

How AI chip upstart FuriosaAI won over LG with its power-sipping design

Testing shows RNGD chips up to 2.25x higher performance per watt than.... five-year-old Nvidia silicon

AI + ML22 Jul 2025 | 3

Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1

World War Fee Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan

Public Sector08 Jul 2025 | 62

India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease

Asia in brief PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more!

Public Sector05 May 2025 | 7

South Korea to build mini-fabs as part of $25B plan to prop up tariff-targeted industries

Fancy a doctorate in semiconductor design? The land of K-Pop wants you to help future-proof its industry

Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 2

South Korea reports tech exports surged ahead of Trump tariffs

Meanwhile in China, factories that work for Apple and HP are reportedly closing some production lines

Public Sector15 Apr 2025 |

SK hynix has probably already sold most of the HBM DRAM it will make next year

As this year’s buyers rush to beat Trump’s tariffs

On-Prem28 Mar 2025 | 6

India's top telco plans cloud PCs for its 475 million subscribers

Asia In Brief PLUS: China bans AI leaders from visiting USA; Acer data leak suspect cuffed; and more

Virtualization03 Mar 2025 | 5

DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concerns

Nation also orders thousands of GPUs to advance local AI smarts

Public Sector18 Feb 2025 | 8

Second Jeju Air 737-800 experiences mechanical issues following deadly crash

Boeing ends abysmal year on an even lower note

Offbeat31 Dec 2024 | 113

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 | 24

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

Security18 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 | 44

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