South Korea

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

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 | 9