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In a dark basement club in Seoul on Friday, scores of 20-somethings got themselves into the spirit, cracking up with laughter and hollering at one another. Soon, people filling up the basement broke up into eight teams. They were given 15 minutes to come up with business ideas. Each team took turn...
Global carmakers are paying closer attention to lidar-based sensing technology for better detection of objects on the road. Lidar, which involves sending out light pulses and detecting objects by analyzing the light reflected off targets, will likely be applied to fully autonomous vehicles in the ...
When Pepper, the semi-humanoid robot created by Japan’s telecom company SoftBank, was first introduced to the world in the summer of 2014, it was called revolutionary. The robots were quickly snapped up. However, after the initial three-year contract expired, only 15 percent of the users were wil...
South Korean mobility platform Tada on Jan. 9 announced that foreigners with overseas phone numbers and credit cards can now use the app. Tada, operated by VCNC, said its recent updates allow foreigners to download and register with non-Korean phone numbers and credit cards. It also has improved ...
For decades, free door-to-door food delivery service has been a common option for all kinds of South Korean restaurants. Not just pizzas, fried chicken and Chinese food, but also soups and meat dishes are just a phone call away – for delivery to homes, offices and even parks and other public spac...
SuperBin, a clean tech startup in South Korea, said Jan. 7 it is raising Series B funding. The five-year old company is planning to raise 20 billion won ($17 million) in the latest funding round. The two existing investors -- Consumer electronics company Humax and TBT, a venture capital backed by...
Investment in startups increased 22 percent on-year in the first 10 months of the year, driven by hopes of lucrative returns and policy backup, data showed Dec. 23. A total of 3.82 trillion won ($3.29 billion) was invested in promising startups in the January-October period, compared with 2.89 ...
Launched in January 2018, Romania-based startup TPS Engage is dedicated to a technology that allows outdoor digital signage to show the right advertisements at the right time to the right target group. The company’s capability to exercise ad-tech, dubbed digital-out-of-home, led to its fast expan...
In the next-generation car, a driver can stay focused without interruption even if each passenger plays music or a movie of his or her taste without earbuds and partitions between the front and rear seats, because there will be a noiseless ambience at the driver's seat. The promising world of “in...
CJ ENM’s home shopping division announced on Dec. 18 that it has signed a partnership deal with government-led startup coworking and support program operator Seoul Startup Hub. As their first project together, they agreed to start operating a program “Challenge! Startup” to support local startu...
Seoul-based early-stage technology investor FuturePlay announced on Dec. 17 that the combined value of its portfolio startups exceeded the 1 trillion won ($858.2 million) milestone. The value of the 100 portfolio startups, which received a combined 18.1 billion won in investment from FuturePlay, s...
When North Koreans defect to and resettle in South Korea -- in what is often an arduous journey that could take years with looming threats of repatriation -- they often find themselves looked down upon in what they thought would be their land of promise. Getting over the threats, the prejudice and...
South Korean startup Travelous said Dec. 13 that it plans to launch an open beta version of its website Dec. 16, to connect Korean travelers through the app at certain overseas tourist spots. At launch time the online service, called Traveli, will be available in Bangkok and the Vietnamese city Da...
After its entry into the South Korean startup sector in 2016, coworking space giant WeWork changed the startup scene dramatically -- more local startups began to collaborate actively with each other and to get chance to go abroad thanks to its global network. Through WeWork Labs, a global startup ...
Five years since being founded, Seoul-based health care startup Vuno is now betting big on an initial public offering. The loss-making company is pinning its hopes on a turnaround, as it has managed to launch products designed to streamline the workflow of radiologists and expects a sharp hike in ...
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