▶주메뉴 바로가기
▶본문 바로가기
For Kwak Jin-young, founder and CEO of blockchain company Sigmachain, creating a globally successful service has always been his dream. He led the team that designed Cyworld, which was popular in South Korea before the era of Facebook and Kakao Talk. “Cyworld and Kakao all failed to become a glob...
South Korea’s state arms procurement agency will push to build a blockchain-based platform to enhance transparency and efficiency in conducting defense acquisition projects, officials said on April 10. A blockchain refers to a growing list of digital data organized in blocks and managed by mul...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has recently ratcheted up calls for deregulation of the blockchain industry, as the financial regulator has adopted a conservative attitude toward the easing process due to procedural reasons. While the ruling Democratic Party has focused on comprehensive deregulati...
The second Deconomy blockchain conference will be held on April 4-5 in Seoul under the themes of “Blockchain and Finance,” and “Blockchain and Technology.” At the first event last year, high-profile blockchain figures and experts, including David Chaum, Joseph Poon, Ian Grigg, Vitalik Buterin,...
Blockchain and cryptocurrency markets have been on a downslide over the past year in line with the ever-falling digital currency values. Despite the current difficulties facing the markets, the co-founders of Taxas-based public distributed ledger company Hedera Hashgraph said that they remain posi...
[THE INVESTOR] The Korean government on Jan. 31 said it will maintain a strict ban on initial coin offerings, saying that a three-month investigation proved they are very risky. ICOs emerged as new funding methods for startups, becoming popular in late 2017 and 2018 along with the hype of cryptoc...
[THE INVESTOR] Orbs, an Israel-headquartered blockchain company, is bringing its enterprise-focused technologies to Korea as it seeks to expand the usage by companies, the startup said on Jan. 29 as it announced a partnership with Yozma Group Korea. “Our goal is to provide end-to-end solutions f...
[THE INVESTOR] Despite the nose-diving value of digital currencies in the past several months, crypto and blockchain industries still have growth potential and are worth paying attention to, according to experts at Chain Plus, a two-day conference being held in Seoul. “The blockchain and crypto ...
[THE INVESTOR] Money20/20, the world’s largest fintech and payment conference, said on Jan. 21 that it has launched Token Day as part of its Asian edition. During the event, taking place on March 19-21 in Singapore, industry experts including IBM CTO Stanley Yong and Ripple CTO David Schwartz, w...
[THE INVESTOR] BTC Korea, operator of Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb, is paring down its workforce as the market is showing no signs of an upturn, according to industry sources on Jan. 17. Once the largest crypto exchanges in the country, Bithumb has retrenched 30 employees, ac...
CJ Olive Young's Q1 sales jump on strong overseas trade
Seoul sees further jump in cost of dining out
Metanation, Memetoon partner up for webtoon, short-form services
Woori partners with India’s Tata Motors in auto finance push
[KH Explains] Hyundai-backed Motional’s struggles deepen as Tesla eyes August robotaxi debut
Kepco to raise electricity prices as total debt soars past W200tr