Laundry O2O service, WASHSWAT (Co-CEOs: Sangwook Ye, Jina Namgung), recently secured $2.8M in investment from global VCs. The investment was led by Russian-based VC Addventure along with...
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KRICT discovers a stronger self-healing elastomer
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) has recently discovered a remarkably durable and room-temperature self-healable elastomer. Elastomer is a natural or synthetic...
LINE expands its FinTech business through LINE Financial Corporation
Following its success with LINE Pay, a mobile payment service on LINE messaging app, the LINE Corporation (“LINE”) intends to expand its financial services offerings to areas such as...
BCA Korea Secures $4.2M in Investment
BCA Korea (BCA) recently raised $4.2M in investment from Hyundai Investment Partners. The two companies seek to strengthen the distribution and marketing of foreign cosmetic brands in...
Interview: Mental Health Counseling on Your Phone
Kim Dong Hyun had no doubt about starting his own business in his twenties. He sought to create his own service and deliver value to society. Kim’s business idea was to create a...
MISO Reaches 280,000 Bookings, Cumulating KRW 20 billion in Total Transactions
Miso, Inc., a O2O home cleaning startup, released infographics highlighting its 2-year milestone. According to the infographics, since its launch in August 2015, Miso completed 280,000...
Hwahae Places First in the Korean Beauty App Category
Hwahae, a cosmetics analysis and review app, overwhelmingly dominated the beauty category for the Korean Android market, according to recent findings by Wise App and App Ape, providers of...
THATZIT, No More Papers for Festival Stamp Tours
THATZIT (CEO: SungHa Park) announced the release of the Festival Stamp Tour App. It is common for festivals in Korea to hold “stamp tour events”, where people visit multiple booths...
11 Finalists Selected for BIGdata+STARTup
On July 21st, CNT Tech (CEO: Hwasung Jeon) announced its selection of 11 companies for its BIGdata+STARTup, a competition for early start-ups based on data-utilization. The competition...
Aftergrowth Launches Its Beta Version of Disco, A Real Estate Information Provider
Aftergrowth has released its beta version of Disco, a service that provides detailed real estate information and transaction data. The beta version, supported both on the web and mobile...
Share and Use Public Data With DataPlanet
Through DataPlanet, one can easily access a variety of data owned by individuals and institutions to produce interactive charts. As a corollary of South Korea’s new paradigm drive...
Start-Up Accelerator Primer Accepting Applicants for Its 12th Enternship
On July 11th, start-up accelerator Primer (CEO Do-Kyun Kwon) will begin accepting applications for its 12th Enternship, an internship for an entrepreneurial or start-up company. Primer is...
KakaoPay Launches Mobile Authentication Service, ‘KakaoPay Authentication’
On June 27th, KakaoPay (CEO: Youngjoon Ryu) launched ‘KakaoPay Authentication’, a mobile messenger-based digital signature and authentication service. ‘KakaoPay Authentication’...
ZIGZAG, Female Fashion Compilation Service, Reaches 7 Million Downloads
On June 13th, ZIGZAG’s parent company Croquis Inc. (CEO: Jung-hoon Seo) announced that it had reached 7 million cases of app downloads. Having recorded 3 million downloads within one year...
Neofect Donates RAPAEL Smart Glove to Welfare Institute for Disabled in Busan
On June 2nd, Neofect, a smart rehabilitation solution startup, announced that it had donated ‘RAPAEL Smart Glove,’ one of its rehabilitation training medical device for stroke patients...
Young Innovators Talk at Jeju National University!
The Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPI) will be hosting its fourth Young Innovators Talk series on June 2nd at Jeju National University’s Ara Campus. This event will...
Neofect releases RAPAEL Smart Board, a Device to Assist Upper Extremity Rehabilitation for Stroke...
Neofect, a smart rehabilitation solution startup, announced on May 30th that it has released RAPAEL Smart Board, an upper extremity rehabilitation training medical device for stroke...
Traveling to Japan? Use KakaoTaxi to Get Around
Users can now call taxis in Japan using the KakaoTaxi mobile app. Kakao (Kakao Corp. 카카오) announced that it has partnered with JapanTaxi, Japan’s largest mobile taxi service, to...
Another Step by Tutoring to Become a Global Language Education Company
On May 16th, Tutoring, a mobile on-demand education platform, successfully attracted 715 thousand USD worth of strategic investment from Big Basin Capital, a venture capital firm based in...
Imported craft beer delivery system Veluga launched
Recently, the industry for imported craft beer is gaining much attention from consumers in Korea. Unlike in the past when a few Korean large companies controlled the industry through...