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…
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Classting Learning for Better Learning Experience for Students
Classting, an educational technology company, announced the release of its learning management service, ‘Classting Learning.’ Classting Learning is a service that hits two birds with…
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…
Salted Venture Officially Launches IOFIT Smart Golf Shoes
Salted Venture announced the release of IOFIT, which will be available to the public on July 3rd. IOFIT is a solution that combines a coaching app and smart wearable shoes using pressure…
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…
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…
What Lies Ahead 4 Years From Now (4YFN), MWC Shanghai 2017
GSMA’s sixth annual event, Mobile World Congress Shanghai, will be held in Shanghai from June 28th to July 1st. There will be 650+ exhibitors, and 65,000+ attendees to showcase and…
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…
Allb Represents South Korea in Hardware Cup 2017 International Finals
On April 19th, twelve early-stage hardware startups from across the globe came to Pittsburgh to compete for the $50,000 Starbot Grand Prize Investment at the AlphaLab Gear National Hardware…
JobPlanet Launches ‘Company Analysis’ For More Insights Into Companies
On the 18th, JobPlanet, a social media planet on information of companies, added a new functionality, “Company Analysis.” This new feature gives detailed analysis on company cultures…
Kakao to Accelerate Its AI Platform Business
Kakao is accelerating the development and commercialization of Artificial Intelligence(AI) platform, and is also increasing effort to support domestic AI research ecosystem. Kakao announced…
Naver Labs Acquires Epipolar, a 3D Technology Company
Naver Labs announced that it is acquiring Epipolar, a 3D technology company, in order to strengthen its 3D mapping technology used in AR/VR service and 3D content production. Established…
Order With KakaoTalk
On March 21st, Kakao announced a new feature called “Order with KakaoTalk” to existing KakaoTalk service; users can now order food from diverse franchise restaurants. This is the first…
Big Data for Better Credit Evaluation, FINC
A credit evaluation service based on individual’s data will be launched in March. On March 6th, Fintech Inc. introduced FINC, a credit evaluation service, at a press interview that…
Miso Launches a Moving-Out Cleaning Service
On February 27, Miso, a home-cleaning O2O service startup, officially announced the official launch of its moving-out cleaning service starting this March. Established in August 2015, Miso…
First Autonomous Driving Test on the Road in Korea by Naver Labs
Naver Labs is initiating its autonomous driving vehicle tests on the road. Naver Labs, which spun off from Naver as an independent corporate entity last month, has received temporary…
Panacea for Translation, ManTong
Soft Power recently launched ManTong, an application that interprets Korean into 10 different languages based on AI technology. The app utilizes Google Translate API, which applies neural…
Navigate Through Lunar New Year
Many of us have witnessed Lunar New Year over the weekend. While many people think that celebrating Lunar New Year is a Chinese tradition, it is actually honored by many countries in Asia…