On December 27th, 2017, GOODGUN launched “Will Bank,” a mobile application that can help make your resolutions come true. GOODGUN first proposed the app idea at K-Global Starthon and…
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BonAngels Invests in Babysitting Platform Mom-Sitter
Early-stage venture capital, BonAngels, recently announced its investment (amount undisclosed) in Mom-Sitter, a shared economy platform that connects parents with caregivers who can babysit…
Naver Invests $6.62M in Social Creator Platform OGQ
Social creator platform OGQ recently received strategic investment from Naver, Korea’s leading online search portal. OGQ’s Backgrounds HD is a smartphone app providing curated images…
EightySix Launches ‘Inside Your Med (약속),’ App That Compares and Searches Drugs and…
With the expansion of domestic health insurance coverage and increasing demand for dietary supplements, there is an overload of information about ‘health foods.’ Yet, consumers face a…
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…
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…
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…
Handcrafted Goods Marketplace Idus Hits 1 Million Total Transactions
BackPackr Inc (CEO: DongHwan Kim) announced on May 22nd that its handcrafted product marketplace app, Idus, exceeded 1 Million cumulative transactions, with total sales of 27 Million USD…
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…
Maptales: New Way to Remember Your Vacation
On April 14th, Thumb Initial, a mobile application development company, announced the launch of ‘Maptales,’ an app that creates travel roadmap with selected photos from vacations. With…
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…
ChatGrid, A Unified Messenger Solution
On the 30th, ChatGrid (CEOs Mansu Kim and Herman Yang) released a unified messenger solution for businesses using chatbots in Korea. The ChatGrid platform is a corporate AI-based…
Home Cleaning Service ‘Miso’ Surpasses $897K in Monthly Turnover
On March 28th, South Korea’s house cleaning, move-in, move-out cleaning service startup Miso announced that it has surpassed $897K in monthly turnover, 19 months after its…
An Application for Pets and their Owners
WeMaking Inc. released a mobile application targeted for pet owners, “Our Youngest Child” on the 20th of March. Our Youngest Child aims to provide services through which family members…
Startup’s Foray into bike-sharing culture near Han River
The only way to ride a bike in Han-River Park was to go to a bike-rental shop iunless people brought their own. Now anyone can ride bikes conveniently through Lycle. Lycle, a bike…
Remember Launched A New Service ‘Business Messenger’
CEO Jae-ho Choi of Drama & Company announced that the company’s business card app Remember is launching a new service called Business Messenger on March 8th. Business Messenger…
DAILYHOTEL Becomes Market Leader with Record 2016 Sales
DAILYHOTEL, a leading hotel booking mobile app, announced that its 2016 hotel sales exceeded KRW 100 billion. This figure represents all bookings for luxury, boutique and business hotels on…