South Korea Technology & Innovation News

Korea Moves to Expand Convenience Store Medicines, Faces Pharmacist Pushback

Korea's Health Ministry plans to expand convenience store medicines from 11 to up to 20 items in the second half of 2024, but faces strong opposition ...

Yuhan Marks 100th Anniversary, Vows to Become Global Innovative Drugmaker

Yuhan Corporation marks its 100th anniversary, vowing to become a global innovative drugmaker. CEO Cho Wook-je highlights the "Great Yuhan, Global Yuh...

Discarded Human Fat Gets New Life as Skin Booster Ingredient

'Everyone's Startup' Data Breach Caused by Participating Firm, Not Outside Hacker

A data leak at Korea's "Modu's Startup" program exposing personal information of thousands was caused by a participating AI firm using abnormal API ca...

Korea AeroSpace Administration Opens Bidding for Second Space Center Site

Korea AeroSpace Administration opens bidding from July 22 to August 6 for a second space center site to support reusable launch vehicles and frequent ...

Korea to Expand Emergency Transport Pilot Nationwide After Zero ER Rejections

Korea's emergency patient transport pilot project recorded zero ER rejections over three months and cut transport times, prompting nationwide expansio...

KT Unveils 'Future Network Security' Vision for Quantum Computing Era

KT unveiled its "E2E Quantum Security" vision to protect entire communications networks against AI and quantum computing threats at the Korea ICT Soci...

Apple's Tim Cook Says Price Hikes Inevitable as Memory Costs Soar

Apple CEO Tim Cook says price increases are inevitable as memory chip prices surge amid the AI boom. The iPhone 18 Pro could reach $1,299, analysts sa...

"China Outpacing Us on AI": Why Musk Bought an Autonomous Coding Startup

Elon Musk's SpaceX acquired Cursor parent Anysphere for $60 billion, betting on developer-focused AI amid rising token costs and surging Chinese open-...

Naver Webtoon Joins AI Chat Race After Character Chat Success

Naver Webtoon is launching 'byUs,' an AI story-generating chatbot that lets users expand webtoon stories, focusing on copyright safety amid a growing ...

Kakao Mobility Races to Lead 'Robot Platform' Market With Physical AI

Kakao Mobility is accelerating physical AI commercialization with a software-based robot platform, expanding from hotels and parking lots to large-sca...

Autonomous Trucks Run 7,000 km Across U.S., Cutting Empty-Mile Rate

Mars Auto and LX Pantos expanded their U.S. transcontinental autonomous freight route to over 7,000 km round-trip, cutting the empty-mile rate to abou...

2030 Koreans Crave 'Simple Life' as Work, Relationships, Information Pile Up

An LG Uplus-Longblack survey of 2,169 Korean adults found 61.4% feel their lives are complicated, with 70.2% of those in their 20s citing work, relati...

"10-15% of Mild Cognitive Impairment Cases Progress to Dementia Yearly, Early Management Is Key"

Neurologist Yang Young-soon explains that 10-15% of mild cognitive impairment cases progress to dementia yearly, stressing early beta-amyloid manageme...

Stage 2-3 Stomach Cancer: Post-Surgery Recurrence Reshapes Chemotherapy Strategy

Stage 2-3 stomach cancer carries a 20-40% recurrence risk even after surgery. SNUH professors explain how perioperative immunotherapy is reshaping tre...

Medical AI Outperforms Six Doctors in Diagnosis, Stuns Medical Field

Medical AI "Mira" achieved 87.1% diagnostic accuracy, surpassing six doctors' 78.1%, while Google's AMIE matched physicians in patient management, acc...

Kakao Games Confirms LY Corp. as New Top Shareholder

Kakao Games' largest shareholder changed to LAAA Investment, an SPC funded by Japan's LY Corp., as Kakao's stake fell from 37.93% to 14.68% following ...

Day1Company, Operator of Fast Campus, Suffers Personal Data Breach

Day1Company, operator of online education platform Fast Campus, suffered a data breach affecting up to 1 million people, with some instructors' sensit...

Korea Pushes AI Safety Net With Tech Independence, Big Tech Cooperation

South Korea plans a 300 billion won AI safety project over eight years while expanding cooperation with OpenAI and Anthropic to build a national-level...