Startup news, Korea
Korea’s tech, startup and funding news, as covered in the online press across December 2019.
Our Korean tech summaries focus mainly on South Korea’s early-stage startup space – fintech, blockchain, digital payments and similar.
- South Korea: Bluevisor takes Oracle Innovation Challenge win with AI-based asset management solution
- South Korea: An intro to Drama & Company’s Remember, business card app aiming to make its mobile platform an Asian version of LinkedIn
- South Korea: An intro to Blind, social networking app for workers to share information about companies and working conditions anonymously
- An overview of why South Korea may be primed for a fintech boom
- South Korea: An overview of the recent K-Startup ComeUp2019 event held in Seoul which provided startups with networking and pitching opportunities
- South Korea: An intro to Odd Pilot, platform for furniture brands to create AR for online shopping, via tools to create 3D models and upload as 3D images
- South Korea: A look at the 7 startup pitches made at the recent 4th Season of BCapitalist Program run by Blockchain Investment Academy
- South Korea: A look at the 9 startups that pitched at last month’s Korea Creative Content Agency’s LAUNCHPAD LA 2019 event in Los Angeles
- South Korea to launch open banking system this month, following 10-bank trial project
- South Korea: Techstars Korea accelerator opens application process for first in-country program, primarily looking at 3 categories of tech
- An overview of the achievements, milestones and success stories created by WeWork Labs in South Korea in 2019
- South Korea: Konstellation blockchain solutions provider in finance unveils Konstellation Venture Studio aiming to bootstrap economy around its DARC token
- An overview of how South Korea has proven over the last few years that it can enter the top tier of worldwide startup hubs
- South Korea: Viva Republica, PayPal-backed startup and creator of financial services platform Toss, secures preliminary approval for digital bank for new Toss Bank
- South Korea’s Terra blockchain payment network expands to Singapore, opening SEA hub with aim of securing licensing from monetary authority
- South Korea: A look at the growth of app-and-device tech startups, working in education, music, fitness and more
- A look at how data journalism’s empirical focus is helping restore faith in media in South Korea
- South Korea: ATU Partners private equity firm launches $17M growth fund, the regions first to focus purely on esports-related firms
- North Korea’s Lazarus hacking group found to have expanded with development and use of new Trojan attack focused on Linux systems, named Dacls
- Crypto expert and member of Ethereum project arrested for presenting in North Korea around using cryptocurrency and blockchain to avoid sanctions
- Indonesia’s MDI Ventures and South Korea’s KB Investment partner for US$30M joint fund to focus on startup investments in SE Asia
- Centauri Fund growth-stage VC fund launches with backing from Telkom Indonesia and South Korea’s KB Financial Group, aiming for $150M corpus
- Indonesia’s Travelio, fast-changing property-technology startup, gains backing from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation
Other subject-specific news from December 2019:
Blockchain in Asia • Crypto news, Asia • AI news • Fintech in Asia
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