Startup news from South Korea, collected across January 2020 and covering fields including, for instance, blockchain, the on-demand space, broad fintech-related news and games development.
Korea’s startup news can also be read online in monthly startup news collections and quarterly news round-ups.
- South Korea: PUBLISH blockchain-based media solutions company accepted for Seoul Blockchain Support Center incubation program
- South Korea: Presidential Committee considers allowing financial institutions to offer cryptocurrency products such as derivatives
- South Korea: An intro to 20 Korean tech startups exhibiting at CES 2020
- South Korea’s Hyundai to make 4-passenger flying taxis for Uber, with Toyota, Volvo and Daimler backing similar startup activities
- South Korea: Daegu City signs agreement with Israel’s Mobileye to test and eventually deploy robotaxi service
- South Korea: Lunit medtech startup gains $26M with AI solutions for precision diagnostics and therapeutics, focusing on cancer
- An in-depth look at Samsung’s Neon project, humanoid AI-driven video chatbots, recently unveiled at CES 2020
- South Korea: Npixel games developer secures $25.9M series A funding to help launch its first game, Gran Saga, playable across mobile, PC and console
- South Korea: Farm8 partnered by Seoul Metro to rent idle spaces to grow vegetables, with on-sale to retailers and restaurants
- An interview-based overview of the current state of legal innovation in South Korea
- South Korea: A brief intro to Seoul Robotics’ lidar solutions for autonomous vehicles
- South Korea: An intro to Sleek Corporation, fitness-focused startup offering offline group training, online coaching and community
- South Korea: SuperTree blockchain game developer raises $2.5M Series A with sights set on development of PlayDapp blockchain game service platform
- South Korea: Seoul Metropolitan Gov’t partners Startup Genome to accelerate the growth of Seoul’s startup ecosystem
- Korean startups set for US showcase in San Francisco and Palo Alto via 2020 edition of TIPSX beSUCCESS Korean Startup Showcase Silicon Valley, February 4th and 5th
- South Korea: An overview of Mobiltech, providing smart spatial information solutions for autonomous driving via 3D environmental scanning
- Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank reportedly to buy LOLC Cambodian microfinance arm, PRASAC Microfinance Institution, for $603.4M
- Malaysia: TM ONE, arm of Telekom Malaysia, signs MoC with South Korea’s FNS Value Co around Blockchain Secure Authentication products across ASEAN
- Singapore’s iSTOX gains $5M from Korea’s Hanwha Asset Mgmt with regulated platform for issuance, settlement, custody and secondary trading of digitised securities
- Korea Start-up Centre to open in Singapore in May, allowing South Korean firms to plug into the city state’s start-up ecosystem
