South Korean technology news in November 2023 spanned items and developments including: Korea-Japan collaboration on quantum technologies; South Korean space and satellite launches in November; Pangyo Tech Valley startup developments; and more.
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CSET: Assessing South Korea’s AI Ecosystem
- South Korea: TelePIX space-tech firm partners Poland’s SatRev to supply satellite imagery data from proprietary satellite, focusing on greenhouse gases
- South Korea’s TelePIX inks MOU with Thrusters Unlimited, Mexican geo-info firm, building on Lat-Am and Caribbean-focus following partnership with Mexico’s Space Zero Gravity space-tech
- South Korea’s Naver Pay expands on-site payments across SE Asia, adding Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines to September addition of China and Japan
- South Korea: An overview of the forthcoming ComeUp 2023 Global Startup Festival, set for November 8-10 in Seoul
- MangoBoost, a Seoul-Seattle startup developing data processing unit chips for data centers, secured $55M Series A, aiming to boost efficiency in existing server equipment
“So what’s happening in data centers is that they run out of CPUs, so they have to buy more servers just to get the CPU. Then they can accelerate AI or other big data applications, but your CPUs become busy again, then they buy another server,” explains Kim. “So that’s how the number of servers is increasing and then the data center cost becomes too high.”
“Basically everybody’s nightmare is CPU now. So we are trying to reduce the CPU bandwidth so that Intel’s and AMD’s CPUs can focus on the more important things,” says Kim. “By taking all the important CPU software from CPU to DPU, the CPU becomes free.” In one configuration, MangoBoost’s DPU can reduce CPU usage by up to 95%, he says.
- South Korea: A look at Hyundai Motor’s Future Mobility School project, delivering education to ASEAN countries focused on student awareness of opportunities in mobility and associated tech
- South Korea: Seongnam City unveils ‘Pangyo Contents Street’ project for Pangyo Techno Valley, aiming to provide culture-and-content zones dedicated to play, festivals, and relaxation
- South Korea: Police break international crypto fraud ring, freezing $12M and arresting 49, in activities built on ‘1.62 million pieces of illegally acquired personal information’
- South Korea to launch its first locally-built surveillance satellite by month-end to better monitor North Korea, with SpaceX as carrier and sights on 4 more launches by 2025
- South Korea: Nara Space successfully launched and placed Observer-1A satellite in orbit via SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, completing 2-way communication with Antarctica ground station
“The microsatellite, 20 centimeters in width and 40cm in height, focuses on monitoring activities such as ship and car movements, as well as changes in forest areas.”
“The company said it aims to deploy Observer-1B, an identical satellite to Observer-1A, on a Falcon 9 in the first half of next year and envisions the mass production of microsatellites, with a goal to operate more than 100 units and provide real-time monitoring services for major cities worldwide by 2028.”
- South Korea’s Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation inks MOU with Uganda’s Hive Colab, aiming to boost startup exchanges and collaborations in both countries
- South Korea: An introductory look at Pangyo Techno Valley’s moves to establish itself as a global biotechnologies hub
- South Korea: Sapeon AI chip-maker unveils X330 NPU, targeting H1 2024 production and claiming X330 has ‘roughly twice the computational performance and 1.3 times better power efficiency’ than competitors
- South Korea’s Bering Lab legal-tech startup takes grand prize of 2023 Huawei Cloud Startup Ignite Competition with artificial intelligence-driven legal document translation
ASPI: Derisking authoritarian artificial intelligence
- South Korea: Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism plans to invest $766.5M over 5 years in ‘K-Content’, focusing on boosting global competitiveness of Korea’s online video industries
- South Korea: An intro to 4 firms based in Pangyo Tech Valley, working on semiconductors, artificial intelligence and broad nanotechnology-driven solutions
- South Korea: An intro to 10 of the country’s tech startup accelerators
- Samsung subsidiary, Harman, acquires highly-regarded Roon music streaming platform in strategic move into high-quality digital music sector
- North Korea claims successful delivery of military spy satellite into space, sparking concerns over future weapons capabilities
Crypto Country: North Korea’s Targeting of Cryptocurrency
- Vietnam and Republic of Korea ink 5 agreements on cooperation in artificial intelligence use in medical, healthcare, smart city, and automation technologies centered on Da Nang city
- Canada’s Telesat sets sights on Taiwan and South Korea with Lightspeed Constellation low Earth orbit satellite project
South Korea, Japan & hydrogen:
“…the two leaders talked about ways their countries can cooperate in the hydrogen sector, given South Korea’s wide use of hydrogen cars and Japan’s large number of hydrogen-related patents”
- Japan and South Korea to collaborate on quantum technologies, with national research institutes set to sign MOU
- Taiwan’s CyberLink targeted by North Korean hackers, modifying legitimate installer file to include malicious code for delivery to CyberLink customers in ‘supply chain’ hack
WEF: Central Bank Digital Currency Global Interoperability Principles
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