A brief snapshot of South Korea’s technology news headlines from April 2025
World Bank Group: Future Jobs – Robots, AI, and Digital Platforms
- South Korea: 7-Eleven convenience store giant has announced that all South Korean branches will accept the nation’s Digital Won CBDC as payment from June / full item
- South Korea: Samsung has reportedly begun 1-nanometre chip process development, targeting 2029 for mass production, with 1.4nm development potentially being shelved / full item
- South Korea announces increase to semiconductor industry support package, raising total to $23.25 billion, up 1/4 from a previous package rolled out in 2024 / full item
South Korean crypto traders ‘duped into joining money laundering scams’ “…he had executed some 300 million won ($204,415) worth of trades for the company in a week.” / full item
- South Korea: Samsung has reportedly begun 1-nanometre chip process development, targeting 2029 for mass production, with 1.4nm development potentially being shelved / full item
- South Korea: RLWRLD raised $14M with foundational AI model built specifically for robotics, combining LLMs with traditional robotics software / full item
- Samsung and ASML have reportedly dropped plans for EUV Research Center in Hwaseong, with eyes now on new locations / full item
- Samsung has reportedly told clients it will phase out DDR4 chips to focus on higher-end memory, citing fierce price competition from Chinese rival firms / full item
“South Korea’s government unveiled a plan last week to invest more than 1 trillion won ($1.3 billion) this year to secure 10,000 graphic processing units (GPUs)…” / full item
- Samsung achieves stable 40%+ test yield for 4nm logic dies, enabling a key component of Samsung’s 12-layer HBM4, optimized for high-performance computing / full item
- South Korea’s DSRV blockchain infrastructure company inks MOU with Japan’s Next Finance Tech (NFT) to pursue blockchain infra business across Asia, starting with Japan / full item
- North Korea: Kim Jong Un orders establishment of ‘Research Center 227’ under the military’s Reconnaissance General Bureau to develop international cyber hacking technologies / full item
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