October, November & December 2020
South Korea’s tech news
The Korean Q4 2020 tech news summary, below, delivers a one-page index of South Korea’s technology headlines reported online in October, November and December of 2020.
South Korean technology news headlines featured were drawn from Startup News Asia’s monthly coverage of Korea’s tech news, which itself is drawn from our daily technology news feeds.
Korean technology news headlines below are, just like Startup News Asia’s monthly collections, hyperlinked to the articles behind each Korean tech news headline – but without middle-man platforms getting in the way, and without misappropriating ownership or authorship of the articles. This provides Korean technology observers and enthusiasts with direct, and boosted, access to the tech news platforms and journalists behind each item, in a broad, at-a-glance quarterly format.
October 2020 | November 2020 | December 2020
December 2020
- Letsee to launch global version of web-based augmented reality platform, allowing users to publish AR content accessible via any web browser
- CHAI payment tech startup gains $60M funding with API system allowing companies to accept payments from more than 20 systems
- A look at the key points from a recent Bank of Korea report on contactless and digital payments
- Hashed raises $120M investment fund to back blockchain and tech startups, with particular focus on investments in the ‘protocol economy’
- ICYMI: Lyft partners Korea’s Motional with plan to launch multi-city US robotaxi service in 2023, based on a driverless Hyundai platform
- Taiwan Mobile partners South Korea’s SK Telecom to grow 5G in Taiwan, with focus on leveraging SK’s expertise in indoor coverage
November 2020
- COMEUP 2020 program now online for 2nd edition of 3-day online event, set for November 19-21
- SOSV accelerator for mobile-first markets partners Korea Institute of Start-up and Entrepreneurship Dev to aid Korean startups to expand globally via Chinaccelerator and MOX
- Danal payments firm to accept digital currencies via ICON blockchain ecosystem, opening 60K merchants using ICX tokens to users, including 7-Eleven
- An interview intro to Impact Collective from TheVentures, community-driven accelerator program backed by 17 collaborating organisations
- 500 x KIC Bootcamp unveiled, an intensive growth bootcamp for early stage startups in Korea from 500 Startups and Korean Innovation Centre in DC
- An overview of the first day of COMEUP 2020, the country’s largest startup festival
- An overview of day 2 of COMEUP 2020 startup festival, with sessions on open innovation, remote work, robotics, AI and more
- BlueVisor takes 2nd place in Startup Network’s Fintech Unicorn Battle in Asia with AI-driven asset management platform
- QARA Soft fintech gains $3M with a range of AI-driven investment advisory solutions
- China: UnionPay payments giant to support cryptocurrency via South Korea-developed crypto with addition of ‘virtual card’, opening up spending via 30M merchants
October 2020
- A look at Alyce Healthcare’s Weelo, an AI-driven personal fitness training solution
- A brief look at Beanzsoft’s AiTube, app providing easy video editing for YouTubers
- A look at DamoGO, startup connecting consumers with perfectly good, unsold food from restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores and farms
- Uber to invest $150M in JV and partnership with SK Telecom to boost moves into Korean market as the telco proposes splitting off its mobility business
- A brief intro to SizeMine, allowing e-commerce shoppers to measure clothing sizes using a smartphone and aiming to reduce e-commerce return rates
- An intro to the 7 tech startups selected for the Korea National Pavilion in the 2020 Node by Slush event, running virtually from Helsinki
- An intro to the 10 startups that presented at the Korea Creative Content Agency’s Launchpad Virtual Demo Day USA 2020
Asia’s tech news, today
All-day technology news looking at 17 primary locations in South & Southeast Asia, Australia & New Zealand:
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