On Wednesday, officials in the city of Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, brought forward plans to recreate the city within the metaverse. The project is called “Metaverse Special City Seongnam,” and is scheduled to complete in the first half of 2023.
A key component of the proposal is that denizens will be able to access key services and information via NFT citizenship. Full detail on this aspect of the proposal has yet to be revealed, but further insight is expected before pixelated spades break virtual soil.
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- South Korea: City of Seongman unveils plans for a digital copy, Metaverse Special City Seongnam, with denizens accessing key services and information via NFT citizenship
- Microsoft Korea introduces unveils new Microsoft Launcher startup program
- South Korea: Gov’t program launches to partner 9 multinationals including Google and Airbus to work with 270 Korean startups, aiming for global market entry and development
- South Korea: Selpic kiosks for printing and sharing smartphone photos at tourist destinations launched, seeing advertising and marketing opportunities beyond tourism
- South Korea: Google fined $50M, Meta fined $22M over privacy infringements in tracking consumers’ online behavior without consent, and using data for targeted advertising
- Korean Startup Showcase Silicon Valley set for October 11-14 with events in San Francisco and Palo Alto, showcasing 15 of South Korea’s most promising firms
- Download: ‘A Policy Framework For Blockchain & Digital Assets In Korea’ via Ripple (pdf)
- Korean Startup Showcase 2022 StartTour heads to Singapore from October 24-28, boosting visibility of Korean firms and solutions with sights on market expansion and investment
- South Korea’s Naver Z, operator of Zepeto metaverse, inks MOU with Thailand’s telecoms and digital services provider True Corp for Thailand-driven metaverse ecosystem
in August 2022
Korea: A Policy Framework for Blockchain and Digital Assets (pdf)
- South Korea invited to join the US-led Chip 4 semiconductor alliance, joining Japan and Taiwan, with aims to build a shared platform for semiconductor supply chains
- South Korea set to join US-led Chips 4 alliance, platform for semiconductor supply chains, joining Japan and Taiwan – but China accounts for almost 60% of SK chip exports
- South Korea: A brief intro to the 6 startups selected for Incheon Startup Park’s 2022 Boost Startup Program, working in e-commerce, metaverse applications, semiconductor testing and beyond
- South Korea: Startup accelerator DCamp marks 100th demo day, and celebrates a total of 6,874 startups having pitched from the first event to today
- ICYMI: Tornado Cash virtual currency ‘mixer’ sanctioned by US Dep’t of Treasury over transaction obfuscation that has helped North Korean hacking collective in money-laundering
Samsung 6G Vision whitepaper (pdf)
in July 2022
- South Korea: Krafton game developer unveils Ana, ‘virtual human’ for the metaverse, powered by conversational AI to interact with people exploring digital worlds
- Korea Blockchain Week 2022 is set for August 7-14, looking at all things Web3, crypto, nonfungible tokens and beyond
- ICYMI: North Korea believed to be behind recent strain of ransomware cyberattacks on US hospitals and other health care facilities
- South Korea’s shared Swing micromobility startup launches in Japan with 500 e-scooters, with sights on over 6K e-scooters in 3 cities by year-end
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