Korean tech news headlines
January 2023 round-up
Tech news headlines from Korea in January of 2023 touched on developments in the country including the government’s goals for deep-tech startups, ocean-focused supply chain logistics tech, UAE investment in South Korea and more.
And for our other editions, spanning daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly updates on Asia’s technology spaces, here’s an outline.
- South Korea: SeaVantage gains $1.3M funding with real- time ocean supply chain visibility, allowing better management and tracking of ocean shipments
- South Korea: A look at UBeeslab’s SoccerBee, providing pro-level sporting analysis with GPS-tracking wearables for amateur players
- Major startup event, Slush, to hold spin-off Slush’D gathering in South Korea with Korea Startup Forum selected as on-site organizer
- ICYMI: United Arab Emirates is to invest $30BN in South Korea in the country’s nuclear power, arms and energy sectors, with Korea looking to boost flagging export levels
- South Korea: PeopleFund P2P lending platform raises $20M, connecting borrowers and investors using AI-powered risk management and credit scoring system
- South Korea: Ministry of Science & ICT to invest $12BN to foster 10 deep-tech unicorn startups by 2027, alongside establishing Scale-up Nat’l Tech Strategy Center
- South Korea and the metaverse: “In the world’s testing ground for tech, K-pop singers are being spun up out of pixels and doing battle in a virtual universe.”
- ICYMI: Samsung launches Samsung Bitcoin Futures Active ETF in Hong Kong, with hopes for further products as regulations develop
More of Asia’s tech news headlines
The monthly collections listed by country, above, are drawn from our daily Asia tech news updates, which go out on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and via mobile app.
We also deliver weekly updates in newsletter formats, via LinkedIn and Substack; and each of those also provides our tech newsletters in web format, for reading online.
Beyond these, we also produce quarterly collections, gathering a jurisdiction’s technology news into 3-monthly digests each year.