Korea’s startup news
An overview of February 2020’s tech, startup and funding news from South Korea.
Each link below leads to the original online news source for each item, and each item is drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feed:
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- Korea was the first in the world to commercialize 5G telecommunication, and has already surpassed 4.35 million subscribers.
- South Korea: StyleShare app-based startup raises $21M with multiple platforms focused on fashion discovery
- South Korea: An overview of the recent Ministry of SMEs and Startups roundtable event held in Seoul
- South Korea: Ministry of Science and ICT hits pause on further technological developments in their blockchain sandbox program until crypto policy is passed
- South Korea: Politician Ahn Chul-soo to create new political party which will use a blockchain-powered platform for voting, accounting and budgetary transparency
- South Korea: Central bank to launch second central bank digital currency team, a year after disbanding first group, likely in response to China’s digital yuan moves
- South Korea: A look at bepro11, AI-backed video analysis system startup focused on football skills development
- South Korea: Saramin job placement platform signs MOU with ICONLOOP for blockchain-based digital ID and authentication ecosystem
- South Korea: Pohang University of Science and Technology issues blockchain-based digital diplomas rather than have students graduate in person, due to coronavirus risks
- South Korea: Financial Services Commission and Seoul Metropolitan Government commit near $16M over 4 years to train fintech specialists
- A look at Samsung’s SelfieType, mobile device software which analyzes finger movements and converts them into QWERTY keyboard inputs for typing
- Samsung’s new flagship Galaxy S20 range continues crypto focus with secure processor to protect PINs, passwords, patterns and Blockchain Private Keys
- South Korea: Litecoin, world’s 7th-largest cryptocurrency, gains MeconCash partnership, enabling fiat withdrawals at over 13000 ATMs
- An overview of the North Korea cryptocurrency-and-sanctions case
- Download: How North Korea Revolutionized the Internet as a Tool for Rogue Regimes (pdf)
- As the North Korean regime finds ways to bring in cryptocurrency, it also needs ways to cash out…it relies on regional cryptocurrency exchanges that operate below the radar
- South Korea: A brief overview of Shinhan Financial Group’s moves in Vietnam’s fintech and banking-tech spaces
- Finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 event include Australia’s AgUnity and Wriveted, South Korea’s Looxid Labs, and India’s NeelAgil
Other news in February 2020
Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in February 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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