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- How North Korea became a mastermind of crypto cyber crime: “Cryptocurrency theft has become one of the regime’s main sources of revenue and underlines the lack of regulation of digital assets…”
- South Korea: AG-Uni enters US market with vertical farming system focusing on high value-added crops and plant materials
- South Korea: A brief intro to Asleep, AI-powered software which interprets smartphone-collected sound clips, matching them with corresponding brain wave patterns to help users get better rest
- South Korea’s Perigee Aerospace inks MoU with Philippine Space Agency, seeing opportunity to become ‘SpaceX of Asia’
“The startup [Perigee Aerospace] has raised $22.5 million in a Series B bridge round and wants to launch an IPO in 2024. It has named KB Securities Co. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. as lead underwriters for the IPO.”
- South Korea: Poen, which started as a Hyundai venture project, takes event win with refurbishment and renewal method to bring new life to used electric vehicle batteries
- South Korea: Laundrygo on-demand services startup raises $37M Series C, seeing opportunity in the mostly-offline laundry services space
- South Korea: “One out of four startups in South Korea is considering moving its business abroad in search of looser regulation”, survey of 256 businesses finds
- South Korea: TheVentures Singapore venture-building firm preps for launch, aiming to replicate success of Korea-based early-stage startup incubator and VC
“TheVentures Korea, backed by blue-chip LPs and investors including Kakao, NCSoft and Com2Us, has invested in over 100 startups and holds a portfolio value well in excess of US$1 billion (RM4.18 billion).”
- South Korea: An overview of InfoPLUS and financial API platform, InfoAPI, and its expansion goals following successful introduction of finance-focused ‘digital building blocks’ services to Vietnam
- South Korea: A deep-dive into those startups selected for the ‘best of’ category in the recent COMEUP 2022 Global Startup Festival, spanning medical-tech, retail technology, metaverse avatars and more
- Digital Partnership announced between the Republic of Korea and the European Union to foster joint work on fields including semiconductors, next-gen networks, cybersecurity and more
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