= First quarter 2018 =
Korea’s startup News
Below is a broad, uncategorised summary of South Korea’s startup news as covered in the English-language press in January, February and March in 2018.
We also deliver a monthly startup news round-up on South Korea.
Accompanying this, we also deliver a daily startup news report
via social media, posting South Korea’s startup news on Twitter,
on LinkedIn and via StartupAsiaNews on Facebook.
The collected quarterly items – spanning all countries in South and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand – can also be ordered as a 90+ page publication in full-colour hardopy.
- Hyundai to launch self-drive vehicles by 2021, partnering with US tech startup Aurora
- Government drafting a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading
- MOIN blockchain-driven money transfer platform secures $2M to expand to smaller Asian markets
- Massive inclusion initiative launched to give hundreds of thousands a hand in shaping policy
- Tera Funding real estate P2P lending startup secures $9.3M
- South Korea’s SoCar car-share startup expands into Malaysia
- Bloomberg Innovation Index: South Korea top for 5th year; Singapore leapfrogs Germany, Switzerland, Finland into 3rd
- SendBird chat API startup raises $16M
- A brief look at 12 types of robots in service at the Winter Olympics
- Samsung confirms production of ASIC chips for cryptocurrency mining
- $600M in illegal trades discovered, but no plan to shut crypto exchanges
- Skelter Labs secures $9M for conversational AI and speech, image and context recognition
- Yeogi Eottae hotel booking platform partners country’s largest crypto exchange to allow cryptocurrency payments
- A look at the state of play for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in South Korea
- Customs Service considers blockchain tech to address fraud and smuggling prevention
- Cube, blockchain network security startup for driverless and autonomous vehicles, gains HK crypto exchange listing
- SSenStone digital security launch one-time online credit card with number that changes with each transaction
- Yanolja motel-booking app partners Rakuten for Japan entry
- Samsung to showcase 3 in-house AI projects at upcoming SXSW 2018
- Singapore and South Korea to collaborate on first Korean AI Town project
- Kakao messaging app plans unit around blockchain technology
- An intro to 5 of South Korea’s fintech startups
- WeWork launches startups award competition in Seoul
- Fastfive coworking space firm raises $18M
- A look at TagHive, developing smart toys and mobile solutions to minimize the impact of smartphones on kids
- An intro to Shift, linking Korean startups with wider Southeast Asia
