#StartupKorea news
January, February & March 2019
- South Korea: Hyundai Mobis auto parts maker invests $5M to add in-car facial biometrics from China’s Deep Glint
- South Korea: PUBLISH media-focused blockchain startup announces strategic partnership with Inews24, major Korean IT media outlet
- South Korea: 4 cryptocurrency exchanges launch Anti Money Laundering initiative
- South Korea launches task force to fight 800% increase in cryptocurrency fraud and fintech crimes
- South Korea: Kakao messaging giant’s Ground X Corp cryptocurrency unit raises $90M in private coin offering
- South Korea: A look at how the Government of Seoul is using a public blockchain
- South Korea: Jeju province and ICON hold briefing session around establishing Jeju Blockchain Regulatory Sandbox
- South Korea: The Wave Talk developes real-time IoT-enabled method to detect the tiniest impurities in water and food
- South Korea: Vietnam’s Vingroup opens VinTech Korea Research to explore IoT technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics
- South Korea: PUBLISH Inc blockchain media platform partners NetEase News Korea with sights set on entering China
- South Korea edition of ‘The Big Issue’ to adopt PUBLISHsoft blockchain-based content management system
- An interview-based overview of Korean stablecoins, cryptocurrency exchanges and more
- South Korea: Seoul Metropolitan Gov’t to support blockchain startups with $1BN innovation fund
- South Korea: Nexon, nation’s largest game developer, set for Tencent-partnered acquisition
- South Korea: President aims to develop the country into being known for venture companies and startups
- South Korea: Kakao Mobility reaches agreement with taxi industry around carpooling services
- South Korea: Kakao and China’s Tencent battle for ownership of Nexon, South Korea’s largest game company, in game-changing $12BN deal for Asian market
- South Korea: Dunamu launches Luniverse blockchain-as-a-service platform
- Korea: South Korean Capital $1BN startup fund set to include blockchain firms
- South Korea: Magic Leap AR startup secures exclusive country-wide partnership with SK Telecom
- South Korea: Samsung Galaxy S10 may come with an in-built cryptocurrency cold wallet
- South Korea: Memebox beauty e-commerce startup secures $35M
- South Korea: An intro to Blank e-commerce startup
- South Korea set to launch fintech sandbox in April
- South Korea: Pangyo Startup Campus unveils Global Lab program for 23 promising entrepreneurs from Indonesia, Vietnam and South Korea
- South Korea: Trevari online book club platform secures US$4.44M
- Taiwan’s ioeX startup to implement blockchain voting system for Liberty Korea Party
- South Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank Cambodia arm forges alliance with Pi Pay for digital banking
- Facebook partners Girls in Tech for female entrepreneur support in Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and Korea
