January, February & March 2021
Korean tech news
The Q1 2021 round-up of South Korea’s tech news gathers the country’s technology, start-up and venture capital news headlines across 3 months – January, February and March of 2021.
The Q1 2021 headline round-up collected here outlines developments in South Korea’s technology and startup scenes, highlighting news across a range of subjects: biometric payment cards, government investment in the gaming industry, e-commerce focusing on handmade goods, autonomous electric vehicles, and many others.
Items listed are the headlines only, hyperlinked and bullet-pointed, without padding text or distractions, providing an instant overview of South Korean tech news in Q1 2021 alongside one-click access to each online article, free to read in full, behind each headline.
January 2021 | February 2021 | March 2021
Korea’s tech news: March 2021
- South Korea: A brief look at why cryptocurrency trading is so popular in South Korea
- South Korea: Government to invest $20M this year to support the games industry via Korea Creative Content Agency
- Singapore’s Neuron Mobility expands to South Korea, launching electric scooter rental services in Seoul
- South Korea: Mastercard and Samsung partner to develop biometric card that uses a built-in fingerprint sensor to authorize in-store transactions
- South Korea: A brief intro to 5 of the country’s fintech startups, working in crowdfunding, remittances, contactless payments and loan recommendations
- South Korea: A brief intro to 5 of the country’s voice-focused tech startups, driven by artificial intelligence
- South Korea: Miragesoft VR gaming startup gains $2M investment from Softbank Ventures Asia
- ICYMI: South Korea to suspend defence and security exchanges, ban export of arms or other strategic items and reconsider development aid to Myanmar due to military coup
- Vietnam: Applications for 2nd edition of SK Startup Fellowship Programme for early-stage startups closes March 24th, a program from South Korea’s SK Group
Korean tech news: February 2021
- A brief overview of South Korea’s DCamp foundation and incubator, NFP established by 19 banks to aid startups which generated an estimated $6BN in value in the last 3 years
- South Korea: A look at Quotabook, a one-stop platform for startups, businesses, and investors to manage documents, stockholdings, securities, communications
- South Korea: An intro to 6 of the country’s startups finding success overseas in mobile apps, e-commerce and more
- ICYMI: UN report finds North Korean hackers stole over $300M in 2020, targeting virtual currency-exchanges and global financial institutions
- An intro to 5 Korean gaming startups to watch in 2021
- Government to invest $20M in gaming industry this year, via Korea Creative Content Agency
South Korea’s startups: January 2021
- South Korea: Dongnae closes $4.1M seed round, aiming to digitize the rental and home-buying market
- South Korea’s Hyundai in talks with Apple to develop self-driving electric vehicles and batteries
- South Korea: Dable content discovery platform raises $12M with machine learning discovery, analysis and recommendation of a claimed 5BN content items per month
- South Korea: An intro to idus e-commerce app and platform, selling and trading handmade goods and boasting more than 19K homegrown artists
- India: South Korea’s Mirae Asset group to launch $35M India-dedicated fund focusing on investments in early-stage tech startups
- Vietnam: Gpay e-wallet provider gains Series A funding from South Korea’s KB Financial Group, aiming for a fintech joint venture named KB Fina
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