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South Korean telecommunication giant KT announced Wednesday its plan to ramp up its artificial intelligence strategy in the media sector, including introducing a new AI agent for its internet TV platform Genie TV an AI-powered content studio. With the goal of positioning its media business as one of its three core growth pillars, the company said it will invest 500 billion won ($370 million) by 2026. “With global OTT giants rapidly dominating the content supply chain, there is growing concern th
South Korean telecom giant KT announced Tuesday that it has completed a Thai large language model platform project in partnership with Jasmine Technology Solutions, the tech affiliate of Thailand’s Jasmine Group. The yearlong project makes KT the first Korean company to establish a comprehensive artificial intelligence infrastructure overseas. The initiative included building an LLM operations system and a graphics processing unit farm for AI computing and developing a Thai-specialized LLM model
Korea’s game industry is a major driver of the country’s cultural exports. According to the Korea Creative Content Agency, games accounted for 58 percent of Korea’s total cultural exports in the first half of 2024, significantly surpassing K-pop, which made up 12 percent. Despite the industry's scale, there have been limited venues offering a structured overview of its development in Korea, particularly in the form of educational or public exhibitions. Addressing this gap, Korean game developer
KakaoTalk, South Korea’s dominant messenger app, experienced a temporary disruption on Friday following the Constitutional Court’s ruling to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. When Acting Chief Justice Moon Hyung-bae read the court’s verdict at approximately 11:22 a.m., upholding Yoon’s impeachment, users reported issues with KakaoTalk on both mobile and PC versions, being unable to send messages or log in to the system. A notification in the chat screen read, "An unexpected error has o
SK Telecom CEO Ryu Young-sang on Wednesday said the company plans to adopt Nvidia’s latest Blackwell graphics processing units for its data center, citing their efficiency compared to the H200 series. “The Blackwell GPUs appear to be more efficient than the H200, so we plan to adopt them to meet demand,” Ryu told reporters following the company’s annual general shareholders meeting held at its headquarters in central Seoul. The country's largest wireless carrier had initially planned to adopt Nv
Hyundai Card announced on Monday that it has launched a mobile payment service in Taiwan in collaboration with global payment service provider Line Pay. The latest partnership aims to enhance the mobile payment experience for Hyundai Card's 12 million members traveling to Taiwan, the company said. With QR code payments already widely used at convenience stores, large supermarkets and restaurants in Taiwan, Hyundai Card members visiting the country can now make payments easily without installing
South Korean internet giant Kakao is spinning off Daum, its in-house independent company that operates the country’s second-largest portal site, reigniting speculation about a potential sale of the service. According to industry sources Friday, Kakao revealed the spin-off plan during an internal town hall meeting on Thursday, explaining that the move is part of its strategy to address intensifying competition in the portal, search and content sectors. “By becoming a fully independent entity, Dau
Following its strategic partnership with Microsoft in September, KT Corp. is continuing its aggressive global expansion by forging a new alliance with Palantir Technologies, a constituent of the S&P 500 index. The telecom carrier said Thursday it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with artificial intelligence platform company Palantir to accelerate AI transformation, or AX, initiatives. Palantir is a software platform developer specializing in large-scale data integration and analysis
SK Networks said Tuesday it has teamed up with Qualcomm Technologies to integrate the US chip giant’s Internet of Things solutions into its key businesses and subsidiaries and expand its artificial intelligence-driven business portfolio. Collaboration with Qualcomm will provide SK Networks with advanced IoT solutions, including its Dragonwing QCS6490, which supports on-device large language models. Launched in March 2023, the Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 is a high-performance system-on-chip solut
LG Uplus said Monday it will jointly promote an artificial intelligence transformation alliance strategy with Amazon Web Services to foster the domestic AI cloud ecosystem. At Mobile World Congress 2025, held in Barcelona, Spain, the two companies pledged to collaborate on developing a Korea-specific sovereign cloud, AI platforms and solutions, and AI consulting services. A sovereign cloud is a cloud service that ensures data sovereignty by storing, processing and managing data within a specific
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