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Apple is preparing to challenge Samsung Electronics in one of the few smartphone segments that is still growing. Entering foldables seven years behind its Korean rival, its ability to catch up may hinge on pricing. Apple has scheduled a special event at its California headquarters for Sept. 9. Industry watchers expect the company to unveil its first foldable iPhone, widely dubbed the iPhone Ultra, alongside its iPhone 18 Pro lineup. The foldable is expected to have passport-like proportions, sim
NC is expanding its worldwide reach at two of the world’s biggest gaming exhibitions in the second half of the year with Aion 2, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and Astrae Oratio, a sub-culture RPG. According to the Korean game company on Thursday, it will participate in Gamescom 2026 in Germany in August and Tokyo Game Show 2026 in Japan in September, highlighting region-specific titles aimed at Western and Japanese audiences, respectively. Held annually in Cologne, Germany, G
As South Korea’s foreign resident population continues to grow, KT Corp. is expanding support for overseas customers through multilingual AI services and dedicated stores designed to make telecom services more accessible. The telecom carrier held its fourth Customer Listening Forum on Wednesday in Seoul, inviting 14 foreign residents and naturalized citizens from 10 countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia, Russia, the Philippines and Mongolia, to gather feedback on challenges they face while usi
Krafton on Wednesday reported record revenue and operating profit for the first half of this year on the back of continued performances by its megahit PUBG franchise, a battle-royale-style shooter, and the early success of Subnautica 2, an underwater survival adventure. According to the company’s preliminary earnings, Krafton logged 2.66 trillion won ($1.84 billion) in sales and 972.5 billion won in operating profit in the first six months of 2026, up 73.3 percent and 38.3 percent, respectively,
Krafton on Wednesday released its new audio foundation model, A.X K2 Raon-Speech, on global AI platform Hugging Face. The company is part of SK Telecom’s consortium participating in the Ministry of Science and ICT’s Independent AI Foundation Model project, where it leads research on next-generation multimodal models. A.X K2 Raon-Speech builds on Krafton’s existing Raon-Speech model. It combines the company’s proprietary voice encoder and audio codec with a compact language model based on SK Tele
Krafton said Thursday it has made a strategic investment in Neon Commerce, a global game commerce infrastructure firm, as the Korean game developer moves to build its own payment ecosystem and strengthen direct engagement with players worldwide. Building on the partnership with Neon Commerce, Krafton plans to accelerate the development of its proprietary payment system and bolster its global commerce capabilities. "This investment is an important step toward building more direct relationships w
For years, Chinese investment in South Korea's gaming industry followed a familiar formula. Chinese technology giants provided capital, secured publishing partnerships and accumulated minority stakes in leading game makers, while Korean founders of each game developer retained management control. This pattern, however, recently took a vigilant turn, putting stakeholders on notice. Wemade — a Korean game developer best known for its massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG, franc
Artificial intelligence may be lowering barriers to game development, but Nexon Korea co-CEO Kang Dae-hyun believes the industry's most valuable asset remains difficult to automate: context. In a keynote speech at the 2026 Nexon Developers Conference on Tuesday, Kang identified "context" and "compound interest" as the two critical factors that will determine success in the AI era. "Now, games must compete through the depth of context, not based on how well they're made," he said. Kang presented
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expected to meet Krafton executives during his visit to Seoul this week, as the two companies explore deeper cooperation in physical AI and next-generation AI computing. According to industry sources Thursday, Huang is scheduled to hold talks with Krafton Chairman Chang Byung-gyu and other senior executives during his six-day stay in Korea. Huang is expected to arrive in Seoul on Friday. The meeting follows discussions held last year at Nvidia's California headquarters
NC, formerly known as NCSoft, has turned in record quarterly earnings on the back of successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game launches such as Aion 2 and Lineage Classic. According to NC on Wednesday, it reported 557.4 billion won ($373.9 million) in sales and 113.3 billion won in operating profit in the first quarter of this year, up 55 percent and 2,070 percent from the same period last year, respectively. The Korean game company posted its best-ever quarterly PC game sales wi
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