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LG Uplus said Tuesday it reached an agreement with Malaysian telecom operator Maxis to commercially launch its AI call assistant ixi-O in Malaysia, marking the first overseas rollout under the company’s global AI expansion strategy unveiled at MWC 2026. Maxis, one of Malaysia’s largest telecommunications providers, serves more than 10 million mobile users across its nationwide 4G and 5G networks. LG Uplus CEO Hong Beom-sik met Maxis CEO Goh Seow Eng and other senior executives at Maxis headquart
Naver will begin a closed beta of its agentic search product "AI Tab" as early as next week, in the company's most substantive defensive move yet against Google's artificial intelligence-powered push into South Korea, one of a handful of major markets where Google has never overtaken the local incumbent. The timing is notable. Google launched Gemini in Chrome in Korea on Monday, embedding its AI assistant directly into the browser that holds roughly 70 percent of the global market. Four days lat
As sustainability shifts from a reputational issue to a business variable, Kakao Bank is treating ESG less as corporate messaging and more as a question of how finance itself is structured — from its mobile-only model to plans around financed emissions, green finance and environmental risk management. For Cho Sun-young, ESG team lead at Kakao Bank, the goal is not simply to reduce the company's own footprint, but to connect environmental value with the bank's operating model, customer experience
South Korea’s three major telecom operators on Thursday pledged sweeping changes — from tighter security to broader access and expanded investment in artificial intelligence — as they seek to rebuild public trust after a string of cyber incidents. “Today’s discussion is about how the telecom industry can regain public trust, support people’s daily lives and define its role going forward,” Deputy Prime Minister and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said during a meeting with SK Telecom CEO Jung Jai-hun
South Korea’s telecom carriers and fintech firms are tightening energy use as the government calls for conservation amid oil-market volatility, extending the response from office operations to the infrastructure behind mobile networks and online finance. The move is less about an immediate jump in electricity rates, which have been frozen for the second quarter, than about joining a broader corporate energy-saving push and preparing for an uncertain energy environment. The clearest response has
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