According to eMarketer, Japan and Korea’s e-commerce markets were estimated at $144 billion and $121 billion, respectively, in 2021. Despite the large e-commerce market size, both countries have fewer ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea's internet was hit by a major outage that lasted several hours on Saturday, knocking off connection to government web sites and official news services online and severing ...

While South Korea has an incredibly advanced broadband infrastructure and a thriving startup ecosystem, regulatory issues make it difficult for some Internet companies to work there. Take, for ...

The tragically backward, sometimes absurdist hallmarks of North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-il, are well-known. There are Kim's Elton John eyeglasses and strangely ...

Korean internet giant Kakao’s co-CEO Whon Nam-koong resigned Wednesday morning, following public outrage and regulatory scrutiny over a service outage that upended the company’s most popular services.

Why a country known for blazing broadband and innovative devices remains tethered to a browser that most of the world abandoned long ago. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Jin Yu Young SEOUL — In South Korea ...

South Korean companies from chaebols (large family-owned businesses) to network platform authorities to large Internet companies such as Kakao, Naver and Coupang, are starting to feel tense.

Naver cofounder Lee Hae-jin. South Korean billionaire Lee Hae-jin’s Naver, the country’s largest internet company by market capitalization, agreed to acquire American fashion e-commerce platform ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (left) walks with U.S. President Joe Biden to an official dinner at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2022. Credit: Korean Culture and ...