News
South Korea warns US of damage from high-tech restrictions
South Korea has warned the United States of the potential damage from “undesirable” Japanese restrictions on exports of high-tech materials. Read more…
South Korea
Features
High-tech trade dispute rooted in Japan’s wartime history
Japan has tightened curbs on exports of high-tech materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea, upping the ante in a decades-old dispute. Read more…
News
South Korea chipmakers and suppliers to bypass Tokyo curbs
South Korean chipmakers and Japanese chemical suppliers caught in bilateral diplomatic dispute scramble to circumvent export controls imposed by Tokyo. Read more…
News
What’s behind the Japan – South Korea high-tech materials row?
Japan said it would tighten curbs on exports of high-tech materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea amid a widening dispute. Read more…
News
KT launches 5G service in “scariest place on Earth”
KT has launched 5G services in one of the world’s most heavily armed border zones separating the two Koreas dubbed “the scariest place on Earth”. Read more…
Views
5G speed results: great downlink, shame about the latency …
Commercial 5G is delivering much faster download speeds than 4G, but for upload speeds and latency, it’s pretty much 4G business as usual – Opensignal. Read more…
Views
Will South Korea have a million 5G customers by end of June?
As with 2G, 3G and 4G (though less so for 4G), operators are maintaining their ‘build it and they will come’ approach to 5G monetisation. Read more…
News
South Korean love hotels business booming and expanding
Love hotels in South Korea have occupied a peculiar space in the broader market, offering privacy for as little as a few hours at minimal cost. Read more…
Views
5G madness (or: Why no one gives a stuff who launched first)
South Korean and US operators are arguing over who launched 5G first as if anyone cares and any of it matters. Our hot take: Stop. Just stop. Read more…
News
Disillusioned South Korean millennials ditching stable jobs
Burned out and disillusioned by repeated night shifts, few opportunities for promotion and high property prices, South Korean millennials ditching stable jobs. Read more…