South Korean edtech app QANDA has built a global following by using AI to solve homework problems in five seconds—but whether that breeds understanding or dependency remains an open question.
15 October 2026
By embedding an OCR-powered chatbot inside KakaoTalk, Upstage made artificial intelligence feel less like a tool and more like a contact in your phonebook.
14 October 2026
South Korean voice-intelligence platform Daglo has moved beyond mere transcription, but its ambitions to become an end-to-end productivity workspace will depend on whether it can earn users' trust after a ransomware attack and prove its worth against a crowded field of document-focused AI tools.
14 October 2026
Naver's Papago is expanding beyond its dictionary-app origins into a travel aide and workplace tool—but it must keep proving its worth as general-purpose AI absorbs translation as a default feature.
12 October 2026
A San Francisco start-up bet that Korea's chronic inability to speak English, despite decades of study, was a problem AI could solve—and the market proved it right.
8 October 2026
SK Telecom's A. app is expanding ambitiously from call summaries to agentic workflows, yet its user numbers are disputed, its privacy record is questioned, and its business model remains unresolved.
7 October 2026
Naver's AI transcription app handles the drudgery of note-taking with impressive accuracy, but its decision to reserve paid features exclusively for corporate clients leaves individual users bumping against tight limits.
1 October 2026
ScatterLab's Zeta dominates South Korea's AI character-chat market on engagement, but its outsized appeal to teenagers is drawing parliamentary scrutiny.
28 September 2026
A South Korean start-up has built a research-focused AI search tool around a single uncompromising principle—every answer must cite its evidence—but whether the underlying model can sustain that promise is the harder question.
23 September 2026
Santa, South Korea's leading AI-powered language-test prep app, stands out for diagnosing not just what students get wrong, but why—though a few rough edges remain.
22 September 2026
After a 45% share-price decline this year, South Korean wearable patient-monitoring firm Cears looks attractively valued to IBK Securities, which sees 21% upside from current levels.
22 September 2026
Kakao's short-lived experiment with a standalone AI app has ended, as the company bets that embedding artificial intelligence inside South Korea's dominant super-app is a shrewder strategy than building a new platform from scratch.
21 September 2026
Wrtn Technologies bills itself as a productivity platform, but it is an AI character-chat app called Crak that is quietly generating most of the company's revenue.
18 September 2026
The US Senate's failure to advance a landmark crypto-regulation bill has clouded the timeline for Naver's most consequential strategic bet, though Daeshin Securities maintains its buy rating and sees the dip as a potential entry point.
17 September 2026
Kakao Healthcare's Pasta app uses AI and continuous glucose monitors to make diabetes management feel less like a medical chore and more like a conversation.
16 September 2026
Upcoming spectrum auctions in the United States and South Korea are expected to trigger a major upcycle in telecoms equipment stocks, prompting Hana Securities to recommend aggressive long-term buying of leading Korean vendors.
11 September 2026
A sharp recovery in operating profit and an ambitious data-centre expansion could more than double SK Telecom's dividend per share by 2027, argues Hana Securities — though the gap between promise and delivery remains wide.
9 September 2026
SK Telecom's split approach to its data centre business—separating legacy infrastructure from new AI capacity—offers significant upside, but the path to revenue visibility remains uncertain.
7 September 2026
SK Telecom's second-quarter operating profit surged 67% as its AI data-centre business more than doubled, but the telecom giant's ambitious ₩7trn hyperscale investment raises questions about funding and the long road to meaningful returns.
12 August 2026
CJ CheilJedang is betting that the emotional loyalty built by its Bibigo and Hetbahn food brands can carry them into the ice-cream aisle — but the distance between dinner and dessert may prove harder to bridge than it looks.
10 August 2026
The South Korean mobile-game developer is sacrificing near-term profits to extend the life of its decade-old Cookie Run franchise, but the margin for error is shrinking.
10 August 2026
Kakao has settled its 2026 wage negotiations without a strike, agreeing a 6.3% base-salary increase and a one-off bonus—a deal that says as much about the company's turbulent recent past as it does about the intensifying war for AI talent.
7 August 2026
Korean technology firms are launching free AI assistant services to challenge ChatGPT and Google Gemini, betting that fluency in Korean culture and language can offset their disadvantage in raw computing power.
16 July 2026
South Korea's telecoms giant KT is partnering with Silicon Valley's Palantir to build a domestic talent pipeline for AI agents — a move that signals strategic ambition well beyond a simple technology deal.
16 July 2026
South Korea's dominant internet portal is dismantling the building blocks of traditional search, betting that AI-generated answers will replace the structured information retrieval that defined the web's first two decades.
11 July 2026
Samsung's Galaxy AI has surpassed Apple Intelligence in active user engagement, exposing the gap between Apple's cautious, closed ecosystem strategy and Samsung's aggressive, partnership-driven rollout.
9 July 2026
South Korea's largest fixed-line telecoms operator is staking its future on artificial intelligence, but whether its ambitions can survive the weight of the investment remains an open question.
7 July 2026
Kakao's struggling portal subsidiary is betting that a partnership with an AI start-up can reverse years of market-share losses to Naver.
2 July 2026