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GeekyAnts Announces Expo Feature Featuring Co-Founder Sanket Sahu on In-Browser Development Infrastructure

GeekyAnts Announces Expo Feature Featuring Co-Founder Sanket Sahu on In-Browser Development Infrastructure

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15, 2026 (Korea Bizwire) – Sanket Sahu, the co-founder of GeekyAnts and creator of gluestack, recently shared his insights and has been featured in a technical publication by Expo. The featured publication, ‘How I built a dev server entirely in the browser,’ offers an in-depth analysis of the pioneering browser-native architecture engineered by GeekyAnts [...]

Global digital entrepreneurship ecosystem index reveals stark gap between digital readiness and scaling capacity

Global digital entrepreneurship ecosystem index reveals stark gap between digital readiness and scaling capacity

New global DEE Index shows that digital infrastructure alone no longer drives entrepreneurial success VIENNA, Jan. 15, 2026 (Korea Bizwire) – The Vienna Institute for Global Studies (VIGS), an independent interdisciplinary research institute based in Vienna, published the 2026 Global Digital Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Index Report, offering one of the most comprehensive global assessments to date [...]

Stablepharma and AFT Pharmaceuticals (NZX: AFT; ASX: AFP) partner to address multi-billion dollar anti-infective and oncology therapeutics market

Stablepharma and AFT Pharmaceuticals (NZX: AFT; ASX: AFP) partner to address multi-billion dollar anti-infective and oncology therapeutics market

LONDON, Jan. 15, 2026 (Korea Bizwire) – Stablepharma Limited, specialists in thermostable formulations, today announced a development and option-to-license agreement with AFT Pharmaceuticals to develop a portfolio of fridge-free sterile injectable medicines, initially targeting anti-infective and oncology treatments in a total global market valued at over USD 6 billion. Stablepharma will apply its proprietary stabilisation [...]

Korea Central Bank Pauses Again, Citing Currency and Inflation Risks

Korea Central Bank Pauses Again, Citing Currency and Inflation Risks

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Thursday, signaling caution as a weakening currency and persistent inflation risks narrowed the scope for further monetary easing. The Monetary Policy Board of the Bank of Korea voted unanimously to hold the policy rate at 2.5 percent, extending a pause [...]

Trump’s New Chip Tariffs Heighten Uncertainty for Global Semiconductor Industry

Trump’s New Chip Tariffs Heighten Uncertainty for Global Semiconductor Industry

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s semiconductor industry is bracing for new uncertainty after President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on certain artificial-intelligence chips and related semiconductor products exported to China, a move that has heightened concern across global supply chains even as immediate fallout for Korean firms appears limited. Under a [...]

Pizza Hut Ruling Sends Shock Waves Through Korea’s Franchise Industry

Pizza Hut Ruling Sends Shock Waves Through Korea’s Franchise Industry

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s franchise industry is bracing for wider legal and financial fallout after the Supreme Court of Korea finalized a ruling ordering Pizza Hut Korea to refund billions of won in improperly collected fees to franchise owners—a decision that could open the door to a wave of similar lawsuits across [...]

Activists Reject Coupang Vouchers, Calling Them ‘Marketing, Not Compensation’

Activists Reject Coupang Vouchers, Calling Them ‘Marketing, Not Compensation’

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, Coupang, is facing a growing backlash from civil society groups over its compensation plan for a massive personal data breach, with activists urging customers to reject the company’s offer and, in some cases, leave the platform altogether. A coalition of 135 civic and social organizations, [...]

Pizza Hut Loses Final Appeal in Franchise Fee Dispute

Pizza Hut Loses Final Appeal in Franchise Fee Dispute

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has ordered Pizza Hut Korea to refund 21.5 billion won (about $16 million) to franchise owners, ruling that the company illegally collected undisclosed margin-based fees without explicit contractual consent—a decision expected to reverberate across the country’s franchise industry. In a final ruling issued Thursday, the Supreme [...]

Court Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Approval of Yongin Semiconductor Hub

Court Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Approval of Yongin Semiconductor Hub

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by environmental activists seeking to nullify the government’s approval of a large-scale semiconductor cluster project in Yongin, 50 kilometers south of Seoul. The Seoul Administrative Court made the ruling in the lawsuit launched by members of environmental activist group Climate Solution and [...]