SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Prinker Korea Inc., a South Korean startup, claimed Monday that LG Household & Health Care Ltd. has stolen the idea of its customized tattoo printing device, called Prinker M, and created a copycat product. Prinker said LG H&H applied for a design patent under the name of “tattoo printer” [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — When the latest version of ChatGPT 3.5 was launched by Open AI late last year, a new battle for artificial intelligence chatbots heated up across the world. While tech giants and startups alike are dreaming of forming the industry and reshaping what people want from search features, Microsoft Corp. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — While Korean TV series, films and K-pop, like “Squid Game” (2021), “Parasite” (2019) and BTS, have made their presence felt in the world in recent years, demand for Korean language has exploded with many young people across the globe searching for language learning applications. A recent CNN news report [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the many startups founded and operating in South Korea, TagHive, an education technology company launched in 2017, is distinguished for its founder and CEO Pankaj Agarwal. Pankaj was born in a small town in northern India and studied at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based pet health management platform developed by a South Korean startup will be used for non-face-to-face diagnosis in the U.S. AI FOR PET, the operator of the pet health management application TTcare, said Wednesday it will provide an AI-based pet medical environment in collaboration with American [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Many women might dream of someone taking full care of their period every month, ordering quality sanitary pads in a timely manner and answering embarrassing questions about menstruation and related symptoms. Happy Moonday Inc. — a Korean startup for femtech, which refers to products and services that support women’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — When people want to open a new online store from scratch, they need to learn coding languages, such as HTML, CSS and Javascript, and professional photo editing skills to design website elements, connect electronic payment tools and optimize the page for mobile. But learning how to begin coding a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sleep deprivation is prevalent in the modern world. Smartphone lights confuse the natural sleep-and-wake cycle of ordinary people, and the remote working culture makes it harder for them to switch off, even at night. There is also an acceptance — or even a glorification — of forgoing sleep, fueled [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Having majored in business administration in university and with eight years of previous work experience at the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, Cheon Yeong-seok, co-CEO of robot startup Twinny Co., had always dreamed of one day starting his own business. Looking back though, Cheon said it had never crossed [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Borrowing money online from total strangers was an unfamiliar concept in South Korea in 2014, when Lee Hyo-jin founded 8percent, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending service targeting people with low-to-mid credit ratings. A former banker of 8 years, Lee was confident there was huge demand in the loan market that [...]