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 — 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 the ...

Naver, South Korea’s answer to Google, has moved closer to a deal that will see it snap up Upbit, the country’s biggest crypto exchange. Naver and its financial subsidiary Naver Financial plan to hold ...

A U.S. man has reportedly managed to single-handedly take down most of North Korea's websites from the comfort of his living room after the hermit nation allegedly targeted him with a cyber attack ...

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 ...

Nine years ago when Kim Kee-chang came back to his native country of South Korea, he had no idea he was coming back to start a tech war. But when he booted up Linux on his computer something strange ...

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 ...

Control of North Korea’s top-level Internet domain has been formally assigned to a government-backed venture after the previous operator, a German company, let the national domain disappear from the ...

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 ...

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.