Korea opens up to foreign services, workplace diversity

Cafe24, South Korea’s leading e-commerce solutions provider, has teamed up with Singapore-based Lazada Group, a fast-growing online shopping mall, which is often dubbed the “Amazon of Southeast Asia.”Under the partnership, Cafe24, which has expanded its presence in China and the U.S., aims to support Korean vendors to sell their products in the Southeast Asian market through the wide distribution network of Lazada. The Southeast Asian market is home to over 600 million consumers and a rapidly gr

Telecom firm beefs up cooperation with Google for IPTV services

TeliaSonera executives visit KT headquarters

Korea-made online shooting game “Crossfire,” the very game behind its Chinese distributor Tencent’s stunning growth in recent years, is seeking to repeat its success story around the world. And the big push is led by the game’s development chief Jang Ina, who played a key role in its Chinese success. “Gaming trends change fast and there is some skepticism about the future of the 8-year-old ‘Crossfire.’ But our originality and know-how cannot be easily replicated,” she said in a recent interview

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom said Wednesday it wished to work with more global tech giants, such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, to grow smart home businesses down the road. “SKT would like to have Samsung and LG as partners for the company’s Smart Home, an open platform for home devices,” said Cho Young-hoon, senior vice president of the telecom firm’s smart home task force, at a press meeting held in Seoul Wednesday.He added the partnership with the two tech giants, i

The head of South Korea’s top online game firm Nexon said Tuesday game developers should come up with creative and fun games, warning against the fear of making mistakes. “The fear of making mistakes is the enemy of innovation and it is the enemy of great art,” said Owen Mahoney, chief executive of the Tokyo-headquartered game firm, lashing out at fast-follower strategies widely deployed by Facebook game developers and mobile game developers.“To build great games that capture our imagination, im

LG Display, the world’s largest display maker by sales, pledged Tuesday to become a game-changer in the nascent organic light emitting diode market by beefing up production from the third quarter this year.“OLED is the ultimate display technology. Its success is crucial not just for LG but also for the nation’s display industry,” said LG Display’s OLED business unit president Yeo Sang-duk at a news conference in Seoul.“We will ramp up efforts to boost the market with our full-fledged production