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 ...

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 ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -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 ...

SEOUL >> Twitch, a popular video service, will shut down its struggling business in South Korea, a decision its chief executive blamed on allegedly “prohibitively expensive” costs for operating in the ...

Online secondhand-fashion marketplace Poshmark Inc. has agreed to be bought by South Korean internet company Naver in a $1.2 billion deal, the companies announced Monday, a move that executives said ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...