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Naver shifts to younger leadership with Lee Hae-jin’s return
Naver shifts to younger leadership with Lee Hae-jin's return
South Korean tech giant Naver has appointed several new executives from the 1980s generation as founder Lee Hae-jin prepares to return to the company, reflectin...
2025.03.18(Tue)
|Shim Min-gwan, Kim Seo-young
Naver unveils enhanced HyperCLOVA X with stronger performance
Naver on Feb. 20 said it has completed an update to its flagship HyperCLOVA X foundation model and internally released it. The company is now leveraging the mod...
2025.02.20(Thu)
|Kim Min-kuk, Kim Seo-young
Korean webtoon 'Teenage Mercenary' comes to life in Tokyo pop-up event
A pop-up store dedicated to the popular Naver webtoon “Teenage Mercenary” opened in the heart of Shibuya, Tokyo, on Feb. 7. The store was set up inside Line Fri...
2025.02.12(Wed)
|Yoon Ye-won (Tokyo), Lee Jae-eun
Naver's target price soars on strong AI outlook, revenue growth
South Korean securities firms have raised Naver’s target price, expecting strong growth in artificial intelligence (AI), following the company’s breakthrough pe...
2025.02.10(Mon)
|Park Ji-young, Kim Seo-young
Naver tops 10 trillion won in annual revenue for the first time
Naver said its fourth-quarter operating profit rose over 30% year-on-year on the back of strong growth in key businesses, including search and e-commerce. The c...
2025.02.07(Fri)
|Kim Min-guk, Lee Jae-eun
Exclusive: Naver founder Lee Hae-jin to return as board chairman, eyes AI expansion
Lee Hae-jin, 58, founder of South Korean tech giant Naver, is set to return as chairman of the company’s board, seven years after stepping down to focus on glob...
2025.02.05(Wed)
|Hwang Kyu-rag, Kim Mi-geon
Naver's growth and Kakao's declines stand out in contrasting Q4 performances
Naver and Kakao, two of South Korea’s leading tech companies, are expected to post contrasting fourth-quarter performances for 2024, highlighting divergent traj...
2025.01.03(Fri)
|Kim Min-kuk, Kim Mi-geon
Retailers struggle with costly 'free returns' as annual returns hit 500 million
South Korea’s annual parcel shipping volume reached 5.06 billion last year, up 52.9% compared to 2020. This surge translates to an average of 100.4 parcels per ...
2024.12.13(Fri)
|Seok Nam-jun, Lee Jae-eun
Naver boosts membership with free Netflix to rival Coupang
Naver on Nov. 26 added a free Netflix subscription benefit to its Naver Plus paid membership, allowing users to access Netflix’s ad-supported standard plan (wor...
2024.11.27(Wed)
|Hwang Kyu-rag, Kim Seo-young
Naver Webtoon disrupts global piracy, shuts down 70 sites
Naver Webtoon announced on Nov. 26 that it had successfully disrupted the operations of over 70 illegal overseas webtoon websites by issuing subpoenas through a...
2024.11.26(Tue)
|Kim Su-jeong, Kim Mi-geon
Naver taps into the growing virtual YouTuber market
At Naver 1784, the tech company’s new headquarters in Bundang, the basement area is undergoing a major transformation. Naver is renovating part of the space pre...
2024.11.26(Tue)
|Ahn Sang Hyun, Lee Jae-eun
S. Korean companies lead global smart city expansion
Tampere, Finland’s second-largest city and a former industrial center, is undergoing significant infrastructure revitalization. The “Nokia Arena,” inaugurated t...
2024.11.11(Mon)
|Yoo Ji-han, Kim Mi-geon
Korean anime studios break into Japan with original content
Red Dog Culture House, a South Korean animation studio, said on Oct. 27 that it will adapt its original webtoon “Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King” into an a...
2024.10.28(Mon)
|Hwang Gyurak, Lee Jae-eun
Korea scraps plan to regulate Google, Apple, Kakao as monopolies, drawing criticism
South Korea’s antitrust regulator has scrapped plans to introduce a ‘pre-designation system’ to regulate large platforms such as Google, Apple, Naver, and Kakao...
2024.09.10(Tue)
|Kwon Soon wan, Lee Haein, Lee Jae-eun
Naver Webtoon sees 300,000 drop in paid users in S. Korea
The number of paid users on Naver Webtoon has decreased by about 300,000 over the past year. According to the quarterly report submitted by Webtoon Entertainmen...
2024.08.19(Mon)
|Byun Ji-hee, Kim Seo-young
The Naver Family Chart
2024.08.09(Fri)
|The Chosun Daily
Consumers struggle for refunds amid TMON and WeMakePrice crisis
The liquidity crisis at e-commerce platforms TMON and WeMakePrice, caused by payment delays to sellers, is drawing attention to the issue of refunds for travel ...
2024.08.05(Mon)
|Seok Nam-jun, Shin Ji-in, Lee Jae-eun
SoftBank pauses review of Line Yahoo capital relationship with Naver for now
SoftBank, which is under Japanese government scrutiny for information leaks, is expected to maintain its capital relationship with Naver over Line Yahoo (LY) fo...
2024.07.17(Wed)
|Kim You-jin, Yeom Hyun-a
Exclusive: Japan reverses stance on Naver's LINE Yahoo share sale
The Japanese government has effectively withdrawn its demand for South Korea’s Naver to sell its stake in LINE Yahoo. Initially, in April and May, the governmen...
2024.07.15(Mon)
|Sung Ho-chul (Tokyo), Kim Mi-geon
Naver Webtoon debuts on Nasdaq, valued at $2.9B post-IPO
Naver Webtoon went public on the Nasdaq stock market on June 27 (local time) with an initial public offering price of $21 per share. Kim Jun-koo, the CEO of Nav...
2024.06.28(Fri)
|Kim Song-yi, Park Su-hyeon
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