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  COMEUP 2025 COMEUP 2025, South Korea's largest annual startup festival, opened Dec. 10 for a three-day run at COEX in Seoul, drawing hundreds of founders, investors, and corporate leaders from around the world for three days of conferences, exhibitions, and business matching sessions. The event features startups from 46 countries and more than 270 companies presenting products and technologies across deep tech, AI, climate technology, gaming, mobile services an December 10, 2025
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  Coupang CEO resigns over data breach; US parent firm names interim chief SEOUL, December 10 (AJP) - Coupang said on Thursday that CEO Park Dae-jun has resigned following a major data breach, taking responsibility for the incident and its fallout. The e-commerce firm said Park apologized for disappointing customers and the public, and cited a sense of accountability in stepping down. The company’s U.S.-based parent, Coupang Inc., appointed Harold Rogers as interim CEO. Rogers, a legal and compliance specialist, has he December 10, 2025
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  Korea takes more active approach to find missing persons through AI and viral media SEOUL, December 10 (AJP) - Kim Tae-hee had a habit of staring at things a little longer than others, narrowing his eyes to make sense of a world blurred by poor sight. His speech was halting, shaped by a lifelong mental disability, but he could say his name and home phone number. None of it helped on April 23, 1988, when he disappeared in Seoul's Gangnam District at age 14. Thirty-seven years have passed since. Today, at 51, this is what he might look like. What once required fo December 10, 2025
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  LG Uplus accused of hindering data breach probe by destroying critical server SEOUL, December 10 (AJP) - South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has requested a police investigation into LG Uplus over allegations that the company intentionally disposed of a key server linked to a customer data breach. The ministry said the company discarded one of two APPM servers, which are critical for managing server account access and permissions, and submitted only the remaining server to a joint investigation team. “Both servers are required for an December 10, 2025
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  PPP lawmaker of American descent resigns to return to medical practice SEOUL, December 10 (AJP) - Ihn Yo-han, a lawmaker from the main opposition People Power Party, announced his resignation at a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday, urging "national unity." His abrupt resignation comes amid the struggling party's internal division and conflicts in the wake of disgraced former President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched Dec. 3 martial law debacle last year. The great-grandson of American missionary Eugene Bell, who was born in the liber December 10, 2025
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  AI entrepreneur draws S. Korean startups to Saudi Arabia with promise of scale and cheaper AI infrastructure SEOUL, December 10 (AJP) - Tareq Amin, the CEO of Saudi Arabia's state-backed AI company HUMAIN, used his keynote at COMEUP 2025, South Korea's largest annual festival held at COEX in southern Seoul, on Wednesday to make a direct pitch to South Korean startups: consider Saudi Arabia as a place to build, scale and cut costs. Amin described a country in the middle of an economic overhaul under its Vision 2030 initiative, which aims to move Saudi Arabia beyond its traditional December 10, 2025
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  Seoul replays K-Pop Demon Hunters in pop-up Colorful displays at the Netflix K-Pop Demon Hunters pop-up store in Seoul’s Seongdong District on December 10, 2025. AJP Yoo Na-hyun December 10, 2025
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  PHOTOS: 'K-Pop Demon Hunters' immersive pop-up experience in Seoul SEOUL, December 10 (AJP) — The official pop-up store for the Netflix animated feature, “K-Pop Demon Hunters,” officially launched on Dec. 4 in the trendy Seongsu-dong district of Seoul. It is being hosted in a unique venue — a former factory building — where the entire three-story structure has been completely transformed into an immersive experience dedicated to the film’s universe. The Seoul engagement, which runs for 25 days through Dec. December 10, 2025
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  Year-end IPO buzz in Seoul preludes brisk H1 2026 SEOUL, December 10 (AJP) - South Korea’s IPO market, dormant for much of the year, is ending 2025 in a surprising burst of activity, with 10 companies going public in December alone. The pattern runs counter to the usual cycle, where listings cluster in the first half and taper off as investors and bankers wind down for the holidays. Instead, this December has emerged as the busiest in recent years, up from six IPOs in both 2023 and 2024. The reason is simple: demand is hot. O December 10, 2025
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  Korean bio names expand footprint in Japan after cracking open the toughest market in Asia SEOUL, December 10 (AJP) - South Korea's biotechnology leaders are rapidly expanding their footprint in Japan, cashing in on bold pushes into a market long viewed as one of the world's most impenetrable pharmaceutical strongholds. A series of multibillion-won deals and soaring biosimilar penetration rates now signal that Korean firms are reshaping competitive dynamics in Asia's largest and most defensive drug market. Samsung Biologics, the world's largest CDMO by December 10, 2025