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  Autonomous Car

  K-Autonomous Driving Startup Targets Big Tech Gaps

  Although the global autonomous driving market is led by US and Chinese big tech companies, Korean startups are gradually securing business opportunities overseas. They have focused on “niche markets” such as public transportation in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where markets opened earlier th

  2026.05.21
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  Autonomous Car

  Korea Accelerates Urban AI Tests for Self-Driving

  “US companies such as Tesla and Waymo and Chinese firms are doing extremely well. To make up for what we lack in technology, we will learn from any company in the world if there is something to learn.”Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun made these remarks on 14 May in response to questions fro

  2026.05.21
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  AI Company

  AI Targets Potholes, Ice on Jeju’s Risky Roads

  Construction workers fill a pothole on a road in Jeju. Courtesy of Jeju Province In Jeju, artificial intelligence (AI) will start identifying risk factors on roads in real time. Jeju Special Self-Governing Province announced on the 20th that it will launch the “AI-Based Integrated Road Control Platf

  2026.05.21
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  Biotech

  AI-Driven Protein Design Unlocks Virus Secrets

  A multinational research team including domestic researchers has succeeded in creating artificial protein structures using artificial intelligence (AI). On the 20th, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced that a research team led by Professor Sangmin Lee of the Department of Chemical Engineering

  2026.05.21
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  Tech

  POSCO Future M Secures Silicon Anode Mass Production Technology

  POSCO Future M CEO Eom Gi-cheon speaks to the press (doorstepping) at InterBattery 2026 held at COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on the 11th. 2026.03.11. Newsis POSCO Future M has secured silicon anode material technology and will begin mass production in 2028. Silicon anode materials, which have higher e

  2026.05.21
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  AI Startup

  Exclusive: Era of AI Agents Coding From Prompts

  “Create an app that only shows exclusive articles by time.” “Understood. Should it only show the article headlines? Or should it be in a tiled layout?” It has now become an era in which a desired application (app) can be created instantly with just a spoken command. At Enhance, an artificial intelli

  2026.05.21
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  AI Startup

  AI Problem-Solver, K-Startup Innovation Shine at AWS Summit

  Photo = Reporter Kim Young-ho rladudgh2349@donga.com At the scene of “AWS (Amazon Web Services) Summit 2026,” Korean startups presented industry-specific solutions that combine artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology.The keyword set by AWS for this year’s Startup Zone is “Creators in the A

  2026.05.20
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  MOU

  LG Innotek, Kakao Form Autonomous Driving Alliance

  (From left) LG Innotek CTO Min Zone (Executive Director), CSO Oh Se-jin (Senior Vice President), Kakao Mobility Head of Physical AI Division Kim Jin-kyu (Executive Vice President), and Kakao Mobility Head of Business Division Ahn Kyu-jin (Executive Vice President) pose for a commemorative photo at t

  2026.05.20
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  Robotics

  Atlas Closer to Deployment on Factory Floors

  The process of the humanoid robot Atlas, developed by Hyundai Motor Group’s robotics affiliate Boston Dynamics, carrying a refrigerator, as revealed in a YouTube video on the 18th (local time). Atlas bent its knees and lifted the refrigerator with both arms, then rotated only its upper body 180 degr

  2026.05.19
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  Persona AI

  Persona AI Chosen to Lead Korea’s Generative AI Talent Program

  PersonaAI consortium structure diagram. Provided by PersonaAI PersonaAI (CEO Yoo Seung-jae) announced on the 18th that it has been selected as the lead institution for the “Generative AI Leading Talent Training Project” promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Institute of Information & C

  2026.05.18