South Korea’s artificial intelligence market is forecast to reach US$15.9 billion in 2026, up from US$10.6 billion in 2025, and to compound at 41% annually to US$175.8 billion by 2033 … Read more
A working tracker of who owns ecommerce GMV across fifteen Asian markets. Shopee, Coupang, Rakuten, Taobao, Flipkart — every leader is Asian-headquartered.
Naver Corporation isn’t a search engine with side projects — it’s a vertically integrated ecosystem where search, commerce, payments, content, and AI reinforce each other across every layer. In 2025, … Read more
South Korea’s digital economy runs through two companies. Naver, the country’s dominant search engine, posted KRW 10.7 trillion in revenue in 2024 — the first time a domestic internet company … Read more
South Korea is the most intensely connected country on earth. With 50.4 million internet users representing 97.4% of the population, 5G download speeds averaging 1,064 Mbps on SK Telecom’s network, … Read more
Japan’s AI market was valued at between USD 7.6 billion and USD 11.8 billion in 2024, with projections ranging from USD 26 billion to USD 126 billion by 2030 — … Read more
Why Is Every Asian Country Building Its Own AI Model? Sovereign AI — the development of domestically controlled artificial intelligence infrastructure, models, and data pipelines — has become the defining … Read more
iKorea is a column by Soyoon Bach, a Digital Marketing professional in Seoul, covering developments in the Korean digital ecosystem. Programmatic media buying is a powerful infant. While the technology itself … Read more
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