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Korean MNOs let users add digital national ID card to mobile verification app

By Tom Phillips • 15 November 2022 • Updated 15 November 2022

South Korea Pass mobile verification app on smartphone

Residents of South Korea can now create, store and use a digital version of their national identity card on their mobile device using the Pass verification app that they can then use to prove their age when purchasing age-restricted goods and to verify their identity when signing contracts and other legal documents... More

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Korean bank to protect mobile banking transactions with quantum cryptography

By Tom Phillips • 27 August 2020 • Updated 12 September 2023

DGB Daegu IM Bank mobile banking app on a Samsung Galaxy A Quantum 5G smartphone

Transactions conducted by customers using Korean bank DGB Daegu’s IM Bank mobile banking app on a Samsung Galaxy A Quantum 5G smartphone will soon be secured with 5G quantum cryptography technology that generates true random numbers to encrypt one-time passwords and identity verification information... More

Samsung partners with Korean banks and carriers to launch blockchain mobile ID platform

By Sarah Clark • 15 July 2019 • Updated 16 July 2019

Consortium launches blockchain-based digital ID in S Korea — Yonhap News — “A group of major tech companies and financial institutions have joined hands to launch a blockchain-based digital identity platform available on smartphones… Samsung Electronics Co, three mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co, KT Corp and LG Uplus Corp — KEB Hana Bank, Woori Bank and Koscom, an IT subsidiary of the main stock exchange, signed an agreement to jointly develop a mobile application for the digital ID platform.”

SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom to build blockchain-based digital ID platform

By Sarah Clark • 21 February 2019 • Updated 21 February 2019

SKT teams up with Deutsche Telekom for blockchain biz — Korea Times — “SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs will work together to develop and commercialize blockchain-based mobile identification that can be utilized in various areas including access control, dealings and contracts… The firm said blockchain-based digital identification could also replace identification cards issued by the government such as passports.”

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South Korean store launches smart shopping experience

By Rian Boden • 7 October 2016 • Updated 28 June 2022

Customers at Lotte Department Store in the Bundang district of Seoul, South Korea, are being offered a new service that enables them to shop by scanning the barcode on their desired products using a shopper scanner device and completing the payment at dedicated terminals by tapping the handheld device against NFC dongles... More

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Gemalto analyses success of SK Telecom’s NFC service

By Rian Boden • 25 May 2016 • Updated 21 January 2019

PARTNER NEWS: A case study of South Korean mobile network operator SK Telecom’s NFC-based mobile wallet which explores the reasons behind its success is now available from digital security giant Gemalto... More

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SK Telecom launches hands free mobile payments and rewards

By Rian Boden • 30 March 2016

More than 100,000 customers of SK Telecom in Korea have subscribed to T Pay, a hands free mobile payment and rewards service based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology that launched earlier this month. More

SK Planet to roll out Bluetooth beacons to 10,000 stores across Korea

By Rian Boden • 3 November 2014 • Updated 9 December 2022

SK Telecom's iBeacon-compatible Wizturn Pebble beacons have a one-year battery life and a range of up to 70 metres

SK Planet has launched a new Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) service in Korea that offers customers reward points and benefits directly on their mobile device whenever they enter a participating retail location. The BLE beacon-based solution is expected to be installed in more than 10,000 stores by next month. More

Korea’s SK Planet buys US BLE offers platform Shopkick

By Sarah Clark • 29 September 2014 • Updated 29 September 2014

Mobile offers platform Shopkick, which is working with a number of high profile US retailers to roll out a network of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons, has been acquired by SK Planet (SKP), operator of Korea’s largest shopper rewards program and part of the same group as carrier SK Telecom... More

Samsung includes NFC and BLE in first Tizen phone

By Mike Clark • 3 June 2014 • Updated 24 April 2023

Samsung has announced the first commercially available phone based on its Tizen operating system, and it will come with NFC... More

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NFC couponing service launches in Tokyo stores

By Rian Boden • 26 June 2013

Korean mobile network operator SK Telecom‘s subsidiary SK Planet has launched an NFC couponing service in the Shin-Okubo neighbourhood of Tokyo, the centre of the city’s Korean community, in partnership with Japanese carriers KDDI and Softbank Mobile... More

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Korean banks launch NFC payments service

By Sarah Clark • 20 March 2013 • Updated 24 November 2023

Sixteen Korean banks have introduced BankWallet, a prepaid NFC payments service that uses a platform developed by interbank clearing house KFTC. SK Telecom subscribers with an NFC phone will be the first to be able to use the new service and KT customers will be added soon. More

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GSMA honors KT and SK Telecom for NFC

By Mike Clark • 26 February 2013 • Updated 27 January 2019

Korean mobile network operators KT and SK Telecom have been named as the winners of the 2013 GSMA Chairman’s Award, the association’s most prestigious honour, in recognition of “their pioneering efforts and leadership in driving the adoption of SIM-based mobile near field communication (NFC) services”... More

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LG reveals Optimus 3D Cube with NFC

By Mike Clark • 22 February 2012 • Updated 10 April 2023

LG has unveiled another NFC smartphone, its second this week, in the run-up to the Mobile World Congress... More

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World Expo 2012 to showcase NFC applications

By Sarah Clark • 20 February 2012 • Updated 4 February 2019

This year’s World Expo in Yeosu, Korea is to include NFC-based payments, food ordering, entrance tickets and parking as well as an NFC shopping wall and access to multilingual information on exhibits and transportation. More

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Tizen preview unveiled

By Mike Clark • 24 January 2012

The Linux Foundation has published a Tizen SDK preview to give application developers a pre-release look at the new mobile operating system... More

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Japanese carriers form NFC consortium

By Sarah Clark • 22 December 2011 • Updated 4 February 2019

KDDI, Softbank and NTT Docomo have formed the Japan Mobile NFC Consortium

NTT Docomo, KDDI and Softbank Mobile have set up the Japan Mobile NFC Consortium with the aim of working together to coordinate the switch from Japan’s existing Osaifu-Keitai non-NFC standard mobile payments system to NFC. More

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NFC shopping zone opens in Seoul

By Sarah Clark • 18 December 2011 • Updated 4 February 2019

Korea’s leading mobile network operators, card networks, phone manufacturers and government agencies have joined forces to provide shoppers in Seoul’s busiest shopping district with a wide range of NFC services including payments, couponing, smart posters and digital receipts. More

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Korea to eliminate paper receipts with NFC

By Sarah Clark • 6 December 2011 • Updated 4 February 2019

Telecoms research institute ETRI has established a standard way for Korean merchants to deliver receipts to NFC mobile phones, allowing stores to cut out the need to print paper sales slips. More

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45 mobile operators commit to NFC

By Paula Berger • 16 November 2011 • Updated 8 March 2024

The mobile network operators have signed up to support and implement SIM-based NFC in a move the GSMA says will “promote the global interoperability of services and accelerate time-to-market”. More

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Korean MNOs let users add digital national ID card to mobile verification app

Korean bank to protect mobile banking transactions with quantum cryptography

Samsung partners with Korean banks and carriers to launch blockchain mobile ID platform

SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom to build blockchain-based digital ID platform

South Korean store launches smart shopping experience

Gemalto analyses success of SK Telecom’s NFC service

SK Telecom launches hands free mobile payments and rewards

SK Planet to roll out Bluetooth beacons to 10,000 stores across Korea

Korea’s SK Planet buys US BLE offers platform Shopkick

Samsung includes NFC and BLE in first Tizen phone

NFC couponing service launches in Tokyo stores

Korean banks launch NFC payments service

GSMA honors KT and SK Telecom for NFC

LG reveals Optimus 3D Cube with NFC

World Expo 2012 to showcase NFC applications

Tizen preview unveiled

Japanese carriers form NFC consortium

NFC shopping zone opens in Seoul

Korea to eliminate paper receipts with NFC

45 mobile operators commit to NFC