List of major Korean tech companies and startups
large tech companies
Soca
- Sector: Mobility
- Main service: Car sharing platform
- characteristic:
- Korea’s largest car sharing service
- Unmanned rental system using IoT technology
- Expanding business with various mobility services
Carrot Market
- Category: Used trade/local community
- Main service: Region-based used trading platform
- characteristic:
- Location-based services enable nearby transactions
- Strengthening local community functions
- High user loyalty and active overseas expansion
Woowa Brothers (Baedal Minjok)
- Field: Food Tech
- Main service: food delivery platform
- characteristic:
- Operates Korea’s largest delivery app
- Unique marketing and brand strategy
- Introducing innovative technologies such as delivery robots
Today’s House (Bucket Place)
- Field: Interior/Home Furnishing
- Main service: Interior information sharing and commerce platform
- characteristic:
- Successful combination of content and commerce
- User-participatory interior information sharing
- Virtual interior service using AR technology
Viva Republica (Toss)
- Field: Fintech
- Main services: Easy remittance and comprehensive financial services
- characteristic:
- Simplifying financial services with innovative UX/UI
- Provides various financial services in one app
- Grow into a unicorn company with rapid growth
AI and technology startups
Artificial Intelligence Factory
- Field: AI/corporate solutions, RAG
- Main services: Enterprise AI solutions
- characteristic:
- Strategic partnership with Microsoft
- Applying AI technology to various industries
- Customized AI model development and consulting
Lutton
- Field: AI/natural language processing, Agent
- Main service: AI-based writing support tool
- characteristic:
- Development of Korean-specific AI model
- Supports various writing styles
- Used in education and business fields
VESSL AI
- Field: MLOps
- Main service: MLOps platform ‘VESSL’
- characteristic:
- Integrated management of MLOps platform development and operation process
- Cloud and on-premises environments available
- Hyperparameter optimization, AutoML, distributed learning support
Psionic AI
- Field: AI/corporate solutions, LLMOps
- Main services: Enterprise-tailored LLM solutions, LLMOps
- characteristic:
- Development of specialized AI models for each company
- Provides LLM operation and optimization services
- Applying AI solutions to various industries
Umeta Lab
- Field: AI/Prompt Engineering
- Main Services: Prompt Engineering Solutions
- characteristic:
- Attention with K-HeritageGPT development
- Won the grand prize at the National Heritage Digital Content Contest
- Development of AI and human interaction optimization technology
Keytalk AI
- Field: AI/Natural Language Processing
- Main service: Context recognition-based natural language prompt technology
- characteristic:
- Development of AI communication optimization technology
- Multilingual support and cultural context understanding
- Providing corporate chatbot and conversational AI solutions
Twelve Labs
- Field: AI/Computer Vision
- Key Services: Advanced Video Search API
- characteristic:
- Developer-friendly video AI solutions
- Real-time video analysis and search function
- Flexible API applicable to various industries
Circulus
- Field: Robotics/AI
- Main service: Social robot for single-person households
- characteristic:
- Pursuing the ‘Correctly, Lightly’ slogan
- Development of AI robots closely related to daily life
- Goal to improve quality of life for seniors living alone and single-person households
Other innovative companies
RapoLabs
- Field: Fashion Tech/Food Tech
- Main services: “Queen It” (fashion platform), “Paldogam” (food platform)
- characteristic:
- Specialized service targeting Generation X
- AI-based personalized recommendation system
- Online commerce innovation in fashion and food
Waddle
- Field: AI/e-commerce
- Main service: 'Acio' - AI-based interactive product recommendation platform
- characteristic:
- Providing a shopping experience using natural language processing technology
- Personalized product recommendation algorithm
- Expanding connection with e-commerce platforms
Legal Box
- Field: Legal Tech
- Main services: Comprehensive legal information service platform
- characteristic:
- Improved accessibility to legal information using AI technology
- Legal consultation service through expert network
- Providing legal document automation and analysis tools
AI and technology expert
Taeyoung Kim
- Field: AI education/consulting, platform development
- Key activities: AIFactory CEO, Microsoft Regional Director, AI teaching and writing
- characteristic:
- Activating the domestic LLM development ecosystem by operating the LangChain KR community
- Author of "Python Deep Learning Keras with Blocks"
- Operating large-scale AI learning communities such as Keras Korea and Kaggle Korea
- Speaker at major domestic and international AI events such as NASA FDL and NVIDIA AI conference
Sangjun Park
- Field: AI research/development, natural language processing
- Main activities: Upstage AI research engineer, academic research
- characteristic:
- Author of ICML 2024 Spotlight paper "Memoria: Resolving Fateful Forgetting Problem through Human-Inspired Memory Architecture"
- Double major in Computer Engineering and Psychology at Sungkyunkwan University (GPA: 4.24/4.5)
- Scatterlab develops conversational AI chatbot ‘Iruda’
Seo Seung-wan
- Field: Prompt Engineering, AI Education
- Main activities: CEO of Umeta Lab Co., Ltd., Founder of Prompt Engineer Korea
- characteristic:
- Author of <Prompt Engineering Textbook>
- AI3 Prompt Research Lab Director
- Conducting training/lectures/consulting related to AI and prompt engineering at many companies and organizations
- As a columnist for Yeongnam Ilbo’s <Gaze and Window>, he published a series of AI-related columns.
Seyoung Lee
- Field: Generative AI, platform development
- Main activities: CEO of Rutten Technologies
- characteristic:
- Started a representative generative AI platform company in Korea at the young age of 27.
- Rutton service reached 1.5 million MAU within 9 months of launch
- Korea Symposium for Youth (KSCY) established and operated for 8 years
- Goal of building Asia’s representative generative AI mega platform
- Selected as ‘30 People Under 30 2024’ by Forbes Korea
Kiwoong Yeom
- Field: AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), NLP (Natural Language Processing)
- Main activities: CEO of HeliosMind, leading open source AI project, LLM engineer, LLM community operation, LLM seminar
- characteristic:
- Vitalizing the domestic AI and LLM ecosystem by operating the LlamaIndex HuggingFace LLM OpenAI KR community
- Leading major Korean open source projects including LiOn, DistilKoBiLSTM, KoGPT2-FineTuning, HAMA, and KoKo
- Interested in developing lightweight and efficient models and personal AGI
- Planning and conducting seminars related to artificial intelligence LLM at Socar, Google, Sejong University, Hanbit Media, LlamaIndex, etc.
