Google says it needs South Korea’s best map. But that’s only half the story. The map at the centre of this issue is a government-built, high-resolution 1:5000 digital base map maintained by ...

[LEE SOO-JUNG] Liberal lawmakers and academic experts urged South Korea to continue withholding detailed map data from Google, stressing that providing it could pose “serious threat to national ...

The debate over the overseas transfer of South Korea’s high-precision map data, a sensitive issue that had been largely ...

In South Korea, the problem of being unable to use Google Maps' walking route guidance and other features continues even in 2025, causing inconvenience to many tourists. For many years ...

He added that South Korea is sure that any problems can be solved in a "rather ... citing as an example Google Maps, which in South Korea faces restrictions on the export of high-precision map ...

South Korea has once again postponed a decision on whether to approve Google’s request to transfer high-precision map data on the country’s geography to its international servers. In February ...

South Korea has issued its largest privacy fines ever to Google and Meta, parent company of the massively popular social apps Instagram and Facebook. Google and Meta are to pay up $50 million and ...

SEOUL — In South Korea, Kakao is ubiquitous ... It’s Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Uber, Google Maps and Venmo wrapped into one. So when a fire broke out this weekend at the building where ...

“If Google can make it work in North Korea,” Choi said, “then clearly the map is not the only barrier.” To be fair, this doesn’t mean Apple Maps’ walking routes in South Korea are ...