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In the cryptocurrency economy, there's often a fine line between financial privacy and money laundering. Now one Bitcoin "mixer" service called Sinbad.io is walking that tightrope in full public view: Just a few months after launching on…

Issued on: 09/02/2023 - 05:59 North Korea's Kim Jong Un oversaw a major military parade showcasing a record number of nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missiles, state…

South Korea-based Kakao Corp has acquired a 9.05% stake in K-Pop giant SM Entertainment.According to Reuters, Kakao is buying its stake in SM Entertainment – which is behind stars like NCT, EXO and Aespa – in a deal worth 217.2 billion won…

A campaign of cyber attacks targeting medical research bodies and energy firms has been pinned on the infamous North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Lazarus – the group behind the 2017 WannaCry incident – after…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A truck drives between shipping containers at a container terminal at Incheon port in Incheon, South Korea, May 26, 2016.REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo By Veronica Dudei Maia Khongwir…

Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak will be pardoned after serving almost four years of a 17-year sentence for corruption, embezzlement and bribery, the country’s justice ministry has said.President Yoon Suk-yeol said on…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 11th Meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee in this undated photo released on December 1, 2022. KCNA via REUTERS By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters)…

Seoul-based Beyond Music, which claims to be Asia’s largest single music IP asset management company, has acquired the music catalog of  Grammy-winning producer/songwriter Greg Wells.Wells has produced and written songs with the likes of…

South Korean prosecutors believe that Do Kwon, the failed entrepreneur behind the $40bn implosion of the terraUSD and luna tokens, is hiding in Serbia, as they intensify their months-long global manhunt for the disgraced crypto…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Since the world's second-largest crypto exchange, FTX, declared bankruptcy earlier this month, the flow-on effects…