Twelve home shopping operators, including Lotte Home Shopping and Home & Shopping, received reauthorisation with a validity period of seven years, the Broadcasting Media Communications Commission said on Tuesday. All 12 firms scored at least 650 points out of 1,000 and met minimum requirements in fail categories. The commission revised conditions, including contract disclosure for supplier fees and a ban on unfair pass-through of transmission fee hikes, and set additional requirements for specific operators.

Korea Microsoft will hold the Microsoft Industry Summit on Sept. 30 at the COEX Grand Ballroom in Seoul to share industry-specific AI transformation strategies and on-the-ground cases. The company will present AI use cases and Frontier Transformation 방향 across finance, retail, manufacturing, healthcare and education. It will also run technology sessions featuring customer cases using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Azure. Korean firms including SC First Bank, Shinhan units and KB Kookmin Bank will present.