{"id":39922,"date":"2025-11-28T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=39922"},"modified":"2025-11-28T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:34:00","slug":"dunamu-team-naver-declare-global-lead-with-mega-synergy-of-ai-and-web3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=39922","title":{"rendered":"Dunamu &#8211; Team NAVER, Declare Global Lead with Mega Synergy of AI and Web3"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Strategic integration to preemptively respond to the global tech trend<\/li>\n<li>Dunamu, operator of Korea&#8217;s largest crypto exchange Upbit, joining forces with Naver to empower K-fintech<\/li>\n<li>To invest <span class=\"xn-money\">KRW 10 trillion<\/span> over the next five years to expand Korea&#8217;s blockchain, Web3, and AI technology ecosystem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">SEOUL, South Korea<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 28, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Dunamu Inc. (CEO Kyung-seok Oh), NAVER Corp. (CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Soo Yeon Choi<\/span>), and NAVER Financial Corp. (CEO Sang-jin Park) announced on Thursday that their respective boards have approved a comprehensive share-swap, under which Dunamu will become part of NAVER group. The companies held a joint press conference at NAVER&#8217;s 1784 headquarters to outline their shared vision for global expansion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2834305\/Image__Dunamu___Team_NAVER__Declare_Global_Lead_with_Mega_Synergy_of_AI_and_Web3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2834305\/Image__Dunamu___Team_NAVER__Declare_Global_Lead_with_Mega_Synergy_of_AI_and_Web3.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"Dunamu - Team NAVER, Declare Global Lead with Mega Synergy of AI and Web3\" alt=\"Dunamu - Team NAVER, Declare Global Lead with Mega Synergy of AI and Web3\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span>Dunamu &#8211; Team NAVER, Declare Global Lead with Mega Synergy of AI and Web3<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The press conference was attended by NAVER Founder and Global Investment Officer Hae-jin Lee, Dunamu Chairman Chi-hyung Song, NAVER CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Soo Yeon Choi<\/span>, Dunamu CEO Kyung-seok Oh and NAVER Financial CEO Sang-jin Park.<\/p>\n<p>Dunamu operating Upbit, the world&#8217;s fourth-largest and Korea&#8217;s top crypto exchange, and Naver and Naver Financial are expected to gain a significant edge over global fintech firms, empowering K-fintech to go global.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Targeting global markets through AI\u2013Web3 convergence<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Naver CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Soo Yeon Choi<\/span> said the integration comes at a pivotal moment when the mass adoption of blockchain is coinciding with the rise of &#8220;agentic AI,&#8221; in which AI systems make autonomous decisions and execute tasks.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;This is a critical inflection point where new opportunities are opening,&#8221; Choi said. &#8220;NAVER and Dunamu have joined forces around the idea of driving a new wave of innovation on the global stage.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dunamu Chairman Song said the three companies intend to jointly design next-generation financial infrastructure that fuses AI and blockchain.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We aim to build a new global platform model that extends beyond payments and settlements to encompass the full spectrum of financial services and, ultimately, everyday lifestyle services,&#8221; Song said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>NAVER Founder Lee stressed the strategic importance of combining NAVER&#8217;s AI capabilities with Dunamu&#8217;s Web3 expertise<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;For NAVER to continue to lead the next wave of markets, our AI capabilities must be tightly integrated with Web3,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;To keep pace with global digital finance, Dunamu and NAVER Financial need faster decision-making and must take on ambitious initiatives that global peers have not yet tried.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>CEO Oh, who leads Korea&#8217;s largest crypto exchange Upbit, emphasized that the essence of the deal is to turn global technology shifts into growth opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;By combining the capabilities, we intend to treat this global inflection point not as a risk but as an opportunity for a far greater leap forward,&#8221; Oh said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Combining strengths across AI, Web3, payments, content and commerce<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Once the deal is completed, NAVER\u2014Korea&#8217;s largest internet company and a leading player in search and AI technology; NAVER Financial\u2014a top simple-payment provider with more than 34 million users and over <span class=\"xn-money\">KRW 80 trillion<\/span> in annual transaction volume; and Dunamu\u2014operator of Upbit, which boasts top-tier global digital asset trading volume, and owner of Korea&#8217;s leading blockchain technologies such as GiwaChain\u2014will pool their strengths to seize new global opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Choi stressed the companies will prioritize building shared, global-first operating culture after the deal closure.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that we fully convey our shared vision to external stakeholders. Once the deal is completed, we will establish a culture that puts global expansion first and be thoroughly prepared to move aggressively into the global Web3 market, backed by a full lineup of users, data, technology, services and capital.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-money\">KRW 10 trillion<\/span> investment over five years to catalyze Korea&#8217;s AI and Web3 ecosystem<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the joint press conference, CEO Choi also announced that\u00a0the three companies plan to play a leading role in strengthening Korea&#8217;s technology ecosystem in AI, Web3 and other strategic areas. With global players already emerging on the back of strong technological and service foundations, she noted that ecosystem-building is essential for Korean companies to secure competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, companies announced a plan to invest <span class=\"xn-money\">KRW 10 trillion<\/span> over the next five years to cultivate talent in AI and blockchain, build a more secure and resilient infrastructure and support promising startups.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Oh added that Dunamu and NAVER Financial will prioritize realizing synergies from the integration rather than pursuing further governance changes in the near term.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Our immediate focus will be on maximizing synergies through the comprehensive share swap, affiliate integration and corporate convergence,&#8221; Oh said. &#8220;Rather than additional changes to the governance structure, we will concentrate on advancing into global markets and expanding access to capital markets.&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Strategic integration to preemptively respond to the global tech trend<\/li>\n<li>Dunamu, operator of Korea&#8217;s largest crypto exchange Upbit, joining forces with Naver to empower K-fintech<\/li>\n<li>To invest <span class=\"xn-money\">KRW 10 trillion<\/span> over the next five years to expand Korea&#8217;s blockchain, Web3, and AI technology ecosystem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">SEOUL, South Korea<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 28, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Dunamu Inc. (CEO Kyung-seok Oh), NAVER Corp. (CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Soo Yeon Choi<\/span>), and NAVER Financial Corp. (CEO Sang-jin Park) announced on Thursday that their respective boards have approved a comprehensive share-swap, under which Dunamu will become part of NAVER group. The companies held a joint press conference at NAVER&#8217;s 1784 headquarters to outline their shared vision for global expansion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2834305\/Image__Dunamu___Team_NAVER__Declare_Global_Lead_with_Mega_Synergy_of_AI_and_Web3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2834305\/Image__Dunamu___Team_NAVER__Declare_Global_Lead_with_Mega_Synergy_of_AI_and_Web3.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"Dunamu - Team NAVER, Declare Global Lead with Mega Synergy of AI and Web3\" alt=\"Dunamu - Team NAVER, Declare Global Lead with Mega Synergy of AI and Web3\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span>Dunamu &#8211; Team NAVER, Declare Global Lead with Mega Synergy of AI and Web3<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The press conference was attended by NAVER Founder and Global Investment Officer Hae-jin Lee, Dunamu Chairman Chi-hyung Song, NAVER CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Soo Yeon Choi<\/span>, Dunamu CEO Kyung-seok Oh and NAVER Financial CEO Sang-jin Park.<\/p>\n<p>Dunamu operating Upbit, the world&#8217;s fourth-largest and Korea&#8217;s top crypto exchange, and Naver and Naver Financial are expected to gain a significant edge over global fintech firms, empowering K-fintech to go global.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Targeting global markets through AI\u2013Web3 convergence<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Naver CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Soo Yeon Choi<\/span> said the integration comes at a pivotal moment when the mass adoption of blockchain is coinciding with the rise of &#8220;agentic AI,&#8221; in which AI systems make autonomous decisions and execute tasks.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;This is a critical inflection point where new opportunities are opening,&#8221; Choi said. &#8220;NAVER and Dunamu have joined forces around the idea of driving a new wave of innovation on the global stage.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dunamu Chairman Song said the three companies intend to jointly design next-generation financial infrastructure that fuses AI and blockchain.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We aim to build a new global platform model that extends beyond payments and settlements to encompass the full spectrum of financial services and, ultimately, everyday lifestyle services,&#8221; Song said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>NAVER Founder Lee stressed the strategic importance of combining NAVER&#8217;s AI capabilities with Dunamu&#8217;s Web3 expertise<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;For NAVER to continue to lead the next wave of markets, our AI capabilities must be tightly integrated with Web3,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;To keep pace with global digital finance, Dunamu and NAVER Financial need faster decision-making and must take on ambitious initiatives that global peers have not yet tried.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>CEO Oh, who leads Korea&#8217;s largest crypto exchange Upbit, emphasized that the essence of the deal is to turn global technology shifts into growth opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;By combining the capabilities, we intend to treat this global inflection point not as a risk but as an opportunity for a far greater leap forward,&#8221; Oh said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Combining strengths across AI, Web3, payments, content and commerce<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Once the deal is completed, NAVER\u2014Korea&#8217;s largest internet company and a leading player in search and AI technology; NAVER Financial\u2014a top simple-payment provider with more than 34 million users and over <span class=\"xn-money\">KRW 80 trillion<\/span> in annual transaction volume; and Dunamu\u2014operator of Upbit, which boasts top-tier global digital asset trading volume, and owner of Korea&#8217;s leading blockchain technologies such as GiwaChain\u2014will pool their strengths to seize new global opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Choi stressed the companies will prioritize building shared, global-first operating culture after the deal closure.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that we fully convey our shared vision to external stakeholders. Once the deal is completed, we will establish a culture that puts global expansion first and be thoroughly prepared to move aggressively into the global Web3 market, backed by a full lineup of users, data, technology, services and capital.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-money\">KRW 10 trillion<\/span> investment over five years to catalyze Korea&#8217;s AI and Web3 ecosystem<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the joint press conference, CEO Choi also announced that\u00a0the three companies plan to play a leading role in strengthening Korea&#8217;s technology ecosystem in AI, Web3 and other strategic areas. With global players already emerging on the back of strong technological and service foundations, she noted that ecosystem-building is essential for Korean companies to secure competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, companies announced a plan to invest <span class=\"xn-money\">KRW 10 trillion<\/span> over the next five years to cultivate talent in AI and blockchain, build a more secure and resilient infrastructure and support promising startups.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Oh added that Dunamu and NAVER Financial will prioritize realizing synergies from the integration rather than pursuing further governance changes in the near term.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Our immediate focus will be on maximizing synergies through the comprehensive share swap, affiliate integration and corporate convergence,&#8221; Oh said. &#8220;Rather than additional changes to the governance structure, we will concentrate on advancing into global markets and expanding access to capital markets.&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}