ETRI is the largest government funded research institute in Korea, which strives to advance science by means of formulating innovative ideas; developing new techniques; and training professional individuals in the area of information telecommunications to ultimately enhance social and economical aspects of the modern society.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. engages in providing technology infrastructure and marketing reach. It operates through the following business segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others segments. The Core Commerce segment consists of platforms operating in retail and wholesale. The China Commerce segment includes China commerce retail and wholesale businesses. The International Commerce segment focuses on international commerce retail and wholesale businesses. The Local Consumer Services segment is involved in \"To-Home\" businesses, which include Ele.me, local services and delivery platform, and Taoxianda, and \"To-Destination\" segment businesses which include Amap, the provider of mobile digital map, navigation and real-time traffic information, and restaurant and local services guide platform. The Cainiao segment has Cainiao Network and offers domestic and international one-stop-shop logistics services and supply chain management solution. The Cloud segment includes Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk. The company was founded by Chung Tsai and Yun Ma on June 28, 1999 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.

Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. designs and develops computer software and provides Internet information services in China. It offers instant messaging services; QQ, an Internet-based instant messaging tool to support online message communications and instant voice, video, and file transmission; TM, an instant messaging communication software application; Real Time eXchange, an instant messaging platform launched for enterprises; Traveler, a multi-page web page browser; QQDoctor, an anti-virus tool developed to address the problem of Trojan viruses that steal QQ passwords; QQMailbox, provides e-mail services to users; and QQDownload, software that simultaneously supports various download tasks. The company was founded in 2000 and is located in Shenzhen, China.

National Agricultural Cooperative Federation engages in the provision of marketing, banking, and insurance services for agricultural cooperatives and farmers. The company was founded on August 15, 1961 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

WebCash Corp. provides e-banking payment services. It operates through the following business divisions: Public Company, Major Company, Medium Company, and E-Finance Services. It offers corporate cash management products and services to create appropriate financial environment for corporate customers. The company was founded on July 8, 1999 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Mastercard International, Inc. provides credit card services. It provides access to round-trip bill payment and presentment for industry providers. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Purchase, NY.

Expanding 4.5 million fixed lines to 20 million in just 12 years, kt introduced universal telephone service to every citizen of Korea, leading the development and advancement of communications services. More recently, kt established an advanced broadband network for the first time in Asia, and launched Korea's first communication satellite 'Mugunghwa (Sharon's Rose)', contributing to making Korea one of the most advanced countries in information and communications. Since becoming a government-funded corporation in 1997, kt changed its business portfolio to focus more on wireless and internet services instead of fixed lines. Taking over Hansol M.com and merging with its subsidiary KTF, kt expanded its business scope and included mobile communication as its main service. kt became a privately owned company in 2002 and began concentrating on building broadband network. As a result, the company set several new records including the increase of ADSL subscribers to 6 million in just 3 years and played a leading role in the age of digital networking.

SK planet, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK telecom, was established in October 1, 2011 with an aspiration to become a global platform innovator. As the lynchpin of SK telecom's future growth, the company was spun off with the industry-leading platform businesses including T-Store, T-map, MelOn, and Cyworld, Korea's biggest mobile app store, mobile navigation, online music service and SNS respectively. The company also pioneers in new media with hoppin, Korea's first multi-screen premium video service, and continues to build momentum in its online commerce leadership with 11th Street. SK planet aspires to develop a wide scope of global partnerships such as TMK, a media joint venture with Disney. Through collaborations with partners, SK planet is committed to building global platform business in Asia and other strategic markets.

LG Uplus Corp is a South Korean telecommunications and Mobile phone operator controlled by the LG Group, one of the country's largest chaebol. It was formerly known as LG Telecom. LG Telecom became one of the first companies to launch a commercial 3G service using PCS technology. In 1997, this was followed up by launching the second PCS network, offering greatly increased data transmission speeds. LG Telecom also offers a variety of mobile services. BankOn is one of the most popular Mobile banking services in South Korea and MusicOn is an on-line music store. In July 2006, the South Korean government has cancelled LG Telecom's business license for a W-CDMA wireless communications system after the company opted not to develop the technology. LG Telecom will instead continue investing and upgrading in its CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. A network. In January 2010, LG Telecom merged with LG Dacom and LG Powercom. As of 1 July 2010, LG Telecom changed its name to "LG U+". On July 17th 2013 LG Uplus launched LTE-A service and introduced Galaxy S4 LTE-A, the world’s first "100% LTE" smart mobile phone that can utilize data, voice and text with LTE and not fall back to CDMA. Starting from 2014 LG Uplus plans to release only "100% LTE" phones.

China Telecom Corp., Ltd. is a Chinese Telecommunications company. It is one of the listed companies of state-owned China Telecommunications Corporation. Its H share traded in the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong since 15 November 2002. It is a constituent of Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, the index for H share of state-controlled listed companies.

SK Telecom Co., Ltd. (Hangul: SK텔레콤 or 에스케이텔레콤) is a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator; it is part of the SK Group, one of the country's largest chaebols. SK Telecom is South Korea's largest wireless carrier: it leads the local market with 50.5 percent share as of 2008. Since its creation in 1984, the company has evolved from a first generation analog cellular system, to second generation CDMA, then to the world's first third-generation synchronized IMT-2000 cellular system. SK Telecom also became the world's first carrier to commercialize HSDPA in May 2006. SK expanded into the landline market by acquiring second-rated fixed-line operator Hanaro Telecom in February 2008.

Designs and builds a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, and data networking systems, as well as telephone systems and microelectronic components

Metaweb Technologies, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco that is developing Metaweb, a semantic data storage infrastructure for the web, and Freebase, an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea as a spinoff of Applied Minds in July, 2005, operated in stealth mode until 2007 and acquired by Google as the basis of its Knowledge Graph in 2010. Freebase is a massive, collaboratively edited database of cross-linked data. The idea behind the product is to create a Wikipedia like system for building the semantic web. Freebase allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data. It sounds like Wikipedia, but instead of arranging by articles, it is more of an almanac, organized like a database, and readable by people and software.

PCN Corp., a subsidiary of CMIC Holdings Co., Ltd., is a company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm provides medical and health related information and consultation services over the Internet.

China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. (Briefly named "China Unicom") was established on January 6, 2009 on the basis of the former China Unicom and China Netcom, which used to play the important roles on china's telecom market with their own advantages in different professional areas respectively. China United Network Communications Group Co.,Ltd ("China Unicom") was officially established on 6 January 2009 on the basis of the merger of former China Netcom and former China Unicom. It has subsidiaries in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across China and many countries and regions around the world.

WiseNut, Inc. operates an on-line navigation website. The company was founded by Yeogirl Yun on September 1, 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Provenance Asset Group LLC is an American private company located in Essex that provides patent right services.

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea (Hangul: 한국과학기술정보연구원; Hanja: 韓国科學技術情報研究院) is a government-backed research institute in Daedeok Science Town in Daejeon, South Korea.

JP Morgan Chase Bank NA engages in the provision of banking services. It includes checking accounts, savings account, prepaid card, credit cards, mortgages, home equity line of credit, car buying and loans, planning and investments, business banking, sports and entertainment. The company is headquartered in Columbus, OH.