South Korea has strict laws that block the export of high-precision map data, supposedly to prevent misuse by hostile actors.

[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 ...

South Korea has once again delayed its decision on whether to allow Google to transfer high-precision geographic map data of the country to its overseas servers, raising ongoing questions about ...

South Korea has postponed its decision on whether to approve Google’s request to transfer high-precision map data of the country’s geography to its ...

the name of which has been in dispute between Japan and South Korea. In Google Maps in the United States, the sea is designated as the Sea of Japan (East Sea). A similar naming procedure is set to ...

“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 ...

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