US IT giant Google has expressed its willingness to purchase satellite images of South Korea with sensitive areas blurred out, in a move aimed at addressing national security concerns as the ...

The Korean government has postponed its decision on whether to allow Google to export the country's high-resolution map data, delaying the review for a third time. A government consultative body ...

The government conditionally approved the overseas export of high-precision maps requested by Google. A high-precision map refers to a 1-to-5,000 scale map that reduces an actual distance of 50 meters ...

South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) announced Friday that the government has conditionally approved a request by Google to export globally 1:5,000 scale high-precision ...

Google again requested permission to export Korea’s detailed map data, nine years after the U.S. tech giant's last attempt was shut down by Seoul over security concerns. Google's request comes ahead ...

The government decided to conditionally allow the overseas export of the "high-precision map" requested by Google. It is the first time a 1-to-5,000 scale map has been provided to overseas ...

South Korea approved Google’s request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional. By John Yoon Reporting from Seoul South Korea said on ...

The debate over the overseas transfer of South Korea’s high-precision map data, a sensitive issue that had been largely dormant since the launch of President Lee Jae Myung’s administration, has ...