Korea will decide in August whether to provide Google with high-precision map data, following a review highlighting national security concerns and the impacts on domestic industry.

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 security.” ...

Few realize that South Korea bars foreign companies from exporting the mapping data necessary for digital map services. That ...

For outsiders, there are few good maps of North Korea. Google is trying to change that. Monday night, the search giant updated its maps to include detailed info for North Korea for the first time.

Meanwhile, the company suggested that improved Google Maps could lead as many as 6.8 million additional foreign tourists to visit Korea by 2027 and a tourism revenue increase of $22.6 billion.

A map of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, before the addition of crowd-sourced data (left) and after the addition of crowd-sourced data (right.) Google.

This map, uploaded to RedNote on January 28, appears to be North Korea-made and emphasizes the Kim regime's shift away from pro-unification messaging amid tensions with the South.

News; World news; North Korea; North Korea map creator shares hidden details of world's most secretive country Jacob Bogle has spent the best part of 10 years locating, verifying and naming over ...