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by codethief 1042 days ago
AFAIU, the patent is limited to South Korea.
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That is insane and would be a major error if true.
As far as I know, there is no such thing as an international patent.

What is called an international patent is just a standardized application so that only one national patent office has to examine it. If it is accepted, other national offices will grant the patent much more easily since the hard work has already been done.

And here, there is an international application, so what I think is that there is already a patent in Korea, but it is still pending for other countries.