SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — At a parliamentary forum discussing South Korea’s new AI Basic Law, tech industry leaders highlighted the mounting challenges in securing training data for artificial intelligence systems, with some materials costing over 1 million won per book to acquire through web crawling. “We’re facing a significant shortage of AI training data,” said [...]
CHUNCHEON, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Gangwon Province in South Korea is set to receive 9,168 foreign seasonal workers this year from four partner countries – the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia – to address rural labor shortages, provincial officials announced on February 26. The figure represents a 19% increase from last year, with 1,733 more workers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung and Apple are adopting multiple artificial intelligence (AI) models in their smartphones to offer greater convenience and functionality to users, signaling a new era of AI-driven mobile experiences. According to the IT industry, Samsung is expected to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its Galaxy S series in the near [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six in ten employees who negotiated their salaries this year expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome, according to a recent survey. HR technology firm Incruit conducted a survey of 830 workers regarding their 2025 salary negotiations. The findings, released on Tuesday, revealed that 49.9% of respondents engaged in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Emergency roadside assistance for electric vehicles (EVs) varies significantly by season, with winter dominated by towing requests and summer seeing a surge in tire puncture repairs, according to a recent study. The Traffic and Climate Research Center at Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance analyzed two years of data from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety issued guidelines on February 25 for the safe use of cosmetics among youth, responding to a trend of increasingly younger children beginning to use makeup products. A survey conducted by the ministry from May to November last year revealed that 11% of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co., the train manufacturing subsidiary of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said Wednesday it has won a 2.2 trillion-won (US$1.53 billion) deal from Morocco to supply advanced trains to the North African nation. Hyundai Rotem secured the contract to supply ONCF, Morocco’s national railway operator, with double-decker [...]
GWANGJU, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A man who attacked a police officer with a knife in the southwestern city of Gwangju died after being shot by the officer Wednesday. The officer from the Gwangju Dongbu Police Station was first stabbed twice by the 51-year-old knife attacker, whose identity was withheld, in an alley of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang, Inc. said Wednesday its sales exceeded 40 trillion won (US$27.9 billion) for the first time last year on robust sales in the “new growth” segment. Sales jumped 29 percent to a record 41.29 trillion won in 2024 from 31.82 trillion won a year earlier, [...]
INCHEON, South Korea, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will stress the importance of bilateral cooperation in various industries, such as energy and shipbuilding, in negotiations with the United States on its new tariff plans, Seoul’s industry minister said Wednesday. Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun made the remarks as he departed for Washington to meet [...]