SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – KT, a telecommunications company in South Korea, announced on October 21 that it launched an Asia Pacific Gateway Network Operation Center to manage the world’s largest cross-border submarine cable network at KT Center in Busan. The Korea’s leading telecom company plans to work as a control tower when network [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It becomes common that humanities majors are neglected while STEM (science-technology-engineering-math) majors take center stage in job markets across the world. The Wall Street Journal reported on June 6, 2013, that the unemployment rate of graduates majoring in English among recent college graduates in the United Sates was 9.8 percent. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics unveiled its new smartphone called AKA (Also Known As) at the World IT Show 2014 held in BEXCO Exhibition Center in Busan from October 20. The new gadget is planned to be released in the local market within next month. Its feature is to reflect the customer’s personality [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced on October 21 that its smartphones equipped with its mobile security platform KNOX won approval from the National Information Assurance Partnership, an affiliate organization of the National Security Agency in the United States, as commercial solutions for classified. According to the affiliate of Samsung Group, six smartphones [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Tiguan manufactured by Volkswagen reportedly has the highest used-car value in the auto market. A boom in its cumulative sales from January to September in 2014 might positively result in a value increase of second-hand Tiguans. According to SK Encar, Korea’s leading used car trading company, the Tiguan [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The morbidity rate of breast cancer in South Korea takes the first place among East Asian countries, which is the first time to overtake others in the region. The number of patients with breast cancer hit the record of 52.1 per 100,000 people in 2012, rapidly up from 38.9 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — In order to protect wild animals in South Korea, not only ordinary people but also organizations have continuously tried their best. When they find a wounded animal, an increasing number of people now report to animal protection organizations to take care of it unlike in the past. The Cultural [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group announced on October 19 that it would open a “high-tech maintenance center” for commercial vehicles in the Daegu Seongseo Industrial Complex in Daegu City. The center, run from the following day, is planned to provide quick high-quality repair services with Hyundai commercial auto drivers in case of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics held a rhythmic gymnastics gala “LG Whisen Rhythmic All Stars 2014” from October 18 to 19 at the Korea International Exhibition Center (Kintex) in Goyang, Gyeonggi province. Son Yeon-jae, the first Korean to win a gold medal with world-level performances in the Incheon 2014 Asian Games and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the worldwide race to develop new technologies surrounding “graphene,” the number of graphene-related patents applied by Korean scientists has surpassed that made by American counterparts. Graphene is pure carbon in the form of a very thin, nearly transparent sheet, one atom thick, with excellent mechanical, electrical properties, 100 [...]