SEOUL, Oct. 18(Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to a newly devised positioning technology, people in a disaster situation can now have more chances to be rescued. Samsung Electronics and KT, Korea’s largest telecom corporation, announced on October 16 that they jointly developed a Device-to-device Discovery technology to rescue people in severe trouble. The brand-new positioning service enables [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A new program allows fliers who need special care to avoid standing in a long line to check in or out at the main gateway in Incheon International Airport. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it would run a pilot scheme, also known as a fast-track service, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Now French gamblers can throw their money into thrilling horse racing competitions held in South Korea. The Korea Racing Authority (KRA) announced on October 16 that it signed an agreement with France Galop to run a pilot project to broadcast Korean horse races and operate totalizator services in France [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17(Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics launched on October 16 an ultralight mini beam projector with a significant enhancement of its portability. Weighing only 430 grams, no less than the weight of a cup of coffee, this gadget is armed with HD resolution, 300 lumens of light and a dynamic range of 100,000:1. The [...]
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SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean television dramas have widely been beloved across Asian countries from China to Japan to the Philippines to Indonesia for the past few years with a series from “Autumn in My Heart” in 2000 to the most recent “My Love from the Star.” Now dramas from South Korea dubbed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display and LG Display challenge each other at the 14th International Meeting on Information Display from October 14 to 16. Samsung’s keywords are “curved” and “flexible” while LG focuses on “Organic Light Emitting Diodes” and “touch” at the exhibition. In order to boast its technological prowess for curved and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hotel Shilla won a tender for operating its duty-free chain in Macau International Airport, following Singapore’s Changi Airport. The Seoul-based hotel announced on October 14 that it would run the duty-free business in the airport in Macau in cooperation with Hong Kong-based Sky Connection starting on November 7. Both companies [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Domestic roses cultivated with South Korea’s own technology are to be exported to an overseas market for the first time. South Gyeongsang Province signed an agreement with Indobloom, a farming company in India, on October 14 to export domestic roses to the South Asian nation. According to the agreement, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Privacy anxiety among Korean mobile messaging users leads to more and more “cyber asylum” seekers who are mostly migrating into Telegram, a German encryption-based messaging app, which is more secure than peers in the market. Now the number of Kakao “defectors” to Telegram is nearing three million, setting a record-breaking [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — There is a special waterfall nearby the Bangchuk Stream in the Sejong metropolitan autonomous city, which is called a digital waterfall. Transparent display glasses stand along the road, on which a variety of images, texts and videos are shown to passers-by. The glass wall even senses the movement of [...]