SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics, South Korea’s No. 2 tech firm, said Wednesday it will release a low-end smartphone that boasts a slightly curved screen. Although not as curved as the G Flex 2 released earlier this year, which has a curvature of 650-750R, the LG Volt will come with a 4.7-inch [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun is on the cover of the forthcoming issue of Elle magazine to be published in six Asian countries, the fashion magazine’s Korean office said Wednesday. Elle Korea released the cover photos of the 34-year-old actress, which will become available in the April issue of the magazine’s [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics‘ latest high-end smartphone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, just released last week, is more costly to build than Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus, but its price tag is lower than that of its archrival, data showed Wednesday. The combined production cost, including parts and conversion costs, came to US$290.45 [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s top automaker, denied a media report Wednesday that it is seeking to build a factory in Mexico, calling it “groundless.” Bloomberg earlier reported that Hyundai Motor is pushing to build a plant in Mexico, citing an interview with a high-ranking official of the local unit of [...]
SEJONG, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday began work to expand the capacity of a vehicle-only port that is designed to boost the country’s auto exports, the government said. The construction for a new vehicle-only quay began at the southwestern Pyeongtaek-Dangjin Port, according to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. The construction [...]
TOKYO/SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean jetliner ran off the runway as it landed at Japan’s Hiroshima Airport on Tuesday, leaving almost 20 people slightly injured, according to officials and news reports. Asiana Airlines Flight 162, carrying 73 passengers and seven crew members, came to a stop after veering off the runway at [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor made a dream come true by helping a Texas girl send a loving message to her astronaut father in space. Using Delamar Dry Lake in Nevada as a huge canvas, Hyundai mobilized 11 of its Genesis luxury sedans to write “Steph ♡’s you!” over an area one and a half [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A new step in the development of Korea’s unmanned aerial vehicle technology has been reached with the introduction of a tilt-rotor drone that can take-off and land vertically like a helicopter, but is also capable of fast flight like an airplane. On April 10, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) introduced the [...]
COLOGNE, Germany, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – In line with its motto “Bridging Worlds” dmexco will be building the key bridges to the digiconomy on September 16 and 17, 2015. In both parts of this global show of top performance — the Expo and the Conference — this year’s dmexco will connect present and future [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — CL, a member of popular South Korean girl group 2NE1, ranked No. 2 on TIME magazine‘s online voting for its 100 most influential people of 2015 list, according to the magazine’s website Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ”edged out rapper-singer CL to claim the number one spot with 6.95 percent [...]