SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics recently unveiled a new model of its POWERbot robot vacuum cleaner, which can be easily controlled by a smartphone app. The robot cleaner can be controlled using the “Samsung Smart Home” smartphone application, which users to remotely access the cleaner through Wi-Fi. As it can be controlled remotely, [...]
BUSAN, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Unmanned aerial vehicles will be mobilized to crack down on ships illegally anchoring in sea lanes near the port of Busan. The Busan Port Authority announced that it would utilize drones in its crackdown on floating docks or ships berthed for long periods of time at the wharves in the port. [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Group, a South Korean chemicals and financial conglomerate, said Monday it has clinched a US$2.12 billion order to build the infrastructure for a new city currently under construction in Iraq. The agreement signed with Iraq’s National Investment Commission calls for Hanwha Engineering & Construction, the building arm of [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Bukchon Village has been designated as a model town for the city’s IoT city project, said government officials on April 5. The city will establish various measures to solve noise and littering problems caused by a recent influx of tourists into Bukchon Village, by developing IoT platforms for the town. [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seongnam Art Center is presenting a Music Animation Machine, a new type of classical music performance, at its Ensemble Theater from April 22 to 25. The performance is composed of classical music performers and animated graphic patterns moving in accordance to the rhythm and dynamics of the performed music. [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The total trade volume of online retailers for 2014 surpassed that of large retail stores and department stores for the first time, said Statistics Korea on April 5. Although the overall trade volume through Korean online businesses stood at 45.24 trillion won (US$ 41.62 billion), which is slightly lower [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A man in his thirties sentenced to three years in prison and restitution for habitual theft turned out to be a first-place lottery winner back in 2006. The man, known by his surname Hwang, squandered his fortune in just four years, and started to commit thefts. The Changwon District [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency is set to establish an SNS scanning system to detect emergencies or traffic jams in the second half of the year, said agency officials on April 2. The agency will be developing a system that detects keywords such as accident, traffic and bumper-to-bumper on Twitter and Facebook and other [...]
RibbitRewards™ is the first rewards program based on blockchain technology (patent pending), the same technology Bitcoin uses. Card Capture International can now position to seamlessly offer RibbitRewards to both merchants and consumers through its credit and debit processing channels. Ribbit.me is set to launch Marketplace.life™, the first-ever p2p marketplace where buyers and sellers earn RibbitRewards [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Planet, South Korea’s leading e-commerce and online platform operator, unveiled its first instant online payment tool on Monday that works without additional security programs like ActiveX, joining the industrial move to scrap the obsolete software. Its Syrup Pay operates on a password-based system for which a customer only [...]