SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix said Wednesday it has agreed to end the ongoing legal battle with U.S.-based SanDisk over an alleged technology leak, and instead plans to extend their patent cooperation. Under the agreement, the two will end the legal battle that started in March last year in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean smartphone users change their devices every 14 months, with teens changing their handsets in less than a year, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), South Koreans on average used their handsets for 19 months, but those [...]
WANJU, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - The 10th Wanju Cow Fighting Competition will be held on September 11 at the Wanju Sports Park. The event will be held over a period of five days. One hundred “fighter cows” from all over the nation will participate. The cows will be divided into three groups, Baekdoo (over [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - Choi Byung-hwan, head of CJ 4DPLEX announced that this year would be the start of a new movie platform called Screen X. Screen X is a new screening format that uses the left and right wall of the theater as additional screens. The technology was first developed by CJ [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — China succeeded in artificially breeding 70 Siberian Tiger cubs this year, according to Xinhua. The Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin added more than 70 cubs to its population this year during the breeding season in May and June. The zoo will let the cubs stay with their mothers for 100 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A non-verbal performance based on the Taegukgi (Korean national flag) and Taekwondo, two main symbols of Korea, will be held at Ewha 100th Memorial Hall until August 30. “The Taekwon Force – Age of Taeguk” is a fantasy non-verbal performance featuring war, love, and peace among the gods in the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor, the world’s fifth largest automaker, will sponsor the “Exhibition of Secret of Magnum Photos – Brilliant Korea” which will be run from August 15 to October 3 at the Sejong Center for Performing Arts in Seoul. The exhibition by Magnum Photos, an agency representing world-renowned photographers, will show [...]
JEJU, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — To set up a firm foundation for the development of gamgyul (tangerine) farming in Jeju for the next 50 years, the Jeju Self-governing Province will implement a five-year plan for its innovation. The province announced the details of the five-year plan to reliably produce stable quantities of high-quality tangerines. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Prior to the official launch of Samsung Pay, Samsung Electronics‘ simple on and offline payment solution, Korean card companies are busy preparing for the service. According to credit card industry representatives, Samsung Card, Samsung Group’s card company, and BC Card are now offering a trial run of Samsung Pay [...]
“The location chosen for the planned cable car project is confirmed to be the main habitat of endangered mountain goats, and there are several kinds of natural vegetation aged over 200 years old that need to be preserved.” “Yangyang County is driving the project in the name of regional economic vitalization, but it is only [...]