SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday its TV had been selected by “Which?,” a British non-profit Consumers’ Association magazine, as the Best Accessibility product. In partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People, Which? evaluated TV video and sound quality, along with accessibility, and designated the Samsung Neo QLED [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 wireless carrier, said Monday its second-quarter net income jumped 19 percent from a year earlier thanks to robust sales in business-to-business operations. KT’s net profit reached 432.5 billion won (US$331.8 million) in the three months through June on a consolidated basis, up from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday that it will postpone its plan to ease all kinds of anti-virus curbs and fully return to pre-pandemic normalcy due to a recent surge in COVID-19 infections. “We were going to announce plans to lower the disease level of COVID-19 to Class 4 and lift [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Energy Materials Corp. said Monday it is spending 560 billion won (US$431 million) to build a factory in Spain to produce battery-grade copper foil for use in electric vehicle cells. The factory will be located in Mont-roig del Camp, a town in Catalonia in northeastern Spain, and built [...]
Basildon, UK, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Pharmanovia, a global pharmaceutical company that commercialises novel medicines and revitalises, extends and expands the lifecycle of established medicines, has today confirmed the appointment of YongSeok Choi, who will take the role of General Manager for Korea and Japan. With an impressive career spanning over 24 years within the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Monday unveiled a plan to further enhance its global infrastructure and networks for Korean language education, including increasing the number of overseas outlets of the government-run King Sejong Institute brand to 350 by 2027. The announcement was made during the World Korean Educator Conference 2023 that [...]
BUAN, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The overall situation at the campground of the 25th World Scout Jamboree appears to be improving gradually day by day, following all-out support from the South Korean government, public institutions and private companies. The quadrennial global event ran into a crisis soon after kicking off on remote reclaimed land [...]
GENEVA, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean conductor Yoon Han-kyeol won the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award, one of the most prestigious prizes for young conductors, in Salzburg, Austria, on Sunday. The jury named the 29-year-old the winner of the Karajan Young Conductors Award during a ceremony at the main auditorium of the Mozarteum [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies were scrambling Monday to support the heat-plagued World Scout Jamboree by providing supplies and health care professionals to try to alleviate any difficulties that young attendees might feel from the extreme heat. Samsung Group sent around 150 employees to the Saemangeum campsite, a reclaimed wetland on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Nexilis Co., a South Korean copper foil maker, said Monday it has signed a deal with German battery manufacturer Varta A.G. to exclusively supply its product for what will be Varta’s first mass production of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. SK Nexilis said it is also in talks with [...]