SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Amidst the growing threat of hepatitis E from European ham and sausages, South Korean public health authorities have announced plans to launch an inquiry to determine the infection route of the disease in the country. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) on Sunday, the inquiry [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean research team has developed a new artificial-intelligence chip capable of deep learning that could be used in future mobile phones, robots and drones. The researchers, led by professor Yu Hoe-jun at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, announced on Monday that they had revealed [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – An international flash mob dining event successfully took place at Haeundae Beach in Busan over the weekend. It was the second time a Diner en Blanc was held in South Korea this year, following another event in Seoul that took place in May. In 2012, Singapore became the first Asian [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – United Nations Singers, a singing group that promotes a message of peace and harmony through music, has held its very first concert in South Korea, at Camp Greaves near the DMZ, in a nod to the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Marking its 70th anniversary, the group of some [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. is having a hard time setting local prices of its newly showcased phablet, the Galaxy Note 8, as the South Korean government is pushing to cut down telecom costs, industry sources said Monday. Last week, Samsung showcased the 6.3-inch Galaxy Note 8 with a dual-camera and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday that it will make its appliances work with Amazon Echo smart speakers as part of an ongoing process to expand into the artificial intelligence business arena. The global electronics manufacturer said it plans to showcase its appliances working with Amazon’s Alexa voice-controlled intelligent speaker at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin that kicks off on Friday. LG said that while Echo does not respond to Korean voice command at present, research [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign stakeholders may expand their intervention in management decisions at Samsung Electronics Co. aftera Seoul court found its vice chairman de facto leader guilty of bribery, market watchers warned Sunday. Foreign investors who collectively hold more than 50 percent stake in the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer may demand the company’s board of directors be replaced as Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Friday was sentenced to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — As the country awaits the verdict next week in the wages lawsuit filed by Kia Motors’ labor union, which could have immense consequences for the South Korean automobile industry as a whole in the coming years, the debate over the legitimacy of so-called hard-line aristocratic labor unions is back [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Former South Korean national figure skating champion Lee June-hyoung said Friday he’s determined to win an Olympic spot at the final qualifying event next month. Lee, a three-time South Korean champion, won the men’s singles title at the Figure Skating Korea Challenge last month in Seoul and earned the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor and singer Park Yu-chun of boy band JYJ on Friday was discharged from nearly two years of mandatory military service. Park was discharged late Friday from the Gangnam District Office in southern Seoul, where he served as a public worker in substitution for his military service. All able-bodied [...]