SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Advanced image recognition technology is reshaping the landscape of information search, a recent report has said. According to the report released by Digieco on trends in the mobile market, image recognition technology is increasingly being adopted by artificial intelligence services such as Google assistant and Samsung’s Bixby. In the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Only weeks after the drastic minimum wage hike for next year was announced, the impact is already being felt on apartment security guards in South Korea, with a number of communities reportedly considering staff cuts to save monthly maintenance fees. The minimum wage hike, which was hailed as a nod [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., a troubled shipbuilder here, said Monday that it posted a profit for the second straight quarter in the second quarter, largely thanks to cost-cutting measures and increased delivery of offshore facilities. Net profit reached 1.26 trillion won (US$1.1 billion) in the April-June period, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean director Kim Dae-hwan has received the rookie director award for “The First Lap” at the 70th Locaro Festival that closed on Saturday. Kim became the fifth Korean director to win a key award at the film festival and the first to clinch the top award for first [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in promised Monday to expand government support for national heroes, independence fighters and their families, noting the nation and its people are permanently indebted to them for their sacrifices that allowed the freedom they enjoy now. “Each and every person here deserves respect and gratitude. Thanks to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul taxi drivers still have an attitude issue, according to the sheer number of complaints filed with the Seoul Metropolitan Government so far this year. Data released by the city government on Sunday revealed that 9,115 complaints related to taxi drivers had been filed between January and June, with unfriendly [...]
GIMHAE, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean robotics company has revealed an unmanned barista that is capable of all stages of coffee making from taking orders and making coffee to serving customers, a device that some speculate could replace coffeehouse workers in the near future. The coffee-making robot, which makes coffee and serves [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A new campground is set to open near the Nakdong River as an infrastructure project spearheaded by the Gumi city government is wrapping up after two years of construction. The campground, which the Gumi city government developed with an investment of 5 million won, is set to open as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Emergency Management Agency announced on Sunday it is attending a fire safety exhibition in Vietnam as part of efforts to promote and help South Korean companies venture out into foreign markets. A special team consisting of officials from the Korea Fire Institute and 23 fire safety companies [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Dozens of South Korean companies have pledged to sponsor more than 894 billion won (US$781 million) to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the PyeongChang organizing committee said Saturday. The pledge is about 5 percent shy of the committee’s goal of drawing 940 billion won and accounts for 33.6 percent of the total budget for South Korea’s first-ever Winter Olympics to be held in the country’s eastern alpine city of PyeongChang in February. Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest [...]