SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has released a new AI-based voice search service that can understand the context behind questions. According to Naver on Friday, the new Clova platform-based voice search service is now available on the web portal’s mobile app. The new voice recognition service is based on CLOud Virtual Assistant (Clova), [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The very first South Korean LNG-powered merchant vessel is expected to set sail next year. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and POSCO said on Thursday that the launch ceremony for the country’s first LNG-powered merchant vessel, ‘Green Iris’, will take place on Friday at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Gastric cancer is among the most common types of cancer in South Korea along with thyroid cancer, a new government report has found. According to data released by the Ministry of Health and National Cancer Center on Thursday, the total number of cancer patients in South Korea stood at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will issue its non-professional employment visa to 56,000 foreign workers next year, the same figure set for this year’s quota, government officials said Friday. The government committee on foreign workforce policy finalized its plan for the 2018 E-9 visa quota during its 25th session presided over by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Chinese tourists in South Korea declined 42.1 percent on-year in November, marking the ninth straight month of decrease following the diplomatic row between the two countries over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system here, government data showed Friday. The tally of Chinese visitors came to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The torch relay for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics will resume on Saturday, after Friday’s leg was canceled following a deadly fire in its scheduled stop. PyeongChang’s organizing committee earlier scrapped its torch relay in Jecheon, some 170 kilometers southeast of Seoul, for Friday, after a massive fire engulfed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Electric vehicle makers in South Korea will be encouraged to adopt fast charging standard Combo 1 going forward. According to the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards, a new revision of the Korean Standard (KS) recommending the use of Combo 1 will take effect from Friday, in a move [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Bank was the most popular banking app among South Korean iPhone users last month, pollster App Annie has found. According to the global mobile app analyst, Kakao Bank had the highest number of monthly active users in November of all mobile banking apps, leaving behind the likes of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group TWICE will put out a new Japanese-language single album titled “Candy Pop” on Feb. 7, its agency said Friday. It will be the group’s first album of 2018, JYP Entertainment said. TWICE debuted in Japan on June 28 with the compilation album “#TWICE.” It was certified “platinum” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, the reigning South Korean professional football champions, also have the league’s largest payroll and own its five highest-paid players, data showed Friday. The K League, operators of the professional competitions, released salary data on 11 clubs in the first-division K League Classic, excluding the military club [...]