SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean consumer advocacy group on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. and its local unit Apple Korea for intentionally slowing down older iPhones in the latest legal challenge against the U.S. tech giant. The Citizens United for Consumer Sovereignty filed the suit at the Seoul Central [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A state-run agency tasked with supporting Korean arts said Thursday it has canceled a new play directed by Oh Tae-seok, who has been accused of sexual misconduct. The Arts Council Korea (ARKO) said it won’t run “Sandglass,” which had been set to premiere next Thursday at its theater in [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular boy band BIGBANG will put out an unpublished song performed by all five of its members for the first time in about a year, the group’s management agency said Thursday. “BIGBANG will release a song produced in its entirety,” YG Entertainment said in a release. “As Taeyang and [...]
ICHEON, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Human players handily beat robots with artificial intelligence (AI) in a curling game on Thursday, despite the machines demonstrating evolving skill levels. At a competition hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, two robots named Curly exhibited considerable skill in placing stones on target and showed the ability [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — One by one, Samsung Electronics is pulling the plug on its mobile content offerings. Though the South Korean tech giant leaped into the mobile content and services market to make maximum use of its dominant position as the world’s largest smartphone maker, attempts to dislodge firmly entrenched market incumbents [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In the last two years, the amount of time spent on the YouTube app by South Koreans has tripled, beating out competition like online messaging service KakaoTalk and leading internet search portal Naver. According to mobile app research firm Wiseapp, South Koreans logged 7.9 billion minutes on the YouTube [...]
SEJONG, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — To reduce accidents stemming from nodding off at the wheel, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced it would help foot the bill for long-distance bus operators to install AEBS (Advanced Emergency Braking System) technology. The promise of subsidies, a follow-up measure to the ministry’s plan for curbing [...]
PYEONGCHANG, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean flag hanging from the balcony of a residential building is catching the attention of passersby. The residential building in question is located in the PyeongChang Paralympics athletes village, and the flag was put up by two members of the North Korean delegation staying in building no. [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Regulation reform has opened the path to the domestic market for hip airbags, a novelty item that gained widespread attention at CES 2018 this January. The Office for Government Policy Coordination on March 7 detailed some of the notable adjustments the Moon administration had made to standing regulations based [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In an industry where the average age falls somewhere around 33, and 30 percent are women, leading gaming companies are taking strides to foster a more family friendly workplace. Those in the industry point out that Nexon has since last year been carrying out a “Happy Mom” in-house policy, [...]