SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of users accessing cryptocurrency apps has shrunk for a second straight week, a possible reflection of Bitcoin’s cratering value over the past few weeks. App market research firm Wiseapp said on February 6 that an analysis of 23,000 Android smartphone users’ habits over a 14-week period (from [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Olympic medical team on Wednesday sent out guidelines to national athletes to prevent norovirus infections. Some 1,200 security workers for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics are currently sequestered in their rooms to be tested for the contagious virus after 41 guards suffering diarrhea and vomiting [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Home interior decorations have become a new gift idea for the holidays, a trend led by Shinsegae, which said Wednesday its sales of decorative goods jumped 89.2 percent over the past week from a year earlier. The department store chain has opened a special gift section, “home and personal [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has asked South Korea to supply fuel to its ship that carried the North’s art troupe to the South a day earlier as the ferry will be used for its lodging, Seoul’s unification ministry said Wednesday. The Samjiyon art troupe traveled to the South by ferry Tuesday [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — PyeongChang Olympic organizers won’t provide North Korean and Iranian players with Samsung smartphones, which are available free to all other athletes, for fear of violating international sanctions on the countries, officials said Wednesday. Samsung Electronics has offered some 4,000 units of the Galaxy Note 8 Olympic Edition [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Games Corp. unveiled a new golf booking service on Wednesday to provide various services to customers through an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. The game affiliate under Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said the AI system is designed to provide optimal information for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Personal data that has undergone “anonymization” — made anonymous to render the identification of the individual the data was generated from impossible — will no longer fall under the confines of the Personal Information Protection Act, for which the stated purpose is to “provide for the processing and protection [...]
PYEONGCHANG, GANGNEUNG, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – On February 6, outsiders were treated to a view of the areas of the Olympic Village that are normally restricted to athletes and authorized personnel, including a quick look at the Olympic Polyclinics, facilities tasked with keeping participants fresh and healthy. Located at each of the PyeongChang and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Mobis is set to begin production of its self-developed Remote Smart Parking Assist (RSPA) and Integrated Mobis Electronic Brake (iMEB) technologies at its Cheonan and Jincheon manufacturing plants, the auto parts supplier said on February 6. Drivers of vehicles equipped with RSPA will be able to remotely park [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom, South Korea’s leading telecom operator, has teamed up with Namyang Dairy Products and IoT firm uLikeKorea to launch a dairy cattle management system using biocapsules that has been dubbed “Live Care”. The first medical tracking device inserted orally to be officially approved in the country, the biocapsules [...]