SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Data centers, long considered energy hogs, have rapidly emerged as the pioneer of smart energy technology. KT, Korea’s largest telecom service provider, said on August 5 that it would expand its Cloud Data Center in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, to create the world’s best green data center. To that end, the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus said on July 28 that the Uplus P Center that it is building in Pyungchon, a town in the southern outskirts of Seoul, would be equipped with the intelligent demand response system, the first among the nation’s commercial Internet data centers. An intelligent demand response system is a system that [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG CNS, an affiliate of LG Group, announced on July 27 that it had successfully developed a “smart lighting solution” which can control lighting devices using its intelligent IT system. According to LG CNS, a global provider of comprehensive IT services, it could save as much as 6.3 billion won a [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is caught in a vicious circle largely because of its severe food shortage problems, according to local forest expert’s recently published book. In a book titled “The Loss of North Korea’s Forests Turning the Korean Peninsula into Desert,” written by Kim Seong-il, a professor of forest science [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – KT will advance into the “smart” energy market by transforming its 400 branch offices and data centers into advanced energy centers, which, according to KT’s plan, will offer EV (electric vehicle) charging services, recycle wasted heat gathered from data centers, provide integrated ESS-EMS service and manage electric demand intelligently. The [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Energizer Korea, the No. 1 battery brand in Korea, will give long-distance runners a chance to make the world brighter and generate positive energy in the society. Energizer Korea announced on July 18 that it would hold the largest night marathon race “Energizer Night Race 2014” at Peace Square [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Five months ahead of the upcoming implementation of the greenhouse gas cap-and-trade scheme, business interest groups demanded the government to postpone the implementation time scheduled to begin in January next year. Korea’s 23 economic interest groups including the Federation of Korean Industries and the Korea Chamber of Commerce & industry held on July [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1kqKPIb) has announced the addition of the “2-Ethylhexanol (2-EH) Market 2014-2018: Plasticizers, 2-EH Acrylate, 2-EH Nitrate, and Others” report to their offering. 2-EH is an oxo alcohol which was earlier employed in the industry as a plasticizer alcohol for manufacturing various phthalate plasticizers, but as [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1oZJx9J) has announced the addition of the “Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Market by Type, Application, End-Uses & Geography – Trends & Forecasts to 2018″ report to their offering. It also includes the company profiling and competitive strategies adopted by various market players including ExxonMobil Corporation (U.S), [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Electric Power Corp. said on July 11 that it would set out pilot “big data” projects from this month. The two pilot projects involve setting up an energy consulting business based on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data and establishing a risk forecasting system based on analysis of social networking service [...]