SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics’ laptop brand Gram has been named the best notebook of the year by Consumer Reports, beating out models from Apple and Samsung in a comprehensive evaluation of 154 devices sold in the U.S. market. According to rankings released Wednesday, the LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 — marketed in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Asset Management said Tuesday that its KODEX Robot Active exchange-traded fund (ETF) has surpassed 200 billion won ($145 million) in net assets, underscoring surging investor enthusiasm for the nation’s robotics sector amid rapid advances in artificial intelligence. As of October 14, the fund’s net asset value stood at [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics’ latest foldable smartphones, the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Flip7, have received the highest ratings from leading consumer publications in the United States and Europe, reinforcing the company’s dominance in the premium foldable market. According to industry sources on Wednesday, consumer advocacy magazines in five countries — including [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 60 percent of South Koreans feel a sense of anxiety about falling behind the trend of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) models to help with investments, a survey showed Monday. According to the poll by the Korea Press Foundation on 1,000 South Koreans, 59.1 percent of respondents expressed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The runaway global success of Netflix’s animated hit K-Pop Demon Hunters is reverberating far beyond the streaming charts — fueling an unexpected boom in Korea’s secondhand market for traditional-inspired merchandise. According to industry data released on Monday, listings tagged with “magpie-tiger,” a motif featured in the film, surged 357 [...]
JEJU, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Province’s pilot program encouraging food delivery in reusable containers has surpassed 2,000 orders in less than two months, signaling strong public support for the island’s ambitious campaign to curb single-use plastics. Launched on Aug. 13 in Jeju City’s Yeon-dong and Nohyeong-dong districts, the “Yonggi-inneun Jumun” (“Courageous Order”) service allows [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Fewer than half of South Koreans believe unification with the North is necessary, though support has edged higher compared with a year ago, a new survey shows. The 2025 Unification Awareness Survey, conducted by Seoul National University’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies and Gallup Korea, found that 41.1 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — In the wake of a string of high-profile data leaks, an overwhelming majority of South Koreans say they view such incidents as a serious threat and support adopting punitive damages similar to those in Europe and other advanced economies, a new poll shows. According to a Realmeter survey of 500 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — McDonald’s Korea said Tuesday that sales of its regionally inspired menu items, launched under the “Taste of Korea” initiative, have topped 30 million units. The project, introduced to highlight premium domestic ingredients, aims to deliver fresh, distinctive flavors to customers while securing stable sales channels for local farms. Over [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The use of payment services employing passwords, biometric data and other authentication methods rose more than 11 percent in the first half, reflecting the growing trend of contactless commerce, central bank data showed Monday. The daily average value of simple payment transactions reached 1.046 trillion won (US$745.77 million) in [...]