SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it has rebranded its K-pop content platform and has newly enabled official foreign language support for foreign users. The company’s U+ Idol Live platform has been renamed as Idol Plus and its menu and subtitles now officially support English, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The best-selling color for Samsung Electronics Co.’s next-generation foldable smartphone, Galaxy Z Flip 4, has thus far not been the most-touted Bora Purple but rather Pink Gold. According to the tech giant, SK Telecom users showed a preference for Pink Gold (28 percent), Blue (23 percent) and Bora Purple [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Police plans to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI)-based black box video decoding system to better cope with fast-growing public interest reports on traffic law violations. The National Police Agency said Tuesday it is developing an AI system in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and ICT to automatically decode [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator said Tuesday that the recent disclosure of local banks’ lending-deposit interest rate differences will enhance transparency in their operation and provide customers with better choices in selecting products. Starting Sunday, the Korea Federation of Banks started to allow visitors on its website to know and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Medical Center, one of South Korea’s top general hospitals, said Monday it had introduced a home training program based on augmented reality (AR) technology for the rehabilitation of stroke patients. The program uses a sensor attached to an AR monitor installed in patients’ homes. The sensor automatically checks [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A leader of a phone scam ring may face up to life imprisonment in South Korea from now on, as the prosecution has toughened punishment guidelines for such crimes, judicial sources said Monday. The Supreme Prosecutors Office (SPO) last week enforced the harsher penalty guideline aimed at better responding [...]
YANGSAN, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Tranquility and calmness appear to have returned to a southeastern rural village where former President Moon Jae-in’s residence is located on the first day of strengthened security measures there. Gone from Pyeongsan Village in Yangsan, 420 kilometers southeast of Seoul, are loud noises and abusive language from anti-Moon demonstrators. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — While the South Korean legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” is raising awareness about people with autism spectrum disorders, only a few people with autism are actually able to attend university, data showed Sunday. Rep. Lee Eun-joo of the minor opposition Justice Party quoted a report from the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Rallies around the home of former President Moon Jae-in will be banned starting Monday as the Presidential Security Service expanded the guard zone for the former president amid persistent noisy and menacing protests. The decision to ban rallies within 300 meters from Moon’s home in Yangsan, about 310 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the popularity of the term ‘metaverse’, only a few have tried out the virtual platform, a poll showed Thursday. Consumer Insight, a local consumer survey company, conducted a survey of 3,797 cellphone users in the country over 14 years of age, 82 percent of whom said they were aware [...]