SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Monday its honorary chairman will step down from all management positions at affiliates next month after 20 years of efforts to improve the carmaker’s brand awareness and product quality. Hyundai Motor Group Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-koo will step down from his executive director position on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s leading auto parts maker, has succeeded in developing the world’s first automotive tail lamp that can be bent like a thin film. The company said Sunday that it developed an HLED that can perform the roles of both brake light and rear light simultaneously, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s app market ONE store has drawn attention as a possible alternative to Google’s Play store as local app developers worry about increasing costs over the U.S. tech giant’s decision to expand its 30 percent commission fee to all in-app digital goods purchases later this year. ONE store, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. will supply its antibody treatment for COVID-19 without a profit margin in South Korea, its chairman has said. Celltrion’s CT-P59 won the South Korean drug safety agency’s conditional approval earlier this month, becoming the first locally made treatment for the virus. The drug [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A solo exhibition highlighting American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) has kicked off, bringing here some of his most iconic yet controversial works that have triggered debates on art and censorship for decades. Mapplethorpe, who was active in New York City in the 1970s and 80s, is known for his [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Quarantine authorities are to conduct intensive coronavirus field inspections at foreigner-dense areas and workplaces and other places deemed highly vulnerable to the pandemic, a government agency said Friday, after recent outbreaks of virus clusters at factories. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters, about 1,000 places nationwide, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Thursday that it has developed a next-generation Connected Car artificial intelligence (AI) voice recognition technology that allows drivers to easily control their cars with verbal commands. This AI-based technology offers an upgraded Connected Car experience where drivers can verbally control their cars, adjust system settings, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A gay couple has sued the state health insurer for canceling its coverage of one of the partners as a dependent, an activist group said Friday. So Seong-wook and his partner Kim Yong-min filed the administrative lawsuit against the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) with the Seoul Administrative Court [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Three major online shopping site operators have been ordered by a South Korean court to pay compensation for discrimination against visually-impaired people. In a collective suit filed against SSG.com, Lotte Mart and e-Bay Korea by about 960 visually-impaired people, the Seoul Central District Court ruled partially in favor of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting Friday, the government will introduce a new privacy protection measure allowing the people to write down encrypted private numbers instead of their phone numbers when they visit widely-used places, like restaurants and cafes. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced Thursday that it will introduce an encrypted private [...]