SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecom operators are strengthening video streaming services, industry officials said Friday, as online media consumption grows amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The telecom firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — have focused on boosting their over-the-top (OTT) media services or expanding [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group, South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate, said Friday it will offer its four training institutes as treatment centers for novel coronavirus patients in the greater Seoul area in a move to support local health authorities in securing more hospital beds. SK Academy in Yongin, south of Seoul, and its [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will set up a participatory fact-checking platform to cope with various side effects caused by the expanding use of digital media following the coronavirus outbreak. The Korea Communications Commission and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced these plans on Thursday. “The expanding use of digital [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has showed that a large proportion of high school students from multicultural families are suffering in silence when they are bullied since many they have no one to turn to for help. The state-funded National Youth Policy Institute carried out a survey of 1,118 teenagers in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has showed that most of South Korea’s delivery app-affiliated restaurants are feeling a huge burden from the costs that they have to pay to delivery app operators. The Seoul Metropolitan Government, the Incheon Metropolitan Government and the Gyeonggi Provincial Government jointly carried out a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese netizens have been posting a string of offensive messages on the Instagram account of K-pop diva Lee Hyo-ri. On MBC TV’s weekend variety show “Hang Out With Yoo” that aired last Saturday, Lee proposed to use ‘Mao’ in the process of picking her nickname. Thereafter Chinese netizens started [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign companies that earned considerable profits in South Korea last year were relatively indifferent to investment, employment, and other means of contributing to Korean society. Industry tracker CEO Score analyzed 43 foreign businesses included in last year’s top 500 companies in South Korea, revealing that their investment last year [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday ruled in favor of LG Chem Ltd. against its rival SK Innovation Co. in an electric vehicle (EV) battery patent case. The Seoul Central District Court turned down a civil lawsuit as well as damage compensation filed by SK Innovation against LG Chem in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc., a major home appliance maker in South Korea, on Thursday unveiled a wearable air purifier as the company seeks to expand sales of health care and hygiene products amid the pandemic. LG PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier will be available in some countries starting in the fourth [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has joined hands with a local fashion accessory brand to conduct various marketing activities for the Galaxy Note 20 phablet as the tech company tries to boost sales of the flagship mobile device. Samsung will collaborate with Joseph&Stacey, a Seoul-based handbag and wallet [...]