SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s leading tech firm, said Tuesday it expects the commercialization of sixth-generation (6G) services to occur around 2030 as it works to develop technologies for the next-generation communications system. In its white paper, entitled “the Next Hyper-Connected Experience for All,” Samsung estimated that the completion [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of South Koreans agree that government agencies including the Ministry of Health and Welfare have done a good job in fighting the coronavirus. Health Consumers Network, a South Korean civic group, conducted a nationwide survey of 1,200 men and women between the ages of 20 and [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of automobiles dropped 33.4 percent in the first six months of 2020 from a year earlier, due mainly to the new coronavirus pandemic that has strained global business activities while weighing on consumers’ sentiment, data showed Tuesday. Local carmakers shipped 826,710 units of cars overseas in [...]
ULSAN, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As part of efforts to tighten discipline at its production lines, Hyundai Motor Co. dismissed a worker who frequently left work early without providing appropriate notice. South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales announced on Sunday that a production worker at the company’s Ulsan plant had been fired for having [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — “Whenever the animals I tested are killed as part of experiments, I feel guilty and suffer from stress. Am I mentally too weak?” This is a question raised on an online community for South Korean biological researchers by an individual who said he is now studying in a neuroscience [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus is bringing an unexpected change to makeup trends in South Korea. Among today’s beauty YouTubers, so-called “foundation-free” makeup techniques are increasingly popular. Foundation-free makeup techniques refer to a trend in which the basic makeup essential foundation is omitted. The key factor behind the rising popularity of this [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will require foreigners arriving from high-risk nations to submit a certificate showing they tested negative for the new coronavirus from Monday, as the nation struggles with a steady rise in imported cases. The high-risk nations are Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, according to websites of South Korean [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — While South Koreans are in shock and grief over the abrupt death of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon last week, the political community here seems to be split over the formalities of publicly mourning it. The controversy is largely because he apparently took his own life in the face of [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is in talks with China to increase the number of flights to the country to 10 a week mainly to meet travel demand from businessmen, the transport ministry said Sunday. Korean airlines currently serve three routes from Incheon to Chinese cities and plan to resume flights on [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Local mobile carriers are expanding virtual reality (VR) services to cope with increased demand for online content amid the COVID-19 pandemic, industry sources said Saturday. Leading mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. has started offering recorded VR sessions of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival on its Jump VR application [...]