SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecom firms are expanding financial services in cooperation with local banks, industry officials said Saturday, as they try to expand their businesses beyond the telecom sector. The three firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — in recent months introduced various [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s 2G mobile network will be gradually shut down 25 years after bringing in the mobile era in the country as the top mobile operator got the nod for the termination of the service on Friday. SK Telecom Co. was allowed by the ICT ministry to discontinue its [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Excluding foreign residents from COVID-19 emergency relief funds in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province is an unjustified act of discrimination, a human rights watchdog said Thursday. The National Human Rights Council of Korea (NHRCK) called on Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung to take corrective measures [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Ideas for the future once presented by Google Inc. through its various experiments are turning into realities in 2020. Glasses using augmented reality (AR) technology, first introduced by the U.S. tech giant in 2012 with Google Glass, which failed to catch on and was widely seen as ahead of [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of the Nintendo Switch jumped more than 30 percent on-year during the first quarter of this year in South Korea amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, industry data showed Friday. A total of 82,848 units of the video game console made by Japanese gaming firm Nintendo Co. were sold [...]
DAEJEON, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s railway operator introduced a new system on Friday that uses big data technology to prevent fare evasion. Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL)’s new system analyses the list of tickets issued to identify illegal subway rides. The system will primarily be used to crack down on the abuse of [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An unusually high number of people have auditioned for supporting roles in an upcoming production of “Les Miserables” in South Korea, the production company said Thursday, highlighting the severe competition for jobs among stage actors in a market hit hard by the new coronavirus crisis. Theater company Les Miserable [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest spike in new coronavirus cases is not the only cause for concern for medical workers fighting the pandemic at outdoor screening stations nationwide. The recent spike in summer temperatures is more dreaded by front-line medical workers, who are obliged to put on heavy personal protective equipment (PPE), [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since the coronavirus temporarily shut down all Sunday Masses, more Catholics are feeling the importance of practicing faith in everyday life, while they feel less inclined to participate in a Sunday Mass. The Woori Theology Institute conducted a survey of 6,074 South Korean Catholics, and revealed that ‘practicing [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people playing PC and console-based games jumped by nearly 50 percent globally this year as the new coronavirus pandemic has confined more people to their homes, an industry report showed Thursday. Daily active users of PC and console games spiked 46 percent on-year during the January-May [...]