SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national police said it will expand the mandate of its mobile patrol units, deploying them more aggressively to prevent stalking and other relationship-based crimes, amid ongoing debate over the units’ effectiveness. The Korean National Police Agency announced on August 24 that patrol officers will be concentrated around [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25(Korea Bizwire) — LG CNS, the IT services arm of South Korea’s LG Group, unveiled a new ecosystem of so-called “agentic artificial intelligence” designed to streamline corporate operations and improve productivity. At a media event in Seoul on Monday, Chief Executive Hyun Shin-gyun introduced AgenticWorks, a modular full-stack platform, alongside a:xink, an AI-driven [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its luxury brand Genesis said Monday they have been named leading carmakers in terms of technology experience by U.S. market research firm J.D. Power. Hyundai ranked first for the sixth consecutive year among mass-market brands in the 2025 U.S. Tech Experience Index (TXI) study, scoring [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – President Lee Jae Myung said Sunday that it is difficult to agree on a demand by Washington on the strategic flexibility of the U.S. forces stationed in South Korea, as the decades-old alliance between Seoul and Washington is expected to face a monumental change, possibly to better deter China. [...]
JEJU, South Korea, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — As Netflix’s animated sensation K-Pop Demon Hunters races toward becoming the platform’s most-watched film, the spotlight has unexpectedly turned to Jeju Island, where viewers have identified cultural symbols embedded in the show’s storyline. Local voices are urging the island to seize the moment to promote its unique heritage alongside [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Fire Research Institute announced Sunday that it will pilot new visual and audio devices designed to reduce ambulance collisions at intersections, deploying them across seven regions over the next three months. The system combines a “logo light,” which projects warning messages such as “ambulance approaching” onto [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will more than quadruple the capacity of its national backbone network — the core infrastructure of the country’s telecommunications system — by 2030 to handle an expected surge in traffic from artificial intelligence technologies, the government announced Sunday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it plans [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced Sunday that its joint research with Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory on next-generation Peltier cooling technology has been named one of the world’s top 100 innovations at the 2025 R&D 100 Awards. First established in 1963, the R&D 100 Awards are often called the “Oscars [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — In the coastal city of Gangneung, residents are grappling with extreme drought that has left their main water source, the Obong Reservoir, at a record low of 17.8 percent of capacity, compared with a seasonal average of 69 percent. Officials fear the level could soon fall to 15 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG will launch South Korea’s first company-run graduate school in September to train master’s- and eventually doctoral-level specialists in artificial intelligence, the Ministry of Education announced Sunday. Approved under a new law designed to bolster the advanced industries workforce, the LG AI Graduate School will open September 30 at K-Square [...]