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SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Carrying two ice lattes and a blueberry scone, a courier leaves a cafe on the 18th floor of a building, passing through an automatic door before taking an elevator down to the fourth floor. The deliverer then uses an application to notify the customer that the order will arrive [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. announced Thursday it has joined the governing council of a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications to better study advanced blockchain technologies. The South Korean firm is the sole home appliance maker to join the Hedera Governing Council and is its 14th member, joining global [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has signed a partnership with a global esports organization to boost its presence in the gaming monitor market. Samsung said it will sponsor its latest display products at T1 Entertainment & Sports (T1), a joint venture between South Korea’s leading mobile carrier SK [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphone shipments plunged 18 percent on-year in the first quarter of the year amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a report showed Tuesday, although it remained the top smartphone vendor around the globe. The South Korean tech firm shipped 59 million smartphones in the January-March period, down [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — LG CNS Co., an IT service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, said Tuesday it has joined hands with a Canadian firm to develop blockchain-based ID system. LG CNS said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Evernym Inc. on establishing global standards for decentralized identifier (DID) service. The [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — South Korean mobile games have gained huge popularity in overseas markets partly on the back of the coronavirus pandemic that has confined more people to their homes, industry data showed Tuesday. Global mobile game usage shot up 20 percent in the first quarter of this year compared with a [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — South Korea’s telecommunications market dominated by three major firms lacks competition and needs to improve its structure to provide better services to consumers, a state-run think tank said Tuesday. The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) said although competition in the local telecom market, viewed as an oligopoly, has [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share of the global NAND flash market in the first quarter of the year dropped slightly compared to three months earlier, a report showed Monday, although it maintained dominance in the sector. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the DRAM sector, had a [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunication company, said Sunday that it has applied 5G self-driving carts to the operation of its logistics center for the first time in the industry in a bid to streamline processes at logistics centers that supply handsets to each agency and others. The [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecommunication firms said Saturday they have released various services and content related to the country’s professional baseball league as they try to attract baseball fans at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The new Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season started May 5 after South Korea managed to flatten [...]