SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, said Thursday it has nearly completed replacing universal subscriber identity module (USIM) chips for its entire user base of 25 million, about two months after it said sensitive USIM data may have been leaked due to an unidentified cyberattack on its [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — In commemoration of World Oceans Day, Samsung Electronics unveiled its original documentary Coral in Focus at the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), held on June 11 in Nice, France. The screening highlighted the company’s commitment to marine conservation through technology-driven environmental initiatives. UNOC, convened every three years, is the [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading food service brands are accelerating the development of proprietary mobile apps to improve convenience, enhance customer engagement, and differentiate their services in a competitive dining market. On Thursday, Baskin-Robbins Korea launched its official mobile application, offering delivery and takeout ordering, reservation services, product recognition features, and [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s publishing industry has launched back-to-back lawsuits against Google and Apple in a U.S. federal court, challenging what it claims are exploitative in-app payment commission policies that hurt local content developers and stifle fair competition. The Korean Publishers Association (KPA) and the Korea Electronic Publishing Association (KEPA) jointly announced [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean games are taking center stage at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year, as the tech giant continues to deepen its push into high-performance gaming on Mac devices powered by Apple Silicon. During Monday’s keynote, Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, unveiled macOS Tahoe [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — As cybersecurity concerns mount across South Korea, Samsung Electronics is stepping up its smartphone security, unveiling a series of anti-theft upgrades through its latest AI-integrated platform, One UI 7. According to industry sources on June 8, the tech giant has introduced advanced identity verification and theft-prevention features in its newest [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics reported on Thursday that usage of its AI-powered “Photo Assist” feature has more than doubled compared to last year, driven largely by the growing popularity of social media content creation among users in their teens and 30s. The data, drawn from Galaxy devices over the past three [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A joint government-private investigation team looking into SK Telecom Co.’s recent large-scale data breach has extended its probe to the servers of other major mobile carriers and platform companies, but found no signs they have been compromised, industry sources said Monday. Initially, the team had asked local telecommunications and [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading food delivery app Baemin is teaming up with local streaming platform Tving to offer a bundled subscription service, in a move seen as a strategic response to growing competition from Coupang Eats, which operates its own streaming platform, Coupang Play. Woowa Brothers, the operator of Baemin, [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Servers at SK Telecom Co. containing personal information and universal subscriber identity module (USIM) data of all subscribers have been compromised in a cyberattack, raising concerns that critical USIM data used in financial transactions may have been leaked, a joint government-private investigation team said Monday. According to the team’s [...]