SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is experiencing a phenomenon known as “ghost rain” – simultaneous heavy downpours and heat waves that have defied weather predictions – leaving citizens increasingly frustrated with inaccurate forecasts. This meteorological anomaly has sparked a trend of “weather migration,” with many South Koreans abandoning the national weather service’s app [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled its latest generation foldable smartphones and the highly anticipated ring-type wearable, featuring thinner and lighter designs and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. At the summer edition of Galaxy Unpacked held at Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, Samsung Electronics showed off the Galaxy Z Fold [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced on June 27 that it has partnered with KB Kookmin Card to introduce an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) credit card, leveraging low-energy Bluetooth (BLE) technology and Samsung’s SmartThings Find service. SmartThings Find is a specialized service that allows users to locate various Samsung devices, including Galaxy [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A dramatic increase in illegal spam messages, many of which encourage stock investments, has prompted authorities to launch an emergency investigation to determine if the surge is due to hacking of SMS resellers or if these resellers are complicit in the activity. According to telecommunications authorities and industry insiders, the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to unveil new Galaxy series smartphones with artificial intelligence (AI) features next month. The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2024 will take place in Paris on July 10 (local time), just about two weeks before the opening of the Paris Summer Olympics, Samsung said Wednesday. Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is embroiled in a legal dispute over allegations that it failed to disclose a game optimization service (GOS) that could limit the performance of devices in the Galaxy S22 series. On June 20, the Seoul Central District Court held the first hearing in a damages lawsuit filed by [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Federal prosecutors in South Korea have charged former Samsung Electronics employees with stealing corporate secrets and funneling sensitive information to a shell company run by an ex-executive, in a case that exposes potential vulnerabilities at one of the world’s largest technology firms. The allegations center on Ahn Seung-ho, Samsung’s former [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by KT Corporation has revealed that more than half of single-person households in South Korea engage in simultaneous television viewing and mobile device usage, seamlessly combining entertainment with information gathering and online shopping. On June 13, KT announced the findings after analyzing big data from 3 million [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Apple’s program aimed at recognizing students with exceptional coding abilities has provided a Korean student with the remarkable opportunity to showcase her innovative app before Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook. On June 9, the day before the annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicked off, Apple hosted an event [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Users of Naver Papago, the South Korean online portal operator’s artificial intelligence-powered translation service, have steadily increased, topping 20 million last month on overseas demand, industry sources said Monday. The number of Papago’s monthly active users (MAUs), both for app and web versions, reached 20.74 million in May, up [...]