SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Musinsa Co., a South Korean fashion platform, said Friday it has become the first local fashion firm to be included in Fast Company’s list of the 10 most innovative companies in the Asia-Pacific region for the current year. The list has been compiled by the American business magazine every [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will begin adding its company logo to smartphones and other mobile devices sold in Japan. Samsung Japan recently changed the name of its mobile brand in Japan from “Galaxy” to “Samsung.” The name of its official website, too, changed from “Galaxy Mobile Japan” to “Samsung Japan.” [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp.’s recent decision to stop recruiting experienced developers is a reflection of the frozen IT industry amid the slumping economy. The South Korean tech giant’s spending on wages surged from 911.9 billion won (US$691 million) in 2020 to 1.68 trillion won last year. Due to the increased cost [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has updated its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital assistant Bixby, enabling users of its new flagship Galaxy S23 smartphones to talk on the phone by typing messages in situations where it’s difficult for them to answer the phone. Samsung announced on Thursday that it had added the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Yanolja Co., a leading South Korean travel platform operator, said Thursday it has been tapped as the first Korean startup to join the United Arab Emirates’ startup incubator as a member. Yanolja joined the Global Unicorn Center in Dubai as a member during the World Government Summit event held [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp. halted its recruitment of experienced workers with South Korea’s IT industry engulfed in a hiring freeze due to the current economic slump. According to industry sources, the tech giant notified all of the individuals who were preparing for the recruitment process for experienced developers that their applications [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giants have joined hands to expand the simple payment ecosystem with the impending launch of Apple Inc.’s mobile payment service Apple Pay in the domestic market, Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest mobile phone maker, and Naver Financial Corp., a financial arm of leading portal operator [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of monthly users of the U.S. social media network Facebook, once the most popular social media service for Korean users, has been on a downward trend for several years. Facebook’s domestic monthly active users (MAU), based on data from both Android and iOS devices, stood at 10,056,845 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is actively using a Chinese mobile game to highlight the performance of its latest Galaxy S23 series. The South Korean tech giant recently installed “Genshin Impact,” an online role-playing game from Chinese video gaming company miHoYo, on the Galaxy S23 devices it displayed at its domestic [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartphone release, the Galaxy S23, is gaining sensational popularity, while interest in foldable phones seems to be fading. Consumers are placing more value on the high performance of the new product than the utility obtained through foldable phones. Despite the advantage of having a large [...]