SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly developed program gives off a verbal warning to motorcycle delivery people when passing through dangerous traffic zones. The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency announced Monday that a new open application programming interface (API) has been developed to prevent motorcycle drivers from getting into traffic accidents. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest smartphone maker, saw its domestic market share exceed 70 percent for the first time in the third quarter on new products, a market research firm said Sunday. For the three months that ended in September, Samsung Electronics produced 3.4 million smartphones to account [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. and three South Korean mobile carriers began taking preorders Friday for the iPhone 12 mini and the 12 Pro Max. The U.S. tech giant said the smallest and the largest versions of its latest generation smartphone will go on sale in South Korea starting Nov. 20. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major mobile carriers have asked the government to disclose the information concerning the pricing of the frequency reallocation for the 3G and Long-Term-Evolution (LTE) networks. The telecom companies and the government have been locked in an impasse over the reallocation costs of 3G-LTE frequencies that are [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Friday its net income rose 7.9 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier due to cost reduction. Net income reached 230.1 billion won (US$204 million) in the July-September period on a consolidated basis, compared with a profit of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, downplayed concerns Thursday over its use of network equipment by Huawei Technologies Co. amid U.S. pressure to sever ties with the Chinese company, citing the completion of equipment installation and a healthy backlog for maintenance. The United States has repeatedly [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Thursday its third-quarter net profit jumped nearly three times from a year earlier on the back of robust growth of its e-commerce services based on its messenger platform. Net profit reached a quarterly high of 143.7 billion [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it will launch a new 5G-running budget smartphone in North America this week as it looks to compete for the growing market for the latest generation network there. The K92 5G — LG’s first budget K Series phone to support the high-speed network — [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp., South Korea’s top internet portal operator, announced on Wednesday a new feature in its mobile translation application Papago that instantly translates the words in pictures. After taking a photo of street signs or restaurant menus using the Papago app, you can instantly translate the words in pictures [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are estimated to have spent over 50 billion minutes on YouTube in September amid the pandemic, a 20 percent jump from a year earlier, data showed Tuesday. Mobile app tracker Wiseapp said the video streaming application was the application most used by the country’s 33.7 million Android [...]