SEJONG, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday that it plans to set up an innovation academy next year to educate about 2,500 software experts by 2023 in the latest move to better cope with the fourth industrial revolution. A two-year academy — modeled after Ecole 42, a French computer programming school — [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Notebook 9 Pen laptop series by Samsung Electronics Co. is leading the trend of convertible laptops that can also be used as tablets. LG Electronics Inc. has also its hat into the ring by adding a new model to the popular Gram series. Samsung has shown a strong presence [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – In a 1999 hit comedy movie, a hooligan protagonist brags of his secret to confronting several enemies at once alone: “Beat only one guy.” The infamous phrase is now the title of a series of political shows featured on the YouTube channel run by Kim Sung-tae, the floor leader [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest computing game expo is slated to open in Busan this week featuring a wide range of new computer and mobile games with virtual reality technology taking the center stage, sources said Tuesday. Hundreds of game developers and distributors from scores of countries will take part in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphones are the ultimate medium nowadays that allow individuals to enjoy most of the content they consume online such as shopping, music, games and social media. The content is distributed through two main channels, Google Play and the App Store by Apple Inc. The former has come to dominate [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator, Naver Corp., on Thursday announced a business blueprint that moves beyond its existing online and network business and focuses on technology that is linked to the living environment. “The key technological strategy that Naver is pushing is living environment intelligence,” Song Chang-hyun, the company [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will mandate that foreign IT companies designate an official in charge of managing personal information, sources said Friday. According to the industry sources, a relevant law was passed through a regular session of the National Assembly a day earlier that makes it mandatory for companies without addresses [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Banks and other financial institutions that increasingly rely on chatbots to interact with customers are vulnerable to breaches of personal data protection, the financial watchdog said Tuesday. A chatbot is a computer program or artificial intelligence that is used in various business sectors, enabling customers to communicate with firms [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Software freely available to the public has become a new target for hackers. SK Infosec, an information security company, held a press conference yesterday in central Seoul to disclose that 43 percent of the software vulnerabilities found in the first half of the year involved open-source software. The company [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a speech synthesis program that can imitate voices of a specific person with only a handful of samples. Naver said the solution can fully imitate a person by analyzing voice samples around four hours long, which is [...]