SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, the largest web portal in South Korea, revamped its news service on Tuesday, including shutting down the comments section for suicide-related articles. Naver announced that as part of its efforts to foster a healthy online environment, it would exclude the comments and recommendation sticker services for articles recognized by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, the largest online portal in South Korea, had decided to discontinue the fact-check menu on its News Home, following the suspension of financial support for the nation’s unique fact-checking platform SNU FactCheck Center (factcheck.snu.ac.kr). According to the SNU FactCheck Center on Monday, Naver plans to terminate the fact-check menu [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics made an announcement on Monday about their new product, the LG Gram Fold. This is a unique laptop because it can fold and unfold, something no other Korean brand has introduced before. The LG Gram Fold is able to do this because it uses a special kind [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to build a 120 megawatt data center in the southeastern industrial city of Pohang by 2027, the industry ministry said Friday. The ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with Pohang city and North Gyeongsang Province and the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp., as well as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major telecom operator in South Korea, on Thursday unveiled a cloud streaming-based 3D experiential showroom. Utilizing the Unreal Engine 5 real-time 3D creation tool as its foundation, the showroom establishes a virtual space mirroring reality by integrating diverse clothing information such as fabric and color. Avatars [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Wednesday that its research team has developed a holographic camera capable of acquiring 3D information by integrating a mask with existing cameras. Holography involves generating 3D information by exploiting the interference phenomenon arising from the intersection of waves emitted [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean digital health care startup HoneyNaps Co. said Monday its artificial intelligence-based sleep sensing software, Somnum, has won approval for sale from U.S. drug authorities. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Section 510(k) clearance, or premarket notification, to Somnum, demonstrating that the medical device is safe [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Google has invested a cumulative 118 billion won (US$87.9 million) to incubate nearly 500 South Korean startups and help them go abroad, a company official said Thursday. Google’s ChangGoo Program — launched in 2019 in cooperation with the Ministry of SMEs and Startups — is aimed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s IT industry is exploring ways to survive in a prolonged economic slump, with no clear signs of improvement in sight. The labor union of Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messaging app KakaoTalk, recently held its first rally since its establishment in October 2018 as [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Once regarded as a declining industry due to the gaming industry’s mobile transition and the COVID-19 pandemic, internet cafes, known as “PC bangs” in Korean, are now transforming into new cultural spaces through partnerships with the e-sports industry. E-sports team Nongshim Redforce launched an internet cafe brand called Redforce [...]