SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately a business of deleting online records of past is prospering as more people demand their right to be forgotten.* These service providers search and destroy private data spread on the Internet and help their clients set up “time bombs” on postings to self-detonate after a certain time [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The NCsoft Cultural Foundation said on October 16 that it would release a new mobile game “Mobile Free Rice” free of charge, in commemoration of the World Food Day under the sponsorship of the United Nations World Food Program. The game allows the user to play quiz games [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Everyone has an inferiority complex in one way or another. These days, the social media space is full of stories about individuals confessing their deeply-held inferiority complex small and big. Recently some companies have launched a service that helps people analyze their own inferiority complex using big-data [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 13 (Korea Bizwire) – King, the cross-platform casual game developer famous for the wildly popular game “Candy Crush Saga,” said on September 13 that it has launched a KakaoTalk version of the game “Candy Crush Saga for Kakao.” This is a meaningful move for King as KakaoTalk has more than 110 million users [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – There is a dictum in the information technology industry that digital data never die once created. This is true because data, no matter how many times you press the “delete” button in your file explorer screen and send the file to the trash can, reside somewhere in your computer. [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Online trading of agricultural goods has established itself as an important channel for these products. The ‘Online Direct Transaction Market for Farm Produce (www.eat.co.kr)’ operated by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation has grown rapidly in only three years since opening, with approximately 1 trillion won in agricultural [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 20 (Korea Bizwire) – We all pine for countryside village life. Old people residing in the countryside live merrier lives. The scene of grandparents trying to feed their grandchildren with homegrown vegetables and backyard chickens is quite familiar to all of us. But do you know how to handle a problem that’s [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The nationwide heat wave is causing the economy and industry to fear a massive power shortage and possible blackout. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has issued emergency countermeasures to prepare for an incident in which the electric power reserve ratio drops to a certain critical level. Computer and network [...]
SEOUL, Korea, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A global tech startup support center that would help new ventures seek the global market from the beginning will be established next month. In September this year, a company specializing in startup planning and incubation will be open, followed by an investment fund targeting the software industry by [...]
SEOUL, Korea, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will open the ‘Junior Software Academy’ for students from elementary school to high school to foster the next generation of software specialists. The ‘Junior Software Academy’ aims to improve students’ logical thinking and enhance their problem-solving abilities, and in the long-term broaden the base for software [...]