SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of South Koreans on Friday lined up for the release of the iPhone XS and XR smartphones, a sign of the brand’s popularity in the country despite it being the home of Apple Inc.’s rival Samsung Electronics Co. More than 200 visitors had lined up at a store [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean online research company announced on Monday that South Koreans spend more than one-fourth of their day using earphones or headphones. Embrain, an online market research institution, conducted survey on 1,000 participants between the ages of 13 and 59 to study the amount of time South Koreans [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of handsets produced in South Korea is expected to reach 25 million units in 2018, industry tracker Strategy Analytics’ data showed Tuesday, falling sharply from a decade earlier after major companies relocated their factories abroad. The outlook compares to 136 million units posted in 2008, Strategy Analytics [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will support 500 startups over the next five years in response to the government’s call to bolster the national economy and create more jobs. The project comes as a follow-up of Samsung Electronics’ announcement made in August, when it vowed to invest a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean smartphone makers have released smartphones with three or more rear cameras in line with rising demand from the industry for handsets with premium photography features. Samsung Electronics showcased the Galaxy A9 smartphone earlier this week, which marked its first handset to come with a whopping four rear [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has widened its lead over competitors in the U.S. market for premium TVs, a market research report said Thursday. The report from U.S. firm NPD said Samsung held 34 percent of the U.S. TV market as of end-August, far outdoing its rival LG Electronics (15 percent) as [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Singapore Korean International School has chosen to install Samsung Flip, an interactive whiteboard developed by Samsung Electronics, in its classrooms. According to Samsung Electronics, the school decided to adopt the Flip because of its capacity to connect education information with smartphone devices, allowing for improved communications between students and [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Home appliance sales in South Korea reached a new high in July as the country was gripped by the worst heat wave in more than a century, government data showed Monday. The constant index for electronics sales came to 189.1 for July, the highest level since 2005, when related [...]
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) --KT Corp., South Korea’s leading wireless and fixed-line services provider, will launch a virtual reality service on Internet protocol television by the end of the year, its CEO said Wednesday, in a move to boost its presence in the growing business. Hwang Chang-gyu made the announcement in a meeting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of virtual reality companies from both home and abroad gathered in Seoul on Wednesday to showcase the latest VR technologies that can impact ordinary lives now and in the future. The Korea VR Festival 2018, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, kicked off for a five-day [...]