SEOUL, Korea, Nov 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The two-way TV program combining the homegrown technology of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) with smartphone technology is attracting keen attention from overseas content buyers. QBS, a TV station specializing in sending terrestrial TV signals through DMB channels, said on November 12 that its in-house program “Homo Applicus” will be presented [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 06 (Korea Bizwire) - SK Telecom said it signed an agreement with France’s Big Robot, a company selling electronic goods such as robot vacuum cleaners and electric bikes, to sell 1,000 units of its educational robot “Atti.” Atti has a cradle that allows users to load an Android smartphone with a screen size of 4.6 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 27 (Korea Bizwire) – “Ondol,” is considered one of the three major traditional inventions representing Korea. Also called “gudeul,” the ondol heating system uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor, although today wood-fired heating was replaced by hot-water pipes. AOG System, a company specializing [...]
DAEGU, Korea, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2013 Korea Intelligent Robot Contest, hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the governments of North Gyeongsang Province and Pohang City, will be held for two days between October 19 and 20 at Pohang’s City Gymnasium. The event is sponsored by POSCO, the Korea [...]
SEOUL South Korea, Oct 09 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today introduced GALAXY ROUND, the world’s first curved display smartphone. Samsung has been a mobile display innovator by introducing color TFT-LCD, AMOLED, and Super AMOLED flexible display for its mobile product. With this pioneering curved display technology, GALAXY ROUND blends the latest smartphone [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Koreans in their 40s made 42 percent of purchases of e-book readers, according to a recent survey on ‘Biscuit Tab’ buyers by Interpark, Korea’s online shopping mall. The Biscuit Tab is Interpark’s equivalent of Amazon’s Kindle, running on Android. And for what purpose did these 40s purchase [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 22 (Korea Bizwire) – “Showroomers” are a new group of shoppers who examine merchandise in a traditional brick-and-mortar retail store without purchasing it and go online to shop for the same item at a lower price. Is this a practice just limited to some electronic goods? Is this something only a [...]
Seoul, Korea, Sep 16 (Korea Bizwire) –LG Electronics held on September 14 a promotional event “It’s All Possible” with more than 400 guests, including movie stars, entertainment industry reporters, and the general public invited through pre-event lot drawing, at “404 NYC,” a premier venue in Manhattan for corporate parties. Early this month, the Korean company [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor said on September 11 that it would provide unlimited music content to ten schools for hearing-impaired children to which it had donated its “Sonata touchable music seat” systems. As part of a wider CSR program “Sonata the Brilliant Sound Project” to offer beautiful music sounds to deaf [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 04 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Hawzoom (www.haezoom.com), an online site specializing in solar energy, announce on September 2 that it has reorganized its main website to offer the information customers need by continuously adding additional services. ‘Haezoom,’ a site that helps the general public better understand photovoltaic energy and install solar panels correctly, opened [...]