SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — In South Korea, Samsung Electronics is the most favored and sought-after company among Korean university grads. Reflecting their enthusiasm to work at Samsung, around 200,000 university students including retakers — and even third-time retakers — took the Samsung Aptitude Test (SSAT), a kind of entry test for Samsung Group, this year. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display and LG Display challenge each other at the 14th International Meeting on Information Display from October 14 to 16. Samsung’s keywords are “curved” and “flexible” while LG focuses on “Organic Light Emitting Diodes” and “touch” at the exhibition. In order to boast its technological prowess for curved and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – To meet the increasing global demand for TVs and other home appliances, Samsung Electronics is constructing a consumer electronics factory at the Saigon High-tech Park in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a strategic move to take advantage of the cheap labor costs and bet on the swelling middle class consumer [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has unveiled a smart TV embedded with Tizen, the operating system developed jointly with Intel. It plans to make available the application programming interface (API) next year in order for external developers to develop smart TV apps. The company will also launch a smart TV model applied with [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will launch a variety of TV and other home appliance products adopting its own proprietary operating system “Tizen” from next year. According to executives of the company’s consumer electronic division on September 11, it would accelerate the pace of the Tizen-based business by introducing models embedded with Tizen operating [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has started mass production of the world’s first circular Plastic OLED (P-OLED) display. The cutting-edge display will be used for the LG G Watch R to be showcased at IFA 2014 in Berlin, opening a [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The keyword of Samsung in the upcoming IFA Berlin will be “COVART.” A compound word for collaboration, virtual reality, and art, the main theme will be used throughout the company’s promotional effort in the trade show to be held between September 5 and 10. The art gallery to display Samsung’s drum [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — KT‘s IPTV (Internet protocol television) service Olleh TV announced on August 27 that it will officially launch “Customized TV Curation Service” which provides users with TV content curation, based on the user’s personal interest. The service developed by the KT Fusion Technology Institute analyzes the likes and patterns of the user [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will showcase the world’s largest 105-inch bendable Ultra HD TV at the IFA Berlin (International Radio Exhibition Berlin) to be open on September 5 under the theme of “The Power of the Curve.” The number of TVs to be on display at the trade show will be 120 and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy said on August 22 that it would hold a workshop on standardization of ICT-based smart plug, smart appliance interoperability for the first program year (December 2013 – September 2014). A “smart plug” can provide information about electricity consumption patterns, standby power blocking, and remote control [...]