SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An upgraded contact tracing system with better protection of individual privacy has been developed, a national research university said Wednesday. The Prevention System for Pandemic Disease Infection (PreSPI) uses the global positioning system, wireless local area network, Bluetooth, barometer and accelerometer built into most modern smartphones to follow the [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Conventional bus stops on Seoul’s main streets will have futuristic features, such as free Wi-Fi, mobile phone chargers and air purifiers, starting later this year, the metropolitan government said Tuesday. The government of Seoul said it will begin test operations of the futuristic bus stops, dubbed “Smart Shelters,” at [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Friday it will enter the medical imaging market after investing in Nanox Imaging Ltd., an Israel-based digital X-ray system developer. SK Telecom said it became the second-largest shareholder of Nanox after investing a total of US$23 million. “We passionately seek [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — All job applicants for this year’s SK Telecom Co. spring recruiting session will conduct their interview sessions at home using tablet devices. South Korea’s leading mobile carrier announced Wednesday that it will introduce an ‘interactive untact’, or in-tact, interview session for all applicants hoping to land a job during [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications firm, said Thursday it will launch augmented reality (AR) glasses in the third quarter of the year in collaboration with Chinese mixed reality product developer Nreal. Nreal Light will be the world’s first AR glasses to be commercialized in a business-to-consumer [...]
DAEJEON, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on Wednesday that it had developed a sign language video to share COVID-19 prevention guidelines with hearing-impaired people. In this video developed jointly with a sign language solution developer EQ4All, an avatar uses sign language to introduce the social distancing [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean IT giant Naver Corp., in collaboration with the YBM Korea TOEIC Committee, will introduce a facial recognition system using AI technology to identify TOEIC English-language test takers. The system, to be introduced on Saturday, uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to compare pictures submitted during the speaking test [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — During an online live concert, Choi Si-won, a member of South Korean boy band Super Junior, surprised his fans by being converted into a 12-meter-tall giant image. He showed up on the stage like the Genie from the animated film “Aladdin.” According to SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Carrying two ice lattes and a blueberry scone, a courier leaves a cafe on the 18th floor of a building, passing through an automatic door before taking an elevator down to the fourth floor. The deliverer then uses an application to notify the customer that the order will arrive [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. announced Thursday it has joined the governing council of a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications to better study advanced blockchain technologies. The South Korean firm is the sole home appliance maker to join the Hedera Governing Council and is its 14th member, joining global [...]