SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Thursday it will join hands with Deutsche Telekom AG to develop a blockchain platform for digital identification for easier access and better security. The telecom leaders of South Korea and Germany will sign a memorandum of understanding on development and commercialization of blockchain-based mobile identity [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecommunications company KT Corp. said Wednesday it will open a robot cafe in the main venue of MWC Barcelona to serve free coffee to visitors at the world’s largest mobile event next week. A barista robot, b;eat 2nd Evolution, will serve 47 kinds of drinks at GSMA [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — ROK Army Capt. Kwon Hyun gave a special lecture for employees at Naver Corp., South Korea’s largest portal website, on the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) bypass and its countermeasures on Monday. Capt. Kwon, currently studying at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), was selected as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier, SK Telecom Co., said Wednesday it will collaborate with U.S. software giant Microsoft for big data solutions to expand its presence in the global market. SK Telecom said it signed a development and global business cooperation agreement with Microsoft in Silicon Valley to [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry on Wednesday announced its first batch of locations to establish what it calls smart industrial zones, which will utilize high-end information and communication technologies to improve companies’ productivity. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it decided to apply smart factory technologies in the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault S.A. will join forces with South Korean businesses and researchers to develop autonomous driving technology, with an aim to apply the knowhow to the French carmaker’s electric vehicles, the trade ministry said Tuesday. In a business meeting attended by government officials from the two countries in Seoul, the [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has developed Touch Care technology that uses human body communications technology to detect the movement of a person when he or she makes contact with a certain object. Touch Care comes in the form of wristbands or touch tags that can easily [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDS Co., the IT arm of South Korean tech giant Samsung, said Thursday that it has developed its own blockchain accelerator technology compatible with IBM’s open source platform for enterprises. During the IBM Think conference held in San Francisco, Samsung SDS introduced Nexledger Accelerator, which can improve the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. introduced a smart office based on the 5G network Wednesday, showcasing how the latest ICT technology can empower digital workplaces and enhance productivity. The nation’s top mobile carrier last month opened the smart office in a new skyscraper in downtown Seoul, which adopted cutting-edge technologies, including [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Lord Mayor of London has called for increased cooperation with South Korea on fintech and green finance, the government here said Tuesday. Peter Estlin said South Korea and Britain should facilitate the new FinTech Bridge, a bilateral agreement launched in 2016 to make it easier for the two [...]