SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Holdings Co., the holding firm of South Korean energy and telecom conglomerate SK Group, said Thursday its artificial intelligence platform has successfully found the right cover letter in a flash, a technology that could ease the burden of human resources officials. Last year, Aibril Employment Helper evaluated 10,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) said Thursday it will launch self-service shops during the latter half of the year amid growing non-face-to-face transactions. “We are sending some employees to Japan next month so they can look into self-service stores there to catch up with the growing proportion of non-face-to-face [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Six South Korean banks will begin issuing new trading accounts for cryptocurrencies next week by introducing a system that bans the use of anonymous accounts in cryptocurrency transactions, a senior financial regulator said Tuesday. When the banks introduce the system of verifying cryptocurrency investors’ identification next Tuesday, current virtual [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The organizers of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Thursday they are operating a special team of technicians managing radio-spectrum issues at venues to avoid interference of wireless devices and ensure accurate tracking of records. PyeongChang’s organizing committee and the Ministry of Science and ICT said the team of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Telecom giant KT has opened an agricultural drone school in South Jeolla Province in the hopes of helping the farming community. KT’s ‘Giga Island Drone School’ opened at an experience center on Imja Island in Sinan County yesterday, featuring a number of facilities including a workshop and a simulation room, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Friday that it has acquired a 10.12 percent stake in Robotis, a local robot maker, in the latest move to build its presence in the automation business. The South Korean consumer tech giant purchased about 9 billion won (US$8.4 million) worth of Robotis stock, after [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and Cisco Systems Inc. said they will team up to produce a next-generation, hyperconnected car next year in the latest move to stay ahead of global competition as sweeping changes in transportation and mobility pick up pace. The two firms aim to create a flexible and [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle with separately controlled wings. The researchers, led by professors Ha Dong-soo and Jo Cheon-sik, said on Thursday that they had developed a new drone that features main wings that be [...]
DAEJEON, Jan 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Research Foundation of Korea announced on January 3 that a research team at Yonsei University had, through a manufacturing process making use of lower temperatures than normally required, successfully produced a hybrid solar cell of organic material and silicon. Crystalline silicon solar cells are the most commonly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has been developing a system that is likely to start banning the use of anonymous accounts in cryptocurrency transactions from around Jan. 20, financial industry sources said Tuesday. The system is a part of follow-up measures after the government announced last week a set of [...]