SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Korean companies are using virtual reality in their marketing campaigns as the latest technology that allows people to thoroughly experience products online before purchasing has proven to improve customer satisfaction. VR technology has been increasingly popular in the mobile and desktop online shopping industry in [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A testing site named ‘K-City’, a virtual city where autonomous cars will be tested in real road settings in preparation for transportation of the future is set to be built in the city of Hwaseong in Gyeonggi Province next year. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The worldwide market for mobile phone displays is expected to overtake that of TVs screens for the first time ever this year, brought on by the change in consumer demand, industry trackers said Sunday. According to IHS Markit, growth of mobile panels averaged 17 percent annually in the past [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has ratcheted up its struggle against organized prostitution by developing technology that will clog up telephone lines used by brothels. Despite efforts to shut down businesses operating in the sex trade, the dispersal of lurid flyers with phone numbers printed on them has made it [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Wave, a ‘smart’ speaker that is the first AI gadget developed by South Korean web giant Naver, has received much attention for the massive investment the company made in its development, having chosen artificial Intelligence as the key technology of the next generation. The main functions of Wave include [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) speaker manufacturers are scrambling to lock in consumers that are critical for boosting their competitiveness moving forward, industry watchers said Tuesday. SK Telecom, the country’s largest mobile operators, and Naver Corp., the top Internet portal operator here, have recently unveiled half-price and free speakers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Advanced image recognition technology is reshaping the landscape of information search, a recent report has said. According to the report released by Digieco on trends in the mobile market, image recognition technology is increasingly being adopted by artificial intelligence services such as Google assistant and Samsung’s Bixby. In the [...]
SEOUL Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Sunday it sold around 5,000 units of the portable edition of its artificial intelligence (AI) device NUGU on the first day of release. The mobile carrier said the sales of the NUGU Mini, which started Friday, were five times higher [...]
Gyeonggi Province, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Pangyo Techno Valley in Gyeonggi Province is growing rapidly, with annual economic output estimated at 77 trillion won last year. According to data released by the Gyeonggi Provincial Government on Tuesday, more than 1,300 companies had moved into Pangyo Techno Valley, also known as PTV, an industrial complex located [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of part-time workers expect they will be replaced by kiosks due to the rise in minimum wage, with those working at restaurants and cafes expressing the most concern, a portal survey said Tuesday. Alba, a portal for job seekers, asked 644 members between July 27 and Aug. [...]