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SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly nine in ten of South Korea’s top 500 companies are using artificial intelligence in some form to manage personnel tasks, and more than one in five already rely on AI in hiring decisions, according to a government survey released Friday. The annual “2025 Corporate Hiring Trends Survey,” conducted by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will issue its first government-backed ethics guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence on university campuses, amid a surge in cheating cases involving AI tools such as ChatGPT. According to the office of Kim Yong-tae, an opposition lawmaker who sits on the National Assembly’s Education Committee, the [...]
GOHEUNG, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The successful fourth launch of South Korea’s Nuri rocket has renewed attention on the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province — the country’s first and only launch site, and the core of its rapidly expanding space ambitions. Opened in 2009 on Oenarodo Island, the Naro Space Center serves [...]
GOHEUNG, South Korea, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown space ambitions took another decisive step forward early Thursday, when its Nuri rocket rose from a seaside launchpad on the nation’s southern coast and carried 13 satellites into orbit — a predawn ascent that officials hailed as a milestone for the country’s growing private-sector space ecosystem. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has dismantled the dedicated high-bandwidth memory (HBM) development team it created just last year and folded its engineers into the broader DRAM development division, industry sources said Thursday — a move interpreted as a sign of growing confidence in the company’s next-generation HBM technology. According to industry officials, [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists have developed a new method for producing fuel cell catalysts that dramatically cuts manufacturing time and improves durability, the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) said Thursday. The technique replaces conventional copper-based coating methods with a carbon monoxide–assisted process that allows researchers to form precise metal thin [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has taken another step toward remaking itself as a global center of artificial intelligence. On Thursday, the government convened the first meeting of a new working group made up of officials and senior executives from Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor Group, SK Telecom and Naver Cloud. The mission: figure [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Google will roll out a lower-priced version of YouTube Premium in South Korea that excludes its music-streaming service, the country’s antitrust regulator said Thursday, following a months-long probe into whether the company’s subscription bundling violated fair-trade rules. The launch is part of a corrective plan Google submitted under a consent-decision [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech heavyweight Naver Corp. and Dunamu Inc., operator of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, said Thursday they plan to invest 10 trillion won (US$6.8 billion) over the next five years to build an integrated ecosystem for artificial intelligence and Web3 technologies, aiming to position themselves as global [...]
MUAN, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Jeolla Province is celebrating a wave of high-profile successes — from attracting global data centers and fusion research facilities to the successful launch of the Nuri rocket — cementing its ambitions to become South Korea’s “energy capital.” Early Thursday morning, the country’s first privately built Nuri (KSLV-II) rocket lifted [...]