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SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — KT SAT Co., the satellite service arm of local telecom giant KT Corp., said Wednesday it plans to introduce Starlink, satellite internet service developed by U.S. space firm SpaceX, in South Korea. The service will be first adopted for the mobility industry, in particular, marine communications, where a stable [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean office software company Hancom Inc. said Tuesday it plans to launch an artificial intelligence-based assistance software similar to Copilot by Microsoft Corp. next year. According to Hancom CEO Kim Yeon-su, the company aims to release a trial version of the program, tentatively named Hancom Assistant, in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Two Taiwanese display makers have been ordered to pay a combined 32.8 billion won (US$25.1 million) in damages to LG Electronics Inc. for fixing the prices of LCD panels, sources said Monday. The Seoul Central District Court recently delivered the ruling in a compensation suit filed by LG and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., a leading South Korean mobile carrier, will join hands with information technology companies from three Southeast Asian countries to expand its metaverse business in the region, company officials said Monday. SK Telecom signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Malaysia’s Celcom Digi, Indonesia’s Agate and Philippines’ [...]
JEONJU, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Mushrooms, usually associated with dining, are now being transformed into a type of leather used to make clothing and accessories. On Thursday, the Rural Development Administration (RDA) announced the development of technology for creating leather using mushrooms and revealed plans to commercialize this innovative process. Mycelium, the root structure of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and ICT unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, said Wednesday it plans to launch a small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite within the year. The company said it plans to deploy the self-developed SAR satellite into space over the southern waters of Jeju Island [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Groundbreaking technology leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) has been developed to analyze satellite images to estimate economic indicators in impoverished nations, including North Korea. This innovation is poised to play a crucial role in monitoring countries with limited access to basic statistical data. On Tuesday, KAIST announced the successful development of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent test of clothes dryers available in the South Korean market revealed that some small models have subpar drying functions. The drying time for clothes varied by up to one hour, and the disparity in annual power rates reached up to 25,000 won. On Tuesday, the Korea Consumer Agency [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, brimmed with excitement from early afternoon on November 19th for the culmination of the League of Legends World Championship, the globe’s premier esports event. The 18,000-seat arena filled rapidly, while Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul mirrored the fervor. Despite the biting winds, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s arms procurement agency said Friday it will push for a joint research project on high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles with U.S. defense giant Boeing. Officials from the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and Boeing agreed to collaborate on the project at the company’s headquarters in Washington on [...]