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SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 50 percent of South Korean app and game developers featured on Google Play are generating revenue from international markets. Google Korea hosted its Google for Korea 2023 event on Thursday at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul to showcase these accomplishments and share examples of Korean content successfully expanding [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband announced on Tuesday its intention to enhance program competitiveness by integrating AI technology into its local channel news. SK Broadband plans to broadcast by creating an AI version of journalist Shim Jae-ho, who is nearing retirement after more than 30 years as a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp. announced on Tuesday the commencement of a navigation solution demonstration project, ‘Universal Mobility 2.0,’ aimed at assisting the movement of vulnerable pedestrians, including the visually impaired, in Singapore. Universal Mobility is a smart city project undertaken by Hyundai and Kia to provide a futuristic urban [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Parcel delivery is now possible to Gapado, a unique island located between Jeju Island and Marado. Gapado’s distinctive shape resembles a stingray, which is why it got its name. This beautiful island is known for hosting the annual Gapado Green Barley Festival. Jeju Island, in collaboration with the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is showcasing something called “The Wall for Virtual Production” at the IBC 2023 event in Amsterdam, which is a big broadcast exhibition happening until September 18th. This “Wall” comes in two versions, one with a pixel-to-pixel distance of 1.68mm (called P1.68) and another at P2.1. You can [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Senior South Korean and U.S. defense officials have agreed to cooperate in utilizing 5th generation (5G) wireless technology in combined operations, Seoul’s defense ministry said Friday. South Korean Vice Defense Minister Shin Beom-chul and Heidi Shyu, the U.S. under secretary of defense for research and engineering, vowed to carry [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Vice Chairman Park Jung-ho said Friday his company stopped doing business with Huawei Technologies Co., following U.S. chip sanctions against China in 2020 and has not supplied semiconductors to the Chinese smartphone maker. Last week, the chipmaker said it opened an internal investigation into how its memory [...]
ULSAN, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group plans to invest 8 trillion won (US$6.02 billion) to transform its main refinery and chemical complex in the country’s southeast into eco-friendly businesses, its chief has said. Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, made the announcement as he reinforced the company’s commitment to shifting its key areas [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean oil refiner GS Caltex Corp. said Friday it has begun the pilot operation of a container ship that runs on its bio marine fuel in collaboration with the shipping company HMM Co. The 6,400 twenty-foot equivalent unit vessel, powered by GS Caltex’s B30 bio marine fuel, will [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The waters off the coast of Ulsan were once a haven for whale sightings. However, the whale population has sharply declined as many animals have starved to death after ingesting plastics discarded by humans. Byun Eui-hyun, CEO of Usisan, said, “We’re committed to saving Earth’s largest endangered creatures by [...]