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BUSAN, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biggest annual gaming exhibition, G-Star 2025, is set to open Thursday in Busan, with the nation’s leading developers unveiling a wave of new titles aimed squarely at global audiences. According to organizers, the four-day event at BEXCO will feature a record lineup of domestic and international game companies, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – ASML, a Netherlands-based semiconductor equipment manufacturer, completed construction of a manufacturing plant in South Korea, which is expected to serve as a cooperation hub for the Dutch company and Korean chipmakers, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The completion ceremony of the 16,000-square-meter cluster, named the New Campus, was held [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Morgan Stanley has sharply revised upward its outlook for South Korea’s two largest chipmakers, saying the global memory semiconductor rally is being powered by surging demand from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers and cloud providers. In a report titled “Memory: The Ultimate Pricing Power,” released Tuesday, the U.S. investment bank [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s electricity demand is surging amid rapid industrial electrification and the spread of artificial intelligence (AI), raising concerns that rising power costs could weigh heavily on energy-intensive industries such as semiconductors and displays, a business report warned Tuesday. According to a study released by the Korea Chamber of Commerce [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is moving closer to deploying fully autonomous telecommunications networks, or Level 4 systems, capable of managing and repairing themselves without human intervention, according to a new report released Tuesday. The Information and Communication Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) said in its latest global AI trends report that competition among [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government on Tuesday suspended its review of Google’s request to export high-precision maps overseas, asking the U.S. tech giant to supplement its documentation. During a review meeting, a government consultative body requested Google submit revised documents by Feb. 5, with the review process suspended until then, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has received the top grade under the trade ministry’s export compliance program, recognizing the company’s transparent management of strategic items. The South Korean tech giant earned the highest “AAA” grade from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources for its management of products [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A major cheating scandal has erupted at Yonsei University after evidence surfaced that a large number of students used ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools during an online midterm exam, prompting the professor to threaten disciplinary action. The professor of “Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ChatGPT,” a third-year course [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — China is racing ahead in the development of humanoid robots and physical artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on the collection and production of real-world sensory and motion data that are far more difficult to obtain than large-language model (LLM) datasets, a new report shows. According to a study released Sunday [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver’s latest virtual reality (VR) technology has reached a stage where it can be implemented using only a 360-degree camera and a smartphone, marking a major step toward mass adoption, the company said Sunday. According to Naver, its research arm Naver Labs tested the new system this week by creating [...]