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SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. is currently engaged in a tense battle with SK Telecom Co., the country’s leading wireless carrier, over the recruitment of skilled employees in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Naver Cloud, a cloud computing solutions unit under Naver, recently presented evidence to [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store chain GS25 is revolutionizing the industry with the launch of Ereon, an AI self-driving serving robot. This marks the first sale of its kind in convenience stores, with Ereon becoming available at over 9,000 GS25 stores in Seoul this month. Equipped with advanced vibration control and AI [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube will launch its official shopping channel in South Korea for live commerce later this month for the first time in the world, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The new channel, set to open June 30, will provide a live commerce platform to companies and plans to [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is showcasing a series of artworks created by recycling props from refrigerator advertisements. The tech giant said Tuesday it has collaborated with upcycling artists Lee Kyu-han and Kim Eun-ha to transform props like film sets and costumes, originally used to convey the energy-saving philosophy of Bespoke [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a high-performance, flexible thermoelectric device that can power wireless wearable devices simply using body temperature, eliminating the need for batteries. A thermoelectric device is capable of converting heat energy into electric energy through the Seebeck effect. Existing thermoelectric devices face limitations in [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. held companywide global strategy meetings Tuesday, amid continuing headwinds from the uncertain macroeconomic environment. The biannual event, taking place in June and December, is where hundreds of Samsung’s senior executives from home and abroad get together to discuss pending issues, business plans and strategy. The company’s [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO said Sunday it plans to collaborate with local developers to develop robots specifically designed for safety management. Under an agreement with Withrobot Co., South Korea’s leading steelmaker will develop robots that move on wires to monitor accidents at its production lines, the company said. The robots will utilize [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Sat Co., the satellite service arm of telecom giant KT Corp., said Friday it launched a satellite service for fishing vessels 100 or more kilometers away from land. The service covers waters off the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and the Russian island of Sakhalin in the Pacific Ocean by [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to establish a foundry ecosystem in collaboration with its semiconductor intellectual property (IP) partners, aiming to close the gap with Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer. Samsung announced through its newsroom that it will disclose the agreements’ content with IP partners such as [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top Internet portal operator Naver Corp., partnered with Samsung Electronics Co. in March to prepare for the official launch of Apple Inc.’s mobile payment service Apple Pay in the country, and this strategic move has yielded positive results, a local data tracker said Wednesday. Naver Pay, Naver’s [...]