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SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited a semiconductor components manufacturing site in China run by a Samsung affiliate, the company said Sunday, in the first such trip to the neighboring country in three years. Lee visited the manufacturing facility in Tianjin, operated by Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., on [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers appeared to breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday, as the U.S. government’s new rules for the Chips Act, announced last night, were less stringent than had been previously feared. Washington said late last month it would ban any recipient of federal money from the US$53 billion [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility Corp., a mobility subsidiary of South Korea’s tech giant Kakao Corp, said Wednesday that it has acquired the British ride-hailing startup Splyt as part of its plans to go abroad. “The acquisition of Splyt is Kakao Mobility’s first overseas purchase deal,” the Korean company said in a [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc.’s long-awaited mobile payment service, Apple Pay, has finally landed in South Korea this week, some seven years after the service was first initiated in the United States. It is available in local convenience stores, supermarkets, like Lotte Department Store, and coffee shops, like Paul Bassett, starting Tuesday. [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday unveiled more energy efficient and AI-powered high-end household appliances for this year, seeking to boost sales and take its standard for smart home life to another level. The South Korean tech giant showcased the latest line of luxury home devices, Bespoke Life, which is [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. on Tuesday launched its mobile payment service Apple Pay in South Korea. “Apple Pay is available from today in South Korea,” Duncan Olby, who oversees Apple Pay internationally, said in a press conference in Seoul. “Users can add their credit and debit cards on [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Innospace, a South Korean space startup, said Tuesday its suborbital test launch vehicle, HANBIT-TLV, has made a successful flight, marking the country’s first civilian-made space rocket. The 8.4-ton thrust single stage hybrid rocket was fired from the Alcantara Space Center in northern Brazil at 2:52 p.m. Sunday (local time), [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of three South Koreans have tried artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot system ChatGPT, and the level of reliability on the outcomes was relatively high, a poll showed Monday. According to a survey of 1,016 adults from across the country conducted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s acquisition of additional shares in robot developer Rainbow Robotics is igniting interest on whether it will resume large-scale merger and acquisition (M&A) initiatives, which have been halted for about six years. The South Korean tech giant can become the largest shareholder of Rainbow Robotics depending on [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Innospace, a South Korean space startup, said Monday its suborbital test launch vehicle, HANBIT-TLV, has been launched. The 8.4-ton thrust single stage hybrid rocket was fired from the Alcantara Space Center in northern Brazil at 2:52 p.m. Sunday (local time), or 2:52 a.m. Monday (Korean time), according to the [...]