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SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju provincial government has announced that it will be introducing a commercial drone delivery service, for the first time in the country, later this year. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology selected 15 cities and provinces for the drone [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Fashion retailers analyze all the previous years’ data to build a plan that offers the right kind of product at the right place, time, quantity and price. The process, called merchandise planning, involves selecting an item, designing the product and determining the ways to sell the product. But merchandise [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is stepping up to train “prompt engineers” who are tasked with extracting better results from artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. The Ministry of Science and ICT said Thursday it will open up a new program to train prompt engineers. The program trains students on how to [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. space firm SpaceX has set up a subsidiary in Seoul to launch satellite internet services using Starlink here, industry sources said Thursday. SpaceX established Starlink Korea LLC on March 8, and Lauren Ashley Dreyer, SpaceX’s senior director of Starlink business operations, has been appointed as representative, according to [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has acquired additional shares of Rainbow Robotics, in a move to enhance its robotics business, a sector it sees as having a huge growth potential. Samsung said in a regulatory filing that it bought 913,936 shares of the South Korean robot company for [...]
SUWON, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will beef up its robotics business this year to more proactively respond to a future where artificial intelligence-powered machines will take a more important role in human life, its chief executive said Wednesday. The South Korean tech giant “will strengthen core technologies necessary to develop various [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will create the world’s largest semiconductor cluster in Yongin, located in the Seoul metropolitan area, by earmarking 300 trillion won (US$229.81 billion) as part of efforts to secure a competitive edge in the sector and to further the country’s economic growth momentum, the industry ministry said Wednesday. [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food and entertainment giant CJ Group said Tuesday it is developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based copywriter that can create marketing phrases optimized for customer preferences. The AI copywriter will automatically produce customer-tailored phrases for use in marketing campaigns once basic promotional information is input. Conversational and figurative [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With Apple Pay’s imminent launch in the South Korean market, Samsung Electronics Co. is pushing to join hands with Kakao following its earlier partnership with Naver Corp. According to industry sources, the tech giant is now in talks with Kakao Corp. to mutually integrate mobile payment services between Samsung [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and ICT unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, said Monday it successfully demonstrated an anti-drone system designed to detect and track illegal drones and to disable them using physical nets. During the period from March 2-8, the company tested its anti-drone system designed [...]