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SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s No. 1 wireless carrier, said Tuesday it will jointly develop and commercialize a self-driving patrol robot in collaboration with its cybersecurity service subsidiary SK shieldus Co. and a robot technology company Neubility by the end of this year. The self-driving robot will patrol a [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it was launching a string of new seed kits for its indoor gardening appliance Tiiun with the spring coming. LG released three types of new seed kits, including rose moss, opal basil and dill. The kits are the first product of the joint study [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has launched the trial distribution of its visual aid solution for visually impaired people. The solution, named Relumino, is a device that acts as a visual aid to visually impaired people with residual vision. This device was developed by Samsung’s in-house venture incubator program C-Lab. Relumino [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, saw inventory held by its chipmaking division shot up 76.6 percent last year amid weak demand for chips around the globe, its annual report showed Tuesday. According to the report, its chipmaking unit’s inventory reached 29.06 trillion won (US$22.3 billion) at [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean battery industry is making strides in developing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, with SK On Co. set to unveil a prototype at the Interbattery exhibition later this month and LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) is also expanding its LFP battery product portfolio. SK On will be the [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. has seen its market share drop below 40 percent for the first time since the establishment of the three-company telecom system, data showed Monday. As per the Ministry of Science and ICT’s wireless communication service subscription status report released on Monday, [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) –The South Korean government has turned down U.S. tech giant Apple Inc.’s request to take high-precision map data out of the country, citing security issues, a government official said Monday. Apple has sought permission for data on a Korean map with a scale of 1:5,000 from the National Geographic Information [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Inventory of South Korean chipmakers has increased to a nearly 26-year high in January, data showed Sunday, reflecting the sluggish global demand amid the economic uncertainties. The inventory-to-sales ratio of chips came to 265.7 percent in January, the highest since 288.7 percent posted in March 1997, according to the [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Musinsa Co., a South Korean fashion platform, said Friday it has become the first local fashion firm to be included in Fast Company’s list of the 10 most innovative companies in the Asia-Pacific region for the current year. The list has been compiled by the American business magazine every [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday unveiled a new concept of residential space offering a distinguished customer experience by converging space with home electronics and services. The conpect, tentatively named LG Smart Cottage, is a small modular house equipped with LG’s advanced energy and air conditioning technology and filled with [...]