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SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. on Wednesday confirmed that its mobile payment service Apple Pay will be launched in South Korea. “Apple will launch Apple Pay in Korea,” the company said in an e-mailed statement. But it did not elaborate on the exact timeline for the launch, saying it [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An innovative membrane that can convert industrial wastewater into drinking water as well as produce electricity has been developed by South Korean scientists. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and Myongji University announced on Tuesday that they had developed a new membrane that can purify a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s culture ministry said Tuesday it will launch a metaverse version of the King Sejong Institute, a government-funded Korean language education brand, this year to help foreigners learn the language anytime and anywhere. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will operate the service jointly with [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — What helped Coupang Inc. to become the e-commerce giant that we know today was its same-day or next-day delivery service called Rocket Delivery. However, in-between orders and deliveries, there are various types of logistics technology that are utilized to streamline the logistics process and ensure that the right items [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With brakes being put on blockchain-based play-to-earn (P2E) game marketing in the domestic market, South Korean game developers are placing a bigger emphasis on overseas markets. WeMade Co. officially launched its “Mir M” game in the global market last week. The domestic version, without blockchain functionality, was released in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — While Korean TV series, films and K-pop, like “Squid Game” (2021), “Parasite” (2019) and BTS, have made their presence felt in the world in recent years, demand for Korean language has exploded with many young people across the globe searching for language learning applications. A recent CNN news report [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to use urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles as an actual means of transportation during the 2030 World Expo if it hosts the event in the southeastern port city of Busan, the industry ministry said Monday. The organizing committee signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has agreed to pay US$150 million to Nanoco Technologies in settlement for a patent lawsuit over a technology used in Samsung’s quantum-dot LED TV, a litigation finance firm for the British company has said. GLS Capital announced Friday the two parties reached the settlement shortly before [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The designers of new buildings in major cities of South Korea are seeking to be prepared for the advent of urban air mobility (UAM), autonomous driving and robots. Last week, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport inaugurated a public-private alliance called Smart Plus Building Alliance. The government plans [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp. said Friday last month’s data breach affected a total of 290,000 users, about 110,000 more than initially suspected. On Jan. 10, the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier disclosed that personal data of 180,000 customers, including their names, birth dates and phone numbers, had been breached. The company [...]