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SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s semiconductor industry is establishing a system to allow high-caliber engineers to continue to work even after retirement age as part of efforts to cope with talent leaks. SK hynix Inc. recently created a “master” position, which is the highest career level among field workers at semiconductor production [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the many startups founded and operating in South Korea, TagHive, an education technology company launched in 2017, is distinguished for its founder and CEO Pankaj Agarwal. Pankaj was born in a small town in northern India and studied at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it will launch a full-scale roll-out of a version of its CLOi robot that features a library-customized solution. The company recently supplied a public library of the South Gyeongsang Provincial Office of Education in Changwon, some 400 kilometers south of Seoul, with one CLOi [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Global semiconductor revenue grew only around 1 percent on-year last year, a recent report showed Thursday, with the memory chip sector suffering the most. According to tech research firm Gartner, worldwide chip revenue is estimated to have risen 1.1 percent to US$601.7 billion in 2022, a significant drop from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based pet health management platform developed by a South Korean startup will be used for non-face-to-face diagnosis in the U.S. AI FOR PET, the operator of the pet health management application TTcare, said Wednesday it will provide an AI-based pet medical environment in collaboration with American [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top messenger app operator Kakao Corp. said Tuesday it has introduced “memorial profiles” to KakaoTalk to keep deceased users in remembrance. Previously, KakaoTalk profiles of deceased people that were locked for not being accessed for more than a year or their phone being deregistered would be set [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A court has upheld a measure prohibiting blockchain-based play-to-earn (P2E) games from domestic distribution. The Seoul Administrative Court said Tuesday that it recently dismissed the case filed by SkyPeople, developer of P2E game “Five Stars for Klaytn,” to cancel the Game Rating and Administration Committee’s rating rejection. The committee [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Tuesday it had completed a pilot project to distribute shipping container Internet of Things (IoT) equipment that had been carried out for two years as part of an initiative to enhance export competitiveness. Under this project, IoT equipment was installed on the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will run dozens of Galaxy Experience Spaces around the world after a product release event early next month. The world’s largest smartphone maker is set to introduce new Galaxy S smartphones in San Francisco on Feb. 1 in the first in-person Unpacked event [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Monday launched the first stage of Metaverse Seoul, which provides a variety of services. The city government said that it was the first major city around the world to establish a metaverse platform and launch a service in the public sector. The services offered [...]