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SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean IT firm ESTsoft Corp. said Monday it will develop a bilingual artificial intelligence (AI) lecturer that can speak in both Korean and English in collaboration with YBM, a local language education company. The AI lecturer is a virtual human version of YBM’s English lecturer Park Hye-won. ESTsoft [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Korea’s sales rose slightly to 7.3 trillion won (US$5.9 billion) last year, data showed Monday. The South Korean unit of U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. logged 7.3 trillion won in sales from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, up from 7.1 trillion won the previous one-year period, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday that the company’s plant in the U.S. state of Tennessee has been selected as a lighthouse factory by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the first of its kind among South Korean plants built overseas. According to the WEF, a lighthouse factory refers to a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The construction of a new semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, was going smoothly and will be completed within this year as scheduled, Samsung Electronics chief executive has said. “The construction in Taylor is on track,” Kyung Kye-hyun, co-CEO at Samsung who is in charge of the tech giant’s chip [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SpaceX, a U.S. space company owned by Elon Musk, has applied for business registration with South Korean authorities to roll out its network of satellite internet service Starlink, sources said Friday. SpaceX filed the request with the Ministry of Science and ICT earlier this month to launch Starlink in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to have 30 percent of local companies adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by 2030 to beef up competitiveness of local industries, the industry ministry said Friday. The target marks a sharp rise from the current estimate of 1 percent, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — New security standards will allow Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad devices to be used at state or public institutions, a South Korean spy agency said Wednesday. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) announced the security requirements for iOS and iPadOS devices used at state institutions via its official website. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of information and communication technology (ICT) products hit a fresh high last year on strong overseas demand for chips and mobile phones, data showed Thursday. Outbound shipments of ICT products rose 2.5 percent on-year to US$233.3 billion for 2022, outnumbering the previous high of $227.6 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will unveil new Galaxy S smartphones next month in the first in-person Unpacked event in three years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the biannual offline event. The world’s largest smartphone maker said it will hold a Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is accelerating its move to stay ahead of the rapid changes of the way people consume news and entertainment on TV by enhancing content and services available exclusively on its smart devices, a senior executive has said. As the world’s biggest TV and smartphone maker, Samsung [...]