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SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it ranked first in four categories in the 2025 U.S. Appliance Satisfaction Study released by market research firm J.D. Power, marking the highest number of wins among all brands evaluated. The South Korean tech giant took the top spot in the French-door refrigerator, side-by-side refrigerator, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Krafton Inc., the South Korean game developer behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), announced Thursday that it will invest 100 billion won (about US$72 million) to build a high-performance GPU cluster as part of its transformation into an “AI-first” company. The company unveiled its new long-term vision during an internal town hall [...]
LOS ANGELES & SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will partner with both Samsung Electronics and Taiwan’s TSMC to produce its next-generation artificial intelligence chip, signaling a deepening collaboration between the U.S. automaker and the South Korean tech giant. Speaking during Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Musk confirmed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — OpenAI unveiled an ambitious blueprint for its expansion into South Korea on Wednesday, calling for a dual-track strategy that combines the development of “sovereign AI” infrastructure with deeper international collaboration. The plan marks the company’s clearest signal yet that it views South Korea as a pivotal partner in the global [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus Corp., a major mobile carrier in South Korea, reported a cyberattack on its servers to authorities Thursday, industry sources said, the latest in a series of recent industry-wide data breach cases. According to the sources, LG Uplus submitted a report earlier in the day to the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it will join SDVerse, a global automotive software marketplace backed by General Motors Co., Magna International Inc., and Wipro Ltd., as the South Korean tech company looks to expand its presence in the fast-growing software-defined vehicle market. The business-to-business platform functions as an online exchange [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea remains one of only two major economies — alongside Japan — where large and small firms receive markedly different levels of tax incentives for research and development (R&D) and where unclaimed credits cannot be directly refunded, according to a new analysis by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and [...]
MUAN, South Korea, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — On the reclaimed coastline of South Jeolla Province, an ambitious experiment in urban design is quietly taking shape. The corporate city of Solasido — a blend of solar, sea, and do (province) — is emerging as South Korea’s latest bid to merge renewable energy with artificial intelligence, drawing [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has unveiled what it calls the beginning of a new era in immersive computing—a headset that doesn’t just show digital worlds but listens, tracks, and responds to human behavior. The new Galaxy XR, released Wednesday in South Korea and the United States, is the first device built on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – In a glass-lit exhibition hall in southern Seoul, the quiet hum of competition filled the air. Two of South Korea’s tech titans—Samsung Electronics and SK hynix—unveiled their newest weapons in the global race to power artificial intelligence: the sixth generation of high bandwidth memory chips, or HBM4. The debut [...]