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SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday held a completion ceremony for a peak shaving energy storage system (ESS) at its home appliances factory LG Smart Park in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province. The system is designed to contribute to lowering the burden of electricity charges as well as to reducing greenhouse [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — As the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is slated to open in Las Vegas next week, a South Korean team is gearing up for an attention-grabbing autonomous driving competition. “It is very meaningful to participate in the event and try to solve technological challenges of making autonomous driving cars [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. has teamed up with a local firm to develop smart home appliances that utilize sleep analytics technology. The home appliance maker said Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Asleep, a sleep tracking software startup, to work together in the field of sleep technology. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Monday it had set up the Sustainability Reporting System (SRS) to comprehensively unveil its environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related data. The SRS will disclose the memory chip maker’s ESG strategies, objectives, activities, performance and policies. A variety of ESG information ranging from the point of orientation [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cyberthreats rose more than 60 percent in 2022 from a year earlier on increased ransomware attacks, government data showed Monday. A total of 1,045 cyberattacks were reported to the authorities in the first 11 months of this year, up from 640 cases tallied last year, according [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday held an opening ceremony for a research and development center in Vietnam, in what the tech giant said is the largest such facility in the Southeast Asian country set up by a foreign firm. “I expect the R&D center to contribute to Vietnam’s industrial [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it had selected Viva Magenta as a new color option for its Dios Objet Collection MoodUp, a refrigerator that enables users to change the color of the appliance via a smartphone app. Customers will be able to add Viva Magenta to color options for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean gaming giant Nexon Co. has announced plans to terminate its racing game “KartRider,” launched in 2004, provoking protests from gamers. Some KartRider users on Thursday parked a mobile billboard truck displaying their protests against Nexon’s decision in front of the company’s headquarters in the Seoul suburb of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messaging app KakaoTalk, announced that it has added a new function enabling users to “sneak out” of team chat rooms without informing other team members. Team chat rooms are usually opened by team leaders who use a pay-based data backup service. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group said Thursday it will share its new growth engines at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas early next month. Lotte Data Communication Co., the IT solutions developing arm of Lotte, will showcase its hyper-reality metaverse service at the event’s central hall, where [...]