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SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Innospace, a South Korean space startup, said Friday that it is planning to launch its suborbital test launch vehicle, HANBIT-TLV, next week. “If there’re no problems in preparation and weather conditions, we will push for the launch on Monday 6 a.m. (local time) at the Alcantara Space Center,” the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean internet portal giant Naver Corp. has been defeated in an appeal suit against the antitrust regulator that had fined the portal for manipulating search results and abusing its market dominance to the detriment of its competitors. In 2020, the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) accused Naver of manipulating [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — To fix or maintain blades of hundreds of large wind turbines at a vast wind farm, it probably takes much time and is dangerous as mechanics have to climb up to the tubular steel towers with a height of more than 100 meters and examine the blades one by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will present its vision for “sustainable innovation” at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month, its top executive said Thursday, continuing its focus on developing products that are both highly connected and sustainable. As a major technology company, “Samsung Electronics has a responsibility to establish an [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group announced the development of a next-generation delivery service robot on the basis of its electrification and self-driving technologies and launched a demonstration of the self-driving robot delivery service. Hyundai said Wednesday that the demonstration will be conducted at two sites, including a residential-commercial complex in Suwon [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology and Hanyang University announced that it has developed a highly durable floating solar panel structure by recycling low quality waste carbon fiber. The research team found that the surface cohesion between carbon fiber and plastic resin is maximized [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Pay Corp., the online payment unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., said it has launched a mobile-based certified mail service that provides proof of originality for e-documents, thus having the same effect as certified mail. The new service, the first of its kind in the domestic [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly Secretariat announced Wednesday the deployal of an artificial intelligence (AI) robot that provides guide tours and answers questions. The self-driven robot, dubbed “QI,” offers commentary about the National Assembly in four languages — Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese. A six-week trial ended successfully, and the robot [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Retailer Shinsegae Group and local telecom giant KT Corp. said Wednesday they will work together in the digital transformation of shopping, logistics and land development. Shinsegae and KT signed a partnership deal earlier in the day to join hands in five sectors: customer management, logistics, land development, online shopping [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has great potential for the booming online gaming industry thanks to its high-speed internet infrastructure like the fifth-generation (5G) network service, a senior Google official said Tuesday. “In Korea, cloud gaming is poised for success on account of the country’s globally renowned internet speeds and 5G infrastructure,” [...]