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SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphone brand Galaxy has been chosen as South Korea’s best brand for the 12th consecutive year, a survey showed Monday. The Galaxy phone earned a brand index reading of 937.6 points out of a possible 1,000 points, according to the survey by Brandstock, a South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of time Korean people spent on the country’s most popular mobile messenger KakaoTalk was restored to the normal level two months after it suffered extensive service disruptions stemming from a fire at a data center, industry data showed Tuesday. Users spent an average of 32.18 minutes using [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator called Monday for Apple Inc. to faithfully implement its projects worth 100 billion won (US$763 million) to support local developers as part of a deal to address the company’s alleged violation of competition law. Apple kicked off an application developers’ academy in South Korea after [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Innospace, a South Korean space startup, said Friday that it is planning to test-fire its suborbital test launch vehicle, HANBIT-TLV, later this month. A launch window was set from Dec. 14-21 (local time) at the Alcantara Space Center in northern Brazil and the exact date and time will be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has established the Robot Occupation Innovation Center aimed at cultivating robot-specialized talent. The ministry on Thursday held an opening ceremony for the center at the Gumi Electronics & Information Technology Research Institute in the southeastern city of Gumi. The center is the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc.’ OLED evo TV was named as the best TV of the year by many renowned overseas media. According to the global home appliance giant, the Britain’s Tech Advisor selected the LG OLED evo (C2 series) as this year’s best TV. Another British media outlet, TechRadar, also [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Interior and Safety on Thursday held a demonstration event at Shinsegae Department Store in Daejeon for an indoor navigation system capable of locating destinations within a complex building structure. The project for indoor navigation of complex building structures has been led by a research team from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s largest messenger app KakaoTalk, said Wednesday that it will increase investment to set up multiple backup storage systems on all its servers in a bid to prevent a service outage stemming from a data center disaster. Due to a fire on Oct. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. said Wednesday it will introduce the new pricing policy, including changes in tax calculation for South Korean app developers, from next year in a move to comply with the local antitrust regulator’s probe. “Apple today announced the most comprehensive upgrade to pricing capabilities since the App Store [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s home appliance makers are releasing a variety of products that can also be used as interior props at home. LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday released a brand-new air purifier called the Puricare Aero Furniture that can also be used as a table. Designed to cope with the [...]