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SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will exhibit an artwork made by recycling an OLED TV packaging box at the Nike Art Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria by the end of this year. The artwork was created in collaboration with the African climate change response NGO Solution 17 and a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it will provide real-time information on the status and time of traffic lights at major downtown crossroads for free through a public portal starting from Wednesday. Any citizen can check this information for 788 major crossroads within the city on a real-time basis [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will expand its internet protocol television (IPTV) service to a content media platform that enables viewers to access a greater variety of content from online streamers like Netflix. The new service, Genie TV, renamed from Olleh tv, will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean internet portal giant Naver Corp. said Tuesday it will take over Poshmark Inc., a U.S. social commerce platform specializing in second-hand apparel trade, for 2.3 trillion won (US$1.6 billion) in a bid to broaden its North American business. According to its filing, Naver has agreed to buy [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s home appliance makers are redoubling efforts to improve customer access to their products, aimed at enabling anyone, including physically handicapped people, elderly people and children, to use them more easily and conveniently. In early August, LG Electronics Inc. released a PuriCare Objet Collection water purifier using the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Model houses using metaverse technology are emerging as a new trend in the South Korean construction industry, as part of efforts to reduce the cost needed to build and operate real model houses as well as to reach a wider customer base without physical limits. Lotte Engineering & Construction Co., [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday it has showcased the world’s largest organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV at the latest trade show in the U.S. in a bid to target the premium TV market in North America. LG Electronics unveiled the lineup of its 97-inch OLED TV, or the OLED [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent years, LG Electronics Inc., a global leader in traditional home appliances, has striven to become an industry leader that creates hardly-seen-before and innovative devices, ranging from a steam closet to an automated indoor gardening device to a home brewer. Such moves, regardless of how niche of a [...]
WONJU, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Wonju city government on Thursday announced that it will be hosting a drone fishing contest at the Ganhyeon tourist area on Oct. 8. The event is aimed at fostering the drone industry by linking it to the fishing industry, as well as creating a new leisure culture. A [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Twitch, an online streaming platform owned by Amazon.com, announced that it will cut the maximum resolution for its service in South Korea due to rising costs. Twitch issued an official notice on Thursday saying, “Starting from Friday, we will adjust the quality of original video for Korean viewers on [...]