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SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it will soon release its 97-inch OLED EVO Gallery Edition, the world’s largest OLED television. The new 97G2 model comes with the largest OLED screen available in the current state of technology with a 4K resolution (3,840 x 2,160). It is also equipped with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp. aims to expand its non-telecom business portfolio to account for up to 40 percent of its total sales by 2027, as South Korea’s third-largest wireless carrier plans to transform itself into a digital platform service provider from its traditional telecom identity, its CEO said Thursday. At [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will try to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 as part of its efforts to tackle the worsening climate crisis and increase the use of renewable energy. Samsung, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of electronic devices and semiconductors, said it will try to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it had installed its The Terrace outdoor TV at Postojna Cave, a major tourist attractions in Slovenia. Postojna Cave is famous as the habitat of olms, a kind of salamander often referred as ‘baby dragons.’ Samsung displayed the habitat space of olms taken by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) on Wednesday slapped a combined fine of 100 billion won (US$71.9 million) on Google and Meta Platforms for collecting personal information without users’ consent and using it for personalized online advertising and other purposes, officials said. In a general meeting, the commission approved [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. said Wednesday it plans to open its fourth retail store in South Korea later this month, expanding its presence in the country to compete with local rival Samsung Electronics Co. Named “Apple Jamsil,” the store will open at Lotte World Mall in Seoul’s southeastern [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Tuesday that its researchers had developed a practical near-surface augmented reality (AR) device dubbed WonderScope. After being mounted on a smartphone and linked through Bluetooth, the WonderScope can see through the inside of the exhibits just like a magic [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it has chosen nine startups that could lead the tech company’s future growth in digital health, metaverse and electric mobility. LG’s San Francisco-based North American Innovation Center wrapped up its two-day Fall Innovation Festival last week, where it announced nine most-promising startups in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it will start an overseas working and training program to help its employees have a broader perspective of the global semiconductor industry. The Global eXperience Program (GXP) will run for five weeks from the end of October at SK hynix’s overseas branches as well [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has seen nearly 560,000 outside hacking attempts into its key computer systems over the past six years, with a combined 43 percent from China and the United States, a report showed Tuesday. According to the interior ministry report submitted to Rep. Lee Hae-sik of the main opposition [...]