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SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Card Co. is in talks with Apple Inc. to introduce the U.S. tech giant’s mobile payment service to South Korean card users, industry sources said Wednesday. Hyundai Card is nearing a one-year exclusive contract to provide the Apple Pay service in South Korea, they said. If the contract [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Games Corp. has been caught up in a storm of user complaints over questionable management of the South Korean version of Japanese mobile title “Uma Musume Pretty Derby,” with many gamers threatening to sue the company over purported neglect of Korean users when compared with Japanese players. First [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Enterprise Corp., an artificial intelligence (AI) unit of the mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp., said Tuesday it had joined hands with Kangbuk Samsung Hospital to jointly develop a medical examination-assisting guide bot based on its AI chatbot Kakao i Connect Talk. The development of a medical examination-assisting chatbot [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s No. 2 memory chip maker, said Tuesday it will start construction of a new 15 trillion-won (US$10.9 billion) semiconductor plant in South Korea next month to prepare for the company’s future growth. The company said it will start construction of the new fabrication plant, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical equipment startups are establishing solid track records, playing a leading role in the digital healthcare market. A medical AI solution firm VUNO Inc., for instance, recently acquired licenses from the health authorities of Saudi Arabia and Thailand for its AI-based chest X-ray image [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility Corp., a mobility unit under South Korean internet giant Kakao Corp., said Monday it was launching a trial of an electric vehicle (EV) valet charging service through its navigation app Kakao Navi. Kakao Mobility expects this service to contribute to enhancing user convenience through the combination of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 experts in South Korea consider the local chipmaking industry to be in a crisis due to multiple external risks, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey of 30 experts in the semiconductor sector, taken by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), 76.7 [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — At Europe’s biggest tech show this year, Samsung Electronics Co. went big, not on eye-catching, new consumer gadgets, but on a more pressing issue facing the continent and, by extension, the world: saving energy. Greater energy efficiency has become all the more important issue as energy prices have soared [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecom operators have set up emergency measures to deal with potential network disruptions caused by Typhoon Hinnamnor, as the country braces for what could be its most powerful storm ever. Classified as a “very strong” typhoon, Hinnamnor has moved northward to reach waters off the [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Functional or purely aesthetic, LG Electronics Inc. showed off a series of interesting dual-purpose devices at the IFA tech fair. The most noticeable device that fulfills two different functions is an air purifier-cum-table, the PuriCare Objet Collection Aero Furniture. It is an air purifier that can be used as [...]