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SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. will put more resources into developing and producing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for notebooks and PCs, its chief executive said Wednesday. “Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a wide variety of information technology products has been launched, and we see a great potential for OLED panels in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it has rebranded its K-pop content platform and has newly enabled official foreign language support for foreign users. The company’s U+ Idol Live platform has been renamed as Idol Plus and its menu and subtitles now officially support English, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The best-selling color for Samsung Electronics Co.’s next-generation foldable smartphone, Galaxy Z Flip 4, has thus far not been the most-touted Bora Purple but rather Pink Gold. According to the tech giant, SK Telecom users showed a preference for Pink Gold (28 percent), Blue (23 percent) and Bora Purple [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Police plans to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI)-based black box video decoding system to better cope with fast-growing public interest reports on traffic law violations. The National Police Agency said Tuesday it is developing an AI system in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and ICT to automatically decode [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Global TV sales fell more than 6 percent from a year ago in the first half of this year on slow demand and macroeconomic woes, research showed Tuesday, as Samsung Electronics remained the top player in the TV segment. In global markets, 92.6 million units of TVs were sold, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Insurance agencies and planners have voiced strong opposition to big tech companies’ entry into the insurance sales business, criticizing it as an infringement of their commercial rights. The Insurance Agency Association and the Labor Union Solidarity for Insurance Planners held a joint press conference in front of the presidential [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Internet portal giant Naver Corp. said Monday it has become the first South Korean internet company to join RE100, a global renewable energy initiative to achieve carbon neutrality in business operations. Naver said it was recently accepted as a member of the RE100 initiative of The Climate Group, a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will seek to expand its home appliance business in the European market by making its customizable, top-end line of products more widely available there. The South Korean tech and consumer electronics giant said it will display the latest Bespoke line of products at [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said it has developed an innovative system that can create moving 3-dimensional shapes simply with digital pen drawings and multi-touch motions. The KAIST research team succeeded in designing and realizing intuitive multi-touch motions, enabling designers to manipulate 3D sketches just [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean beauty care behemoth Amorepacific Group said it has developed a chipless wireless electronic skin that enables accurate analysis and measurement of skin conditions anytime and anywhere without heavy equipment. In general, clinical skin research requires the use of high-priced diagnosis equipment as well as maintaining a stable [...]