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SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top electronics makers, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, have been named among the most desirable employers in the United States, according to a new ranking by Forbes, underscoring the companies’ strong reputation in one of the world’s most competitive labor markets. Forbes, working with market research firm Statista, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Anxiety is rising in South Korea after a massive data breach at e-commerce heavyweight Coupang, which local officials said Sunday may have gone undetected for months. The U.S.-listed retailer said Saturday that personal information belonging to 33.7 million customers—virtually its entire user base—was compromised. The exposed data includes names, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Co. on Friday unveiled a new 200 billion-won (US$136.5 million) shareholder return program for the next two years, with detailed plans to be announced in the near future. The company also plans to retire its remaining treasury stock of 1,748 common shares and 4,693 preferred shares after [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. topped the global market for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) in the July-September period, data showed Friday, maintaining its lead for three consecutive quarters. SK hynix accounted for 34.1 percent of the global DRAM market in terms of sales in the third quarter, keeping the top spot [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly nine in ten of South Korea’s top 500 companies are using artificial intelligence in some form to manage personnel tasks, and more than one in five already rely on AI in hiring decisions, according to a government survey released Friday. The annual “2025 Corporate Hiring Trends Survey,” conducted by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will issue its first government-backed ethics guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence on university campuses, amid a surge in cheating cases involving AI tools such as ChatGPT. According to the office of Kim Yong-tae, an opposition lawmaker who sits on the National Assembly’s Education Committee, the [...]
GOHEUNG, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The successful fourth launch of South Korea’s Nuri rocket has renewed attention on the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province — the country’s first and only launch site, and the core of its rapidly expanding space ambitions. Opened in 2009 on Oenarodo Island, the Naro Space Center serves [...]
GOHEUNG, South Korea, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown space ambitions took another decisive step forward early Thursday, when its Nuri rocket rose from a seaside launchpad on the nation’s southern coast and carried 13 satellites into orbit — a predawn ascent that officials hailed as a milestone for the country’s growing private-sector space ecosystem. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has dismantled the dedicated high-bandwidth memory (HBM) development team it created just last year and folded its engineers into the broader DRAM development division, industry sources said Thursday — a move interpreted as a sign of growing confidence in the company’s next-generation HBM technology. According to industry officials, [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists have developed a new method for producing fuel cell catalysts that dramatically cuts manufacturing time and improves durability, the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) said Thursday. The technique replaces conventional copper-based coating methods with a carbon monoxide–assisted process that allows researchers to form precise metal thin [...]