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MUNICH, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics used Europe’s largest mobility show on Tuesday to stake its claim in the emerging era of software-defined vehicles, announcing new partnerships with Microsoft’s Xbox division and video-conferencing platform Zoom to expand its in-car WebOS ecosystem. At the IAA Mobility 2025 event in Munich, the South Korean company [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The science ministry on Tuesday launched a special team to probe a recent series of unauthorized mobile payments reported by users of KT Corp., the country’s No. 2 telecom carrier. The move came after a number of unauthorized transactions were reported among KT users in southwestern Seoul and the [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — At Europe’s largest electronics fair, IFA 2025, Samsung Electronics unveiled a full-scale modular home outfitted with artificial intelligence technologies, underscoring its ambitions to shape the future of residential living. Erected beside Samsung’s exhibition hall at CityCube Berlin, the 218-square-meter, two-bedroom house was built in partnership with Samsung C&T and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Defense giant Hanwha Aerospace Co. said Monday it has signed a 270 billion-won (US$194.1 million) deal with the state arms procurement agency to mass produce explosive detection robots starting this year. Under the agreement with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), the remote-controlled robots will be capable of detecting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao’s decision to give users more time to retract messages on its flagship app KakaoTalk has drawn an enthusiastic response, with deletions surging more than threefold in the week after the update. The company said Monday that average daily use of the delete function jumped 327 percent compared with the [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Scientists in South Korea have unveiled a skin patch that can precisely track metabolic changes in the body using nothing more than sweat, offering a potential alternative to invasive blood tests. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Sunday that a team led by Professor Jeong [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Exchange said Friday it will introduce three new stock indexes tied to artificial intelligence on Sept. 8, underscoring how rapidly the technology is reshaping investment strategies across industries. The indexes — the KRX Sovereign AI Index, the KRX-Akros AI Power Infrastructure Index, and the KRX AI Semiconductor Index [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) –Demand for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels among major television and monitor makers is expected to see a boost throughout the remainder of 2025, industry data showed Friday, a trend likely to benefit LG Display Co., a leading OLED supplier. According to global market research firm Omdia, LG Electronics Co. [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — On the eve of Europe’s largest consumer electronics fair, LG Electronics unveiled a sprawling exhibition that cast its artificial intelligence appliances as a finely tuned orchestra — a metaphor underscoring its ambitions to harmonize technology and everyday life while deepening its foothold in Europe. At IFA 2025 in Berlin, [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — On the eve of Europe’s largest consumer electronics fair, IFA 2025, Samsung Electronics offered visitors a sweeping vision of how artificial intelligence may soon permeate daily life. At its vast 6,235-square-meter pavilion in CityCube Berlin, Samsung staged an exhibition under the theme “AI Home, Bringing the Future to Life.” The [...]