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SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s de facto leader Lee Jae-yong discussed ways to boost cooperation in the semiconductor industry with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the company said Wednesday. Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee, who is currently on a business trip in Europe, met with Rutte at his office in the Hague, the [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More people are using apps for leisure activities such as movie-watching, outdoor dining and travel since the government scrapped most COVID-19 social distancing restrictions, data showed Tuesday. Local market analysis firm IGA Works analyzed some 2 billion data records from 40 million mobile devices between May 2020 and May [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Defense industry units of South Korea’s Hanwha Group said Tuesday they are investing a combined US$115 million in a U.S. urban air taxi startup, as it seeks to gain an edge in the prospective urban air mobility (UAM) industry. Hanwha Systems Co. and Hanwha Aerospace Co. will spend $50 [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to move around 300 workers from its display business’ liquid crystal display (LCD) division to the company’s semiconductor unit, sources said Tuesday. The plan comes after Samsung Display, a unit of the tech giant, stopped producing LCD panels for TVs this month due to falling [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has decided to postpone this week’s scheduled launch of its space rocket Nuri by one day over safety concerns due to strong winds at the launch site, the science ministry said Tuesday. Nuri was initially set to make its second launch attempt on Wednesday at Naro Space [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Following semiconductors and displays, camera modules are emerging as a future cash cow for South Korean tech firms as the demand for camera modules grows at a healthy pace on the back of the rapid growth of the self-driving cars market. LG Innotek Co., a major electronics components maker, [...]
POHANG, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has developed an innovative power generator that can produce electric energy from a small number of water drops such as raindrops and dewdrops by using the ultra-fine surface structure of a lotus leaf. The prominent science school said Monday it had [...]
DAEJEON, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said its research team has developed a robot skin that can sense various external tactile stimuli and recover from injury when it is cut or damaged. By imitating the structure of human skin and the properties and composition of tactile [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s leading tech firm, was the world’s 22nd-largest company in terms of market capitalization, down seven notches from a year earlier, data showed Sunday. According to the list of the global top 100 companies released by London-based accounting company PwC, the tech giant was the [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will be testing autonomous food delivery robots until November of next year. The project will deploy 11 robots of three different types for the 18-month testing period. Following this month’s preparatory phase, indoor delivery robots will be deployed in August to engage [...]