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SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp. announced Tuesday that it has begun testing artificial intelligence–based radio access network (AI-RAN) technology on its commercial 5G network, making it the first company in South Korea to do so. AI-RAN is seen as a cornerstone of future sixth-generation wireless systems. By analyzing traffic data in real [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a conviction against Taiwan’s Everlight Electronics for stealing advanced light-emitting diode (LED) technology from Seoul Semiconductor, marking a landmark ruling in the protection of industrial technologies. Seoul Semiconductor said Tuesday that the court recently confirmed earlier guilty verdicts under the nation’s Industrial Technology Protection [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Uber announced Tuesday that it will introduce its subscription-based membership program in South Korea next month, escalating competition in the country’s mobility market as rivals race to lock in loyal customers. At a press briefing in Seoul, Uber Taxi Korea head Song Jin-woo said the service, called Uber One, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics said Tuesday it will roll out its upgraded artificial intelligence home platform, LG ThinQ AI, across Europe in September, marking a major expansion of its connected appliance ecosystem. The company has long offered European customers remote control and Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity through its original ThinQ service. But [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics said on August 25 that it will begin rolling out a software update next month that applies its One UI operating system to artificial intelligence–powered home appliances, extending the same interface used across its smartphones and TVs into refrigerators, washers, and other connected devices. The update, which [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new fiber-based material that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air using only small amounts of electricity, potentially lowering the barriers to large-scale deployment of direct air [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics has introduced a new service that transforms televisions into digital art frames, underscoring the company’s push to enrich its webOS platform with cultural and entertainment offerings. The service, called LG Gallery+, was unveiled on Monday and provides access to more than 4,000 works, ranging from masterpieces displayed at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25(Korea Bizwire) — LG CNS, the IT services arm of South Korea’s LG Group, unveiled a new ecosystem of so-called “agentic artificial intelligence” designed to streamline corporate operations and improve productivity. At a media event in Seoul on Monday, Chief Executive Hyun Shin-gyun introduced AgenticWorks, a modular full-stack platform, alongside a:xink, an AI-driven [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25(Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Monday it has begun mass production of a new quadruple level cell (QLC) NAND flash to address the growing need for high-performance products in the artificial intelligence sector (AI). The 321-layer 2Tb QLC1 NAND flash product has doubled the data transfer speed, with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will more than quadruple the capacity of its national backbone network — the core infrastructure of the country’s telecommunications system — by 2030 to handle an expected surge in traffic from artificial intelligence technologies, the government announced Sunday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it plans [...]