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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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced Sunday that its joint research with Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory on next-generation Peltier cooling technology has been named one of the world’s top 100 innovations at the 2025 R&D 100 Awards. First established in 1963, the R&D 100 Awards are often called the “Oscars [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG will launch South Korea’s first company-run graduate school in September to train master’s- and eventually doctoral-level specialists in artificial intelligence, the Ministry of Education announced Sunday. Approved under a new law designed to bolster the advanced industries workforce, the LG AI Graduate School will open September 30 at K-Square [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics showcased a broad lineup of commercial laundry appliances at Clean Show 2025 in Orlando, Florida, unveiling artificial intelligence–driven machines and digital management tools as the company pushes deeper into the global B2B appliance market. The biennial Clean Show, which opened on August 23, draws more than 9,000 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly a third of South Korean retail investors using mobile trading apps have experienced system failures or access disruptions, raising concerns about reliability in a market where split-second timing can determine profits and losses. According to a survey released Friday by the Korea Consumer Agency, 59 percent of respondents [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is fast-tracking efforts to develop on-device artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors, critical components for autonomous vehicles, collaborative robots, and unmanned aerial systems, as part of a broader push to secure technological sovereignty and industrial competitiveness. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Friday that a state panel [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Pay, a mobile payment system operated by Samsung Electronics Co., experienced a temporary disruption Friday, the company said, marking its third service disruption so far this year. Service failures for users with Hyundai Card were reported between 6:10 a.m. and 8:50 a.m. In a notice posted at 9:22 [...]