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SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential artificial intelligence (AI) committee said Monday it will launch a task force to advance AI cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The task force will be headed jointly by the presidential secretary for AI policy and future planning, and vice chairman of the Korea Chamber [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Labs Europe has introduced two advanced artificial intelligence models designed to enhance robots’ ability to understand physical spaces and human bodies, the company announced Monday. The models were unveiled at the fourth “AI for Robotics” workshop, held Nov. 20–21 in France under the theme of spatial intelligence. The first [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans can now access detailed, government-verified statistics about specific diseases directly through Naver, the country’s dominant search engine, under a new public service launched Sunday. The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) said it partnered with Naver to make health-care utilization data easily available to the public. When users search [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading game publishers are gearing up for next month’s Animation X Game Festival (AGF) with an unusually strong slate of anime-style titles, signaling the genre’s expanding influence across the domestic industry. According to the gaming sector on Monday, major companies including Neowiz, Nexon, Netmarble, Smilegate, NCSoft, and NHN [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major mobile carriers continue to outperform global competitors by a wide margin, posting download speeds more than three times faster than those in other leading countries, according to a new industry report released Monday. The Korea Telecommunications Operators Association (KTOA) said the nation’s mobile networks recorded an [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics is accelerating its expansion in the Middle East, positioning itself as a key business-to-government (B2G) partner in the Global South as countries in the region pursue large-scale smart-city and infrastructure projects. The South Korean tech company said Sunday that it has signed a strategic partnership with Expo City [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As generative artificial intelligence becomes mainstream in game development, a fierce debate is emerging over the use of AI-generated art, voice acting and other digital assets — with players and creators accusing studios of sacrificing quality and authenticity for efficiency. The controversy resurfaced sharply after Activision acknowledged using AI in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao’s real-time bus-tracking feature, which displays vehicle locations with 10-centimeter accuracy, is delivering measurable time savings for riders — nearly two hours per month — according to a new academic study commissioned by the company. Kakao said on Nov. 20 that research teams from Seoul National University and KAIST analyzed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. has helped nearly 1,000 startups through its venture program, with the latest batch of 30 firms under the program attracting a combined 34.5 billion won (US$23.4 million) in investments, the company said Thursday. The monumental figure was unveiled in the company’s C-Lab Startup Demoday event held [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom has decided not to accept a government-recommended settlement that would require the company to pay 300,000 won (about US$220) to each victim of a major personal-data breach, a move that could expose the telecom giant to prolonged civil litigation. According to industry officials on Nov. 20, the company [...]