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SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — When selecting digital health applications, Korean users—including doctors, chronic disease patients, and the general public—prioritize cybersecurity and personal data protection over therapeutic effectiveness, according to a new study released by Yonsei University’s Severance Hospital. The research, led by Professor Shin Jae-yong of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Yonsei [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — As digital users increasingly demand more dynamic and personalized online experiences, major platform companies are reshaping the traditional search engine model with artificial intelligence and tailored content delivery. Naver, South Korea’s leading portal, is currently running A/B tests on its mobile platform to provide customized search results based on user [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — In the wake of a major cyberattack, SK Telecom has announced it will waive early termination fees for customers who switch mobile carriers—a move that has prompted fierce and controversial marketing tactics from its rivals. On July 4, SK Telecom said it would exempt termination penalties for customers who [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it plans to release its proprietary large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) model, Mi:dm, as open source. Mi:dm will be open at Hugging Face, an online platform for sharing AI models, code and datasets, according to KT. Developed in 2023, Mi:dm is [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Google’s diversified artificial intelligence (AI) tools, designed to support human creativity through multilingual and multicultural models, are well-positioned to thrive in South Korea’s mature and tech-savvy market, a senior official from the U.S. tech giant said Wednesday. “It is very early days. I think there is still so much [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Facing ongoing losses in its foundry business, Samsung Electronics significantly scaled down its annual events for semiconductor clients and partners this year, reflecting a strategic pivot toward operational focus and internal strengthening. On Monday, Samsung held its SAFE (Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem) Forum 2025 at its Financial Campus in Seocho, [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s mobile telecommunications sector saw more than 666,000 number porting requests in June, marking a sharp 42% drop from May’s unusually high 930,000, yet remaining above pre-crisis levels due to the lingering effects of a cyberattack on SK Telecom in April. According to data released Monday by the Korea [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two largest electronics giants, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, are aggressively expanding their heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) businesses in Europe through high-profile acquisitions, aiming to align with the European Union’s carbon-neutral policies and tap into a rapidly growing market. LG Electronics announced this week it has [...]
DAEJEON, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In a breakthrough that could reshape targeted drug delivery and biomedical engineering, South Korea’s Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced Monday the development of self-moving cell robots fueled by biological waste products. While global research on micrometer- and nanometer-scale non-living self-propelling robots is well advanced, the application [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s KT Corp. announced plans Monday to secure global leadership in next-generation telecommunications by advancing semantic communication — a cutting-edge technology designed to transform how data is transmitted in the AI-powered 6G era. Unlike traditional communication methods that transmit all data elements, semantic communication leverages artificial intelligence to understand [...]