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JEJU, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s best-known bottled water, Jeju Samdasoo, takes an average of 31 years to form as rainwater on Hallasan mountain slowly filters through layers of volcanic rock, according to new research published this week. The Jeju Province Development Corporation, which produces and sells Samdasoo, said Wednesday that a peer-reviewed study [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey shows that nearly two-thirds of South Koreans fear a rise in phishing attempts following the massive personal data breach reported by e-commerce giant Coupang, underscoring widening public anxiety over digital security. According to a poll released Tuesday by Stealth Solution, a global cybersecurity firm, 66.9 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics said Tuesday it will unveil a new flagship LCD television, the Micro RGB Evo, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month, marking a major push to redefine premium LCD performance amid intensifying competition in the global TV market. The Micro RGB technology reduces the size [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Daejeon is piloting a new smart road management platform designed to detect black ice and other hazardous winter road conditions in real time, city officials said Tuesday, marking one of Korea’s first deployments of an acoustic AIoT safety system. The initiative, backed by the Ministry of Science and ICT’s 2024 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies’ earnings recorded a 20 percent on-year gain in 2024 on increased exports of semiconductors, government data showed Tuesday. The combined before-tax net profit of South Korean companies reached 181.9 trillion won (US$123.9 billion) last year, up 20.6 percent from 150.8 trillion won tallied in 2023, according [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has struck a deal with Enel, Italy’s largest power utility, to provide free electricity to customers who buy the company’s washing machines — the latest in a series of energy-saving partnerships the tech conglomerate is rolling out across major global markets. Beginning Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A surge of South Koreans are scrambling to determine whether their personal information is circulating on the dark web following Coupang’s massive data leak, newly released government data shows. According to figures submitted by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) to Rep. Lee Jeong-heon of the Democratic Party, users [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Ministry of Justice said Monday it has introduced an artificial intelligence–based behavior analysis system at the National Forensic Psychiatric Hospital to better identify early signs of violent or self-harming behavior among patients undergoing compulsory treatment. The system monitors individuals with severe mental illness in real time, detecting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a high-efficiency method for reclaiming palladium, a precious metal widely used across industrial supply chains, potentially offering a breakthrough in the nation’s push to strengthen resource recycling and reduce reliance on imports. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) said Saturday that a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean artificial intelligence teams competing to build a “national AI” model are lagging far behind global competitors in solving advanced mathematics problems, according to a new study released on Monday. A research team led by Kim Jong-rak, a mathematics professor at Sogang University, evaluated five domestic large language [...]