SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered radio access network (RAN) in a bid to lead next-generation 6G network technologies. Under the agreement, the two companies plan to research and demonstrate core [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it has conducted a major reorganization and personnel reshuffle aimed at restoring customer confidence and strengthening its focus on artificial intelligence (AI). The company said its organization has been regrouped into two main pillars — telecommunications and AI — [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. has come under scrutiny for allegedly concealing a massive malware infection last year instead of reporting it to authorities, a joint government-private investigative panel said Thursday. According to the panel, KT discovered in mid-2024 that dozens of its servers had been infected with BPFDoor, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus Corp., a major mobile carrier in South Korea, reported a cyberattack on its servers to authorities Thursday, industry sources said, the latest in a series of recent industry-wide data breach cases. According to the sources, LG Uplus submitted a report earlier in the day to the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecom operators — SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus — are preparing to launch unified mobile pricing plans by the end of this year, in a bid to simplify what critics say has become an excessively complicated and confusing system for consumers. According to data submitted [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major telecom companies are facing criticism for quietly ending new subscriptions to dozens of outdated LTE plans that were more expensive than 5G options—without properly informing existing users, leaving many still paying inflated rates. According to Rep. Choi Soo-jin of the National Assembly’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government announced a sweeping plan to eliminate dozens of everyday regulations deemed outdated or unreasonable, including cumbersome telecom service cancellations and male-only membership in a national civic group. The reforms were unveiled Tuesday at a policy coordination meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, following the government’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom watchdog on Thursday ordered SK Telecom Co. to partially waive cancellation fees for non-mobile services following a major data breach that affected its 25 million mobile service users. The move came after the country’s top carrier decided to limit the waiver of cancellation fees to mobile [...]
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, 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 [...]