SEOUL, Korea, April 29, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)– As KT starts operating alone in Korea’s mobile telecommunications market as the company is the last runner for a series of suspensions ordered by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, a big change is expected in the market dynamics. KT seems quite determined to make up [...]
![[Feature] Another Shame on Korea, Samsung’s “Poor” Crisis Management](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Samsung-Galaxy-S5-800x500.jpg "[Feature] Another Shame on Korea, Samsung’s “Poor” Crisis Management")
SEOUL, Korea, April 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, The Wall Street Journal published a story doubting the crisis management ability of the Korean government revealed in the tragic accident of the sunken ferry Sewol. In it, the world-renowned news media said the leadership of President Park Geun-hye is being tested with several mishaps committed [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – May is the month of families and this year will be no different in that so many families would take trips to the outdoors. But so many children go missing every year. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of the missing including the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Internet usage patterns are undergoing significant shift affecting the business paradigm in general, according to a survey conducted by South Korea’s local authorities. According to the Korea Internet and Security Agency, more and more users connect to the Internet through mobile devices rather than on desktop computers and tend [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Cases of phone scams and smishing for text, designed to lure innocent people after the South Korea’s ferry disaster to log onto bogus news, have been rampant of late and the local authorities have come up with a series of measures to cope with the unprecedented crisis moments [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A ripple effect caused by Samsung Electronics’ pricing policy shift on its recently launched Galaxy S5 model and the business suspension on the local wireless carriers have seen unexpected situations in the local market. The domestic telcom industry set to stage a kind of discount campaigns for their smartphones available in the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced on April 17 that they have developed a smartphone-based digital image management service which will allow videos to be transmitted digitally to counselors, who will help the visually-impaired by telecommunications with the live video footages. The image management service will be comprised of wearable [...]
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – MetroPCS, a flagship brand operated by T-Mobile US (TMUS), today announced the arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S® 5 at its retail stores across the U.S. market and on MetroPCS.com. Now American customers can have the latest Samsung Galaxy device with MetroPCS’ unlimited, no-annual-contract rate plans starting at $40 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – As personal information leakage takes place frequent recently, seven out of ten Koreans have expressed their concerns over privacy infringement from social network services such as Facebook and Twitter. According to Alba Heaven, Korea’s online part-time job portal, which conducted a survey on its 2,205 members, 71.5 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics and Pantech are trying to catch up with Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S5 by moving up the release dates of their new smartphone models. LG Electronics plans to reveal the G3 within the first half of 2014. Recently, an LG Electronics executive said, “Within the first [...]