SEOUL, Korea, Dec 06 (Korea Bizwire) – On December 6, KT(www.kt.com) announced that it would have an ‘Everyday with KT TV’ event until December 31st. This event, full of prizes, is being promoted to advertise KT’s new UCloud TV album function. The prizes range from children’s books and Sony Playstation 4 to Samsung digital cameras and Apple [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 04 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Korea Express will open a new era of “Smart Trucks” by installing tablet computers in all its delivery trucks. Korea’s largest cargo delivery company said on December 2 that it would introduce a new scheme “Smart Integrated Logistics System” combining tablet computer and digital tachograph. Under this scheme, CJ [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 01 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s state-run research institute has lent a helping hand to a developing country to improve the quality of life for its people. The Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute, a research outfit under the Ministry of Environment, held a completion ceremony for a rainwater purification facility at Anawim Elementary School [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 28 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ CheilJedang announced that its recently introduced program will help to reduce emission of greenhouse gases by a total of 2,800 tons next year. CJ runs ‘Green Partnership for Shared Growth among Large and Small Businesses’ sponsored by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) through which the company [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Software company OpenVACS has launched a new international calling card “OTO Global Card,” following the same service on the Internet. The calling card, to be sold in 8,000 CU convenience stores across the country, allows the user to make phone calls to 245 countries worldwide. Available in denominations from 5,000 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Inc. said on November 14 that it would open to public its lab for web accessibility within the company’s headquarters building. Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. The lab consists of four different spaces: for those visually [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 14 (Korea Bizwire) – AhnLab Inc., Korea’s major security software developer, is set to provide a service to prevent “smishing,” the act of attempting to acquire personal information such as passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity through text messages, by sending out “AhnLab Smishing Alarm” in its social networking [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The two-way TV program combining the homegrown technology of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) with smartphone technology is attracting keen attention from overseas content buyers. QBS, a TV station specializing in sending terrestrial TV signals through DMB channels, said on November 12 that its in-house program “Homo Applicus” will be presented [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 11 (Korea Bizwire) - The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Samsung C&T will sign on November 11 an agreement to work together in building apartments with community-based childcare facilities and smart offices for parents who must stay home to care for children. Under the terms of the pact, the construction contractor will build [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A new barter-based settlement scheme for small-sized merchants has been invented that would relieve the problem of liquidity for 6 million small business operators. Korea Barter Settlement System said on October 23 it has developed a new settlement scheme called “Extrade Card System” and earned a patent for [...]