SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Tuesday it will give a new operator the exclusive rights to an additional 5G network frequency band for three years in a bid to help local businesses enter the new high-speed network service sector. The new operator will be given the priority to use [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday the personal information of 180,000 customers has been leaked. “We have acknowledged that personal data of some customers have been leaked,” LG Uplus said in a message posted on its website. “We apologize for causing concern to our customers.” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A hacker in his 30s was arrested on charges of infiltrating built-in home cameras at over 600 different apartment complexes and distributing recorded footage, police said Tuesday. In South Korea, it is common for internet-connected home security devices with cameras to be installed in apartment complexes. A wall-pad device, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Thursday it will make a US$2 million strategic investment in U.S.-based digital medicine company Sonde Health Inc. Sonde Health has developed vocal biomarker technology that can analyze subtle signs of changes in the voice — the volume, pitch or difference [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Thursday its third-quarter net profit dropped 66.7 percent from a year earlier due mainly to last year’s spinoff of its semiconductor businesses. The company logged a net profit of 245.6 billion won (US$180.4 million) on a consolidated basis in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 wireless carrier, said Tuesday its third-quarter net profit fell 3.4 percent from a year earlier due to an increase in operating expenses. KT’s net income amounted to 326.2 billion won (US$235.5 million) on a consolidated basis in the July-September period, compared with 337.7 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp. on Friday reported its third-quarter net profit of 170.8 billion won (US$119.6 million), down 19.1 percent from a year earlier, due to increased interest costs. Operating income for the July-September period was 285.1 billion won, up 3 percent from a year ago, the company said in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., South Korea’s leading builder, has developed new technology that ensures smoother communication between inside and outside tunnels. The company announced on Tuesday that its “TV white-space (TVWS) serious industrial disaster prevention solution for underground tunnels” was designated as a regulatory sandbox case by the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest wireless carrier, on Tuesday unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) services as part of its long-term strategy to transform itself from its traditional telecom identity into a digital platform service provider. Its AI brand, named “ixi,” offers AI-powered services for sports match predictions, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — About half of 5G base stations in South Korea are concentrated in the greater Seoul area, while some other regions are lacking in the number of such stations, data showed Thursday. About 44 percent of the nation’s 5G wireless base stations in the general-purpose 3.5-gigahertz (GHz) frequency band are [...]