SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Firefighters in Gangwon Province will adopt modern technological advances like bodycams and drones as tools in their mission to put out fires and save lives. Thanks to contributions by SK Telecom, the Gangwon Fire Headquarters will be stocked with 230 bodycams, four drones and a video encoder program called [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The uses of blockchain technology are becoming more diversified after a coalition of private enterprise and government entities announced a blockchain-supported “black box” system for buildings. Designed by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation (KESCO) and SK Telecom, the new blockchain database will be [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it has developed data processing technology for the fifth-generation (5G) network that is capable of handling data 10 times faster than the long-term evolution (LTE) network. The mobile carrier said the technology allows a packet switched network to process massive amounts of data at [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The market of fifth-generation network services in South Korea will reach some 35 trillion won (US$31 billion) in 2025, as the faster network technology is anticipated to be used in many areas from mobile phone networks to smart homes and connected cars, industry data showed Sunday. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Thursday that it has expanded its artificial intelligence (AI)-based system, TANGO, to manage its wireless network. TANGO, based on big data and machine learning technologies, is designed to solve various network related problems by itself. The company first applied TANGO [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier LG Uplus Inc. said Wednesday it has successfully provided a live-stream of a baseball game through its latest technology equivalent to the fifth-generation (5G) network. The mobile carrier said the high-resolution broadcast of the game was delivered through what it calls the 4.5-generation [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Friday it has decided to buy an additional stake in its sister company, SK Telink Co., in a bid to expand cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence and the Internet-of-Things. Under the plan, SK Telecom, which holds a 85.86 percent stake in the sister [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean road safety authorities have adopted a new GPS system to better identify the location of callers reporting traffic accidents on highways. According to the Korea Expressway Corporation on Wednesday, the highway call center has introduced a new GPS-based system that tracks down the location of those calling in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Telecom Co. on Thursday demonstrated the communication between fourth-generation and fifth-generation networks for the first time in the industry, the companies said. The South Korean tech giant and the country’s No. 1 mobile carrier said they successfully made communications between the long-term evolution (LTE) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Some of the attacks reported on South Korean bitcoin exchanges earlier this year have been found to be from North Korean hackers, according to police. The Korean National Police Agency said on Wednesday that North Korean hackers are responsible for the malware attack on e-mail accounts of officials of South [...]