SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – China-based IT firm LeEco kicked off a flagship store in South Korea to start sales of its products here, industry sources said Saturday. LeEco, launched as video-streaming service provider in 2004, has been gradually expanding its business portfolio to cover automobiles and handsets. Its mobile products are considered to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Thursday it successfully tested its self-driving automobile on the highway, taking a step closer toward the development of a full autonomous vehicle. South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier said its self-driving automobile ran 26 kilometers earlier in the day with an average speed of 47 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Thursday it has partnered with tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector to tap deeper into the burgeoning industry. Kakao I, the company’s AI platform, will be integrated with Samsung’s voice recognition program, Bixby, to allow [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A fifth-generation self-driving bus is set to be unveiled in October in celebration of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympics. With less than 150 days left until one of the world’s biggest sporting events kicks off in the northeastern part of South Korea, the Ministry of Science [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a South Korean broadband Internet and mobile phone company, said Friday it has joined forces with Nokia Corp. to further develop the technology for a commercial use of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile network. KT said its head Hwang Chang-kyu and his counterpart Nokia President and CEO Rajeev [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Olympics will likely be a showcase of South Korean know-how in state-of-the-art information and communication technology (ICT), with mobile operators and carmakers to highlight their prowess at the world’s biggest winter sports competition. KT Corp., the country’s No. 1 fixed-line Internet operator, will test run [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier, said Tuesday it joined forces with Starbucks Korea to allow users of its artificial intelligence (AI) device NUGU to order drinks via voice. Under the agreement, SK Telecom plans to connect NUGU to Starbuck’s order application, allowing users to order [...]
SEOUL Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Sunday it sold around 5,000 units of the portable edition of its artificial intelligence (AI) device NUGU on the first day of release. The mobile carrier said the sales of the NUGU Mini, which started Friday, were five times higher [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Sixty percent of surveyed adults disapprove of government proposals on lowering telecommunications costs for not meeting their expectations, a consumer advocacy group said Wednesday. A poll by the Green Consumer Network of Korea said 60.2 percent appraised the proposals as inadequate compared with 42.8 percent who felt the move [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean electronics companies are to benefit from the launch of Apple Inc.’s next flagship iPhone 8 smartphones expected to be launched later this year as they are providers of major electronic parts, industry sources said Sunday. Apple is forecast to release new iPhone models equipped with flexible organic [...]