SEOUL, Sep. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Freedom Foundation will form a consortium to establish a new mobile telecom service provider. The right-wing organization said on September 23 in a press release, “In response to the Park Geun-hye government’s election pledge to cut mobile calling rate by a half and a 30-percent cut in mobile [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone designs are rapidly evolving toward flexible curved shapes. With 2012 as the watershed, the center of gravity in flexible smartphone development efforts has definitely moved to Korea. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office on September 22, the number of patents related to flexible smartphone has increased by [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom, a South Korean telecommunications operator, plans to develop lessons in computer coding to nurture future computer programmers. The telecommunications company announced that it would launch a Smart Robot Coding School, a program for software education by utilizing its smart robots, Albert and Atti. The operator recognized the importance [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, South Korea’s top messenger service provider, is about to initiate news services. Kakao will embark on a beta service as an application type at the outset of next week and, after overcoming its shortcomings through the test service, it will initiate the official news services within this year, [...]
![[Quote] SK Telecom Holds “Bravo! Restart” Program Presentation Session](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/imageviewer2.jpg "[Quote] SK Telecom Holds “Bravo! Restart” Program Presentation Session")
“Thanks to the passionate effort of the entrepreneurs coupled with SK Telecom’s support, the Bravo! Restart program has borne fruit in the form of sales at home and overseas. The entrepreneurship support know-how we gained from this experience will be expanded to a bigger initiative to nurture start-ups.” Ha Sung-min, president of SK Telecom at [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Wireless network is getting smarter. As the data load increases, the network assigns more data so that users can enjoy better, faster services without video interruption. It seems the era of “video LTE” is at hand. LG Uplus said on September 17 that it has successfully developed an intelligent network platform jointly [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Communications acquired smartphone app SeoulBus as a stepping stone to expand its business into local online to offline (O2O) market and reinforce its mobile advertisement business. Daum, the second largest Internet portal in Korea to be merged with Kakao Inc. next month, announced on September 16 that it took [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – On December 25, 2044, Jeong Hyun-young, who have been married for 30 years, received a message on the phone, “You’ve got mail from your husband.” Wondering what it is, Ms. Jeong checks the mail and becomes speechless with a video message from her husband a day before their marriage. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus announced that it succeeded in adopting “Software Defined Network/Open Flow (SDN/OF)” technology into commercial network for the first time in Korea together with local network device provider Ubiquoss. The SDN/OF is a next-generation network technology enabling the network operators to separate software from “L3 Switch” and control hardware [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — KT, South Korea’s largest telecommunications provider, has pulled off a record-setting viewership for its flagship Internet TV service “Olleh TV”. KT announced on September 15 that the number of VOD transactions for its Olleh TV hit the 300 million marks in last August alone — the largest monthly figure for its popular IPTV service. [...]