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Hyundai Mobis Develops World’s 1st Swivel Display for Automobiles

Hyundai Mobis Develops World’s 1st Swivel Display for Automobiles

SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, announced Sunday that it had developed the world’s first swivel display for automobiles, a 34-inch display that can move vertically. The 34-inch curved screen has a 6K OLED panel, and can move vertically in three ways. It maximizes visibility for [...]

SK Trading International Introduces World’s 1st Net-Zero Oil

SK Trading International Introduces World’s 1st Net-Zero Oil

SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Trading International Co., an affiliate of South Korean refinery-to-battery maker SK Innovation Co., said Wednesday it had signed the world’s first deal to introduce 200,000 barrels of ‘net-zero oil’ per year for five years, starting from 2025, from U.S. oil giant Occidental Petroleum Corp. Net-zero oil is produced [...]

S. Korean Drone Developer Succeeds in Controlling Drone 9,000 Kilometers Away

S. Korean Drone Developer Succeeds in Controlling Drone 9,000 Kilometers Away

GWANGJU, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean drone company has succeeded in remotely controlling a drone thousands of kilometers away. Local drone manufacturer Hogreen Air on Thursday succeeded in remotely controlling two 5G hydrogen fuel cell drones in at a drone park in the southern city of Gwangju from a 9,042-kilometer distance in Silicon Valley. [...]

LG Uplus Commercializes World’s First PUF-based USIM

LG Uplus Commercializes World’s First PUF-based USIM

SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, has announced the world’s first commercialization of a Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)-based Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) in collaboration with security solutions company ICTK Holdings. PUF is a technology that prevents counterfeits or modifications using the difference in microstructure of [...]

Samsung Heavy Demonstrates Ship Collision Avoidance System

Samsung Heavy Demonstrates Ship Collision Avoidance System

SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said Monday it has succeeded in demonstrating a ship collision avoidance system. The shipbuilder’s remote autonomous navigation system, known as Samsung Autonomous Ship (SAS), helped two autonomous ships travelling their trajectories avoid by detecting each other in seas off the southwestern island of Gageo, Samsung [...]

Samsung Releases Industry’s First 0.64-micrometer Pixel Image Sensor

Samsung Releases Industry’s First 0.64-micrometer Pixel Image Sensor

SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced a new mobile image sensor, the industry’s smallest pixel size, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to beef up its presence in the non-memory sector. The 50-million megapixel ISOCELL JN1 is the industry’s first 0.64-micrometer pixel image sensor that can deliver ultra-high [...]

KT Launches National Emergency Telecom Network with Samsung Electronics

KT Launches National Emergency Telecom Network with Samsung Electronics

SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Monday it launched a nationwide emergency telecommunications network with Samsung Electronics Co. in a move to boost the country’s response system against natural disasters and emergencies. The government-led project to establish a next-generation wireless network allows for more efficient response against major [...]

Samsung Develops Industry’s First HKMG Tech-based DDR5 Memory

Samsung Develops Industry’s First HKMG Tech-based DDR5 Memory

SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, said Thursday it has developed a high-capacity dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) module. The South Korean tech giant said its 512-gigabyte (GB) Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) module is the industry’s first DDR5 product to use a High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) [...]