BUSAN, Jan 25 (Korea Bizwire) – C1Blue, a liquor brand made by Busan-based C1Soju (or Daesun Liquor in Korean) that is rising in popularity, is set to debut in Australia. This is the fourth international market launch for C1Blue, after success in Japan, Singapore and China. The maker of C1Blue is well known for its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – On January 22, the Korea Development Institute (KDI) stated that it ranked 9th in a survey of global think tanks carried out by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP), an affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania. If the United States is included, it ranks 49th. The TTCSP, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group’s B2B and B2C affiliate companies have scored favorable responses among consumers in Saudi Arabia. According to recent data, the Seoul-based electronics powerhouse has grabbed the top spot on the BrandIndex Buzz Rankings, an annual brand-perception monitoring report created by market research firm YouGov. Samsung Electronics recorded a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has started mass production of 8-gigabit graphic memory chips that adopt 20-nanometer technology, completing the full 20-nano level lineup in mobiles, servers, PCs and graphics. The Graphics Double Data Rate 5 (GDDR5) is the advanced version of the preceding 4-gigabit GDDR5 that enables [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A domestic film depicting the life of a typical father from Korea’s older generation became this year’s first movie to surpass the 10 million viewer mark at the local box office, a market tracker said Wednesday. “Ode to My Father” hit the milestone at 10,001,709 viewers Tuesday, 27 days [...]
The Company’s Taoyuan and Yangmei Manufacturing Facilities Have Been Recognized for Their Energy Management Systems CHANDLER, Ariz., Jan. 12, 2015 (Korea Bizwire) — Isola Group S.a r.l., a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), announced today that its subsidiary, Isola Asia Pacific (Taiwan) [...]
Seoul, Korea, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it will launch commercial tri-band LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) service on December 29th for the first time in the world. Tri-band LTE-A service offers data speeds of up to 300Mbps by aggregating three component carriers in three different frequency bands: 20MHz bandwidth in 1.8GHz [...]
Seoul, Korea, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it successfully developed and commercialized a technology that makes 2G and 3G services possible through LTE network for the first time in the world. Named ‘2G/3G over LTE,’ the technology enhances the stability of 2G/3G mobile networks by utilizing LTE network as backhaul [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) ― The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) recognized LG Electronics (LG)’ excellence in design and technology with 10 prestigious 2015 International CES Innovation Awards. LG home entertainment, home appliances and mobile devices are being honored with 2015 CES Innovation Awards in four highly competitive categories: Home Appliances, Computer Peripherals, Video Displays [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced that it is mass producing the industry’s most advanced 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 memory and 32-gigabyte (GB) module, both of which will be manufactured based on a new 20-nanometer (nm) process technology, for use in enterprise servers. “Our new 20nm 8Gb DDR4 DRAM more than [...]