SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s first cinema-centered library opened at Jeonju Movie Hotel, a movie-themed hotel on Jeonju’s ‘Movie Street’ on January 24. The Film Library is now home to 15,000 video clips, 3,400 film themed-books and 2,000 film magazines. The materials were all donated by individuals in the Korean cinema industry. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – From February, tourists taking a special train bound for tourist attractions in western Korea will be able to experience the warmth of “ondol,” a Korean traditional underfloor heating system. An ondol, also called gudeul, in Korean traditional architecture, is underfloor heating which uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Three major telecommunications carriers in Korea are engaging in a fierce legal battle over the title of the first commercial service provider of tri-band LTE- Advanced (LTE-A) technology. On December 29, SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile carrier, announced that it was the first company in the world to launch commercial [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) ― LG Electronics (LG) will begin rolling out the world’s lightest 14-inch Ultra PC (Model 14Z950) and the world’s first 21:9 curved all-in-one (AIO) PC (Model 29V950) in key markets including South Korea and countries in South America. The two Ultra PC laptops are super-lightweight and ultra-slim, and the AIO [...]
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, Dec 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Korean scientists succeeded in developing a breakthrough technology to administer an antibiotic susceptibility test in a faster, more precise way. Prof. Kwon Sung-hoon at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, said that his research team has developed a new antibiotic susceptibility test [...]
MUAN , Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Forest Resources Research Institute of South Jeolla Province said on December 18 that it has succeeded in artificial cultivation of truffle, one of the highly prized haute cuisine items. Truffles usually grow in oak forests and have yet to be found in Korea in natural state. It is one of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo International, the first Korean private company to acquire gas exploration rights, launched its full-fledged exploration activities to develop natural gas on the East Sea continental shelf. The company announced on December 2 that it began test drilling at the Gorae (Whale) gas field D in the 6-1S block, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on December 2 that it has introduced the industry-first voice authentication system that can allow call center operators to determine the identity of the caller from her voice features, further strengthening the customer’s personal information protect level. Each human voice has unique features that can’t be [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Movie lovers can now comfortably pay for films at home with bitcoins, as CJ E&M has introduced a bitcoin payment service on its website Vingo (www.vingo.co.kr). The online portal offers up a huge quantity of video content, viewable on a myriad of gadget types including smartphones, televisions, tablets and [...]