SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom giant SK Telecom Co. is pushing to team up with Singapore’s Singtel to mutually invest in their over-the-top (OTT) subsidiaries, industry sources in Seoul said Sunday. The partnership, which is currently under discussion, enables Singtel to invest in SK’s Telecom’s OTT video service OKSUSU and Pooq, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Monday that its investment-focused affiliate has signed a deal with a local hospital to provide health care and tailored medical services to patients. Kakao Investment plans to invest 10 billion won (US$8.9 million) in a joint venture between Yonsei University [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean-Indian collaboration film and drama based on Gaya’s first queen, Heo Hwang-ok, has gotten the green light. South Korean drama production company Say On Media announced on Thursday that it has agreed to make a collaboration film and drama with India’s Eros International Group and B&C Group. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant Internet portal and search engine, said Thursday that it will develop 5G-enabled service robots in partnership with the country’s telecom giant KT Corp. and U.S. tech firm Intel Corp. The partnership would allow Naver Labs Corp., a R&D subsidiary of Naver, to use Intel’s [...]
BARCELONA, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. and Comcast Spectacor on Monday agreed to establish an esports joint venture tasked with global team operation, content development and marketing to cash in on the fast growing entertainment segment. South Korea’s leading mobile carrier and U.S. media and entertainment giant Comcast’s professional sports unit signed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. is expanding its partnership with BTS by providing sponsorship to the South Korean boy band’s global campaign in Britain, the company said Sunday. On Friday, BTS began to air a teaser of the K-pop band’s global campaign in London’s Piccadilly Circus aimed at informing its fans [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a leading South Korean talent agency and music label, signed an agreement with a media branch of Indonesia’s CT Corp on Thursday to make inroads into the Southeast Asian country, the local firm said. Under the heads of agreement signed in Jakarta with Trans Media, the two [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Thursday it will join hands with Deutsche Telekom AG to develop a blockchain platform for digital identification for easier access and better security. The telecom leaders of South Korea and Germany will sign a memorandum of understanding on development and commercialization of blockchain-based mobile identity [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier, SK Telecom Co., said Wednesday it will collaborate with U.S. software giant Microsoft for big data solutions to expand its presence in the global market. SK Telecom said it signed a development and global business cooperation agreement with Microsoft in Silicon Valley to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean home appliance maker LG Electronics Inc. and portal operator Naver Corp. on Wednesday agreed to jointly develop an advanced guidance robot based on the high-tech mobility platform. LG Electronics and Naver’s R&D subsidiary signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on research and development of robot [...]