SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung C&T Corp.’s construction division has announced plans to launch an Art Gallery service that connects artwork installation and purchasing within its apartment complexes. In order to provide this service to the residents, the construction division intends to establish a strategic partnership with the art auction platform Flea Auction. [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Sunday released a “modular plant kit” for its indoor gardening appliance, the LG tiiun. Users can plant seeds in the LG tiiun mini and transfer them to a separate pot once they reach full growth. The kit includes five holes where two seed kit modules [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of Koreans planning trips accompanied by their pets, hotels and airlines are devising new services to attract them. DoubleTree By Hilton Seoul Pangyo offers the rental of premium baby strollers, enabling guests to take leisurely walks with their pets. The hotel additionally provides pet-exclusive dining [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will introduce a new feature for its Bespoke Oven, capable of utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) vision recognition technology to identify various types of food through a camera. The internal cameras of View Camera Bespoke Ovens will receive a software update, enabling them to [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Construction machinery manufacturer HD Hyundai Infracore Co. said Wednesday it has developed a mobile app utilizing augmented reality (AR) technology to assist in the diagnosis and repair of construction machines and equipment. The AR Guidance app integrates AR technology with 3D modeling data and data collected from component sensors [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Fashion and cosmetics retailer Shinsegae International Inc. announced on Wednesday that the global niche perfume brand Byredo had launched a beauty store in Garosugil, an upscale shopping district in southern Seoul. At the store, visitors have the opportunity to consult with professional consultants and try out all the available [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) arm of tech giant Kakao Corp., announced on Monday the release of Karlo 2.0, a super-giant AI image-generating model that instantly creates vivid images. Karlo 2.0 is a large-scale AI that has been trained on a dataset comprising more than 300 million pages [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Musinsa Standard, a private-label brand operated by the South Korean fashion platform Musinsa Co., said Sunday it has installed clothing vending machines at five prominent tourist destinations near the cities of Goseong and Yangyang in Gangwon Province. These vending machines will offer Musinsa Standard’s Cooltandard Relax Fit Crew Neck [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BMW Korea announced today the launch of the New X5, a premium mid-size sport-utility vehicle (SAV), and the New X6, a premium mid-size sport-utility coupe (SAC), in Korea. The models come in four variants for the X5 and three variants for the X6. Equipped with 48-volt mild hybrid technology, [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Audi Korea announced on Tuesday the launch of the Audi A7 55 TFSI e quattro Premium, the first plug-in hybrid (PHEV) model of their premium four-door coupe. With a 2.0L four-cylinder TFSI engine and electric motor, it delivers 367 horsepower and 51.0 kilograms of torque, reaching 0-60 mph in [...]