TAIPEI, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display’s latest ultra-high-definition (UHD) QD-OLED panel for gaming monitors is receiving enthusiastic feedback at Computex 2025, Asia’s largest IT trade show, being held through May 23 in Taipei. Making its debut appearance at the event, Samsung Display unveiled a 27-inch UHD (3840×2160) QD-OLED monitor panel with a pixel density [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea, has pledged to overhaul the nation’s animal welfare framework by introducing a Basic Animal Welfare Act and establishing a National Animal Welfare Promotion Agency, aiming to consolidate currently fragmented government responsibilities related to animals. In a policy statement released via [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp. announced Wednesday that it will join forces with SK Broadband and LG Uplus to launch a unified IPTV viewer data platform by the end of the year, aiming to provide more precise and representative audience metrics than traditional TV ratings systems. The platform will aggregate anonymized viewing logs [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced Wednesday that it will become the first South Korean construction firm to showcase a garden installation at a major European horticultural exhibition, the RHS Flower Show at Wentworth Woodhouse 2025, organized by the Royal Horticultural Society in the United Kingdom. The RHS Flower Shows, with [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A growing number of young South Koreans are expressing a willingness to marry and have children, marking a shift in societal attitudes amid the country’s ongoing battle with low birth rates. According to survey results released Tuesday by the Presidential Committee on Ageing Society and Population Policy, the share of [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hoban Construction has successfully completed a pilot test of a smart robotic system designed to automate exterior wall painting at construction sites, the company announced Tuesday. The robot, named “Rollot,” was developed by automation specialist WPS, a startup discovered through Hoban’s open innovation program. Rollot moves vertically along wires [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 230,000 foreign nationals worked in South Korea’s construction industry in 2024, accounting for 14.7% of the sector’s total workforce, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association. Of these, over 83% were ethnic Korean Chinese, or Joseonjok, highlighting their dominant role in [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – As generative AI tools increasingly take over routine coding tasks, South Korea’s software industry is witnessing a growing polarization in developer hiring, with demand surging for high-skilled talent and declining for junior-level programmers. According to a new report released Monday by the Software Policy & Research Institute, the convergence of [...]
SEOUL, May 21(Korea Bizwire) — HD Hyundai Construction Equipment, a core subsidiary of HD Hyundai, has completed the transformation of its Ulsan plant into a next-generation smart factory designed to serve as a global production hub, the company announced Tuesday. At a ceremony held May 20 at its Ulsan campus, HD Hyundai Chairman Kwon Oh-gap, [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Dongwon Industries announced Tuesday that it has developed and deployed the world’s first drone specifically engineered for fish-finding operations, marking a technological breakthrough in sustainable offshore fishing. Unlike previous methods that relied on helicopters or general-purpose drones, the new model—referred to as the “fish-finding drone”—was designed from the [...]