SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Travel agency Interpark Tour said Monday the launch of a beta service for its artificial intelligence (AI)-based free tour platform. Once users select the cities and schedules they want, an AI automatically recommends flights, accommodations, itineraries, and other detailed travel information. The service enables users to instantly check the [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top online portal operator Naver Corp. has joined hands with logistics giant CJ Logistics Co. to expand its logistics infrastructure. The two parties announced on Sunday the establishment of an e-fulfillment center with a total floor space of 38,400 square meters in Gunpo, Gyeonggi province. The new [...]
DAEJEON, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly introduced technology can locate the source of sound more precisely and quickly, raising hopes that it might be used to find survivors in the mountains or in other emergency situations. A joint research team from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science and Pohang University of [...]
TORONTO, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Sophi.io, The Globe and Mail’s artificial intelligence-powered optimization and prediction platform, was announced as a winner of the International News Media Association (INMA) Global Media Awards in two categories, Best Use of Data to Automate or Personalize, and Best in Show for North America. “The INMA Global Media Awards [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cloud data center operators have formed ties with local companies that specialize in chips used in servers in a move to cope with growing semiconductor demand and uncertainty in global supply chains, the ICT ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said five data center [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based emergency medical system that enables the transfer of patient data and first-aid activities within ambulances on the basis of 5G telecommunication technologies will be introduced in field operations. The Yonsei University Medical Center developed the system after two years of collaboration with 20 other institutions. [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, said Monday it will invest more than US$100 million for the next three years to establish massive high-performance computing infrastructure for advanced artificial intelligence (AI) development. LG AI Research, the group’s AI R&D hub, plans to develop a “hyper-mega AI” system resembling a [...]
CHANGWON, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The southeastern city of Changwon has announced plans to introduce a new traffic system that automatically extends the ‘walk’ signal when there is a pedestrian crossing the street at a crosswalk. This system uses artificial intelligence (AI) that recognizes pedestrians at a crosswalk. When pedestrians fail to cross the [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Thursday it will create guidelines and verification processes to create trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) services in a move to address potential social problems. AI services have recently faced growing calls for more responsible development and management of the technology over concerns that the technology [...]
DAEJEON, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed to monitor the abnormal behaviors of subway passengers in the central city of Daejeon. The Daejeon Metropolitan City Government and the Daejeon Express Transit Corp. jointly announced that the ‘AI Edge System for Urban Railroads’ was selected as a state-backed [...]