SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seoul announced on Wednesday that it had selected “Seoul Hybrid Taxi App Meter”, which was developed by Korea Smart Card Co., a taxi card payment terminal operator, to submit to the Ministry of Science and ICT’s ‘regulatory sandbox’. A regulatory sandbox is a system that exempts [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial watchdog said Sunday it will launch a trial service of an artificial intelligence (AI) app to help people better combat telephone scams. The AI app, which will be available for customers of state-run Industrial Bank of Korea for three months from Monday, offers real-time voice analysis [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Maritime Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (NMPNT) Office announced on Sunday that 243 people were rescued at sea last year thanks to Haeroad, a South Korean maritime safety application. Haeroad was first released in August 2014 to provide assistance to small fishing boats and leisure vessels that are [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp. announced on Tuesday that KakaoHairShop, a reservation service platform for hair salons, recorded 1.03 million customers and 60 billion won (US$53.21 million) in transactions last year. This represents an increase of 153 percent in the number of customers and 109 percent in sales compared to 2017. KakaoHairShop [...]
Barcelona, Spain, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – SVPER, the social, instant video-only app for forming new real-life relationships in real time, is pleased to announce the successful launch of its prototype SVPER app. SVPER, the first mobile application rewarding you for meeting new people in the real world, replaces user profiles, pictures and text messages [...]
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — On July 3, 2018, Toga Limited, a Nevada corporation (OTC PINK: TOGL), released the 4th generation of its communication mobile application Yippi, at the Sheraton Grand Macao Hotel in Macau, China. This version of Yippi includes its first ever AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology. With AI, Yippi has expanded its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Wednesday it will adopt an “unsend” feature that allows users to delete missent messages on its Kakao app. Kakao recently made the decision to allow for “unsending a message” within a certain window before the message is read by the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The King Sejong Institute Foundation, a promoter of the Korean language and culture overseas, has revealed today that it is distributing a smartphone application that allows users to study the language on mobile devices. The app provides three categories of studies: basic grammar, conversation and mid-level vocabulary. The application [...]
SEOUL, Jul 2. (Korea Bizwire) — A new smartphone application that can identify heart diseases based on the sound of a heartbeat recorded via one’s smartphone is about to be released South Korea for the first time. During initial trials, the application demonstrated accuracy levels of up to 90 percent. A medical research team comprising [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is not the best place for asylum seekers, with only about four out of every 100 applicants having won refugee status so far since 1994, and it lags far behind many European countries in terms of medical, job, and other social benefits offered to such migrants fleeing [...]