SEJONG, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean unit of U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. has said it will submit revised voluntary corrective measures over its alleged violation of competition law, the anti-trust regulator said Monday. Apple Korea is suspected of having required South Korean mobile phone carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. [...]
BERLIN/SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Now that both Samsung Electronics and Apple have revealed their latest smartphone lineups for this year, here’s a simple question to ask. What are the two things Samsung has that Apple doesn’t in this year’s smartphone lineup? 5G and foldable. Amid flattening smartphone sales, Samsung has changed its strategy [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With Apple Inc. introducing an adult certification procedure to its app store in South Korea, it seems that games for adults that had not been released until now are now being launched en masse. According to the gaming industry, so-called web board games such as go-stop and poker were [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean unit of Apple Inc. employs 500 workers and has helped create more than 300,000 jobs here over the past 20 years, according to its website Monday. It marks the first time since the U.S. tech giant’s entry into South Korea in 1998 that the company has [...]
CHUNGJU, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Chungju City in North Chungcheong Province held a promotional event Tuesday for its apples at KEB Hana Bank’s headquarters in Seoul using a vending machine. The vending machines for washed apples and apple juice was installed in the bank’s main cafeteria on a trial basis in March in cooperation [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean unit of U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. has offered to carry out a set of voluntary corrective measures, an official said Thursday, in an apparent move to end a legal dispute over its alleged violation of competition law. Apple Korea is suspected of having required South [...]
ANDONG, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — “A-pple”, an apple developed by the Andong National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (ANACF) in North Gyeongsang Province, will be presented at the birthday party of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. Officials from the ANACF will visit Buckingham Palace on Thursday at the invitation of the British royal family to taste and [...]
HOUSTON, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, the BitWallet company launches a powerful new cryptocurrency wallet for Apple devices, which now make cryptocurrency transactions possible to anyone with an iPhone or iPad. Available on the AppStore, it enables customers to store, send, and receive Bitcoin as well as other major ‘altcoins’. A hit with consumers, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. narrowed its gap with Samsung Electronics Co. in the global smartphone market last year, data showed Sunday, with the smaller rival expected to beat the South Korean tech giant in 2019. According to the data compiled by industry tracker Strategy Analytics, Samsung Electronics took up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — It was reported on January 9 that starting this month, Samsung Electronics Co. has decided to replace mobile device displays free of charge in the case of ‘burn-in’. Within one year of the original purchase, customers can have the display on their device replaced. Samsung has been providing free [...]