SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. will launch its newly upgraded iPhone SE smartphone in South Korea next week, the country’s telecom operators said Friday, as the U.S. tech giant aims to expand its leadership in the budget-friendly smartphone market. Last week, Apple unveiled its low-end iPhone SE featuring better battery life and [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecommunications regulator on Thursday unveiled a guideline to clarify potential violations of a revised law banning store operators, like Apple and Google, from forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems. Earlier this week, the country’s Cabinet approved an enforcement decree revision of the Telecommunications Business [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a revised bill that would ban app store operators from forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems, the country’s telecommunications regulator said. The revision is a follow-up to the enforcement decree of the Telecommunications Business Act that went into effect in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. has been paying significantly lower corporate taxes in South Korea compared to an average of 4 percent in other countries, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Independent lawmaker Rep. Yang Jung-suk reported that Apple Korea Ltd. paid 62.9 billion won (US$52.1 million) in corporate taxes last [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple will allow alternative payment systems in South Korea in compliance with a new local law that bans app store operators from forcing their own in-app payment systems, the country’s telecommunications regulator said Tuesday. The move came as a new law went into effect in the country in September [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple could submit its compliance plans for a new South Korean law that bans app store operators from forcing in-app payment systems on developers, industry sources said Tuesday. The new law went into effect in September, making South Korea the first country in the world to introduce such curbs [...]
JINJU, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Apple Use Research Institute, which operates under the umbrella of the Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services, said Thursday that it had developed a reddish natural pigment extraction and recycling method using wasted apple peel and crab apples. There has been little use in the past for the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The users of iPhone devices, including the iPhone 12 and 13, continued to experience dropped calls even after updating the mobile operating system released by Apple last month to fix the issue, industry sources said Wednesday. An official at LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple released an update to its mobile operating system Thursday to fix dropped calls on iPhone devices, including the iPhone 12 and 13. The release of the iOS 15.1.1, an updated version of the iOS 15.1, fixes the call drop performance issue on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — App store operators will face a fine of up to two percent for forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems, the country’s telecommunications regulator said Wednesday. Under the enforcement decree of the revised law aimed at curbing Google Inc. and other app store operators’ dominance, such app [...]