JEONJU, Jan.7 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone applications are increasing as a window to traffic in drugs among young people. In the past, most drug users were in their 40s and 50s. However, the number of those in their 20s and 30s who are seduced by drugs is increasing with the proliferation of drug trafficking through [...]
SEOUL, Nov.24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Human Resources Development Service of Korea announced that it will be managing a mobile service that calculates severance pay until the end of the year, to offer a more convenient option for business owners and foreign workers. The service can be used by going to the EPS homepage (http://www.eps.go.kr), [...]
SEOUL, Nov.19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics and Google have joined forces to launch a Smart TV content application. Cooperation between the two companies seems to on solid footing after joint marketing efforts for LG’s new OLED TVs. LG Electronics announced on November 18 that it is bringing a new content application, Google Play Movies [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – To help solve missing children cases, a technology in which one can register a child’s fingerprint with a smartphone, and also check the identity of a child that has been found through a smartphone will be developed. The National Police Agency announced that it will be embarking on [...]
SEOUL, Aug.28 (Korea Bizwire) – Laneige, one of Amore Pacific’s cosmetic brands, announced the launch of a new app called Beauty Mirror, which allows users to experience Laneige products through virtual reality using a mobile camera. With the application, users can apply makeup to an image of their face, which appears on the screen of [...]
Seoul, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Metropolitan Facilities Management Corporation and KAIST announced that they have succeeded in developing an automatic system to manage taxi dispatches for disabled people using big data. The team looked at 320,000,000 call taxi requests for the disabled accumulated over the past five years. After analyzing [...]
Seoul, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has announced that they will be providing indoor maps for 328 major transportation and business facilities nationwide. Using Naver indoor maps, one can get information on the location beforehand, avoiding the chaos occurring in crowded and complex areas. Users can find out where the nearest customer centers, elevators and washrooms [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Encar said on November 24 that it has launched a smartphone app to allow users to find out an exact trim grade and available options of their cars for sale based on photo information. In addition, the app provides specifications and prices for other comparable cars. With the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean people can now conveniently give a donation to a politician they support through their smartphones. The Republic of Korea National Election Commission announced on November 17 that it would launch an application to allow citizens to directly make donations to politicians. The app called the “Smartphone Political Support [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom announced that it would launch an application to safeguard customers’ personal information on their smartphones, reflecting growing concerns about privacy and according measures the wireless industry rushes to adopt these days. SKT’s “Security Box” is aimed at protecting confidential information against possible leaks as users increasingly tend [...]