SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major tech giants pulled a prank for a bit of fun on April Fools’ Day. Samsung Electronics Co. on Saturday posted on its website that it had released the Galaxy S23 Bow-Wow Edition, the world’s first smartphone designed exclusively for dogs. This cream-colored smartphone can diagnose [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Fake news that spread on social media on April Fools’ Day raised eyebrows in South Korea at a time when people have been feeling fatigued as the country fights to contain the new coronavirus. The office of the national park at Mount Seorak on the east coast dismissed Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – On Friday, April Fool’s Day, police officers and firefighters working in dispatch centers around the country started their day worrying about the prank calls they would have to deal with all day. However, the number of prank calls to 112 (police) or 119 (911) have greatly diminished over the [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics on Wednesday showcased the Galaxy BLADE Edge, a parody of its offbeat high-end handset the Galaxy S6 Edge that will hit the market later this month, in line with its marketing efforts on April Fools’ Day. “Samsung is proud to announce the world’s first [...]