SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ HelloVision has introduced ‘Udi’, an AI chatbot that will provide counseling services for Hello Mobile Direct, the company’s online mobile shopping mall. The artificial intelligence-powered chatbot uses big data to answer questions from online customers in real time. Even for non-registered Hello Mobile users, Udi can help choose mobile [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Though the South Korean government quashed SK Telecom’s attempt to take over CJ HelloVision, one of Korea’s leading telecommunications companies is still stepping up to shift its strategy to a ‘digital platform’. SK Telecom had proposed acquiring the nation’s largest cable TV operator, CJ HelloVision, and then merge it with [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The three major telecommunications companies clashing over SK Telecom’s purchase of CJ Hellovision are once again butting heads as they have different interpretations of the Broadcast Market Competition Assessment issued by the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI). KT and LGU+ were concerned that the influence SK Telecom is casting [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - Shareholders of CJ Hellovision Co., South Korea’s top operator of cable channels and Internet TV content, approved a proposed merger with the country’s No. 1 mobile carrier on Friday amid controversy about its legality. Around 97 percent of the shareholders attended the shareholder meeting voted for the merger proposal, which [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) - CJ Hellovision Co., South Korea’s top operator of cable channels and Internet TV content, said Friday it plans to hold a shareholder meeting later this month to approve a proposed merger plan. SK Telecom Co., the country’s top mobile operator, agreed to buy CJ Hellovision in November of last year, [...]
Competition in the ‘budget phone’ market has been fierce from the start of the year, with the affordable phones rapidly gaining popularity. By the end of last year, one out of ten people was using a budget phone. (Image : Yonhap) SEOUL, Jan.6 (Korea Bizwire) – Competition in the ‘budget phone’ market has been fierce [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. vowed Wednesday to beef up its efforts to tap deeper into the media industry through the acquisition of the nation’s top cable operator, amid rising criticism from its rivals over the deal. In early November, SK Telecom struck a deal [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Monday it will acquire the country’s biggest provider of cable channels and Internet TV as part of a push into the media platform business. SK Telecom will take over a 30 percent stake for 500 billion won (US$438.2 million) in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Hellovision, CJ group‘s entertainment and media unit, will launch a mobile advertising service which will create maximum impact on marketing and be economical at the same time, for small-sized game development companies CJ Hellovision announced on August 20 that they have co-developed “Cross Shock”, a free mobile game advertisement [...]