SEJONG, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Tripitaka Koreana, the most complete collection of Buddhist scriptures carved on around 80,000 wooden printing blocks made in the 13th century, has been preserved at a depository named Janggyeong Panjeon at Haein Temple in the southeastern county of Hapcheon in South Korea. The storage hall, solely designed and built [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to build a 120 megawatt data center in the southeastern industrial city of Pohang by 2027, the industry ministry said Friday. The ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with Pohang city and North Gyeongsang Province and the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp., as well as [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A large-scale data center integration complex is planned to be established in South Jeolla Province to utilize the region’s abundant solar electricity. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Thursday it had entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the South Jeolla provincial government and the Korea Electric [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDS Co.’s Dongtan Data Center, arguably the first Internet Data Center for High Performance Computing (HPC) in South Korea, is garnering attention with its eco-friendly server cooling method that doesn’t require power. The method dissipates data server heat by utilizing external air in winter or in-between seasons when [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday it has opened a massive computing data center for artificial intelligence studies as part of the country’s plan to build a world-class AI research network. The Research Data Center of AI Innovation Hub, located in the Seoul campus of Korea University, is a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Solutions Corp., a key energy unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, plans to create a fund to expand its domestic renewable energy-related data center development venture. The company announced on Monday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SKS Credit Co., a local private equity [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The ICT ministry said Tuesday it will order the country’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. to come up with measures within a month to prevent a recurrence of a service outage stemming from a data center fire. The move came after a fire on Oct. 15 at the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A fire at a data center near Seoul has disrupted services of South Korea’s dominant messenger and internet portal for a day, affecting nearly all sectors of the country, even finance and transportation. The fire broke out at 3:33 p.m. Saturday at the building of SK C&C located in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major tech giants — Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. — suffered a service malfunction on Saturday due to a fire at a data center, officials said. The blaze broke out at around 3:33 p.m. at the building of SK C&C located in Pangyo, just south of [...]
SINGAPORE, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – STACK Infrastructure (“STACK”), the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies and a leading global developer and operator of data centers, and ESR Group Limited (“ESR” or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries as the “Group”; SEHK Stock Code: 1821), APAC’s largest real asset manager powered by the New [...]