SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. has formulated a blueprint aimed at developing and applying digital solutions and platforms for its environment business to upgrade it into a new energy business. The company recently signed a strategic partnership agreement with Amazon Web Service (AWS) Korea, the local cloud-computing service [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to begin a pilot operation of a mobile driver’s license in January next year in a bid to help people verify their identities more conveniently, a senior government official said Friday. First Vice Finance Minister Lee Eog-weon said if introduced, mobile driver’s licenses will be easily [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government has brought forward the digitalization of public services, as social distancing has become a new normal and face-to-face meetings are no longer desired amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The government announced Tuesday a revised version of the digital innovation plan for public services, taking into consideration [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A home shopping company plans to create television shows without a stage set, replacing it instead with a digital screen. Shinsegae TV Shopping Inc., the home shopping arm of retail giant Shinsegae, announced Tuesday that it will install a 26.5-meter wide, 3.2-meter tall LED digital wall that will replace [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to carry out a pilot project to place digital advertisements on taxi lamps following the launch of similar initiatives in Daejeon and Incheon. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport began a pilot project allowing advertisements on [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government is trying to lower costs by digitalizing parking tickets. According to an official announcement yesterday, the city will join hands with the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) to create a digital system that will make it possible to transmit parking tickets via a mobile [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a statement released by the National Policy Committee, a report submitted by online-only moneylender Kakao Bank showed that elderly users over the age of 60 were significantly underrepresented in numbers relative to other age groups of users. Since its inauguration on July 27, the online bank has [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest financial institution, Shinhan Bank, is scrapping paper forms, and instead, going digital in an all-out effort to raise productivity. From today, all Shinhan branches will provide most banking services digitally, including applications for accounts and credit cards. Shinhan’s bold move to replace paper with digital counterparts [...]
Seoul, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Based on testimonies and possessions from war veterans, a ‘digital textbook’ about the Korean War will be produced for American schools. The book will allow students to experience the war vividly. At a national sociology seminar held in New Orleans with teachers of social sciences and history from 60 different countries present, [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – It is expected that the volume of digital data to be created in Korea will be 847 billion gigabytes (GB) by 2020. If the volume is stored 12-GB tablets, the height will be 9,640 times taller than Mt. Halla, the highest mountain in South Korea of 1,950 meters. EMC [...]