SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With dementia-related missing person cases on the rise amid South Korea’s rapidly aging population, police are ramping up efforts to promote a fingerprint pre-registration system aimed at swiftly reuniting patients with their families. The initiative, known as the Preemptive Fingerprint Registration Program, allows dementia patients to voluntarily register their fingerprints, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s premium brand Genesis said Thursday that it will develop and apply a new biometric technology that can improve both convenience and safety for its GV70 SUV that is scheduled to be rolled out in mid-December. This is not the first time for Genesis to apply biometric [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has released a software patch to fix a bug in the ultrasound-based fingerprint scanner on Galaxy S10 and Note 10 smartphones. Samsung has faced a backlash after some users discovered that anyone’s fingerprint could unlock S10 and Note 10 series devices covered with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The justice ministry said Monday it has recently started sharing the fingerprint information of all foreigners in the country with police as part of efforts to better deal with domestic crimes committed by aliens. In South Korea, the Ministry of Justice is responsible for collecting personal information on all [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of the Interior revealed yesterday that it will implement new mobile systems for social affairs. Over the course of a three-year plan, up to 3,000 social affairs services will become available from smartphones. Social affairs services include the issuance of various types of documents such as resident [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government has finally had enough of the three major mobile carriers’ habitual practice of collecting fingerprint information by scanning the back of customers’ ID cards as an identity verification measure. Fingerprint information is found on the back of all Korean ID cards, and the total number of [...]