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Seoul’s Innovative AI-Powered System for Crowd Safety Unveiled at Gangnam Station

Seoul’s Innovative AI-Powered System for Crowd Safety Unveiled at Gangnam Station

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to proactively prevent crowd-related accidents by automatically monitoring pedestrian density on the streets and conveying this information through electronic billboards has been unveiled. Seocho-gu, Seoul, made an official announcement on Tuesday, introducing its groundbreaking “AI-based real-time congestion management system” deployed around Gangnam Station, [...]

Worst Time to Hail a Taxi in Gangnam and Itaewon

Worst Time to Hail a Taxi in Gangnam and Itaewon

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangnam Station, and the neighborhoods of Jongno, Hongdae, and Itaewon turned out to be some of the worst areas to hail a taxi during the night, highlighting the need for new means of late night transportation. The Seoul Digital Foundation and Kakao Mobility Corp. revealed the results of [...]

Koreans with Mental Illness: ‘Please Don’t Stigmatize Us’

Koreans with Mental Illness: ‘Please Don’t Stigmatize Us’

  SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the Gangnam Station murder last month, the government is planning to take more serious action against schizophrenia patients, including involuntary hospitalization. However, many of those suffering from mental disorders have pleaded that their illnesses do not make them potential criminals. The ‘Experts Debate for Countermeasures against Social Hatred [...]

Paper-Mache Pandas Arrive in Korea

Paper-Mache Pandas Arrive in Korea

SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — After a successful exhibition of the yellow rubber duck in Korea, 1600 paper-mache pandas have finally arrived in Korea, and will be exhibited around the nation until July. On May 25, Buddha’s Birthday, the pandas was installed at Gangnam Station’s M Stage. The 1600 bears have been traveling around the [...]

Swing Your Smartphone toward Outdoor Billboards and Get Discount Coupons!

Swing Your Smartphone toward Outdoor Billboards and Get Discount Coupons!

SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – KT Media Hub, KT’s arm specializing in developing media content, introduced a cross-media advertising platform that is “responsive” to or linked with outdoor billboards on the streets. This service — currently available for smartphone users with “Swingo” app (developed by Samsung) — allows users to check with latest useful [...]

“LG G3″ to Successfully Deploy Indoor Positioning Technology for Smartphone

“LG G3″ to Successfully Deploy Indoor Positioning Technology for Smartphone

SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics‘ flagship smartphone model “LG G3” has successfully deployed Qualcomm‘s “IZat,” a location-based indoor positioning technology, for the first time in the world. IZat is a location-based technology that utilizes diverse connection technologies such as differential GPS, Wi-Fi, cloud server and smartphone sensors to locate and position the user outdoors [...]

Audi Enjoys “Unexpected” Popularity in Korea

Audi Enjoys “Unexpected” Popularity in Korea

SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — German auto brand Audi is gaining “not intended” PR (public relation) effect in Korea thanks to a couple of Audi automobile-related incidents which  spread widely and quickly through social networks. Recently, a rumor of romance between two Korean celebrities became the talks of town. The possible courtship between Bundesliga soccer player Son [...]