BUSAN, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s most celebrated beach, Haeundae, is offering smart bracelets starting Friday to help parents keep track of their children. More than 26 million people visited the popular vacation spot in 2015, while 16 million visited during the summer holiday season (July – August) alone. With hundreds of thousands of people [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – United Nations aviation agency has expressed “grave concerns” over North Korea’s attempts to jam GPS signals in the South and decided to send a letter to Pyongyang to warn against such activity that could cause serious safety problems, the foreign ministry said Thursday. “The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Group has started a campaign that reserves donations for those in need whenever a Hanwha employee walks one step. The ‘Hanwha Walking for Earth’ event, in which 300 employees and their families walked the Namsan Dulegil, took place on September 12. Employees from 12 Hanwha affiliates and their [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus is set to provide a cell-phone position tracking service to help the Korean government locate the whereabouts of individuals suspected to have the MERS virus, as health authorities are determined to mobilize all measures to contact and manage individuals under suspicion. According to the Ministry of Health [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean software developer Sonist has launched Community Mapping, a utility app designed to help blind pedestrians navigate their way through city streets. The app is very simple to use. When the app is opened, it automatically scans the area near the user on GPS, and collects visual and text information [...]
WATERLOO, Ontario, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that S. Bertram, Inc., a premier food-service industry supplier across the North-eastern U.S., has increased efficiency and improved customer service with Descartes’ comprehensive cloud-based fleet management solution that combines route planning, real-time dispatch, GPS-based [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – For the safety of kids, SK Telecom and KT teamed up with the education ministry to expand their joint kids’ safety service “U-Safety Notification Service.” The “U-Safety Notification Service” released in August, can locate the users’ whereabouts and alert their parents through text messages when the kids with the 3G-based devices with safety features [...]