SEOUL, Mar. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Smart speakers that play music are most frequently used among people in their 30s and 40s in South Korea, according to one of the largest online music streaming services in the country. According to data released on Friday by Genie Music, a South Korean music streaming service, music fans in [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean telecom companies LG Uplus and SKT have revised their mobile phone plans to boost their user base, while KT has been rumored to follow suit. According to sources close to the industry on Tuesday, KT is expected to be the last among the three major mobile carriers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Tuesday it will open the first virtual reality (VR) theme park in Seoul, with the aim of becoming a leader in the burgeoning sector. VRIGHT — located in Sinchon, western Seoul — will open its doors to the public in early March [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — From 5G networks and virtual reality to live 4K broadcasts, cutting-edge technology has become a mainstay of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Games last Friday was a monumental showcase of 5G mobile technology, starting from a carefully orchestrated eye-opening drone show to a giant [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study suggests that mobile traffic in South Korea will increase tenfold over the next six years amid growing demand for high quality video streaming services. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on Wednesday a number of projections concerning telecom providers and data usage in the coming [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With the three major telecom operators SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus closing the gap in affordable pricing for phones and rate plans since last September, South Korea’s mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) are increasingly losing customers while simultaneously failing to attract new users. Unlike the triumvirate of traditional [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Telecom giant KT has opened an agricultural drone school in South Jeolla Province in the hopes of helping the farming community. KT’s ‘Giga Island Drone School’ opened at an experience center on Imja Island in Sinan County yesterday, featuring a number of facilities including a workshop and a simulation room, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – With over 1 million smart speakers sold in South Korea, the battle for smart speakers is expected to intensify both at home and abroad this year. According to data from market analysis firm Strategy Analytics, the number of AI speakers released around the world during the third quarter of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook Inc. is willing to negotiate with South Korea’s telecommunications providers over sharing the cost of maintaining the speed of its data traffic services, the company’s vice president said Wednesday. Since 2016, the U.S. social networking giant has been in dispute with SK Broadband Co. and LG Uplus after refusing to pay for a cache server that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The customary nod to the driver as one hops on the morning bus to work may soon be a thing of the past, as telecom giant KT had its application to road test a 45-seat driverless bus in Seoul approved by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Making [...]