SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The arrival of baseball season has South Korean mobile carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus gearing up their marketing efforts employing cutting edge technology such as IoT, fifth-generation wireless networks (5G) and augmented reality to win the hearts of fans. With cumulative attendance figures of over 8 million [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. announced Thursday that it will start commercial operations of its fifth-generation (5G) mobile network in March 2019. KT said its goal is to provide “perfect 5G” service by building a nationwide infrastructure so faster and more stable data processing, far exceeding the capacity of the existing 4G network, or long-term evolution (LTE), will be [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people who subscribed for new mobile phone discount fees surpassed the 10 million-mark in six months, the ICT ministry said Wednesday. In September 2017, the discount rate of monthly mobile phone plans provided by the three telecom firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG [...]
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, [...]