SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – KT, a telecommunications company in South Korea, announced on October 21 that it launched an Asia Pacific Gateway Network Operation Center to manage the world’s largest cross-border submarine cable network at KT Center in Busan. The Korea’s leading telecom company plans to work as a control tower when network [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s mobile telecom service operators have for years spent fortunes on marketing to attract more subscribers. A parliamentary investigation revealed that the three service providers including SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus have poured in 3.5 trillion won in advertising and other promotions almost for the past five years. According to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18(Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to a newly devised positioning technology, people in a disaster situation can now have more chances to be rescued. Samsung Electronics and KT, Korea’s largest telecom corporation, announced on October 16 that they jointly developed a Device-to-device Discovery technology to rescue people in severe trouble. The brand-new positioning service enables [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – KT, the second largest mobile carrier in Korea, opened a dedicated website for EyeWire, an online video game platform in which so called “citizen scientists” can exchange their ideas supporting the completion of brain map, “connectome,” while also enjoy gaming. KT decided to team up with Sebastian Seung, a world [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – By making practical use of big data on weather, road slopes and floating population, the Korean government plans to offer accident forecast services to drivers to reduce traffic accidents. Korea Cadastral Survey Corporation (KCSC) announced on October 5 that it would lead a consortium to develop “Pilot Project of Disaster [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will change the procedure for applying for a new mobile telecom service operator as there have been many instances in which fly-by-night operators formed consortiums with like-minded business enterprises and made repeated applications. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said on October 1 that a new electric and [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — KT, South Korea’s largest telecommunications provider, has pulled off a record-setting viewership for its flagship Internet TV service “Olleh TV”. KT announced on September 15 that the number of VOD transactions for its Olleh TV hit the 300 million marks in last August alone — the largest monthly figure for its popular IPTV service. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – China-based mobile phone makers are likely to shake up the mobile industry in South Korea, a stronghold of the smartphone industry, as Chinese brands are gearing up for pushing in this nation well known for Samsung and LG. The rumor that Huawei Honor 6 would be released in South Korea turned out to be true [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Out of 800 billion won of membership points provided by three mobile telecom service firms a year, as much as 500 billion won ended up disappearing without being used. According to Congressman Jun Byung-hun (New Politics Alliance for Democracy) who is a member of the Science, ICT, Future Planning, [...]