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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Severance Hospital of the Yonsei University Health System said on August 28 that it has developed a mobile app to manage patients with trachoma jointly with KT. The “Trachoma App” can allow medical field workers to check the conditions of the eye disease with simple instructions. This is expected to come [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — KT‘s IPTV (Internet protocol television) service Olleh TV announced on August 27 that it will officially launch “Customized TV Curation Service” which provides users with TV content curation, based on the user’s personal interest. The service developed by the KT Fusion Technology Institute analyzes the likes and patterns of the user [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A court ruled in favor of plaintiffs to a class action suit who sued against KT, Korea’s largest telecom service operator, for damages due to personal information breaches. Accordingly, the 29,000 plaintiffs will be entitled to receiving 100,000 won (US$981) each for compensation. Civil court judges of the Seoul Central District [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Pantech, Korea’s third-largest mobile handset manufacturer after Samsung and LG, petitioned to the President following its appeals to three mobile telecom service operators for help. The Council of Pantech’s Partner Companies said on August 5 in a statement addressed to President Park Geun-hye, “We implore you to consider our predicament. Without [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Data centers, long considered energy hogs, have rapidly emerged as the pioneer of smart energy technology. KT, Korea’s largest telecom service provider, said on August 5 that it would expand its Cloud Data Center in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, to create the world’s best green data center. To that end, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Caffe Bene, Korea’s largest specialty coffee shop franchise, is sued by the Korean Fair Trade Committee for unfair trading practices including passing promotional cost on to café owners and limiting rights to choose interior designers. On August 4, Korea’s fair trading regulator ordered the coffee franchise to remedy its business [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) –Travelers to Japan this summer will be able to enjoy the wireless Internet through KT‘s Automatic Wi-Fi Roaming service. Korea’s largest telecom service provider said on July 28 that it has unveiled the Wi-Fi roaming service that allows the user to access affiliated Wi-Fi networks without entering an ID and password. [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – KT will advance into the “smart” energy market by transforming its 400 branch offices and data centers into advanced energy centers, which, according to KT’s plan, will offer EV (electric vehicle) charging services, recycle wasted heat gathered from data centers, provide integrated ESS-EMS service and manage electric demand intelligently. The [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KT announced on July 11 that it has successfully established “a Smart Plant Factory Total Solution,” an agricultural cultivation facility using ICT technology, in one of the agrarian districts of Gangwon Province in Korea. As part of the wider program to make farming a high value-added business and linked with [...]