SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Sunday that it began an AI (artificial intelligence) Robot Mail Delivery Service for management staff working at the company’s main headquarters. Previously, the support center notified employees when there was a delivery, and each staff member had to visit the center to [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a South Korean telecom giant, said Friday it has clinched business ties with a Vietnamese cable network to cooperate in developing a music streaming platform in the Southeast Asian country. Under the memorandum of understanding, KT and Vietnam Television Cable, a subsidiary of state broadcaster Vietnam Television, [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Sat Co., a satellite service arm of South Korean telecom giant KT Corp., said Thursday it has won an order to establish a high-speed satellite telecommunications network in Indonesia’s Papua province. The company said it will take part in the Indonesian government-led project to offer telecommunications services for [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it plans to develop cross-platform artificial intelligence (AI)-powered services with KT Corp., South Korea’s major telecom operator, to expand use of its human-like algorithm. LG and KT plan to commercialize services that support AI platforms from both companies after developing a joint interface. The [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Thursday that it has established the nation’s first ‘digital health pass’ platform in collaboration with Incheon International Airport and the Inha University Hospital. The company said that the platform aims to support the safe entry and departure of people into [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – KT Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Wednesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with pollster Gallup Korea to introduce the telecom company’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology in opinion polls. Under the agreement, KT will apply its voice bot and AI call center technology in opinion [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Tuesday it aims to acquire more than 1,000 works of intellectual property in media content by 2023 and spend big to boost its media and video streaming business amid growing competition. KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo said in an online briefing [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications firm, said Thursday that a ‘Smart Green Kitchen,’ a digital transformation (DX) platform tailored to the needs of food businesses, has been added to the newly opened 5km Kitchen, a shared kitchen in Seoul’s Seodaemun District. A shared kitchen rents out cooking [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Wednesday that it had developed new technology that prevents smartphone eavesdropping through the use of quantum encrypted voice data. The new technology enables the use of quantum encryption technology without a physical scrambler device. A scrambler is a device that [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean telecom operators KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. said Wednesday they invested a total of 26 billion won (US$23.1 million) for a minority stake in the homegrown app market ONE store, bolstering the smaller local rival to Google’s Play store. KT has invested 21 billion won [...]