SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of the Interior and Safety has announced a plan to switch the desktop computers used by 623,000 civil servants working for various levels of government as well as public institutions to business laptops called “Onbook” by 2027 on a step-by-step basis. Onbooks are laptops that civil servants [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has decided to allow public servants working for the central government or municipal governments to use laptops for work. The nation’s public servants have been prohibited from using laptops for work thus far to prevent confidential administrative information from being leaked. At administrative offices, they were encouraged [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of laptops are on a steady rise, despite smartphones increasingly taking on the role of personal computers. On the back of growing popularity for high-end gaming laptops and the trend of each person owning their own, laptops became the third most sold electronic goods at E-Mart last year, following [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The penetration rate of personal computers in South Korea fell to its lowest level in 15 years as more people use smartphones and tablet computers, data showed Tuesday. The nation’s penetration rate of personal computers was 75.3 percent last year, marking the lowest rate since 2001, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s domestic sales of personal computers inched up in 2016 from a year earlier, marking the first such growth in five years, industry data showed Monday. According to the data compiled by market researcher IDC Korea, South Korea’s sales of PCs came to 4.62 million units last year, [...]