CAPE CANAVERAL/SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first lunar orbiter has entered its planned trajectory toward the moon, the science ministry said Friday, in a historic first step toward space exploration. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter — better known as Danuri in a Korean portmanteau for moon and enjoy — was traveling on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday that it plans to make a second attempt to launch its homegrown space rocket in mid-June, about eight months after its first flight ended in failure due to technical glitches. The Nuri rocket will be lifted off on June 15, about one month later than [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Lineage 2M, a mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will land in a total of 29 countries next month, South Korean online game maker NCSOFT Corp. said Wednesday. The mobile version of the megahit game Lineage 2 will be simultaneously available on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS devices [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. launched the new iPhone 13 series in South Korea on Friday as it seeks a greater presence in rival Samsung Electronics Co.’s home turf. Apple and the country’s three major mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — started shipping the iPhone [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will launch its first homegrown space rocket next month as it is in the final stages of preparations, the science ministry said Wednesday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said the rocket, Nuri, will lift off Oct. 21 as scheduled at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Disney+, the flagship streaming service of Walt Disney Co., will land in South Korea on Nov. 12, the company said Wednesday, heating up competition in the local video streaming market. Walt Disney Company Korea said the highly awaited service will give South Koreans access to the media giant’s trove [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Monday the country’s first lunar exploration mission is on track for launch in August next year after it strengthened ties with the United States earlier this year in space exploration. South Korea aims to conduct a yearlong mission to observe the moon through an [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s next-generation midsized observation satellite successfully entered its target orbit and made its first contact with a base station on Monday, the science ministry said, marking the country’s latest step to boost its space industry. The 540-kilogram satellite made contact with the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway around [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Global streaming giant Spotify Technology SA said Tuesday it launched its music streaming service in South Korea, the home market of K-pop. The service, which originally launched back in 2008, has more than 60 million songs and over 320 million users across 93 markets. The latest launch comes amid [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its new flagship smartphone line has been officially launched globally as the South Korean tech giant hopes its latest handsets can drive the company’s mobile business amid fierce challenges from its rivals. Sales of the Galaxy S21 series have started in 60 countries, including [...]