BUSAN, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – With an insufferable heat wave striking the Korean Peninsula, millions of farmed fish have succumbed to the scorching temperatures this summer. According to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, over 3 million fish have died across Korea’s fisheries this year thus far, with sea water temperatures rising to 30 [...]
GOYANG, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is hosting the 14th LED & OLED Expo at Goyang’s KINTEX (Korea International Exhibition Center). The even took off on June 22 and will continue until June 25. Some 350 companies from 15 countries are presenting their LED and OLED lighting technology and related devices and components, and a [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A giant statue of two hands dancing Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ showed up at COEX square in Gangnam-gu. Gangnam-gu officials announced that they will celebrate the completion of the ‘Gangnam Style Landmark Sculpture’ at COEX’s East Square. The structure, which is five meters tall and eight meters wide, looks like two [...]
CHANGWON, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The streetlights in Changwon will get ‘smarter’ through the use of light control technology. The local government of Changwon announced that it has started energy saving programs in collaboration with companies such as SK Telecom. Changwon is seeking to automatically control 26,000 streetlights in the city so that it can [...]
Seoul, Korea, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Innotek, a leading global components and materials manufacturer, announced the development of an ultra slim optical bio sensor module with the world class level of performance, The optical bio sensor module is mainly adopted wearable devices and smartphones to measure heart rates, stress indices, and oxygen saturation [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest TV maker, sold more than 1,500 units of its premium SUHD TV per week in July, tripling its sales over the previous month. Samsung officials said that the SUHD TV sales increase came after it launched a series of relatively low-cost models called JS7200 earlier [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics announced on October 28 that it would drop its Plasma Display Panel(PDP) business, as rising popularity of LCD and OLED products, mainstay in global display market, makes the business of plasma TVs increasingly unviable. The main reason for LG Electronics to discontinue the production of plasma TVs [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean LED tech firm Seeluce gears up to advance into the value-added LED application market armed with patented technology producing the world’s largest flexible printed circuit boards (PCBs). Its flexible lighting module (FLM) technology is estimated as a next-generation technology overcoming the limitations of the existing rigid PCB and flexible [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1mfzwSM) has announced the addition of the “Global Digital Signage Market – Forecast to 2020: Intense competition is likely to trigger a competitive pricing war across both hardware and software offerings” report to their offering. Digital signage refers to any electronic display that broadcasts television programming, menus, [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s Largest LED Show, ‘International LED & OLED EXPO 2014′ has opened its gate at the exhibition hall 1, KINTEX. Domestic and international related people were present at the opening ceremony. Kim Jae-Hong, vice minister for industry and technology of MOTIE, gave the inaugural speech and stressed, [...]