SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it aims to broaden the use of eco-conscious materials to all its smartphone products in the coming years. The world’s largest smartphone maker said it plans to use recycled plastic materials in all its new flagship Galaxy smartphones and stop using plastics in packaging [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it had launched the collection and recycling of waste mobile phones by installing waste mobile product collection boxes dubbed Eco Boxes at its service centers in 34 countries, including the U.S. and Brazil. The tech giant plans to extend the list of countries that [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is embroiled in a controversy over unfair treatment after Yoon recently took selfies with members of the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA). The President-elect took selfies with troops on Thursday at Camp Humphreys, a sprawling U.S. base in Pyeongtaek, 70 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Cell phones will be banned from use on construction projects commissioned by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The city government announced Thursday that it has implemented a new policy on mobile phone use by construction workers as part of its efforts to prevent accidents. The policy was inspired by Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of students are joining a social movement against the practice of collecting mobile phones at school. On social media platforms, students are posting handwritten protests against school practices of collecting mobile phones before class. They use hashtags such as #don’ttouchphonechallenge or #studentrights to encourage other students [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam is the country with the largest number of international roaming users for mobile phones at the end of this year. KT Corp., one of South Korea’s leading telecommunications firm, said Vietnam was the country that had the largest number of users of its voice call roaming service “ON” [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group will lead a worldwide program for environmental protection in 25 countries as the company celebrates Earth Day on April 22. Thirteen Samsung subsidiaries including Samsung Electronics Co., Samsung Display Co., Samsung SDI CO. and others will participate in a six-week program to collect old mobile phones from [...]
DAEJEON, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study found harmful bacteria on the cell phones of dozens of teenagers in Daejeon. The Daejeon Metropolitan City Institute of Health and Environment conducted a test on 116 elementary, middle and high school students. The test was to show whether students’ cell phones had any harmful bacteria. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of mobile phones in use in North Korea is estimated at around 6 million, with each device selling for US$100 to $200, South Korean Minister of Unification Cho Myoung-gyon said Monday. Cho made the remark during a session of the National Assembly’s Special Committee on Budget and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 3 out of 10 adolescents access Internet sites with obscene content using mobile gadgets, a survey showed Friday. About 27 percent of those in their teens visited such sites, according to the survey of 10,000 people conducted by consulting firm Beyond The Research at the request of the [...]