SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, Naver Corp., aims to accelerate the global expansion of its live streaming platform, V Live, based on its cutting-edge technology, the company said Thursday. Launched in August 2015, V Live allows K-pop celebrities to broadcast live videos on the Internet and chat live [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s dominant Internet portal and search engine Naver Corp. said Tuesday that its mobile translation application Papago has brought in more than 10 million users. The number of monthly active users, or MAUs, surpassed the 10-million mark in March after garnering 20 million accumulated downloads to become the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s dominant Internet portal and search engine, Naver Corp., said Thursday it aims to focus on its cloud computing business for public and financial service firms by taking on Amazon Inc. and other leading service providers in the burgeoning sector. In April 2017, Naver Business Platform (NBP), an [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator, Naver Corp., said Tuesday it will place only its search engine feature on the first page of its mobile website later this week. On Wednesday, all news headlines provided by news outlets across the country will be removed from the first page of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant Internet portal and search engine, said Thursday that it will develop 5G-enabled service robots in partnership with the country’s telecom giant KT Corp. and U.S. tech firm Intel Corp. The partnership would allow Naver Labs Corp., a R&D subsidiary of Naver, to use Intel’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — ROK Army Capt. Kwon Hyun gave a special lecture for employees at Naver Corp., South Korea’s largest portal website, on the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) bypass and its countermeasures on Monday. Capt. Kwon, currently studying at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), was selected as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant Internet portal and search engine, said Friday that it plans to support streaming of 4K content on mobile platforms following the launch of fifth-generation (5G) mobile network service next month. “We will be able to support high-resolution livestreaming service as the lag time will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean home appliance maker LG Electronics Inc. and portal operator Naver Corp. on Wednesday agreed to jointly develop an advanced guidance robot based on the high-tech mobility platform. LG Electronics and Naver’s R&D subsidiary signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on research and development of robot [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Nami Island, Chuncheon’s most representative tourist destination, has introduced a new translation service for foreigners. Nami Island, Inc., in partnership with Papago, the artificial intelligence-based translation service from internet giant Naver Corp., has begun to offer translation services for foreign tourists. Each year, more than 1 million tourists from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp. announced the most searched word in 2018 on Wednesday . The word ‘feminist’ topped the list, which seems to reflect the heated debate on gender issues in South Korean society. The word gender in question refers to the social construct of the word gender relative to biological [...]