SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Corp., South Korea’s biggest internet portal operator, on Monday unveiled a proactive scheme designed to assess and manage risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its efforts to safely develop and use the fast-evolving technology. Naver said its AI Safety Framework (ASF) defines potential AI-related risks [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The cloud affiliate of NHN Corp., a South Korean leading information technology company, announced a plan to release a virtual fitting room service that allows users to virtually try on clothes before purchasing them at Internet shopping malls, in the latter half of this year. The new service enables [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Corp., South Korea’s leading game and internet company, officially launched its fashion-specific artificial intelligence (AI) service AI Fashion on Wednesday. The service was developed using image search technology after analyzing data from various online shopping platforms both in South Korea and abroad. The highlight of the new service [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Entertainment Corp.’s artificial intelligence (AI) Go program beat the reigning global champion in a match on Wednesday, scoring a complete victory in a series of games against South Korea’s top five players. NHN’s AI player HanDol defeated Shin Jin-seo in the fifth and final match held at the [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Hong Kong’s first high-speed railway – the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High Speed Rail (Hong Kong Section) – was launched today (23 September 2018), bringing visitors from around the world the chance to travel quickly and conveniently between Hong Kong and cities across Mainland China. In particular, the new [...]
SEOUL, Dec.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has announced the results of an analysis of the words that were searched for on its portal site as part of its ‘2015 Naver Search Word Settlement’. The word that was searched the most on PC was ‘Youtube’, while ‘weather’ ranked first on mobile. The keyword ‘Daum’ ranked second [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Each army unit will form a social network channel to communicate among the commander, rank-and-file soldiers and their parents as a move to innovate military culture in Korea. Camp Mobile, a subsidiary of NHN operating social networking service “Band,” signed a business agreement with the Army of the Republic of [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, Korea’s largest search portal with more than 70 percent of the market, will close its open market “ShopN” in response to public criticism and a controversy following a Fair Trade Commission investigation on the company. It has been two years since Naver established ShopN in 2012. Naver said [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment said it would officially launch “Football Day,” the proprietary soccer simulation mobile game, from December 29. With this game, fantasy soccer game fans won’t have to rush to their desktop computer to manage their team and instead use their smartphone device anywhere anytime. The game has been [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Inc. said on November 14 that it would open to public its lab for web accessibility within the company’s headquarters building. Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. The lab consists of four different spaces: for those visually [...]