SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Public phone booths, seen as an outdated legacy of the past following the introduction of mobile phones, are turning into workspaces and playgrounds. KT Linkus, a public phone arm of KT Corp., jointly with a local office-leasing company Ara WorkNAll, will upcycle public phone booths into one-person workplaces. Named [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of public pay phones across the country will be reduced by around 50 percent by 2020, the government said Friday, as most everyone in South Korea owns a cell phone. Between 30,000 and 40,000 public phones will be left across the country by that year, compared with [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea has a population of 50 million with 54 million cell phone subscribers. The need for pay phones has clearly faded away. According to KT Linkus, which manages these relics of yesteryear, the number of pay phones across the country has decreased by 38 percent from 113,000 in 2006 [...]
SEOUL, Dec.1 (Korea Bizwire) – K Bank Consortium, which has gained preliminary approval as an internet-only bank, pledged that it will create an innovative success model and lead the revitalization of the economy. Company officials also mentioned their vision to make ‘community neo-banks’ that are friendly and easy to use for everyone. Officials also laid [...]