SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — As Samsung Group announced its annual president-level reshuffling results on December 1, the attention is now paid to the follow-up announcement on executive-level personnel change and the group affiliates’ organizational change. As for president-level change, the number of presidents sacked and appointed has been somewhat reduced from the last year. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – At the Creative Korea 2014 exhibition being held at COEX from November 27 to 30, Samsung Electronics hosted a UHD Museum & Zoo. The UHD Museum is a collection of photos depicting Korean cultural assets, while the UHD Zoo shows ultra-high definition images of near-extinct animals filmed in Africa utilizing state-of-the-art [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will introduce a new premium mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera model “Smart Camera NX1.” The company held a launching ceremony for the camera on November 26 at Songeun Art Space in Seoul’s Gangnam. The NX1 had made a global debut in September this year at Photokina 2014 in Cologne, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., today introduced EYECAN+, the company’s second-generation eye mouse that allows people with disabilities to compose and edit documents as well as browse the web through simple eye movement. EYECAN+ is the first of its kind, as it does not require users to wear any device, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Biwire) – Pantech, the third largest mobile phone vendor in Korea, and currently under court receivership, released its Vega Iron2 and Vega Popup Note at surprisingly low prices. On November 19, LG U+ lowered the price of the Vega Iron2 from 783,200 won to 352,000 won, for a discount of almost 50%. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Of all registered executives of Korean publicly listed firms, Shin Jong-kyun, Samsung Electronics’ IT & mobile division president, was ranked as the highest paid executive for the first nine months of the year at 12 billion won (US$10.9 million). Chung Mong-koo, Hyundai Motor Group chairman, won the top position among [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics will debut its “Gear VR Innovator Edition,” the world’s first smartphone-based virtual reality headset, in the United States early next week. The Gear VR, which will come in frost white color, will be sold with the game pad through its online store. The Gear VR is based on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics said on November 13 that it would debut a special edition of the Samsung Curved ultra HD TV in the world’s largest fine arts auction to be held by Christie’s Hong Kong from the 20th and donate all the proceeds to charities. In partnership with modern artist [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Samsung “Gear S,” the latest smart wearable device launched on November 5 by Samsung Electronics, has been sold more than 10,000 on the first day. Sold through SK Telecom and KT, the Gear S saw its blue color models run out on the first day and the white [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Corning Inc. plans to invest 900 billion won, or about US$835.6 million, to increase its production volume in South Korea. It will also invest another 10 billion won to establish a research and development center in Korea for the first time. Corning announced on November 4 that its CEO Wendell [...]