SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Various technical regulations that were blocking the diversification of services among pay TV providers such as cable networks (SO) will be moderated. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced that it will be drafting an item on ways to restructure the current regulations. Various technical methods could [...]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA and NEW ORLEANS, LA, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – SCTE Cable-Tec Expo – Cisco today announced plans with SK Broadband to deploy a next-generation converged cable access platform (CCAP) across its national footprint. SK Broadband is a Tier 1 Internet broadband service provider in Korea with five million subscribers. With the DOCSIS [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – ICT service provider SK Networks Service threw down the gauntlet to the mobile game industry by picking mobile gaming as its new growth engine. Seo Bo-kook, CEO of SK Networks Service, said at a press conference announcing its new business plan, “We picked content services, especially mobile gaming, as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As cyber-attacks such as the breach of the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company’s systems by an unidentified hacker group increase, the South Korean government is stepping up its efforts to check emergency response plans in the private sector. According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, [...]
SEOUL, Dec.5 (Korea Bizwire) – The harmless-looking wireless access point has been the main target of the latest security attack. According to industry sources on December 4, the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack occurred to SK Broadband services on November 29 was a new type of security breach targeting the access point. At the time, the Internet service of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Like any other big cities in the world, parking is a serious problem in Seoul due to shortage of parking lots and drivers are struggling to find a spot for their cars even for just a short time. Sometimes, the drivers have no other options except for double parking [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – As KT loses in a Supreme Court case in protest of a lower court decision that endorsed 2012 sanctions by the Ministry of Defense against the telecom firm, it won’t be able to take part in government-commissioned biddings for the next six months. The Supreme Court justices said on October 24, “It is clear that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Broadband said on October 13 that it would unveil the world’s first 10-Gbps (gigabyte per second) Internet service in the upcoming Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union to be held on October 20 at Busan’s BEXCO Center, in partnership with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the National [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Broadband will begin its service of up-scaling full HD video contents into ultra HD images with its proprietary solution offering UHD experience with existing full HD videos for the first time in the industry. Korea’s second-largest broadband Internet service provider in terms of the number of subscribers plans to offer Hollywood [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Broadband plans to strengthen its content delivery network (CDN) business. The second largest broadband Internet provider in Korea in terms of the number of subscribers announced on July 16 that it will exclusively provide CDN service to Seoul Digital University which boasts the largest number of online students among online [...]