SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it has launched an alliance with global tech giants, including Microsoft Corp. and SAP, to support local startups in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) sectors. The alliance, named ESG Korea 2021, will offer information and communication technology-based solutions [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday the wireless carrier will likely work with Amazon.com Inc. in video streaming services as the country’s leading mobile carrier seeks to grow efforts to boost its non-mobile businesses. SK Telecom currently holds a major stake in local video streaming service operator [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has commercialized the world’s first 5G-based disinfection robot in a move to automate anti-infection efforts against COVID-19 in health care facilities. The telecom operator said it partnered with Yongin Severance Hospital to deploy the robot, which uses a [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it will create a new holding company for its non-mobile subsidiaries to accelerate growth in promising fields and tighten its grip on its chipmaking unit, SK hynix Inc. The telecom operator said that it will conduct a spinoff to [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it launched its augmented reality (AR) app in the United States as it seeks widespread adoption of the immersive technology. The mobile carrier said it released its Jump AR app, previously only available in South Korea and Hong Kong, [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., the country’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday that it had entered into a business agreement with the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDC) for the establishment of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based service designed to help with COVID-19 vaccination. Under this system, SK Telecom’s NUGU AI [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday it will develop a next-generation Korean language model powered by artificial intelligence (AI) by joining hands with the National Institute of Korean Language. SK Telecom said it will develop a Korean AI model that will be similar in performance [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Cast.era, a media technology joint venture between South Korea’s top wireless carrier SK Telecom Co. and U.S. media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., will launch a next-generation broadcast solution that boosts television content quality this year, the South Korean company said Friday. The telecom operator said Cast.era has completed [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – In a groupwide governance shakeup, SK Telecom Co., the telecom unit of SK Group, may morph into an intermediary holding company this year, analysts said Wednesday, as South Korea’s No. 3 conglomerate seeks to strengthen its grip on chipmaking affiliate SK hynix Inc. The telecom operator’s CEO Park Jung-ho [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Thursday it will revamp its governance structure this year in a way that boosts shareholder value. CEO Park Jung-ho told shareholders that the company will announce changes to its governance structure “soon,” admitting its share price has remained largely lackluster [...]