SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Domestic tech companies and automobile manufacturers are either releasing new systems or widening access to previously exclusive technology, with the race to establish control over the nascent “connected car” market heating up. Also referred to as futuristic vehicle information service or infotainment service, these systems entail the application [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom has unveiled an air dome ‘igloo’ at Seoul’s City Hall ahead of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, bringing snow drifts and snowball fights to the heart of the South Korean capital. Packed with the latest IT technology including 5g networks and virtual reality, the major telecom provider’s entertainment-packed venue [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — ICT Minister Yoo Young-min met with the heads of the country’s main mobile carriers Friday, asking for a joint effort to swiftly set up fifth-generation network technology. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Inc. — have plans [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The business district surrounding Gwanghwamun Station, ground zero for 2017′s massive candlelight vigils that played a major role in impeaching former president Park Geun-hye, was found to have profited immensely from the protests. On January 3, SK Telecom cited the findings of its in-house research institute Geovision and revealed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government and the nation’s leading telecom company, SK Telecom, are having trouble seeing eye-to-eye on the mandate to reduce the cost of phone bills. On November 8, the two sides concluded negotiations over wholesale prices of mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) – low-cost mobile service providers. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Friday it has decided to buy an additional stake in its sister company, SK Telink Co., in a bid to expand cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence and the Internet-of-Things. Under the plan, SK Telecom, which holds a 85.86 percent stake in the sister [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Telecom Co. on Thursday demonstrated the communication between fourth-generation and fifth-generation networks for the first time in the industry, the companies said. The South Korean tech giant and the country’s No. 1 mobile carrier said they successfully made communications between the long-term evolution (LTE) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Thursday it successfully tested its self-driving automobile on the highway, taking a step closer toward the development of a full autonomous vehicle. South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier said its self-driving automobile ran 26 kilometers earlier in the day with an average speed of 47 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced that it would be hosting a general meeting at its Seoul headquarters on September 7 to present its latest product, the AI-integrated navigation system T Map x NUGU. The pre-NUGU supported T Map had been capable of processing one-word commands, but after being integrated with NUGU, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean companies are joining Action For Road Safety, a global campaign to raise awareness and curb the staggering number of car accidents occurring across the planet. With over 3,500 people succumbing to car accidents ever day around the world, road accidents have become one of the major causes [...]