SEOUL, Nov.26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom and Facebook Korea have been selected by their employees as the best workplaces in Korea. On November 25, Job Planet and Fortune Korea held a ceremony to present awards to the companies selected as the best places to work. The companies were selected through anonymous interviews of current [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Monday it will acquire the country’s biggest provider of cable channels and Internet TV as part of a push into the media platform business. SK Telecom will take over a 30 percent stake for 500 billion won (US$438.2 million) in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s three mobile carriers plan to start preorders for the latest iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus this week, industry sources said Sunday, a move that may cause a dent in sales of high-end models from local brands Samsung and LG. SK Telecom Co., KT Corp., and LG Uplus will begin preorders Monday, ahead of the official release slated for Friday at both online and offline [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. will work with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to provide educational robots to Costa Rica, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said under the US$2.4 million deal reached in Washington, SK Telecom will provide 1,500 robots [...]
Seoul, Korea, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced today that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Unicom to cooperate in strengthening their competitiveness in the telecommunications industry and promoting new growth businesses. The MOU signing ceremony took place at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel located in Cape Town, South [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a never-ending influx of high-end handsets armed with such features as DSLR-like cameras and wireless charging, Yi Nari says she is satisfied with her Galaxy A5, a low-cost smartphone made by Samsung Electronics Co. “The device has a fine selfie camera, so I chose the model over other [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – With the advance of information communication technology(ICT), boundaries between businesses are falling apart rapidly, and collaboration among different businesses is becoming a new norm. Telecommunication industry is no exception and they are stepping into the medical service field betting this will sustain their growth. According to industry watchers, SK Telecom and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s three mobile carriers are estimated to have posted an improved ratio of operating income to total revenue in the third quarter, industry sources said Sunday, as the firms reduced marketing expenditures. The combined sales posted by SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. are estimated [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom said Wednesday it has agreed to cooperate with Samsung Electro-Mechanics on a power-efficient network technology utilized for Internet of Things (IoT) products. Under the deal, SK Telecom and Samsung will develop the Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) technology, which allows long-range communication with less energy [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – As budget smartphones with metal enclosures like SK Telecom’s LUNA and Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy A series gain popularity, LG Electronics is expected to join the market of low-cost smartphones with a metal body. The company posted a photo on its Facebook page hinting that it would introduce a new [...]