SEOUL, Sep. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – On December 25, 2044, Jeong Hyun-young, who have been married for 30 years, received a message on the phone, “You’ve got mail from your husband.” Wondering what it is, Ms. Jeong checks the mail and becomes speechless with a video message from her husband a day before their marriage. [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom will develop in-house the open-source and x86 server-based network switch. Once the network switch is developed by early next year and in place in the company’s data centers, it is expected to open a new “do-it-yourself” era for network equipment. According to industry sources on September 12, Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Launching a new initiative “It’s You” to secure more competent brains, SK Telecom is set to tap an increasingly popular tactic when it comes to a recruiting campaign: “We go to meet you in person.” Korea’s leading wireless carrier announced on September 10 that it will search for competent [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Out of 800 billion won of membership points provided by three mobile telecom service firms a year, as much as 500 billion won ended up disappearing without being used. According to Congressman Jun Byung-hun (New Politics Alliance for Democracy) who is a member of the Science, ICT, Future Planning, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – For the safety of kids, SK Telecom and KT teamed up with the education ministry to expand their joint kids’ safety service “U-Safety Notification Service.” The “U-Safety Notification Service” released in August, can locate the users’ whereabouts and alert their parents through text messages when the kids with the 3G-based devices with safety features [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Passengers at Incheon International Airport are expected to enjoy the self-service bag drop system before the end of 2014. The airport corporation announced on August 31 that it planned to introduce the system, designating SK Telecom as the technology provider. Passengers on Korean and Asiana Airlines’ flights will be the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A collective lawsuit was made against SK Telecom by 23 citizens, most of whom make a living by working as “replacement drivers,” or part time chauffeurs for intoxicated people usually at night, who suffered economic loss from the network service failure of the mobile carrier on March 20. The People’s Solidarity [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom has launched a new service “T Persona Premium” in partnership with the world’s leader in mobile software management area, Red Bend Software. T Persona Premium, an upgrade version of the T Persona Standard launched in October last year, allows customers to use their mobile phone in two distinct modes, business [...]
Seoul, Korea, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced today the launch of a year-long tour of T.um Mobile, a traveling ICT museum project, as part of a campaign to address Korea’s regionalized digital divide and educate the country at large about the telecommunications industry’s upcoming technologies. The project’s official launch will be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced that it will roll out the “G3 A,” its unique edition of LG Electronics-developed premium smartphone “G3,” on August 8. The SK telecom-launched new edition is designed to be more compact than the original G3 — from an original 5.5-inch display to 5.2-inch one — to be able [...]