SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – An appeals court ruled in favor of the plaintiff SK Telecom in a lawsuit against the Fair Trade Commission over its alleged support to an IT services company within SK Group. The Seoul Appeals Court recently handed a sentence that it is illegal that the commission issued a corrective [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that SK Planet, a leading Korean Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company, is expanding its overseas presence in the Turkish market on the IBM Cloud. SK Planet’s mobile messenger application TicToc, built on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from SoftLayer, an IBM Company, has witnessed [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Communications announced that it recorded 5.6 billion won of business loss and 7.4 billion won of net loss, with 23.8 billion won of total sales revenue in the first quarter. While it keeps incurring losses, its volume of operating loss decreased 46 percent to 5.6 billion won over [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom said on May 1 that it has launched four types of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) solutions and “Wizturn,” a service development platform. BLE beacons are small, low-power Bluetooth transmitters that repeatedly broadcast their presence to other nearby Bluetooth devices. The beacons are suited to organizations [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Female job seekers in Korea seem to have had a tough time in the job market last year. In 2013, as the growth rate of employment of male workers has become nearly twice that of female workers at the top-ten conglomerates, the proportion of female employees has declined [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] Hard Times to Be a Gas Station Owner](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/12405694_m-800x533.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Hard Times to Be a Gas Station Owner")
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Only a decade ago, anyone who owns a gas station was considered one of local worthies. But today gas station operators are having a hard time even to stay in the black. Some of them go out of business or try hard to sell their properties before it’s too late. [...]
SANTA CLARA, California, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Expanding its leadership in the Smart Home ecosystem, Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced a collaboration with SK Broadband, who has launched B TV Smart, an IPTV set-top-box with Google services in the Korean market. B TV Smart is powered by Marvell’s ARMADA® 1500 Plus (88DE3108) system-on-chip (SoC) platform, [...]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA and ROSELLE, IL, Oct 17, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) - SK innovation, one of the world’s leading energy and petrochemical companies, and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, today announced an agreement to develop a new process technology for the production of 1,3 butadiene, a platform chemical used in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on September 12 that it has launched a new rate scheme “T LifePack” that allows smartphone users to watch videos up to 140 hours a month. At 9,000 won a month, T LifePack plan subscribers can use 62-gigabytes of data a month (about 2 gigabytes a [...]