SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom firm KT Corp. on Tuesday introduced its mobile data plan for 5G smartphones, hoping to attract customers with wide coverage and a range of content. KT, the nation’s second-largest mobile carrier, launched three 5G mobile with free international roaming data in South Korea and 185 countries. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday it will release V50 ThinQ, its first 5G smartphone with a detachable second screen, in South Korea on April 19 with a competitive price tag. V50 ThinQ’s 128 GB model will be priced at 1.2 million (US$1,054) in the domestic market, cheaper than Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — In an era where everyone can become a one-man creator, K-pop star auditions through mobile applications are now possible. The short-form video sharing application TikTok introduced on Thursday that it will launch “Tik-Tok Spotlight,” a musician scout program on April 5. TikTok, which was also honored as the world’s [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 6 out of 10 smartphone users are fine not having a television, computer, or books as long as they have a smartphone in their hands. Embrain, a market research company, conducted a survey on 1,000 people in South Korea between 19 and 59 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will release its first 5G smartphone in the first week of April in South Korea, which will be the world’s first mobile device with the next-generation network capability. The South Korean tech giant said Galaxy S10′s 5G model will go on sale on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — “We will overcome any temptation by praying for a successful digital detox”, is part of the pledge signed by members of a Catholic church in Cheongdam-dong, southern Seoul. As there is growing awareness of smartphone addiction as a social problem, the religious community is aggressively seeking to reduce the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S10 5G model is expected to be available in early April as the tech giant and South Korea’s mobile carriers are beefing up efforts to launch the world’s first 5G smartphone service, industry sources said Tuesday. South Korea had initially set a goal of beginning the world’s [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. narrowed its gap with Samsung Electronics Co. in the global smartphone market last year, data showed Sunday, with the smaller rival expected to beat the South Korean tech giant in 2019. According to the data compiled by industry tracker Strategy Analytics, Samsung Electronics took up [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. saw the market share of its smartphone shrink in both the South Korean and the North American markets in 2018, an industry report showed Sunday, as the tech firm is gearing up to release its new flagship smartphone, the G8 ThinQ. The South Korean tech firm [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The monthly data usage by smartphones surpassed 400,000 terabytes (TB) for the first time in January, led by increasing use of streaming services and other mobile apps, government data showed Thursday. The wireless data traffic reached 403,812 TB in January, up 1.5 percent from the previous month, according to [...]