SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has clinched top spot in Asia in global innovation rankings released on Monday by a United Nations agency, while ranking fifth globally. In the Global Innovation Index 2021 rankings of about 130 economies announced by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Korea beat Singapore, Japan and China [...]
SINGAPORE, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Singapore-based Global Schools Foundation has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Dwight School Seoul, one of South Korea’s top international schools, popular with expatriates and locals. Dwight School Seoul is the first International Baccalaureate (IB) World School in Seoul with authorisation in all three IB Programmes for students [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Google said Wednesday it offers around 12 trillion won (US$10.25 billion) in economic benefits for South Korean consumers annually through its services, highlighting its presence in the country amid growing scrutiny from local regulators and politicians over allegations of unfair business practices. During an online recorded event, the tech [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. said Wednesday it will launch its new smartphone, the iPhone 13, in South Korea next month as the U.S. tech giant aims to solidify its leadership in the premium segment. Apple on Tuesday (local time) unveiled four models of the iPhone 13 series — the 5.4-inch iPhone [...]
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Syntiant Corp., a turnkey deep learning technology company advancing AI processing at the edge, today announced that Seoul-based Tekro Inc. will serve as its sales agent in South Korea. The company also announced that it will be demonstrating its low-power Syntiant Core 1™ and Syntiant Core 2™ neural network [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — To help Indonesia’s quest for food self-sufficiency, South Korea will extend technology support in agricultural machinery, including the development of tractors tailored to the local environment. In an online seminar held on Thursday, the Indonesian Office of the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) unveiled plans to establish an [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Forget medalists: South Korean volleyball icon Kim Yeon-koung was the most impressive athlete from the country at the recently-concluded Tokyo Olympics, a poll showed Friday. In a Gallup Korea survey conducted from Tuesday to Thursday, Kim, who fell short of a bronze medal in Japan, received 63 percent support [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s personal computer (PC) market in the second quarter expanded slightly from a year earlier, a report showed Friday, on the back of rising demand for notebooks. Domestic PC shipments stood at 1.5 million units in the April-June period, up 3.1 percent from a year ago, according to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The birth rates of twins in South Korea has risen over the last 40 years. Prof. Heo Yoon-mi from Kookmin University conducted an analysis of birth rates of twins or triplets between 1981 and 2019, which showed that the birth rate went from five twins per 1,000 people in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean economy is facing heightened uncertainty as the recovery of domestic demand is likely to slow amid a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, a state-run think tank said Sunday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy is on a recovery track amid solid exports, but the toughest-ever virus curbs, in effect [...]