SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s key newswire, hosted a symposium Thursday, exploring policy recommendations for the new Lee Jae Myung administration amid rising global security uncertainties driven by the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry and growing protectionism. The annual Korean Peninsula Symposium was held at Hotel Shilla in central Seoul, co-hosted [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s key newswire, hosted a global forum with the U.N. refugee agency Thursday to address the issue of forced displacement in Africa, where more than 100 million people have lost homes due to war, violence or persecution. The Global Forum on Solutions for Forced Displacement [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Key news agencies from South Korea, China and Japan opened a joint photo exhibition on Tuesday at a history museum in Seoul to support the successful hosting of a series of global sports events in Northeast Asia. The joint exhibition at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History has been [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – POSCO Engineering & Construction Co. said Sunday it has won a 950 billion-won (US$832 million) deal to construct a coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh. Under the contract signed with Japanese trading firm Sumitomo Corp., the construction arm of steelmaker POSCO will build a 1,200 megawatt plant and related facilities [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile payment service has hit 10 trillion won (US$8.76 billion) in accumulated transaction volume in South Korea, the company said Sunday. Samsung Pay was launched at home in August 2015 and had 2 trillion won of transactions in its first year. It uses magnetic secure transmission [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s key newswire, on Wednesday launched the nation’s first chatbot service, delivering news updates sorted by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to Facebook users. In the new service offered in Korean, any Facebook user can send messages to Yonhap’s chatbot via Yonhap’s official Facebook page (fb.com/yonhap) [...]