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) [...]
BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s key newswire service, and the People’s Daily, an official newspaper of China’s Communist Party, on Tuesday agreed to forge closer cooperation in covering news. The memorandum of understanding was signed in Beijing between Cho Bock-rae, managing director for content convergence of Yonhap News Agency, [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – At the IFA Global Press Conference organized by gfu and Messe Berlin, which took place at Malta Intercontinental Hotel from April 23 to 26, Chinese electronics makers stood out with new products. However, many of their offerings were just copycats of products made by Korean electronics giants like Samsung and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean conglomerates and financial service firms have almost doubled their presence in Hong Kong since the global financial debacle in 2008. However, according to Yonhap News Agency, European firms and financial companies are moving to leave the “Pearl of Asia” in droves, raising concerns among Korean companies [...]