SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Fire Agency has announced the official launch of the “Smart CCTV Integration Platform” in three areas— the cities of Busan and Daejeon as well as Gangwon Province—starting this month. The platform integrates CCTV footage from local governments and related organizations with the 119 emergency control center’s system, allowing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Efforts are being intensified in South Korea to develop technology that can prevent accidents resulting from drivers mistakenly pressing the accelerator. According to automotive industry sources on January 14, the Korea Transportation Safety Authority (KOTSA) is conducting a technology demand survey until January 26, targeting universities, research institutes, companies, and stakeholders [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean office software company Hancom Inc. said Tuesday it plans to launch an artificial intelligence-based assistance software similar to Copilot by Microsoft Corp. next year. According to Hancom CEO Kim Yeon-su, the company aims to release a trial version of the program, tentatively named Hancom Assistant, in the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A unit of U.S. retail web giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to invest 7.85 trillion won (US$5.85 billion) in South Korea’s cloud computing infrastructure by 2027, company officials said Wednesday. The plan came as competition is intensifying among Amazon and other cloud computing providers in South Korea. Amazon launched its [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips, will build next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) chiplets for the computing startup Tenstorrent, the Canadian company has said. Tenstorrent has said it has selected Samsung’s Foundry Design Service team to manufacture its chiplets, which can be used for a wide [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, the largest web portal in South Korea, revamped its news service on Tuesday, including shutting down the comments section for suicide-related articles. Naver announced that as part of its efforts to foster a healthy online environment, it would exclude the comments and recommendation sticker services for articles recognized by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, the largest online portal in South Korea, had decided to discontinue the fact-check menu on its News Home, following the suspension of financial support for the nation’s unique fact-checking platform SNU FactCheck Center (factcheck.snu.ac.kr). According to the SNU FactCheck Center on Monday, Naver plans to terminate the fact-check menu [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics made an announcement on Monday about their new product, the LG Gram Fold. This is a unique laptop because it can fold and unfold, something no other Korean brand has introduced before. The LG Gram Fold is able to do this because it uses a special kind [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to build a 120 megawatt data center in the southeastern industrial city of Pohang by 2027, the industry ministry said Friday. The ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with Pohang city and North Gyeongsang Province and the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp., as well as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major telecom operator in South Korea, on Thursday unveiled a cloud streaming-based 3D experiential showroom. Utilizing the Unreal Engine 5 real-time 3D creation tool as its foundation, the showroom establishes a virtual space mirroring reality by integrating diverse clothing information such as fabric and color. Avatars [...]