[IFA 2017] LG unveils camera, sound-centric V30 smartphone

BERLIN -- Hoping to reaffirm its presence in the global smartphone world, South Korea‘s tech giant LG Electronics chose Berlin to unveil its newest flagship smartphone with enhanced multimedia experience.On Thursday, the Korean handset manufacturer came up with the newest flagship V30 smartphone focused on quality of entertainment with enhanced camera and audio features to be unveiled to around 700 tech maniacs and media officials from around the world, who are visiting the city to attend the IF

Aug. 31, 2017

Hyundai Robotics launched as holding firm for heavy industries group

Hyundai Robotics Co. was officially launched on Thursday as the holding company of the Hyundai Heavy Industries Group with the aim to diversify its products and exports markets.The company started operations at its new headquarters in Daegu, 302 kilometers southeast of Seoul, where it completed a smart factory in April that converges information, communication and technology with production. Hyundai Robotics, established in 1984 as a team under Hyundai Heavy Industries, is South Korea's top manu

Aug. 31, 2017

Korea tops ICT development in 2016: report

South Korea ranked No. 1 in the level of development in its information and communications technologies in 2016, the second year in a row that it topped the global ranking, a government report showed Thursday.According to the annual report by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the International Telecommunications Union said Asia's fourth-largest economy ranked first among 175 countries surveyed last year. (Yonhap)After losing its top spot to Denmark in 2015 for the first time since 2010, South Kor

Aug. 31, 2017

[IFA 2017] Samsung proposes ‘new normal’ lifestyle for global consumers

BERLIN -- Aiming to grab the spotlight among global tech giants, Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that its presentation theme at Europe’s largest trade show for home appliances will be of lifestyles with enhanced connectivity and convenience.Two days before IFA 2017 kicks off Friday, Samsung Electronics unveiled new flagship consumer electronic products and services for the second half of the year at a series of press conferences. Calling it the “new normal,” David Lowes, chief marketing offic

Aug. 31, 2017

[IFA 2017] LG to supply OLED TV for Bang & Olufsen

BERLIN -- LG Electronics announced Wednesday its partnership with Bang & Olufsen to supply the company’s organic light-emitting diode televisions to the Danish audio system maker. Under the partnership, LG will start supplying OLED TVs to B&O from September. The audio company will add its sound technologies to the TVs to maximize their sound combined with their OLED displays’ ultimate color representation. The Danish firm will present the LG OLED TV applied with B&O sound technologies at the upc

Aug. 30, 2017

Korea to further expand free Wifi zones

The government said Wednesday that it plans to provide more free wireless Internet access zones across the country in an effort to become a "Wifi mecca." According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, a panel comprised of some 25 officials from the government, academia and telecom industry will discuss ways to build more free WiFi zones, giving citizens better access to the Internet for their portable devices. (Yonhap)The ministry said it plans to add such zones in various public locations, inclu

Aug. 30, 2017

Internet banking users up 1.4% in Q2

The number of Internet and smartphone banking service users in South Korea rose 1.4 percent in the second quarter from three months earlier, central bank data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign that a growing number of people do their banking on their computers or smartphones without visiting bank branches.In the three months that ended June 30, the number of Internet and smartphone banking service users came to 127.05 million, compared with 125.32 million in the first quarter, according to th

Aug. 30, 2017

SNS users tired out from ads, marketing: poll

Company workers use about three social networking services on average, mostly to get and share information, but a majority of them feel exhausted by unwanted information and marketing that come with the services, a poll showed Wednesday.Hunet, a provider of career education, surveyed 821 people working for firms with questions about their use of SNS. Results showed that 69.4 percent are tired out from the services, mainly from having to see needless information (27.7 percent) or from excessive a

Aug. 30, 2017

30% of state-supported infertility treatment successful

About three out of 10 infertility treatments funded partly by the government have been successful, with the number of recipients getting support increasing every year, a report from the health ministry said Wednesday.The report from the Ministry of Health and Welfare to opposition party's Rep. Kim Seung-hee said the government provided fund assistance to 87,155 cases of infertility in 2016, an increase of 35.1 percent from five years ago. The success rate in 2016 was 29.5 percent, similar to 28.

Aug. 30, 2017

Closer look into Samsung’s smarter, bigger Note 8

Samsung Electronics has returned with the much-awaited Note brand complete with smarter S Pen stylus, a bigger display and a bolstered camera. The latest Galaxy Note 8, released to keep its rival iPhone 8 in check, features the largest-ever screen on a Note device that fits in one hand, the brand’s signature S Pen stylus and its new dual camera. “We appreciate the relentless passion of the Note community. They’ve been a constant inspiration to us and we designed the new Note for them,” Koh Dong-

Aug. 29, 2017

[Advertorial] Nexon helps aspiring game programmers with coding

Global game company Nexon is ramping up efforts to provide young students in South Korea who are aspiring to become programmers with more opportunities to learn how to code programs.As part of its social contribution program, Nexon has begun holding a coding competition for interested students, titled “NYPC.” Using the games it services, Nexon presents participants with relatively easy cases to solve, with open answers. Launched last year, the event aims give interested students a chance to expe

Aug. 29, 2017

Galaxy Note 8 boasts top display performances: DisplayMate

Samsung Display Co. said Tuesday the recently unveiled Galaxy Note 8, won top marks from US industry tracker DisplayMate, for its stunning performance and high-end features.The display producer for Samsung Electronics Co. said the phablet became the first smartphone to win "Excellent A+" grade from DisplayMate."The Galaxy Note 8 is the latest in a new generation of OLED Smartphones that have a Full Screen Display design like the Galaxy S8. It has many major and important state-of-the-art display

Aug. 29, 2017

Women scientists to meet in Seoul

The International Conference of Women Scientists and Engineers will open in Seoul this week with some 550 participants discussing the theme "shaping the future," organizers said Tuesday. (Yonhap)The BIEN 2017 conference will be held for three days starting Thursday. The name of the meeting takes its initials from bio, IT, environment/energy/earth and nano technologies, which are the areas dealt with by female scientists at the event, in addition to space and convergence technologies. The confere

Aug. 29, 2017

Samsung joins 20th Century Fox, Panasonic for HDR tech alliance

Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it agreed to join US 20th Century Fox and Japan-based Panasonic Corp. to expand the ecosystem for the High Dynamic Range 10 Plus technology.The South Korean tech giant said the companies agreed to establish an alliance for the HDR 10 Plus technology.The agreement is aimed at inducing more TV producers and movie productions to join the ecosystem for the new technology, Samsung said. (YonhapThe HDR technology allows screens to deliver vivid displays by optimizin

Aug. 28, 2017

Samsung to invest $7b in China chip business

Samsung Electronics will invest a total of $7 billion in its semiconductor business in China for the next three years, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday.The latest investment announcement in the China business is the biggest in five years since the Korean chipmaker established the plant in Xian in 2012. Samsung’s Xian facilities produce 3-D NAND flash memory chips whose demand is rapidly rising as mobile device manufacturers want chips with greater data storage space and faster proc

Aug. 28, 2017

[Monitor] Mobile display market overtakes TV displays

The global market for mobile phone displays is expected to overtake that of TVs screens for the first time this year due to changes in consumer demand, data by IHS Markit showed.Mobile panels market grew by an average 17 percent annually in the past seven years. Sales of TV screens declined about 8 percent per year during that same period.The rise in mobile phone displays is directly linked to the emergence of smartphones and the advances being made in ultra-high definition panels that have appe

Aug. 28, 2017

Foreign investors may take Korea’s mobile fee cut to ISD settlement

Foreign investors are making increasing inquiries about possible losses to their investment in South Korean telecom companies, three days before the carriers are to decide on whether to file a lawsuit against the government’s fee cut plan, industry sources said Monday. “Our investor relations team has received some inquiries about what would happen to the company’s profitability from several foreign shareholders,” said an official from one of the three mobile carriers here, who asked for anonymi

Aug. 28, 2017

World Veterinary Congress opens to discuss health of humans, animals, environment

Thousands of veterinarians gathered Monday in Incheon, west of Seoul, to discuss ways to enhance the health of humans, animals and the environment around the world.In a speech opening the 33rd World Veterinary Congress earlier in the day, South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said, "The congress will become an opportunity for mankind to strengthen measures to cope with livestock diseases that are affecting human health."Also attending the opening ceremony of the four-day congress were Agricult

Aug. 28, 2017

Over 80% of airborne bacteria identical in Seoul, Beijing: report

About 83 percent of airborne bacteria found in airborne pollutants like PM 2.5 in South Korea and China overlap, a study found Monday, suggesting that Korea’s fine dust particles may have originated from China. The findings were released by a team of researchers from Seoul National University‘s Graduate School of Public Health, and were from the analysis on bacterial DNA of fine dust concentrations in Seoul, Beijing and Nagasaki in Japan. South Korea is bordered by China to the west and Japan to

Aug. 28, 2017

LG's new smartphone to boast premium audio features

LG Electronics Inc. said Monday its flagship smartphone, the V30, will be equipped with premium audio-related features in addition to high-end camera functions.Through previous teasers, LG Electronics has been emphasizing camera-related features, hinting the 6-inch LG V30 will come with minimized bezels and a top-notch dual-lens camera with an F1.6 aperture.On Monday, the South Korean tech giant added the LG V30 will be equipped with the Hi-Fi Digital to Analog Converter for improved audio. LG E

Aug. 28, 2017