LG OLED TV REIGNS SUPREME -- South Korean tech giant LG Electronics’ organic light-emitting diode TV has recently won top prizes at two of the most prestigious awards events in the global TV industry — the Value Electronics TV Shootout in the U.S. and the Plus X Award in Europe. Tim Alessi (left), director of LG’s new product development, poses with Value Electronics chief Robert Zohn at the annual Value Electronics TV Shootout event held last week in the U.S. LG Electronics

Technology July 1, 2015

NURTURING STUDENT START-UP -- LG Group said Monday that it would work with Chungbuk National University to run entrepreneurship programs to incubate future start-ups. The conglomerate also opened the “Idea Factory,” where aspiring entrepreneurs can utilize equipment including 3-D printers to prototype at the university. LG

Technology June 30, 2015

SEJONG ― SK Group, the third-largest conglomerate in South Korea, opened a start-up incubator for agriculture in Sejong City, Tuesday, with a particular focus on using smart technology in farming.In line with the Korean government’s flagship creative economy policy, conglomerates have been collaborating with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning to set up innovation centers across the nation. The Sejong center is the 14th of its kind.SK Group has operated another center in Daejeon sin

Technology June 30, 2015

BRING CINEMA EXPERIENCE HOME — South Korea’s leading mobile carrier SK Telecom rolls out a new pico projector, UO Smart Beam 2 on Monday. The portable device featuring 80 lumens of brightness can display an image size of up to 110 inches from a distance of 3 meters. SKTBRING CINEMA EXPERIENCE HOME — South Korea’s leading mobile carrier SK Telecom rolls out a new pico projector, UO Smart Beam 2 on Monday. The portable device featuring 80 lumens of brightness can display an image size of up to 110

Technology June 29, 2015

WATCH VIDEO CONTENT ON SINGLE PLATFORM -- LG Uplus chief executive Lee Sang-chul (right) and singer BoA pose at a launch ceremony of the mobile carrier’s mobile video portal service running on the Long Term Evolution networks. LG Uplus subscribers can watch live TV shows, movies, videos on demand and user-created content on their smartphones via the portal.  LG Uplus

Technology June 29, 2015

　Boasting advanced camera technologies, LG Electronics’ G4 smartphone has been garnering positive market responses since its launch in April in South Korea.　One of those head-turning camera technologies is the F1.8 aperture lens, which the company says enables users to catch memorable moments in low light conditions.LG Electronics‘ G4 smartphone.　(LGE)　The lower aperture level means that the camera allows more light through and that users can snap photos in lower levels of light.　Theoretically,

Technology June 29, 2015

The world’s leading battery maker LG Chem said Sunday it has developed a hexagonal battery, which the firm said would give more leeway for device makers in designing smartwatches.The world’s first hexagonal battery boasting 25 percent more energy efficiency than a conventional rectangular battery can increase the battery life of a smart watch by up to 4 hours, according to the Seoul-based battery manufacturer.An LG Chem staffer poses with the firm‘s hexagonal battery. LG ChemThe battery business

Technology June 28, 2015

The Korean Standards Association, a public organization in charge of establishing industrial standardization, ranked social commerce website WeMakePrice as the top Korean social commerce platform in its annual KS-SQI survey, a service quality index, Thursday.  WeMakePrice CEO Park Eun-sangThe KS-SQI index survey was conducted with residents of five major cities, including Seoul, who use the services of the surveyed firms. WeMakePrice earned 67.2 points, beating its rivals Coupang, which received

Technology June 25, 2015

South Korea’s largest Web portal operator Naver launched a new online payment service Naver Pay on Thursday, which the company said would become a “game changer” in the domestic online payment industry.Similar to other online and mobile payment services already out in the market -- such as Kakao Pay run by Web portal and mobile messenger firm Daum Kakao -- users have to register data of their credit cards or bank accounts on Naver Pay once, and then they can pay for their purchases through a sim

Technology June 25, 2015

South Korea’s leading mobile carrier KT won an award at the 11th LTE World Summit, an annual conference for the Long-Term Evolution technology, Wednesday in Amsterdam, Netherlands.The mobile carrier earned the LTE Award for “Most Significant Development of a Commercial LTE Network,” which recognizes innovative LTE technologies of network operators.captionPark Jae-yoon (center), senior vice president of KT’s network technology unit, and KT officials celebrate winning the LTE Award during the 11th

Technology June 25, 2015

Samsung C&T dismissed as untrue reports that its co-CEOs planned to visit the Institutional Shareholder Services, an investment advisory service, to further explain about the legitimacy of its planned merger with Cheil Industries.A high-ranking Samsung C&T official was quoted by a Korean news outlet as saying, “The chief executives and top executives of C&T and Cheil Industries have no plan to visit the ISS.”It had been reported that Choi Chi-hoon and Kim Shin, co-CEOs of the construction and tr

Technology June 24, 2015

Ending years of dispute, LG Electronics and U.S. conservation groups agreed Tuesday to lower the height of the Korean tech giant’s planned North American headquarters in New Jersey.The original plan for LG’s headquarters in the U.S. state included a 143-foot-tall building, which conservationists argued would obstruct the views of the New Jersey Palisades, a series of cliffs stretching along the Hudson River. LG, the world’s second-largest TV-maker, said the building would consist of a five-story

Technology June 24, 2015

PREPPING FOR SUMMER -- Samsung Electronics service engineers install an outdoor unit of the firm’s Q9000 air conditioner at an apartment in Seoul on Wednesday. Samsung

Technology June 24, 2015

SONY SUMMER PROMOTION -- Sony Korea announced Tuesday a summer promotion through August in which the company will dole out gifts to buyers of the firm’s action camera lineups -- FDR-X1000V, HDR-AS200V and HDR-AZ1. The gifts during the event include extra batteries, SD cards and waterproof cases. Sony Korea

Technology June 23, 2015