Professor Lee Kwang-hyung at KAIST is known in the university as an eccentric scientist. He puts his television upside down, ties his shoelaces in different colors and hangs picture frames at slanted angles.But Lee’s reputation, however, mostly comes from his achievements in incubating start-up business leaders. The companies that his students set up generate around 2.5 trillion won ($2.4 billion) in annual sales and employ 7,000 people. The nation’s largest game company Nexon, created by Kim Ju

Technology July 11, 2014

The CEO of the nation’s third-largest handset maker, Pantech, pleaded on Thursday for support from telecom carriers and its creditors in a bid to save the struggling company. “Pantech can be a viable company if mobile carriers agree to a debt swap and the company carries out its plan to normalize the management,” said Lee Jun-woo, CEO of Pantech, at a press conference at its headquarters. The press conference comes with the country’s three telecom giants ― SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus ― dragging

Industry July 10, 2014

Samsung Electronics’ quarterly operating profits are expected to fall below 8 trillion won ($7.9 billion) for the first time in two years. The company said in its earnings guidance Tuesday that it posted 7.2 trillion won of profit in the second quarter, a 24 percent drop from the 9.5 trillion won recorded a year ago. Its sales were at 52 trillion won, representing a 9.5 percent fall compared to the same period in 2013. Samsung Electronics tried to explain the profit decline, saying that a strong

Industry July 8, 2014

구글 글래스보다 30배 빠른 케이 글래스(K-Glass)가 내년 초에 상용화될 예정이다. 케이 글래스 연구팀을 지도한 유회준 카이스트 전기전자공학과 교수는 코리아헤럴드와의 인터뷰에서“올해 말 또는 내년 초 카이스트 졸업생들과 협력해서 소량으로 생산할 예정”이라고 말했다. 안드로이드 기반의 이 스마트 안경은 인터넷, 유튜브, 이메일과 사진 촬영 등 구글 글래스의 대부분의 기능을 지원하지만, 가장 큰 차이점은 케이 글래스는 증강현실 기능에 초점을 맞추고 있다. 증강현실은 현실세계에 3차원 가상물체를 겹쳐 보여주는 기술이다. “구글 글래스는 애초에 증강현실을 고려하지 않고 만든 스마트 안경이지만, 케이 글래스는 증강현실 구현을 위해서 만들어진 기기이다. 스마트 안경이 스마트폰을 대신하게 된다면 안경의 제한된 유저인터페이스로 인해 증강현실 기능이 중요해질 것”이라고 유 교수는 전했다. 현재 구글 글래스는 TI의 스마트폰용 AP를 사용하기 때문에 증강현실을 구현할 경우 화면이 끊기는 현상이

한국어판 July 8, 2014

British electronics manufacturer Dyson’s senior design engineer Matt Steel poses with the company’s new vacuum cleaner, the DC52, in Seoul on Thursday. (Dyson)British electronics manufacturer Dyson unveiled a filter-free vacuum cleaner at a press event in Seoul on Thursday. The company said its new machine, the DC52, has adopted a unique technology that does not require filter maintenance. “There is no filter maintenance throughout the machine’s lifetime and no loss of suction even after 10 year

Industry July 3, 2014

K-Glass, an electronic eyewear device developed by a team of South Korean researchers, is expected to be launched early next year, according to industry experts familiar with the matter. “We plan to commercialize K-Glass in a small quantity late this year or early next year,” said Yoo Hoi-jun, a professor at South Korea’s Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology University, in an interview with The Korea Herald.  KAIST introduces the K-Glass, embedded with augmented reality technology.

Industry July 2, 2014

Samsung Electronics’ 850 PRO solid state drive for personal computers. (Samsung Electronics)Samsung Electronics launched its consumer solid state drive powered by 3-D V-NAND 850 PROat the Samsung SSD Global Summit in Seoul on Tuesday. The company said it planned to launch the new SSD early this month in 53 countries including South Korea, the United States, China and Germany. This marks the first time Samsung has unveiled a consumer SSD powered by 3-D V-NAND following the launch of its enterpris

Industry July 1, 2014

Samsung Electronics and Google announced that Samsung’s KNOX technology, a set of mobile enterprise security solutions, will be integrated into the next version of the Android at Google’s developer conference, held in San Francisco on Friday. ‘‘With the move, KNOX, which has been used only with the Samsung Galaxy series, will be applied to other Android-based smartphones developed by LG Electronics, HTC and Lenovo down the road,’’ a company official said. Industry watchers said the tech giant wa

Industry June 27, 2014

The chief executive of LG Display has said the company would focus on panels for OLED TVs in the second half of this year, and it is expecting to expand its presence in the Chinese TV market. “OLED can be the next generation panel for TVs due to its high definition, curvedness and light weight,” LG Display CEO Han Sang-beom told reporters at the company’s plant in Paju on Wednesday. LG Display plans to produce 34,000 sheets per month for ultrahigh-definition OLED TVs in the second half of this y

Industry June 26, 2014