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[Herald Interview] When startups are nipped in the bud

Startup Alliance chief Lim Jung-wook talks about how hostile regulatory environment hurts Korea’s startup ecosystem

[Photo News] Samsung unveils QLED TV experience zones

QLED TV ZONE -- The newly furbished QLED TV Zone at Samsung Digital Plaza in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, is displayed Sunday. Samsung Electronics has installed the QLED TV experience space at some 300 Samsung Digital Plaza locations nationwide to showcase the premium TVs’ superior display quality as well as unique features such as the “magic screen” and “magic cable.” (Samsung Electronics)

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KT ready for 5G showcase in Indonesia

South Korean mobile carrier KT said Friday the company has completed preparations for its showcase of fifth-generation mobile services at a stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the Asian Games. In partnership with the country’s leading telecom company Telkomsel, KT will run a 5G zone where visitors can experience the Korean mobile carrier’s pilot services via 5G-enabled tablets and virtual reality games that were introduced at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in February. KT engineers install c

Aug 18, 2018
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SKT adopts Xilinx’s neural processing unit to boost AI

SK Telecom, South Korea’s biggest mobile carrier, has deployed US chipmaker Xilinx’s neural processing units to accelerate its artificial intelligence processing speed and performance by fivefold, the two companies announced Thursday. Known as FPGAs or field-programmable gate arrays, the integrated circuits based on latest deep learning techniques are now deployed at the mobile carrier’s data center and are running its automatic speech-recognition application to accelerate AI speaker NUGU. SKT s

Aug 17, 2018
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LG CNS spins off in-house chatbot service venture Danbee

LG CNS, the information technology services unit of South Korea’s LG Group, said Thursday that it is spinning off its in-house venture Danbee, a developer of smart chatbot systems powered by artificial intelligence.Danbee was established as an in-house venture in January 2017 with just four employees. It was able to develop, test and perfect new chatbot technologies using LG CNS resources, while being given independent decision-making rights, LG said. (LG CNS)After a sufficient trial-and-error p

Aug 17, 2018
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5G competition heats up for ‘world first’ title

Samsung, LG vie for world’s first 5G phones in partnership with global mobile carriers

Aug 16, 2018
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S. Korean chipmakers take over 73% of global DRAM market in Q2

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, South Korea’s two-biggest memory chip makers, dominated the global DRAM market with the largest combined share in the second quarter of the year, showed data from market researcher DRAMeXchange on Tuesday. Samsung and SK hynix accounted for a combined 73.5 percent of the world’s DRAM market in the April-June period, recording the biggest share. Samsung’s share dropped slightly from 44.9 percent in the first quarter to 43.6 percent, while SK hynix’s expanded from

Aug 15, 2018
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S. Korean ICT firms eye the North’s W100tr telecommunications market

Experts say ICT technologies are essential to economic cooperation between two Koreas

Aug 15, 2018
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[Photo News] Sejong City to launch IoT-powered public bike system

IOT-POWERED BIKES -- A fleet of public bikes powered by internet of things technology are parked at a docking station in Sejong City on Monday. The GPS-equipped bikes, which will officially be available for use from Wednesday, can be unlocked and returned at any of the city’s 400 bike docking stations by using a smartphone app. (Yonhap)

Aug 14, 2018
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Samsung seeks to recover sales volume with Note 9

Despite massive upgrades and a Bluetooth pen, Samsung Electronics appears to have set lower-than-expected prices for the newest Galaxy Note 9 as part of its sales expansion strategy to recover from poor S9 sales early this year, according to industry sources on Sunday. The ninth edition of the Galaxy Note series with a 4,000-miliamphere-hour battery for all-day performance will hit the market on Aug. 24 globally. Preorders for the phones will begin Monday in South Korea. The price of the 128-gig

Aug 13, 2018
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[Health-tech Korea] Healing dry eye syndrome with optic nerve regeneration

Korean medtech startup Nu Eyne develops eye wearable aimed to heal DES via weak electric stimulation

Aug 13, 2018
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Tencent acquires stake in Bluehole, secures strategic partnership for global expansion

Bluehole, the South Korean game company behind the hit survival shooter game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,” said Friday that it had entered a strategic partnership with China’s Tencent Holdings to strengthen its footing in the global game market.Bluehole also said that Tencent had purchased a stake in Bluehole from Bluehole’s founding chairman, Chang Byung-gyu, as well as other early investors, confirming previous news reports that a deal was underway.Bluehole did not disclose the exact size o

Aug 11, 2018
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Global hit game ‘Fortnite’ arrives in Korea via PS4, Android devices

The globally popular survival shooting game “Fortnite: Battle Royale” officially arrived in South Korea on Friday. “Fortnite” is now available on PlayStation 4 consoles and Android smartphones, with preparations underway for the game’s launch at PC cafes nationwide. The game’s launch and future service plans were formally announced by the Korean unit of US-based Epic Games on Friday during a press conference held in Seoul.(Epic Games Korea)“Fortnite” for PS4 can now be downloaded for free via th

Aug 11, 2018
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S Pen gets smarter for Galaxy Note 9 phablet

Bluetooth-enabled pen can remotely operate frequently used apps

Aug 10, 2018
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Naver Webtoon forms ‘Studio N’ for webtoon-based film, drama production

Naver Webtoon, the digital comics platform operator under South Korean internet business giant Naver, on Thursday announced the launch of its new unit “Studio N,” which will take charge of translating popular webtoons into new films and drama series.Formed with 100 percent funding from Naver Webtoon, Studio N will work with media production companies to develop and release films and TV dramas based on the intellectual property of popular webtoons. Naver Webtoon CEO Kim Joon-Ku (Naver)The new sub

Aug 10, 2018
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