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[Exclusive] Chey open to SK hynix‘ non-memory chip business

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won on Thursday hinted its semiconductor business could expand into the non-memory semiconductor market in order to diversify profits and raise future competitiveness in th...

Feb 14, 2019
Technology
Korean chipmakers no longer ‘playing chicken’

Major chipmakers vow timing strategies to prevent oversupply

Feb 13, 2019
Technology
Samsung heir meets UAE crown prince

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of South Korea’s top conglomerate, Samsung Group, met recently in Abu Dhabi with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan to discu...

Feb 12, 2019
Technology
‘Rather than fancy AI, Dyson focuses on practical problem solving’

UK-based technology company Dyson spent over two years coming up with its latest lighting product, the Dyson Lightcycle Task. And this new development started from thinking about how a light contribu...

Feb 12, 2019
Technology
Samsung Display remains cautious over investments in QD OLED

Persistent rumors have been circulating over South Korea’s leading display panel manufacturer pursuing a new investment in large quantum dot organic light-emitting diode panels. Samsung Display, howe...

Feb 11, 2019
Technology
BlackRock becomes 3rd-largest shareholder of Samsung Electronics

BlackRock, the world’s biggest fund management company based in New York, has become the third-largest shareholder of South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics, according to the industry Friday. T...

Feb 8, 2019
Technology
Korea’s share of EV battery market shrinks amid Chinese expansion

Korean battery makers’ share of the global electric vehicle battery market shrank last year amid ongoing expansion by Chinese rivals, a report showed Friday. According to the report by SNE Research,...

Feb 8, 2019
Technology
LG adopts German 3D sensor for upcoming G8 ThinQ phone

LG Electronics announced Thursday its upcoming flagship smartphone G8 ThinQ model will adopt a three-dimensional sensor Time of Flight, known as ToF, to provide face identity authentication and a bet...

Feb 7, 2019
Technology
Govt. to ease rule on recharging credit at mobile payment platforms

The government plans to ease a rule on recharging credit at mobile payment platforms as it seeks to promote the financial technology sector, an official said Thursday. Currently, people in South Kor...

Feb 7, 2019
Technology
Samsung chief visits Xian seeking new memory strategy

Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, de facto chief of chip giant Samsung Electronics, spent the Lunar New Year holidays in China as part of efforts to seek new strategies in the company’s memory chip busines...

Feb 6, 2019
Technology
Netflix attributes popularity of ‘Kingdom’ to technological innovation

Without Netflix’s innovative technologies, period drama “Kingdom” might have been tough for foreign viewers to understand, as the series set in 17th century Korea features a wide range of historical ...

Feb 6, 2019
Technology
Naver's net down 17.4% in 2018 on increased costs

South Korea's top Internet portal operator Naver Corp. said Thursday that its profit dropped 17.4 percent in 2018 from a year earlier due to heavy outlays in new business sectors. Net profit reached...

Jan 31, 2019
Technology
Samsung’s chip windfall unlikely to last in 2019

Samsung raises around W59tr in operating profit in 2018 on chip boom, but memory demand and prices are forecast to remain sluggish in 2019 H1

Jan 31, 2019
Technology
SK Telecom’s T Map to help Grab drivers in Singapore navigate

SK Telecom’s navigation system T Map will run on vehicles of Singapore’s biggest car-sharing service provider Grab within the first quarter of the year, the South Korean mobile carrier said Wednesday...

Jan 30, 2019
Technology
Smart bands not very reliable, tests show

Recent tests conducted by the Korea Consumer Agency indicated that smart bands fell short on accuracy when it came to collecting data. Smart bands are digitized fitness trackers that collect health ...

Jan 29, 2019
Technology

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