Samsung, LG to boast enhanced connectivity at IFA

At this year’s IFA, Europe’s biggest home appliances trade show, two of South Korea’s tech giants, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, are set to showcase their latest premium products that maximize energy efficiency As the IFA celebrates its 99th anniversary this year, about 2,290 companies in the fields of IT, consumer appliances and telecommunication will take part from 50 countries. The five-day event, which kicks off in Berlin on Friday, will see 174 Korean companies t

Aug. 31, 2023

Corning starts producing bendable glass in Korea

US tech company Corning Inc. Chairman Wendell Weeks announced Thursday that the company is building the world’s first fully integrated supply chain to manufacture next-generation bendable glass technology in South Korea. Manufacturing of the latest product has already kicked off at its Asan plant in South Chungcheong Province. “Our latest innovation will enable new mobile device form factors and advanced automotive displays for more immersive driving experiences, making this a hub fo

Aug. 31, 2023

[KH explains] Chipmakers reach out to undergraduates to tackle talent shortage

Chipmakers around the world are competing fiercely not just to roll out more advanced chips faster than their rivals, but also to secure more tech talent as governments race to build up their chip industry as national security assets. South Korea, home to the world’s top two memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, is no exception. Amid their big push for global expansion, the tech giants are struggling to meet staffing needs for their billion-dollar facilities at home and abro

Aug. 30, 2023

KT appoints new CEO after monthslong leadership vacuum

South Korean telecommunications giant KT Corp. on Wednesday appointed a new chief following several months without a CEO. The company said its shareholders approved the appointment of Kim Young-shub, the former CEO of IT service provider LG CNS, as its new head at a shareholders meeting earlier in the day in Seoul. The agenda passed with the approval of more than 60 percent of the total voting shares. Upon his appointment at the meeting, KT’s new CEO told shareholders, “We’ll d

Aug. 30, 2023

LIG Nex1 participates in Korea-Saudi Arabia drone show

South Korean defense firm LIG Nex1 announced Wednesday that it participated in a three-day drone show held in Saudi Arabia this week, at the invitation of the Naif Arab University of Security Sciences. The show was co-hosted by the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport and the Korean Embassy in Saudi Arabia, at NAUSS in Riyadh, the country's capital. NAUSS, formed by a pan-Arabic academic coalition of 20 countries including the UAE, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen, is an intergov

Aug. 30, 2023

[Graphic News] Samsung keeps top spot in Q1 memory chip market

Samsung Electronics retained its top spot in the global memory chip market in the first quarter despite lackluster earnings amid the chip glut, a report showed. SK hynix, on the other hand, was pushed back to third place from No. 2 compared to a year earlier, due largely to the output cut that came before Samsung, according to the market tracker Omdia. Samsung Electronics kept the largest share of 42.8 percent in the DRAM market, unchanged from the previous quarter. Samsung’s DRAM revenu

Aug. 30, 2023

Kakao Pay available in major retail locations in Thailand

Kakao Pay, the online payment subsidiary of Kakao Corp, announced Tuesday it has expanded to Thailand, making the service available at major payment points from department stores and pharmacies to a taxi-hailing platform. Central Retail, one of Thailand's largest retail corporations, now supports Kakao Pay at over 3,000 of its locations. These include department stores like Central World and Central Embassy, drugstores such as Kiyoshi Matsumoto and retail outlets like Muji and Tops Club. St

Aug. 29, 2023

SKT aims to set global standard for quantum-safe communication

SK Telecom, South Korea's largest wireless carrier by membership, on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious goal of setting the global standard for quantum-safe communication, a more advanced security technology that protects the whole communication process from attacks by quantum computers. The company said it plans to share the progress of its ongoing development project during the Seoul meeting of the UN-affiliated ITU-T Study Group 17 that kicked off its weeklong program on Tuesday. Quantum-safe

Aug. 29, 2023

NFT conference to explore monetizing digital assets in Web3 era

NFT 2023 Seoul Conference is scheduled to take place on Friday at Coex in southern Seoul to explore the interplay between non-fungible tokens, digital assets such as art and the Web3 framework that enables new decentralized digital asset marketplaces. The event will be organized by The Korea Herald, the nation’s largest English daily, together with ArtToken, an NFT-based art marketplace, and Seoul-based Soongsil University. Other key partners include Crypto.com, Blockchain Today and Bloomi

Aug. 28, 2023

‘Samsung needs control tower’: compliance committee chief

Samsung Group is a "massive aircraft carrier" and so it needs a control tower for better efficiency and unity, the chief of the tech giant's compliance committee said in an interview with a local news outlet on Aug. 23. "A small sailing boat does not need a control tower, but Samsung is a giant aircraft carrier. Unless the company’s different divisions completely divide to stand on their own, the lack of a control tower can lead to problems in efficiency and unity,&rd

Aug. 27, 2023

[Photo News] Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 arrives in Japan

Campaign clips for Samsung Electronics’ latest Galaxy Z Flip5 are played on the digital signage boards in Sibuya, the busy shopping district in Tokyo, Sunday. Preorders started for the new foldable phones in Japan last Tuesday, with their official launch set for Sept. 1. (Samsung Electronics)

Aug. 27, 2023

[Photo News] World's first wireless OLED TV

LG Electronics on Sunday debuted the world’s first wireless OLED TV globally. The tech giant’s 97-inch LG Signature OLED M TV and its 83-inch and 77-inch variants will hit the European market following release in North America and South Korea. (LG Electronics)

Aug. 27, 2023

Naver's HyperClova X AI unrivaled in Hangeul

South Korean internet giant Naver on Thursday unveiled HyperClova X, an upgraded version of its hyperscale artificial intelligence model, which boasts greater Korean language skills than its US rivals, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. In response to the global generative AI craze brought about by ChatGPT late last year, the South Korean IT firm has chosen HyperClova X to be the backbone model of its AI-powered services and become its future growth engine. “Naver dreams of chan

Aug. 24, 2023

Samsung Food to debut at IFA

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it would be launching a new food platform application offering personalized recipes and diet plan services using artificial intelligence at this year’s IFA, set to be held in Berlin early next month. The new platform, Samsung Food, would integrate all the food-related functions and services Samsung has launched previously, such as Family Hub’s Smart Recipe, the company said. Using the app, the users can search for recipes of dishes around the world

Aug. 24, 2023

[Photo News] LG Chief in business trip

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo is briefed on quantum technology from Xanadu CEO Christian Weedbrook at the Canadian quantum computing company’s headquarters in Toronto, Tuesday. On his four-day trip to the US and Canada, the LG chief inspected the group’s business operations, including LG Chemical’s Innovation center in Boston and LG Electronics’ AI research center in Toronto, and visited a number of local institutes to discuss possible cooperation. (LG Corp.)

Aug. 24, 2023

This year's Merck Award winners announced

Merck Korea, the Korean unit of the German chemicals giant Merck, said Thursday that two Korean display specialists were named as the winners of its Merck Award this year during the International Meeting of Information Displays held at Bexco in Busan this week. Marking its 20th anniversary this year, the Merck Award recognizes scientists for their outstanding scientific contributions to display technology. This year, Jeong Jae-kyeong, a professor at Hanyang University, won the top honor, the Mer

Aug. 24, 2023

Finance expert Bang Moon-kyu tapped as new industry minister

President Yoon Suk Yeol tapped Bang Moon-kyu, the existing government policy coordination minister, as the new minister for trade, industry and energy, his office said Tuesday. Born in 1962, Bang, a finance expert, passed the civil service exam in 1984, before spending most of his career as a public servant in the finance ministry and in the field of budget planning. Before being appointed as the policy coordination minister last year, he served as the head of the state-run Export-Import Bank

Aug. 22, 2023

[KH Explains] Did social upheaval fuel the superconductor hype?

The outsized reaction to the LK-99 superconductor in South Korea could very much be due to people’s desperate need to escape reality. In the past few weeks, young Koreans online fantasized about a unified nation with dominant global power, all thanks to the homegrown invention of a room-temperature superconductor. These whimsical scenarios, spreading like wildfire on online communities and social media, portrayed a world where South Korea gets a seat at the UN Security Council, the won b

Aug. 22, 2023

Researchers find hope in fight against age-related muscle loss

Researchers in South Korea have developed the world’s first technology with the potential for treating sarcopenia, an age-related disorder with progressive and generalized loss of muscle mass and strength, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology said Tuesday. The research team led by Kim Min-seok, a biology professor at DGIST, turned to electrical stimulation as a solution to cope with sarcopenia. The scientists first developed an electrical stimulation screening platform that

Aug. 22, 2023

LG Electronics-made cosmetics products to debut next year

LG Electronics is considering launching cosmetics products in line with the release of a new model of its skin care device under the in-house home beauty brand Pra.L in the first half of next year, according to its recent semi-annual report on DART, the Financial Supervisory Service's electronic disclosure board. An LG Electronics official said Tuesday the company is in talks to collaborate with a local cosmetic manufacturer rather than producing the products itself. “We may go throug

Aug. 22, 2023