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    Samsung C&T develops new cooling system for data centers

    Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Wednesday that it collaborated with the domestic cooling system tech company DataBean to develop and commercialize...

    Feb 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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    Shortt gets 400 mn views in one year in SE Asian market

    Shortt, a South Korean short form content company, announced on Wednesday that it has got a total of 400 million views of its campaigns for South Kor...

    Feb 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    SK Telecom to enter Australian pet clinics market in H1

    South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a commercial contract with ATX Medical Solutions, Australia's largest med...

    Feb 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Samsung, Princeton Univ. to team up for 6G R&D

    Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that its fore-front R&D center Samsung Research America (SRA) has joined Princeton University’...

    Feb 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Doosan to form $75 mn fund for new techs

    Doosan Investment, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of South Korea's Doosan Group, has formed a 100 billion won ($75 million) fund, focusing ...

    Feb 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    One Store attracts $50 mn investment from Digital Turbine

    South Korean homegrown app store One Store Co. has attracted a $50 million investment from the Nasdaq-listed US-based mobile platform company Digita...

    Feb 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    SK Telecom brings forward 6G era with low-latency tech

    South Korea’s information and communications technology (ICT) major SK Telecom Co. has developed a new technology jointly with US tech giant In...

    Feb 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    2 Min read

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    Naver's Wattpad lays off 30 employees again

    Naver Corp.'s subsidiary and North American original fiction platform, Wattpad, has once again carried out layoffs after a year. According to the web...

    Jan 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Taihan Cable sees strong US business in January

    South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Friday that it has surpassed a cumulative order in the US amount of $32 million (42.8 bill...

    Jan 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    KT to build submarine cable in Asia

    South Korea’s KT Corp. announced on Thursday that it plans to build a new submarine cable to cater to the burgeoning demand for cloud services,...

    Jan 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    LG Channels poised to take off in India as new cash cow

    LG Electronics Inc.'s transformation into a media and entertainment platform is gaining traction as its free web-based television streaming service i...

    Jan 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    3 Min read

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    Samsung ramps up on-device NPU chip R&D; LG Electronics joins race

    Samsung Electronics Co., in a rare move, has added 200 engineers to its system-on-chip design team at its research center in South Korea to develop n...

    Jan 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    3 Min read

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    Korea’s Hancom buys document software firm Clipsoft

    Hancom Inc., a homegrown office suite developer in South Korea, said on Friday that it has acquired local business-to-business (B2B) digital document...

    Jan 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    SK Telecom, Naver, AfreecaTV to introduce AI in sportscasting

    SK Telecom Co., Naver Corp., and AfreecaTV have joined forces to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the sports broadcasting field.S...

    Jan 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    LG to inject $700 million in startups in West Virginia

    CHARLESTON, WV – LG Electronics Inc. will form a fund with the State of West Virginia to inject $700 million over the next five years to foster...

    Jan 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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    Naver Whalebook supply volume triples in 2023

    South Korea's Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., announced on Friday that the distribution volume of Whalebook has tripled compare...

    Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Korea’s besieged mobile carriers grapple with OTT players’ rate hikes

    South Korea’s telecommunications companies, besieged by the onslaught of foreign over-the-top (OTT) players such as Netflix and YouTube, are gr...

    Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

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    KT opens Foreigner Center for non-English speakers

    South Korea’s KT Corp. announced on Tuesday that it opened the KT Foreigner Center for non-English speakers in Won-gok-dong, Ansan, Gyeonggi P...

    Dec 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Samsung Elec unveils new image sensors for robotics, XR

    Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Tuesday introduced new image sensors tailored for advanced content platforms ...

    Dec 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

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    SK Telecom, Thales jointly strengthen 5G security

    South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it collaborated with global data security company Thales for 5G security.According to the comp...

    Dec 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Korea’s 6G frequency bands picked as standard candidates

    Sixth-generation (6G) communication frequency bands proposed by South Korea have been adopted as global standard candidates by the industry's freque...

    Dec 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    2 Min read

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    New Samsung, LG laptops drive industry shift toward on-device AI

    Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are unveiling new artificial intelligence-powered laptops next month, joining an industry move to inc...

    Dec 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    3 Min read

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    Samsung to release Galaxy Book4 laptop series in January

    Samsung Electronics Co. will release its laptop lineup Galaxy Book4 series on Jan. 2, 2024, with a new intelligent processor for high performance and...

    Dec 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    LG Electronics launches AI-powered LG Gram laptop

    South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday its plans to launch the AI-powered LG Gram laptop, featuring Intel's next-gene...

    Dec 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Academics say no scientific proof for LK-99 as superconductor

    South Korean academics have concluded the material, dubbed “LK-99,” lacks scientific proof to be recognized as a room-temperature and amb...

    Dec 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    2 Min read

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    IT device recovery to power Korean parts makers in 2024

    Global sales of consumer information technology electronics such as smartphones, PCs and TVs are expected to rebound in 2024, fueling hopes of an ear...

    Dec 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    3 Min read

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    SK Telecom to launch telescope content service Starhug

    South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Friday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for providing the "Starhug" service, a remote...

    Dec 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Naver, PIF-backed JV join hands for Saudi Arabia’s smart cities

    South Korean online portal giant Naver Corp. is planning to accelerate Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation in partnership with a tech firm ba...

    Dec 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    1 Min read

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    Apple ordered to compensate Korean users for iPhone slowdown

    An appellate court of South Korea on Wednesday ordered Apple Inc. to pay 70,000 won ($53.3) each to seven Korean iPhone users for deliberately slowin...

    Dec 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)

    2 Min read