SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s culture ministry said Tuesday it will launch a metaverse version of the King Sejong Institute, a government-funded Korean language education brand, this year to help foreigners learn the language anytime and anywhere. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will operate the service jointly with [...]
SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will collaborate with Qualcomm and Google to build an ecosystem for extended reality (XR). Samsung announced the partnership at the Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco on Wednesday (local time), where it unveiled new Galaxy S flagship smartphones [...]
BUSAN, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean company has developed a new system that allows for the real-time monitoring of logistics facilities using virtual reality (VR) technology, the Busan city government said Thursday. Kuls, a logistics firm located in Busan, recently applied for a patent for its “VR-based logistics center monitoring technology and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Monday launched the first stage of Metaverse Seoul, which provides a variety of services. The city government said that it was the first major city around the world to establish a metaverse platform and launch a service in the public sector. The services offered [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean instant noodle maker Nongshim Co. is exploring ways to attract young consumers who are reducing their consumption of instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean. The company opened a Shin Ramyun cafeteria popup store in the hip district of Seongsudong in eastern Seoul on Monday. It brought the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry on Wednesday said it has virtually recreated lost villages in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that existed prior to the 1950-1953 Korean War through a metaverse platform. Some 400 villages were known to have existed in the DMZ, among which the ministry picked the largest ones [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that its ‘Metaverse Seoul’ was named as one of the Best Inventions of 2022 by the U.S. news magazine TIME. Metaverse Seoul was recognized as the only case of innovation among public inventions in the metaverse category. It is a metaverse platform established for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday unveiled an ultra-reality digital 3D map service that enables users to have a real-like experience of some locations without the need to visit. The new map uses ultra-reality digital twin technology to allow users to walk, run or freely move in a virtual [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Model houses using metaverse technology are emerging as a new trend in the South Korean construction industry, as part of efforts to reduce the cost needed to build and operate real model houses as well as to reach a wider customer base without physical limits. Lotte Engineering & Construction Co., [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s game developers are competing to promote their own metaverse platforms as Naver Corp.’s Zepeto dominating local metaverse market. NCSOFT Corp.’s Miniverse, up for release next month, is a platform where users can engage in a variety of online meetings in a 3D space through avatars. The company [...]