SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 50 percent of South Korean app and game developers featured on Google Play are generating revenue from international markets. Google Korea hosted its Google for Korea 2023 event on Thursday at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul to showcase these accomplishments and share examples of Korean content successfully expanding [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp. announced on Tuesday the commencement of a navigation solution demonstration project, ‘Universal Mobility 2.0,’ aimed at assisting the movement of vulnerable pedestrians, including the visually impaired, in Singapore. Universal Mobility is a smart city project undertaken by Hyundai and Kia to provide a futuristic urban [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — At a pharmacy or a clinic, pill counting is a common routine that pharmacists or pharmacy technicians have to undergo to ensure that an accurate amount of medication is distributed and a patient gets an accurate dosage. And it is also part of inventory management that druggists have to [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The IFA tech trade show, which kicked off Friday in Berlin, has just seen a potentially formidable player in the foldable smartphone segment: HONOR’s Magic V2. The Chinese device maker said Friday it will launch its latest foldable smartphone overseas, less than two months after the phone’s exclusive release [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s sleep technology firms are introducing a range of customized solutions by harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze sleep patterns and provide personalized assessments. Sleep tracking software startup Asleep has created an AI model capable of analyzing sleep stages solely through breathing sounds. It can also identify sleep-related [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobility platforms are entering the middle-mile delivery sector, which involves business-to-business (B2B) logistics for transporting goods from factories to logistics warehouses or sales outlets via trucks. Kakao Mobility Corp. said Tuesday it will recruit pre-registered users through its application prior to the official launch of the Kakao [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has sent a formal letter to Google LLC on its decision to slap a fine of 42.1 billion won (US$31.4 million) on the U.S. tech giant for unfair business practices aimed at solidifying its dominance in the local mobile gaming app market. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The most affordable location for consumers to purchase Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartphones, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5, is in the devices’ home turf — South Korea. According to industry sources, the consumer benefit price starts at 547,000 won (US$409) when users trade in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 young smartphone users in their teens and 20s opted for an Android phone as their initial smartphone, but over half of them eventually transitioned to iPhone smartphones. According to the report by industry tracker Counterpoint Research, about 85 percent of Korean smartphone users under the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it had received more than 1 million preorders for its latest foldable phones in South Korea, a record high for the form factor. The South Korean tech giant said preorders amounted to 1.02 million units for the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip [...]