Ambient computing

Tech, Media & Telecom Microsoft's quantum computing bet sparks controversy, again

In 2021, Microsoft Corp. faced significant scientific embarrassment when a landmark research paper it had sponsored was retracted.Published in the U...

Artificial intelligence AI data center with up to 3 gigawatts of power envisioned for South Korea

An investor group is planning one of the world’s largest data centers for artificial intelligence in South Korea, a sign of red-hot AI de...

Food & Beverage CJ CheilJedang sells ambient fried rice in N.America

South Korea's CJ CheilJedang Corp. said on Thursday it will export and sell its ambient rice product, Bibigo Korean BBQ Fried Rice, to the North Ame...

Tech, Media & Telecom LG Uplus publishes white paper on 6G services

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday the release of its "6G White Paper: Non-Terrestrial Networks," which explores the future direction of...

Electronics Samsung unveils generative wallpaper of AI TVs

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Wednesday the launch of its Generative Wallpaper feature for the 2024 Neo QLED and QLED models, powered by Tizen OS....

Artificial intelligence Rebellions partners with Arm on AI computing chiplet Techs

Rebellions, South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) chip design startup, said on Tuesday that it partnered with the UK-based semiconductor design...

Real estate Korea's warehouses suffer oversupply, rising vacancies

Logistics centers in Seoul suburbs are suffering oversupply and rising vacancy rates, according to a report from South Korean commercial real estate...

Electronics Samsung Electronics tops in S.Korea's after-sales service

Samsung Electronics Service, a service subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co.,  announced on Tuesday that it topped all categories - home applia...

Electronics LG Display bets big on Tandem OLED in AI computing era

LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV panel maker, is raising the stakes in Tandem OLED technology to stay ah...

Automobiles Hyundai Mobis tests Level 4 self-driving

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest auto component maker, will start test driving a Level 4 autonomous driving vehicle in Incheon's S...

Batteries LG Energy, Qualcomm to develop battery management system

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, announced on Sunday that it will dev...

Corporate governance Kakao inspects SM Entertainment’s management   

Kakao Corp. has embarked on a special inspection of SM Entertainment Co.'s financial reporting for the first time since the South Korean internet gi...

Research & Development KAIST, MIT jointly open Quantum Winter School

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on Monday that it is partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Techn...

Tech, Media & Telecom Korean B2B cloud computing firm BusinessOn up for sale

BusinessOn Communication Co., a leading cloud computing firm listed on the junior bourse Kosdaq, is open to a sale of its controlling stake for arou...

Carbon neutrality Hyundai, Kia deploy CO2 emission monitor system for cooperative firms

South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. revealed on Friday their AI-integrated, blockchain-enabled Supplier CO2 Emission Monitoring System (SC...

Blockchain BC Card applies for patent for offline asset authentication via NFT

South Korea's BC Card on Sunday said it applied for a domestic patent for a non-fungible token (NFT) that can verify a user's asset details using bl...

Electronics LG Electronics, Yonsei Univ. develop talent for smart TV platforms

LG Electronics Inc. and South Korea’s Yonsei University are searching for talented human resources to build software platforms for smart TVs.T...

Robotics SK Telecom launches AI robot kit for monitoring fire, gas leaks

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. has released an "AI robot kit" that can be attached to a robot to monitor fire and gas leaks. The kit is designed in th...

Cloud computing NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

South Korea's NHN Cloud announced on Wednesday that it had become a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP), which is a partner program created...

Cloud computing Hancom goes global with SDK, SaaS products

South Korea’s homegrown office suite developer Hancom Inc. will seek to boost its brand awareness in the global B2B software market with softw...

Cloud computing Naver Cloud to partner with Singapore's StarHub

Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., signed a strategic alliance deal with Singapore's telecommunications company StarHub to provide...

Artificial intelligence LG Electronics speeds up development of intelligent AI solutions

LG Electronics Inc. on Sunday said it will build an ambient computing platform as selected by LG AI Research, a company think tank specializing in a...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Telecom applies mobile edge computing tech in US

SK Telecom Co. said on Thursday it had transmitted terrestrial broadcasting in the US capital of Washington D.C. using mobile edge computing (MEC) a...

Tech, Media & Telecom LG CNS hires new employees based on computer coding skills

LG CNS Co., the information technology service arm of LG Group, is hiring new employees based on computer coding skills regardless of the candidates...

Cloud computing Naver Cloud seeks win-win strategy with K-startups in overseas market

NEW YORK – The chief executive officer of Naver Cloud Park Won-ki said that if South Korean startups using the company’s cloud services ...

Cloud computing Hancom to focus on cloud computing and AI services

South Korea’s homegrown software giant Hangul and Computer Group, also known as Hancom Inc. Group, is slated to transform itself into a cloud ...

Automobiles Hyundai narrows Level 3 self-driving tech gap with Tesla to one year

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has narrowed its technology gap in Level 3 self-driving vehicles with Tesla Inc. to one year, mo...

Tech, Media & Telecom Experts criticize Seoul's quantum computer development efforts

The United States: 4158. South Korea: 50These figures refer to the number of qubits in a quantum computer that each country seeks to develop by 2026...

Korean chipmakers SK Hynix develops highest density DRAM-based memory system

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. said on Monday that it has developed its first double data rate 5 (DDR5) DRAM-based compute express link (CXL) mem...

Artificial intelligence KAIST says its computation engine outperforms Google's, IBM's

Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), a prestigious South Korean university, unveiled an artificial intelligence computation...