augmented reality

Corporate strategy Hyundai Motor cuts 2030 sales goals as EV chasm likely protracted

South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has slashed its long-term vehicle sales targets by 6% as it prepares for aggressive marketing by Chines...

Artificial intelligence Naver launches Saudi digital twin project for smart cities

South Korean internet giant Naver Corp. and the Saudi Arabian government have started a five-year project to build digital twin platforms for Riyadh...

Metaverse UAE, Korea’s Naver Z join hands for virtual reality tech

South Korea’s Naver Z Corp., the operator of virtual world platform Zepeto, said Monday it will join forces with the United Arab Emirates&rsqu...

Electronics Samsung, LG accelerate push into virtual reality displays

South Korea’s two leading display makers Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. are in the early stages of developing screens for extended, or...

Shipping & Shipbuilding A ship with AI engineers, deckhands?: HD KSOE makes it a reality

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now on everyone’s lips, and the shipping and shipbuilding industries are no exception to this global phenome...

Tech, Media & Telecom Samsung, LG, Sony vie for mixed-reality OLED display market

Samsung Display Co., LG Display Co. and Sony Corp. — the world’s three leading display panel makers — are ratcheting up efforts to...

Electronics Samsung Display buys US OLED microdisplay maker for $218 mn

South Korea's Samsung Display has bought American OLED microdisplay maker eMagin for $218 million (290 billion won).eMagin on Wednesday said Samsung...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Telecom develops quantum cryptography-based VPN

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Wednesday that has completed the development of quantum key distribution (QKD) technology-based virtual pr...

Tech, Media & Telecom S.Korea's extended reality sector forms industry convergence alliance

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a convergence alliance of the domestic exte...

Future mobility Mobile Living Space: Hyundai’s new future mobility concept

A self-driving vehicle taking a passenger home and then docking into the building so that they can enter the house without being exposed to the outs...

Tech, Media & Telecom Samsung Display to build Micro OLED line for VR, AR devices

Samsung Display Co., South Korea’s largest display maker, is building a production facility for Micro OLEDs, a next-generation display technol...

Blockchain Blockchain co. Reality Reflection's board to discuss mangement reshuffle

The South Korean blockchain ecosystem is facing a string of management disputes, hit by worsening conditions of the global cryptocurrency market.&nb...

Tech, Media & Telecom Zuckerberg meets with Samsung executives over Meta Quest Pro

SILICON VALLEY – Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc., has met with senior officials of Samsung Electronics C...

Electronics LG takes Paris Baguette into the future with transparent OLED screens

PANGYO, Gyeonggi Province – In Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report, Tom Cruise gets all the information he needs through...

Korean stock market LG Innotek shares at new highs, tracking Apple's rise

Shares in LG Innotek Co., a major camera module supplier for Apple iPhones, climbed to a record high on Monday, in stark contrast to the flat wider ...

War in Ukraine Hyundai’s auto exports to Russia cut by half in February, hit by war

Hyundai Motor Co.'s car exports to Russia have dwindled by nearly half in the latest indication that global automakers are feeling the pinch due to ...

Batteries LG Energy faces reality check as its stock turns a market laggard

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. was touted as a market darling even before its Kospi debut last month, reflecting the investor fr...

Games Values from games should be widely used in reality, says CCP Games CEO

The play-to-earn (P2E) model is not a new concept in the gaming industry and will be more important in the long term, global online gaming company C...

Metaverse Medical 3D tech startup Anymedi eyes 2022 Kosdaq IPO

Anymedi Solution Co., South Korea's medical metaverse startup, has applied for a preliminary review of its initial public offering on the junior Kos...

Music & Entertainment Squid Game: Bloody battle for survival reflects reality – director

Netflix original South Korean drama “Squid Game” is making history again for K-content, topping the platform’s global chart as the...

Startups [Focus] Korean unicorns face reality check from US startups poised for IPOs

With a number of high-profile US startups in line for initial public offerings, investors in South Korean startups may be looking to Wall Street for c...