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KT’s big data shows shorter work hours benefit leisure industry

With legal restrictions now in place limiting work hours to 52 hours per week, the leisure industry is seeing increased sales as employees spend more time on recreational activities during weekdays a...

Oct 2, 2018
Technology
Korea to impose penalties on Facebook if local user data were breached

South Korea’s media regulator said it would impose penalties on Facebook if it finds that Korean users were among those whose personal data were compromised in the latest massive security breach affe...

Oct 2, 2018
Technology
LG, Robotis step up partnership to develop self-driving robots

LG Electronics will start developing autonomous driving modules for robots with its partner Robotis, expanding applications of robotic technologies and self-driving solutions, the company said Monday...

Oct 1, 2018
Technology
Private investment, international partnership feed budding Thai science school

RAYONG PROVINCE, Thailand -- Along a green lake in Wangchan Valley, students clad in purple-and-green uniforms stroll around a school campus surrounded by woods that stretch across the northern Rayon...

Sept 30, 2018
Technology
No more passports at Incheon Airport?

South Korea’s Incheon Airport has adopted an employee identification system using iris scanning technology, with aims to expand the biometrics ID system to all general airport users by as early as 20...

Sept 30, 2018
Technology
Line to launch 5 decentralized apps to push forward token economy

Line, the Japan-based mobile messenger under South Korean internet giant Naver, has announced plans to launch five new decentralized apps, or DApps, running on its proprietary blockchain network, Lin...

Sept 30, 2018
Technology
What comes next in Facebook’s major data breach

NEW YORK -- For users, Facebook’s revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next? For the owners of the affected accoun...

Sept 30, 2018
Technology
Samsung BioLogics postpones transfer of Bioepis shares to US Biogen

Samsung BioLogics will transfer Samsung Bioepis’ shares to US-based biotech firm Biogen on Oct. 30, completing a call option a month later than initially planned, it said in a regulatory filing on Fr...

Sept 28, 2018
Technology
Samsung, LG make top 3 in US customer satisfaction survey

South Korean home appliance makers LG and Samsung Electronics both ranked among the top three companies in a US survey on customer satisfaction, an annual report showed Friday. The annual report of ...

Sept 28, 2018
Technology
[News Focus] Will Samsung stop manufacturing Galaxy phones for China?

Word is spreading that Samsung Electronics might be planning to outsource production for some of its mid- and low-end Galaxy-series phones destined for the Chinese market, industry sources said Thurs...

Sept 27, 2018
Technology
4 in 10 YouTube users in Korea spend more than hour per day watching videos

Four out of 10 South Korean users of YouTube spend an hour or more watching videos on the platform on a daily basis, according to survey results recently released by local pollster Embrain. Of 1,000...

Sept 27, 2018
Technology
Raonsecure’s biometrics authentication solutions obtain FIDO2 certification

South Korean cybersecurity service provider Raonsecure said Thursday that its FIDO biometrics authentication solution has received FIDO2 certification from the FIDO Alliance, an organization that sta...

Sept 27, 2018
Technology
LG vice chief heads for Poland to visit EV battery plant

Kwon Young-soo, second in command of LG Group, headed for Poland to visit an electric vehicle battery plant operated by LG Chem, according to multiple sources Wednesday. The vice chairman arrived in...

Sept 26, 2018
Technology
Global pharma firms’ 2017 R&D investment in Korea up 5.9 percent: KRPIA

Global pharmaceutical companies operating in South Korea locally invested a combined 271 billion won ($242 million) in clinical research and development in 2017, marking a 5.9 percent increase in R&D...

Sept 20, 2018
Technology
Samsung in talks with Japan’s Nipro for medical device division sale

(Yonhap) Samsung Electronics is in talks with Japan’s Nipro to sell off its in-vitro diagnostic unit, as part of efforts to streamline its medical equipment business, according to the industry on Th...

Sept 20, 2018
Technology

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