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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Bae Doo-na shares portraying Korean identity in Hollywood's 'Rebel Moon'
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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[From the Scene] Monks, Buddhists hail return of remains of Buddhas
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Medical schools granted enrollment quota flexibility for next year
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Yoon offers first one-on-one meeting with opposition leader next week
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France rejects opening Paris flight routes to T'way Air, deals blow to Korean Air merger
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Chinese man behind drug scam targeting teens nabbed in Cambodia
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[Graphic News] French bulldog most popular breed in US, Maltese most popular in Korea
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Iran fires air defense batteries in provinces as sound of explosions heard near Isfahan
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YouTube becomes Korea’s top-used app for music as well
YouTube is South Korea’s top-used mobile app for not only streaming online videos, but also listening to music, according to new survey results recently released by the Korea Internet Corporations Association.The “Mobile Service User Behavior Survey” was jointly carried out by the internet business body and Research & Research. It asked 1,000 people between the ages of 15 and 60 about their mobile service usage patterns and app preferences.According to the survey, the top mobile app activities u
May 22, 2018
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Samsung to unveil future foundry tech to become world’s top 2
Samsung Electronics will be unveiling its new technologies for foundry processes at global forums, presenting the company’s roadmap aimed at becoming the global top two foundry business after Taiwan’s TSMC, it said on Monday. The South Korean memory giant will hold the Samsung Foundry Forum in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday, and other major cities for the next five months to announce its technological roadmap for chip customers and focus on expanding its presence in the global foundry marke
May 21, 2018
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Daejeon offers to partner with Adobe to bolster digital literacy
The Daejeon Metropolitan City Government offered to partner with US computer software company Adobe Systems, seeking to bolster the digital literacy of its citizens, officials said Sunday.Han Sun-hee, director-general of the city government’s science and economy bureau, suggested Adobe establish a digital literacy education center in Daejeon, in a meeting on May 14 with Adobe Systems Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen at the US company‘s headquarters in San Jose, California. Han Sun-hee (third fr
May 20, 2018
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Oracle Korea union to prolong strike indefinitely
Oracle Korea’s labor union, which began a three-day strike from Wednesday to protest what they claim are low wages and poor working conditions, announced Friday that they would continue to strike for an indefinite period until their demands are met. The decision to prolong the strike indefinitely was reached at a general meeting of the labor union on Thursday, according to local news reports. The labor union, which was formed in September 2017, began a walkout after it failed to reach an agreeme
May 18, 2018
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Samsung's next flagship to feature Bixby 2.0: AI head
Gray G. Lee, head of the AI Center under Samsung Research, said Thursday the next flagship smartphone will adopt an upgraded artificial intelligence platform, Bixby 2.0. Lee told The Korea Herald that the upcoming flagship smartphone model in the second half of the year would feature the advanced Bixby platform, after a press conference to announce Samsung’s vision for AI. Samsung Research AI Center Head Gray G. Lee (By Song Su-hyun /The Korea Herald)According to his remarks, Bixby 2.0 will be u
May 17, 2018
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Facebook Korea files suit challenging KCC’s W396m network slowdown fine
Facebook Korea said Thursday that it has filed an administrative suit against South Korea’s media regulator’s decision to fine the social networking giant for causing a network slowdown that inconvenienced local users.The social networking giant said it filed the suit against the Korea Communications Commission with the Seoul Administrative Court on May 13. It has also asked for a court order to freeze the execution of the penalty until a ruling is reached. The move comes after the KCC issued Fa
May 17, 2018
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Samsung speeding up schedule for new flagship smartphones
South Korean tech titan Samsung Electronics seems to be speeding up the schedule for new flagship smartphones slated for launch later this year and 2019, according to industry sources on Wednesday. Local part suppliers for Samsung’s upcoming flagship phones deem that the top Korean smartphone maker is preparing to unveil their flagship phones slightly earlier than previous years for various reasons, including low sales of the latest Galaxy S9 series, according to multiple sources. According to t
May 16, 2018
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Korea approves first-ever AI-based medical device
South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Wednesday that it has approved the first artificial intelligence-based medical device in the country. The newly approved device is the VUNOmed-BoneAge, an image diagnostics device that uses a deep learning engine to read an X-ray scan of a person’s left hand to instantaneously determine his or her bone age, or skeletal age.The device was developed by Vuno, a local medical artificial intelligence technology startup, in partnership with Asan Medi
May 16, 2018
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Nexon to release first R-rated mobile MMORPG ‘Kaiser’ next month
Nexon Korea announced Wednesday plans to release its first R-rated mobile role-playing game “Kaiser” next month. The game will preopen on June 4 and officially launch on June 7, according to the game publisher.“Kaiser” is a hardcore mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG, for users aged 18 and above. It was developed by development studio Pathfinder8 under the lead of producer Chae Ki-byung, the chief developer of the hit mobile game “Lineage 2.”Fastfinder8 Producer Cha
May 16, 2018
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Samsung releases red, gold Galaxy S9s in Korea
Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it plans to release red and gold editions of the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus smartphones in South Korea, providing more choices for consumers wanting to buy the flagship.Samsung said the Burgundy Red Galaxy S9 will hit shelves on May 25, with the Sunrise Gold version set to be released in early June. Both devices will come with a storage capacity of 64 gigabytes. Shown in the picture released by Samsung Electronics Co. on May 16, 2018, are the red and gold
May 16, 2018
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Korean newspapers demand law forcing portals to link stories to media websites
The Korean Association of Newspapers, South Korea’s flagship newspaper union, on Tuesday demanded the government enact new legislation mandating the country’s internet portal websites, including Naver, adopt an “outlink system” for news articles displayed on their platforms. The union urged the government and lawmakers to legally mandate all portal sites adopt the outlink system in order to break down their centralized control over the local online news distribution system. The demands come in
May 15, 2018
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[Tech Brunch] LG focuses on robot technologies to support humans
Tech Brunch breaks down how complex technologies work. -- Ed.To a question about what kinds of robots LG Electronics aims to build, Baek Seung-min, research fellow at the company’s Advanced Robotics Lab under the CTO Division, says, “Robots that understand and help people.”The country’s leading home appliance provider is on track to commercialize the first robot for daily lives at home in the second half of this year, and Baek highlights that the whole point of making these robots is to be suppo
May 15, 2018
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[Herald Interview] ‘Father of the internet’ says IoT both a ‘big opportunity and risk’
The Internet of Things, abbreviated as IoT, is discussed today as a core technology concept expected to usher in a new era of digital connectivity around the world.The IoT refers to billions of devices connected over the internet constantly collecting and sharing data, be it for an automobile or a household appliance. It’s a revolutionary concept in that objects can communicate with one another, rather than just with a human user, signaling a new level of digital intelligence.While the IoT is an
May 15, 2018
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Line Plus forms new JV ‘Unchain’ with blockchain platform Icon
Line Plus, the South Korean subsidiary of Naver-owned Line Corp., on Tuesday announced the launch of Unchain, a joint venture with global integrated blockchain network platform Icon.The company expects Unchain to work in tandem with Unblock, another blockchain technology business unit established by Line Plus last month, to build various decentralized apps running on a blockchain network. Unchain CEO Lee hong-kyu (Line Plus)According to the company, Unchain will work with Icon’s blockchain netwo
May 15, 2018
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YouTube emerges as top app among Korean users
YouTube was the app used for the longest periods of time by South Korean users of all ages last month, data showed Tuesday.According to Wise App’s data on the app usage of Koreans in different age groups during the month of April, Korean teens spent some 7.6 billion minutes on the video platform during the cited period.Those in their 20s spent 5.3 billion minutes on the platform. The figures for people in their 30s and 40s were 4.2 billion minutes and 3.8 billion minutes, respectively. In total,
May 15, 2018
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Kakao Games applies for IPO on Kosdaq
Kakao Games, South Korea‘s online and mobile game software developer and publisher, has applied for a preliminary screening for an initial public offering on the second-tier Kosdaq, according to the Korea Exchange Monday. If the game arm of internet giant Kakao passes the screening process by the market operator KRX, it is projected to go public in the second half of 2018. Korea Investment & Securities is the sole underwriter for the IPO. The company’s value is estimated at 1.5 trillion won ($1.
May 14, 2018
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LG launches AI-equipped robot vacuum cleaner
South Korea’s LG Electronics on Monday introduced its latest robot vacuum cleaner that is “smarter and stronger” than predecessors, with an improved artificial intelligence platform with 3-D sensors.The newly launched LG Cordzero R9 ThinQ features LG’s AI platform Deep ThinQ whose navigation capabilities are reinforced with 3-D Dual Eye sensors. It is the first time the company equipped the AI platform to its robot cleaners for commercialization. Models showcase LG's newest robot vacuum cleaner
May 14, 2018
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SK Telecom develops tech to boost 5G speeds
SK Telecom said Monday it has completed development of packet core for the fifth-generation network. The packet core can be likened to toll gates on expressways, which funnels voice and data traffic from smartphones and other mobile devices to the internet. In cooperation with Samsung Electronics, SKT developed 1-terabit-class packet processing technology in November, which raised the packet traffic by tenfold, according to the firm. (Yonhap)The upcoming packet core will not only connect to the
May 14, 2018
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Vision AI to help find missing children
One of the biggest nightmares for a parent is losing their child in a crowded shopping mall. When a child goes missing, security guards typically go around on foot looking for the child, while mall employees sit with parents to shift through hours of video surveillance footage. Such procedures -- often slow yet time-sensitive -- can now be significantly expedited when using an advanced facial identification artificial intelligence program, claims SK Holdings C&C, the information technology solut
May 14, 2018
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Samsung vs. Apple retrial to shine light on value of design in smartphone
The retrial for the 7-year-old design patent suit between Samsung and Apple will commence Monday in California, local time. The final ruling from this retrial is set to draw a milestone on how much value a component design holds in an innovative product. The legal dispute started in 2011 when Apple sued Samsung. The South Korean tech giant countersued Apple in the same year. But in 2012, Samsung lost the case and was ordered to pay more than $1 billion to Apple for infringing on three of the US
May 14, 2018