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Jimin of BTS, actor Song Da-eun suspected to be dating, again
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What's next for the government's push in quota hike?
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Trump may like to 'solve' N. Korean nuclear problem if reelected: ex-official
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Woman falls to death from acquaintance's home after exhibiting ‘unexplained' behaviors
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N. Korea slams planned S. Korea-US military drills, warns of 'catastrophic aftermath'
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‘Malice should not undermine the system, social order,’ says Hybe's Bang
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N. Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: JCS
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[Robert J. Fouser] Social attitudes toward language proficiency
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[Graphic News] How much do Korean adults read?
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N. Korea says it test-fired tactical ballistic missile with new guidance technology
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[Photo News] LG unveils new smartphone at MWC
MWC DEBUT -- Models showcase LG Electronics’ premium smartphone V30S ThinQ enhanced with artificial intelligence-based camera functions in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, ahead of the opening of the Mobile World Congress 2018. (LG Electronics)
Feb. 25, 2018
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Samsung diversifies board as Lee Jae-yong prepares for return
Samsung Electronics brought on a foreign executive and female board member Friday, in its first meeting of the board since Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was released from jail on Feb. 5.At the meeting held at the company‘s Suwon headquarters Friday, the board agreed to name Jeong Kim, chairman at Kiswe Mobile, Kim Sun-wook, former president of Ewha Womans University, and Park Byung-gook, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Seoul National University, as independent directors of the
Feb. 23, 2018
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KMPC aims to build infrastructure for gene function analysis
The Korea Mouse Phenotype Consortium is seeing the fruits of its efforts to discover and interpret human gene functions. The KMPC helped a breakthrough in the field of genetics as part of the International Mouse Phenotype Consortium, which published its research on “Nature Genetics” in June 2017. The study revealed previously unknown functions of 3,328 human genes that traditional genetic testing could not identify. Professor Seong Je-kyung from Seoul National University, who is the director of
Feb. 22, 2018
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Aruba to push growth in 2018 through ‘big deals’
HPE Aruba is planning to pursue aggressive market share growth in Korea in 2018 by focusing its energies on landing big enterprise deals, according to the company‘s country manager for South Korea on Thursday.“I believe that Aruba is the only vendor in the networking field that can compete against Cisco for big deals,” said Charles Kang, country manager for Korea at a press conference Thursday in Seoul.HPE Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, is a leading provider of next-generation netw
Feb. 22, 2018
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Samsung to showcase Galaxy S9 using augmented reality: sources
Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its new Galaxy S9 smartphone using augmented reality technology at its launch event next week, industry sources said Thursday. Samsung is set to take the wraps off the Galaxy S9 smartphone in Barcelona at 6 p.m. Sunday on the eve of the opening of the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest gathering for the mobile communications industry.During the event, the South Korean tech giant will allow attendees to visualize the new smartphone with Unpacked 2018, a
Feb. 22, 2018
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Naver investing heavily in marrying search and AI, but it's a rocky relationship
Korea‘s largest search engine platform Naver is focusing its energies in 2018 on marrying its core business of search with the customizing capabilities of artificial intelligence, but there are many hurdles ahead, according to the company’s chief executive Wednesday.At the annual Naver Connect 2018 conference, where Naver reaches out to creators and small business owners who operate on their platforms, Naver Chief Executive Han Seong-sook told reporters that the largest change to the company thi
Feb. 21, 2018
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SKT upgrades IoT connectivity with LTE Cat.M1
SK Telecom said Wednesday that it is expanding its Internet of Things hybrid connectivity with the addition of a new nationwide network called Long-term Evolution Cat.M1, to be commercialized starting in April. An image of SK Telecom's booth at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona starting Feb. 26. (SK Telecom)The new network will supplement the existing LoRa and LTE Cat.1 networks, handling mid-tier data between the small data handled by the LoRa network and the larger data connected
Feb. 21, 2018
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Samsung chases after TSMC with new 7-nanometer foundry plant
The world’s top memory chip provider Samsung Electronics is set to break ground this week for a new foundry plant equipped with cutting-edge process technologies in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, in a bid to catch up with Taiwan’s foundry business TMSC. According to Samsung on Wednesday, the company is scheduled to hold a ceremony with around 100 local residents in Hwaseong on Friday to mark the ground-breaking of the new plant. “The new plant is so far planned to be used largely for foundry produ
Feb. 21, 2018
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LG Uplus applies drones to city’s emergency monitoring system
LG Uplus said Tuesday the company had established a drone-based video system to monitor emergency situations in the Secho district in southern Seoul. The latest establishment tells the company has started to apply drones to social infrastructure that improves public safety, the mobile carrier said. A camera-equipped drone will record at emergency sites that are hard for rescue teams to approach and send the footage in real time to smartphones, PCs and internet protocol TVs via the company’s Long
Feb. 20, 2018
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Are AR games still relevant?
Despite continuing developments in augmented reality technologies, AR games -- the most common way consumers have experienced augmented reality -- have gone stagnant following the explosive popularity of Niantic’s “Pokemon Go” last year. Models test out virtual reality gaming systems at VRIGHT, a virtual reality theme park from KT and GS Retail set to open March 1. (KT)According to a recent survey from digital research firm DMC Media, just 6.4 percent of respondents said that they had installed
Feb. 20, 2018
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Automated stores with no human cashiers on the rise
Unmanned Stores without cashiers are on the rise, industry sources said Monday, amid local retailers‘ efforts to find a breakthrough in the saturated market.Local software firm Danal Co., which operates coffee franchise dal.komm coffee, said it recently opened the country’s first cashier-less coffee shop at the country‘s main gateway, Incheon International Airport.The coffee shop, named Beat, is located at the newly opened second terminal and is activated by robots, the company said.The store is
Feb. 19, 2018
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KT, KIST succeed in one-to-many quantum encrypted communication
KT, KIST succeed in one-to-many quantum encrypted communicationTelecom company KT and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology said Monday that they had succeeded in sending one-to-many quantum encrypted communication on KT‘s commercial network. KT employees test the one-to-many quantum encryption network at the company’s research lab in Seocho-gu, Seoul. (KT)The test was the first time that the company succeeded in one-to-many transmissions using quantum encryption. Last year, KT and KIST
Feb. 19, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Relax, AI can’t take your job ... yet: BCG senior advisor
Artificial intelligence is growing smarter by the second, and soon it will be able to outsmart us and take our jobs -- or at least many fear it will.But this sentiment is largely premature, as AI in its current state is “not the beginnings of general intelligence,” Philip Evans, a senior adviser to the Boston Consulting Group, told The Korea Herald. Philip Evans, senior advisor to the BCG (BCG)“There is a widespread perception that AI is converging on human intelligence, that there is a process
Feb. 19, 2018
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Telecom companies to show off 5G at MWC
Korean telecom carriers are preparing to show off their latest 5G-related advancements at the Mobile World Congress as Korea races towards commercializing the ultra-fast network technology.Although 5G, or fifth-generation networks, is best-known for its potential for lightning speeds and low latency, the technology also allows for real-time interchanges of much larger packets of data than current 4G networks -- opening up new possibilities in the popularization of services such as self-driving c
Feb. 18, 2018
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[Monitor] LBS market to surpass W1tr
The market for location based information services has been expanding rapidly with the size this year expected to surge 25 percent on-year to reach 1.2 trillion won ($1.1 billion), data by the Korea Internet and Security Agency showed.The data was based on a survey of 893 LBS businesses operating in the country as of August to October last year.For the market as of 2016, 296.1 billion won came from marketing and commerce-related services, followed by 114.3 billion won from living and entertainme
Feb. 18, 2018
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[PyeongChang 2018] From cleaner bots to robotic fish, South Korea’s robots impress Olympic visitors
PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- Typically, world-class athletes make up the core of any Olympic Games. At PyeongChang, however, an unlikely entity has emerged as a new star: high-tech robots roaming the premises of the Olympic venues. From a self-navigating cleaner bot vaguely resembling Star Wars’ R2-D2 to autonomous drink-serving robots and robotic fish swimming inside water tanks, South Korea’s service robots have been capturing the attention of Olympic guests from around the world.Korea has
Feb. 18, 2018
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Nokia likely to stage smartphone comeback: report
While growth of Samsung Electronics and Apple in the global smartphone market is expected to slow this year, Nokia is being forecast to resurface as a global smartphone brand, according to an analysis by US market researcher on Wednesday. Trendforce said in a report that Nokia, a Finnish firm once the world’s largest provider of cellular phones, is seeing a clear future growth this year. Nokia’s partnership with HMD and FIH Mobile that started in 2017, recorded a production volume of 11.5 millio
Feb. 14, 2018
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[Herald Interview] We are moving from IT era to data era: Alibaba exec
The next evolution in the way companies do business will be represented by a movement from existing IT solutions to data and cloud-based solutions, according to an Alibaba executive.“In the next 20 years, the era will be changing from IT to data technology,” said Leo Liu, general manager for Alibaba Cloud for Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Korea, in an interview with The Korea Herald. According to Liu, the competitiveness of companies in the future will depend on how companies can use new technolo
Feb. 14, 2018
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[PyeongChang 2018] Hard to follow cross-country skiing? 5G is here to help
PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- On Sunday, thousands of spectators anxiously waited in the cold at the Winter Olympics men’s 30-kilometer cross-country skiing skiathlon finals to witness their favorite athletes in action as they vied for gold.Throughout the endurance race lasting over an hour, the audience at the scene had no choice but to watch the main big screen to see where and what the athletes were doing. And more, the cameras focused only on those in the lead, so if your country’s athlet
Feb. 14, 2018
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[Video] Humanoid robots compete for gold in alpine skiing on sidelines of PyeongChang Olympics
HOENGSEONG, Gangwon Province — “Skiro, who showed an impressive performance in the first round is off to a steady start. He passes through the red gates successfully! He makes a great turn to the right at the right speed!” Though they may seem like the words of any regular sports commentator, this announcer was describing a skiing tournament with a difference — the world’s first ever humanoid robot ski competition, organized by South Korea on the sidelines of the PyeongChang Olympics.(Shot and e
Feb. 12, 2018