LG Uplus, one of the top three telecommunications providers in South Korea, has announced its venture into the generative AI field with the introduction of its AI model, ixi-GEN, setting the stage fo...llaboration with Meta, aimed at competing with Apple's Vision Pro. This partnership could leverage LG Uplus's experience with U+ Dive, a virtual reality content service, despite its discontinuation la...

...or tablet anytime, anywhere, thus overcoming the limitations of existing eye-tracking hardware devices. Licenses to this software have been provided to leading domestic educational companies such as LG U+, Kyowon, Mega Study , Woongjin, Ice Cream Edu, and Visang M Learning. SeeSo Edu is unique in that it helps students engage in AI-based self-directed learning by allowing them to grasp their learn...

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea's third-largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it has rebranded its K-pop content platform and has newly enabled official foreign language support for foreign users. The company's U+ Idol Live platform has been renamed as Idol Plus and its menu and subtitles now officially support English, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Indonesian, in addition to Korean. LG Uplus said i...

...ered keynote speeches to share their success experiences with 5G and explore the road to ICT digital transformation in Latin America . As one of the operators who first put 5G into commercial use, LG U+ from South Korea talked about the key factors to becoming a pioneer in 5G. 5G operators in Latin America , including América Móvil Mexico , Vivo Brazil , and Telecom Argentina, shared innova...

...oyed in Korea, in a talk with her Indonesian counterpart Johnny Plate. Also, the concept of a “joint rural 5G network,” a network sharing scheme of Korea’s three telecom carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ for those in remote areas, was shared with Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the US Federal Communications Commission, Lim added. Lim and Rosenworcel also pledged mutual support regarding the upco...

BARCELONA, Spain -- LG U+ will export virtual reality content to Zain Group, a mobile carrier in the Middle East with more than 50 million users, in its effort to take initiative in the burgeoning gl...LG U+ platform. In June, CJ ENM, a Korean entertainment giant, cut the feed of its 10 channels to LG U+, demanding a 175 percent increase in royalties. LG U+ refused to accept the demand, saying that...

...sing new ones. These campaigns were well responded by customers. In addition, all three major telecom companies in Korea are now in alliance with MINTIT as MINTIT ATM and MINTIT Box are installed in LG U+ and KT stores, too. MINTIT has extended its customer contact points to 6,000 locations across the country as a result. Customer convenience was also improved by introducing 'chatbot customer service...

...hose provided by e-commerce giant Amazon, international coffee brand Starbucks and digital services such as Google One and Xbox Game Pass. In June, KT launched a subscription service that bundles the company’s streaming service Seezn and services provided at branches of local coffeehouse chain Hollys Coffee. LG U+ introduced a subscription bundle in June as part of the company’s loyalty program.

...h discount coupons for accessories, bonus gifts and collaboration goods. KT also provides midnight delivery for the first 1,000 preorders, together with coupon packages of up to 210,000 won ($177). LG U+ is set to hold a lottery for those who make preorders, offering Apple products like the iPad Pro as prizes. Apple retains a premium brand image with its iPhone models among Korean customers. Even t...

...tflix flexing its content muscles, another global streaming giant, Disney+, is scheduled to launch its service Nov. 12, signaling heightened competition in the streaming and terrestrial TV markets. LG U+, a Korean mobile carrier, said Sunday that it had signed a deal with Walt Disney Company Korea to deliver Disney+ content on its U+tv platform. The partnership is expected to strengthen the streaming lineup of LG U+, which already bundles Netflix with its IPTV service. While Netflix and Disney+ will compete with their rich cont...

Disney+, the US entertainment giant’s streaming service, is expected to land in Korea via LG U+ first, the smallest of the country’s three IPTV providers. Then, it may team up with KT, the largest of...me with an Android operating system that easily supports Disney+. Currently, around 97 percent of LG U+ set-top boxes are Android-based. In 2017, LG U+ started to introduce Android-based set-top boxe...

...unch of Disney+, Korea’s major telecom operators are keen to partner with Disney to further shore up their own subscriber bases through the US entertainment giant’s family-oriented content library. LG U+, which had teamed up with Netflix when its service was launched, appears close to a deal with Disney. On Aug. 7, LG U+ CEO Hwang Hyun-sik said the two companies are “in the last stage of negotiation...

...ns industry. All three major telecom firms here made concerted efforts to partner with Disney, boasting their pools of subscribers and high-speed broadband networks. Among the three, the smallest, LG U+, appears to have been chosen by Disney, although neither side has officially announced the partnership thus far. The firm was the local partner of Netflix as well when it first launched here. LG U+...

...onal policies. Telecom operators are also keen to utilize their big data sets. KT, SK Telecom and LG U+ dominate the local telecom market, an ideal position for collecting and analyzing big data comi...transformation support program for small business owners, according to KT’s convergence division. LG U+, a telecom unit of LG Group, was recently designated as one of the key companies that would joi...

...e its launch in Korea in 2018, the ONE Store has positioned itself as a local alternative to Google’s Play and Apple’s App Store. Backed by the nation’s top three telecom carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ -- who are also shareholders of ONE Store -- the company launched an aggressive marketing campaign, giving cashback to telecom subscribers if they make purchases on ONE Store. ONE Store gave back b...