Samsung Electronics and its affiliates will engage in a groupwide campaign to reduce use of plastics and disposables at the workplace to join global moves of cutting plastic consumption and protect the environment, the company said Tuesday. The electronics unit said the current campaign at the company, Samsung SDS and Samsung Electro-Mechanics will be expanded to Samsung Display, Samsung SDI, Samsung C&T and Hotel Shilla. At the affiliates’ cafeterias, plastic and vinyl materials for takeout foo

LG Chem broke ground for an electric vehicle battery plant in Nanjing, China, its second EV battery production facility, to aggressively expand into the Chinese market, the company announced Tuesday. The new three-story factory will be built on a 200,000 square meter plot in the Binjiang Economic Development Zone, with a plan to start operations late next year. The company will inject a total of 2.1 trillion won ($1.9 billion) into the new facility by 2023 with an aim to secure an annual capacit

China-based access to South Korean internet giant Naver’s online blogs and cafes has been cut off for a week now, raising speculation that China’s censorship of foreign websites has effectively extended to Korea’s top portal website.　Internet users in China have been unable to access Naver blogs (blog.naver.com) and cafes (cafe.naver.com) since Oct. 16. The block still appeared to be in place as of Tuesday. 　Users in China can still access Naver’s search engine and email services without issue.

Models showcase Samsung Electronics’ new laptop “Flash” with a fast internet speed and a retro-style keyboard at an event held at Pier59 Studios in Seoul on Monday. (Samsung Electronics)Samsung Electronics is working on development of new form factors of laptops, including one with foldable display, as part of its efforts to innovate personal computer products in line with the changing market for mobile devices, a company official said during a showcase event for the latest laptop Flash on Monda

Samsung Medison, a medical equipment manufacturer under South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, on Monday unveiled a next-generation ultrasound system expected to better facilitate examinations during high-risk pregnancies and the early diagnosis of fetal abnormalities.　The company is showcasing HERA W10 -- short for Hyper-aperture Enhanced Reconstruction Architecture -- at the 28th World Congress of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Singapore, whuch continues un

Samsung Electronics is making deals and announcing new activities in target business areas wherever its de facto leader goes, though the company refuses to confirm any connection between the two.The itinerary of Lee Jae-yong’s latest trip seems to be closely connected to the South Korean conglomerate’s new business interests -- mainly artificial intelligence. Lee is the vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and the only son of Chairman Lee Kun-hee who has been in hospital since suffering from a s

KT will start providing real-time subtitles in eight languages for its internet protocol TV service Olleh TV, starting Monday, to better serve foreign-born customers in South Korea, the mobile carrier said Sunday. Multilingual subtitling will be offered for four news channels and will feature subtitles in English, Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, Vietnamese and Uzbek.  Foreign models pose ahead of the introduction of a real-time multilingual subtitling service for KT’s Olleh TV. (KT)KT unveil

Kakao Games, which recently pushed back its initial public offering plans to next year to prioritize internal growth, is stepping up efforts to successfully launch and service a variety of new games on its home turf of South Korea by year’s end. 　The game publishing unit of Kakao is set to launch within this month “Friends Racing,” a casual game featuring Kakao Friends, the flagship characters from the country’s top-used mobile messenger KakaoTalk. Players can choose among eight Kakao Friends ch

South Korean internet giant Naver and the country’s top biopharma companies Celltrion and Samsung BioLogics have been listed on Fortune’s Future 50, which ranks global companies with the best prospects for long-term growth.　The global business magazine on Friday announced the Future 50 list, compiled annually in partnership with the Boston Consulting Group. Naver, which operates Korea’s dominant portal website, ranked sixth. Celltrion, a developer of biosimilar drugs, ranked 17th, while contract

Samsung Electronics announced Thursday it will start wafer production of the 7-nanometer Low Power Plus with extreme ultraviolet lithography technology at a tech day event held in Silicon Valley. Samsung Tech Day is an annual event to announce the chipmaker’s technology road map and introduce the newest semiconductor solutions for its enterprise clients. The foundry technology using extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, known as the most advanced process technology, enables the use of a single mask to cr

LG Electronics appears to be on course to ramp up its drive for the development of autonomous driving with an aim to debut its first artificial intelligence-based self-driving solution at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, according to the industry on Thursday. The South Korean electronics manufacturer’s Chief Technology Officer Park Il-pyung will deliver a keynote speech at CES about the newest technologies under development by LG, which includes its AI-powered navigation system, according to

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday announced that it has started the production of foundry chips using the 7-nanometer Low Power Plus process that utilizes the extreme ultraviolet lithography technology for the first time in the industry."The commercialization of its newest process node, 7LPP gives customers the ability to build a full range of exciting new products that will push the boundaries of applications, such as 5G, artificial intelligence, enterprise and hyperscale data center, IoT, au

Samsung’s vehicle components unit expands to develop commercial ADAS system, hires software engineers under Lee’s command

Kakao Navi, the mobile navigation app from South Korean mobile messaging giant Kakao, now offers upgraded voice command features following the adoption of the firm’s artificial intelligence engine Kakao I, the company said Wednesday. With the change, Kakao Navi users can access key features of Kakao Navi as well as those offered by Kakao’s AI speaker Kakao Mini via voice. To activate, users simply need to say “Hey Kakao,” click the voice command button or make hand gestures near the phone. Kakao

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday that it co-hosted the Digital Development Partnership workshop with the World Bank, sharing Korea’s experience in building a digital economy with high-level representatives from low-income countries. Held from Oct. 15-19, the DDP workshop brought representatives from countries ranging from Angola to Indonesia and Uzbekistan to learn from Korea’s digital development experience across both the public and private sectors.  Boutheina Guermazi,