Samsung Electronics might reveal some details on the world’s first foldable smartphone in the pipeline at its developers’ conference in San Francisco in November, according to the industry on Monday. Rumors that the South Korean tech titan would unveil its foldable phone at the Samsung Developer Conference have been circulating around the world following a recent interview of the company’s mobile business CEO Koh Dong-jin by a group of foreign media outlets last week. Flexible OLED display (Sams

A group of lawmakers have set out to strengthen the regulation of foreign internet companies operating here, responding to complaints that they are not bound by the same laws that apply to competing South Korean firms in the sector.Led by Rep Byun Jae-il of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, 10 lawmakers recently proposed four bills aimed at “creating a level playing ground” and resolving the “reverse discrimination” problem in Korea’s information and communication technology sector.Among the

Samsung Electronics Co. has launched its sixth artificial intelligence research center, located in New York, which will focus on robotics research, the company said Sunday. The tech giant is seeking to strengthen its AI capabilities and has opened research institutes in South Korea, Britain, Canada, Russia and Silicon Valley of the United States. (Yonhap)The new AI Center, which opened Friday, is led by Daniel D. Lee, a leading AI and robotics scientist who joined the company in June. H. Sebasti

ZKW, an automotive lighting affiliate of LG Electronics, announced its new logo as an LG company on Friday, highlighting its role in driving the South Korean tech giant’s vehicle component business.The announcement was made after a visit by LG CEO Jo Seong-jin to its headquarters in Wieselburg on Wednesday. The CEO welcomed the Austrian company as a new LG affiliate and encouraged around 2,000 executives and employees at a ceremony. “ZKW will be major part of a great journey,” Jo said. “Wieselbu

SK Innovation, a South Korean refinery and energy company, is increasing its presence in the global market for electric vehicle batteries, raising expectations it could soon catch up with leading EV makers, according to a market researcher on Thursday. A recent report by SNE Research showed SK Innovation came in at No. 6 in shipments of batteries for electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles for the period between January and July. The company’s ranking ros

LONDON -- Samsung Electronics will become a leader in the field of artificial intelligence by differentiating itself from other AI players with human-centric communication that will help devices understand users’ emotions better, said professor Maja Pantic, who is affiliated with a UK-based AI center for Samsung, on Tuesday. “Samsung’s devices will ceaselessly communicate with users and learn from them through the screen, voice, vision and tactile features,” said Pantic during a press conference

Kakao Mobility, a South Korean firm that provides ride-hailing and driver-for-hire services, said Thursday that it has invested 1.5 billion yen ($13.4 million) for a 3.4 percent stake in Japan's largest taxi-hailing service, JapanTaxi Co., in a move to expand its services beyond the home market.The two firms plan to release roaming services between their ride-hailing apps in the fourth quarter, Kakao Mobility said.  (Yonhap)The services will allow South Korean visitors in Japan to use Kakao Mobi

SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom company by number of subscribers, is losing market share, while third-biggest player LG Uplus is expanding its presence, according to government data Wednesday. Statistics on the wireless service market from the Ministry of Science and ICT showed that SKT held market share of 41.9 percent in July, down 0.5 percentage point from December. It is the first time the top telco has reached the 41 percent mark in terms of the percentage of subscribers since the

Samsung Design Europe in London researches trends among young Europeans to make Samsung products more fashionable

Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger service, KakaoTalk, said Wednesday that it would soon roll out a new feature that would allow users to delete sent messages, making them disappear from both the sender’s chat room and the receiver’s. 　The company expects to debut the new function possibly as soon as the end of the year, a company spokesperson said, adding that the change will not be included in the next version 8.0 update scheduled this week. Right now, it’s poss

A worker died of carbon dioxide poisoning Tuesday at the Samsung Electronics semiconductor plant in Giheung, Gyeonggi Province, during an inspection of fire-safety equipment, the company confirmed. Two other workers involved in the accident were in critical condition as of Tuesday evening, it said. According to a Samsung Electronics spokesperson, the accident occurred at 1:55 p.m. Tuesday in an area within the basement used to store firefighting equipment, located below the 6-3 production line a

　Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s most-used mobile messenger KakaoTalk, on Tuesday pledged to focus its artificial intelligence capabilities on homes and cars.　Kakao has been heavily investing in AI over the past two years. It launched its proprietary AI platform Kakao I, equipped with features such as voice recognition, natural language processing, image search, recommendations and translation, as well as a smart speaker running on the platform, Kakao Mini.　The company plans to continue ram

Online gaming giant Nexon Korea Co. launched a labor union on Monday, a first for a game service provider in South Korea."The establishment of the Nexon union will act as a tow truck to improve labor conditions in the gaming industry as a whole," the union said in a press release. "Labor conditions in the local gaming industry are very poor, although the local market has expanded to a 12 trillion won ($10.8 billion) business." (Yonhap)Nexon employees, as well as workers from affiliates such as N

BERLIN -- It is too early to discuss the possibility of a foray by Samsung Electronics into the field of autonomous driving, according to Dinesh Paliwal, CEO of Harman International.“We are studying a lot on autonomous driving solutions with Samsung, but that’s too far away,” said the Harman CEO on Friday at IFA 2018, which runs through Wednesday in Berlin. “It’s our long-term goal.” As Samsung expands its presence in the auto industry, there has been speculation that the company might be involv

DNA testing -- a way for individuals to learn about their genes and related health markers -- is increasingly being used today to help people improve their lifestyles and devise diets suited to their physiological makeup.Taking this concept into the realm of physical fitness, Korea’s top gene-sequencing service provider, Macrogen, has launched a personalized home-training service designed on the basis of the client’s genetic makeup, the company said Monday.Macrogen, which launched the service in