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

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

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

Industry forecasts Galaxy Note 9 to debut in late July, Galaxy S10 in January and first foldable smartphone in February

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

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

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

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

A look into technologies put into robots by LG’s research lab

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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

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,

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.

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

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