South Korean internet giant Naver said Wednesday that it has partnered with the Seoul-based Hankuk University of Foreign Studies to improve and update its online dictionaries for 11 languages over the next four years.　The move comes as part of Naver’s pledge made in 2016 to invest 10 billion won ($9.24 million) toward upgrading and expanding its online dictionaries for five years.(123RF)　Under the partnership, Naver will fund HUF’s efforts to upgrade outdated definitions, fix existing errors and

South Korean video game company Pearl Abyss officially released its latest open-world mobile role-playing game “Black Desert Mobile” in Korea on Wednesday, with servers crashing due to user traffic overload.“Black Desert M” is a mobile remake of the hit massively multiplayer online role-playing game “Black Desert” by Pearl Abyss. The original game was launched in December 2014, and has more than 8.5 million registered users worldwide, including those in Asia as well as the US and Europe. Prior t

Lee Hae-jin, the founder of South Korean internet giant Naver, has officially stepped down from the company’s board, Naver said in a disclosure Monday.During an internal board meeting held the same day, Naver decided not to extend Lee’s board membership that expires next month. Naver’s executive director Choi In-hyuk will be filling in Lee’s position, according to the firm.With the change, Lee will only retain his position as global investment officer, focusing on Naver’s global expansion and in

The next flagship smartphone from LG Electronics is set for release in the first half of 2018, according to the top executive of LG‘s mobile division.At Mobile World Congress 2018, LG did not roll out a new flagship smartphone as Samsung did with its Galaxy S9, but rather introduced new artificial intelligence capabilities on its V30S ThinQ.According to Hwang Jeong-hwan, who heads up the mobile business at LG, the company’s focus now is on improving core competitiveness. Hwang Jeong-hwan, head o

Samsung CEO says he will not obsess about being the first in next-generation smartphones

Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it plans to showcase a new edition of its artificial-intelligence program, Bixby 2.0, as early as the second half of this year through the presumed Galaxy Note 9 phablets.During a press conference held at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Koh Dong-jin, head of the IT & Mobile Communications Division, said Samsung is currently testing the beta version of Bixby 2.0 with some 800 partners. "Considering the current speed (of development), the

LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will focus on audio, batteries, cameras and displays, referred to by the acronym ABCDs in South Korea, to beef up its smartphone division, which has been suffering losses for nearly three years.During the meeting with reporters at the Mobile World Congress, which is being held in Barcelona, Spain, Hwang Jeong-hwan, who leads the company's mobile business, said LG plans to regain its market credibility by meeting customer demands."It is regrettable that LG Elec

BARCELONA, Spain -- Samsung Electronics has made significant progress in its 5G technologies and the tech giant is expected to produce a 5G phone in the “not so distant” future, according to Chief Technology Officer Park Jin-hyo of SK Telecom.“It is not so far for Samsung either in coming up with a 5G device,” Park told The Korea Herald while attending the Mobile World Congress 2018 on Monday in Barcelona, Spain.　The comments came as China’s up-and-coming Huawei announced its first 5G chipset Ba

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Samsung Electronics and Vodafone Group on Monday announced a strategic partnership in certain European markets to create a range of Internet of Things-based smart home products and services. The suite of products and services will bring together Samsung’s SmartThings open platform and the V by Vodafone consumer IoT system.  SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit from Samsung (Samsung)By connecting devices to the phone, including security cameras and smoke detectors, users of the V-Home by Vodafone syst

Expert says quantum key is ‘perfectly irreplicable,’ knocks down hacking attempts

BARCELONA, Spain -- SK Telecom announced Monday it would acquire the world’s No. 1 quantum cryptographic business, based in Switzerland, as a move to strengthen data security in the next-generation network. The Swiss company acquired by SKT is IDQ, which announced the world’s first quantum random number generator in 2002 and launched the first quantum key distribution service in 2006. The South Korean mobile carrier announced the acquisition on the opening day of the Mobile World Congress 2018 i

Samsung CEO says smartphones evolving as way of self-expression

LG’s AI platform ThinQ adopted in smartphone for first time