Korean undergrads turn to Instagram to curate different identities and use hashtag-based searches

Wireless carriers LG Uplus and SK Telecom are using their latest technologies in artificial intelligence and the internet of things to help those with disabilities.According to LG Uplus on Thursday, the company donated 500 AI assistant speakers to families including visually impaired people.  A SK Telecom employee helps a physically impaired person to operate the Smart Home system on a smartphone (SK Telecom)The speakers use U+ Our Home AI, a service launched by LG Uplus and Naver last year that

KT, together with Intel and Samsung Electronics, to showcase 5G-connected services at newly-opened 5G exhibition center in Gangneung Olympic Park

SK Telecom said Wednesday that it is preparing to launch a new music platform service within the year in collaboration with major K-pop labels.Together with K-pop agencies S.M. Entertainment, JYP Entertainment and Big Hit Entertainment, SKT will be creating a music platform utilizing its strengths in artificial intelligence, 5G networking and blockchain technology, the company said. (From left) Jung Wook, CEO of JYP Entertainment, Bang Si-hyuk, CEO of Big Hit Entertainment, Noh Jong-won, head of

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday decided on its first-ever stock split by lowering the face value of its stocks from 5,000 won ($4.70) to 100 won, a move that would increase the number of common stocks and liquidity, with the aim of improving long-term corporate value.The surprise decision, made in sync with the firm’s announcement of record highs in sales and operating profits in the fourth quarter of 2017, was immediately met with a jump in the company’s stock price. Samsung Electronics’ headq

Samsung Electronics has decided on a 50:1 stock split, expanding its issued shares from 128.4 million to 6.4 billion shares, according to a filing Wednesday.The stock split will be up for a vote at the regular shareholders‘ meeting scheduled for Mar. 23. (Yonhap)The 50:1 split means that a share worth 5,000 won, for example, would be split into fifty 100-won shares. This increases the number of shares while lowering stock prices to encourage more investors to buy shares in the company. “The Boar

After losing top-selling spot to Xiaomi for the first time, Samsung plays semi-premium card

Alibaba Group Holdings, the official cloud services and e-commerce partner for the Olympics until 2028, said Tuesday that it wants to leverage its cloud-based technologies to make Olympic operations more efficient and cost effective.　And its vision will start with next month’s Winter Games in PyeongChang, which Alibaba believes will become a critical learning ground for figuring out what it can do to improve its cloud technologies so that it can do a better job at the next Olympics.“In PyeongCha

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Athletes, staff and spectators making their way to PyeongChang this winter will have plenty to see in between the Olympic Games, with the latest robots from South Korea roaming the grounds to offer guidance, travel support and entertainment.　　Olympic observers got their first taste of the technology that will be on show at the Winter Games with the torch relay, which featured the world’s first sight of two robots carrying the iconic flame in Daejeon.　Thousands of spectators gathered in the city

At the upcoming Winter Games in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, human athletes are not going to be the only ones vying for gold in the much-anticipated alpine skiing events.Humanoid robot skiers are going to be hitting the slopes of PyeongChang, as Korea is slated to host the world’s first robot ski tournament on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics. Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement have organized a ski tournament in which self-

Apple‘s long-awaited first brick-and-mortar store in Korea opened to much fanfare on Saturday, with hundreds of Apple fans braving the biting cold overnight to be one of the first to enter.On Monday afternoon, the store was still packed with visitors, testing out phones and tablets or trying on various smartphone watch straps. The air was abuzz with excitement, with more than a dozen employees in matching navy shirts wandering around the store to help customers with questions and purchases.While

Korean doctor-entrepreneur Lee Wang-jun of Myongji Hospital says hospital-pharma business integration will forge win-win model for new drug development

LG Electronics Co., South Korea's second-biggest electronics company by sales, added a new color to its V30 smartphone lineup Sunday to help boost sales of handsets.In a promotion ahead of Valentine's Day next month, LG Electronics has launched its V30 phone in "raspberry rose" and will select 30 customers to receive another V30 phone on top of the one they bought, the company said in a statement. Those who want to participate in the event are required to buy the raspberry rose V30 phone and pos

Hundreds of South Koreans braved bitterly cold weather Saturday as they waited hours for the opening of Apple Korea's first store in southern Seoul.About 300 people lined up to be among the first in the country to get inside Apple Garosugil in the affluent southern district of Gangnam.Choi Ji-eon, an 18-year-old who is preparing to study abroad, said he arrived in front of the new store around 3 p.m. on Friday and later waited in a sleeping bag as he was shivering with cold at night."I would lik