Startups being incubated by Samsung‘s C-Lab turned heads at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, receiving offers for investments and further development, according to reports Sunday.At CES this year, Samsung’s C-Lab unveiled three new projects working on innovations in audio, health recovery and vision enhancement. S-Ray is a directional sound system that allows users to privately enjoy audio without having the sound spread to their surrounding environments. Unlike previous directional s

Korea‘s top two smartphone manufacturers are set to reveal new models at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, with industry watchers keeping an eye on rollouts of new innovations in camera and artificial intelligence technology.As for the core functions of the phones, both companies seem to be focused on keeping the essentials from their previous models rather than completely overhauling their designs for MWC, they said.Samsung’s head of mobile Koh Dong-jin confirmed at th

Joining Kakao and Nexon, NHN Entertainment mulls investment in Chinese digital currency trading platform OKCoin Korea despite government crackdown

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea's leading chemical company, said Friday that it has obtained Japanese approval to sell its biosimilar etanercept for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has approved LG Chem's new drug, which is biosimilar to Amgen Inc.'s Enbrel.LG Chem said it will produce the biosimilar at its plant in South Korea before shipping it to two Japanese distributers, Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. and Ayumi Pharmaceutical Corp.(Yonhap)The bi

Samsung Electronics has won a patent for a smartphone display design that has holes on the screen with a nearly full screen-to-body ratio, which could be adopted for the Galaxy Note 9 smartphone model, according to news reports Friday. Samsung filed a patent titled “Electronics apparatus having a hole area within screen and control method thereof,” on Thursday with the World Intellectual Property Organization, according to Armsterdam-based LetsGoDigitla that first spotted the filing. The company

LG Electronics may introduce an upgraded V30 smartphone with improved artificial intelligence features at the Mobile World Congress slated to open on Feb. 26, according to the industry Friday. Instead of a new model of its flagship G series, which used to be presented every February or March, LG is expected to announce new technologies and functions added to the V30 smartphone, which was launched last September. The new version could be named “V30+‘α’,” according to news reports.  Models show V3

LG Electronics kicked off this year’s battle in the market for premium air conditioners equipped with artificial intelligence by introducing its 2018 LG Whisen ThinQ air conditioner at a media event Thursday.“The Whisen ThinQ air conditioner has evolved to an air conditioner that can see, hear, think and speak,” said Song Dae-hyun, president of home appliance and air solutions at LG. Song Dae-hyun (left), president of LG Electronics’ home appliance and air solutions, introduces the 2018 LG Whise

Google to manually screen popular, high-view YouTube videos before attaching ads

Galaxy S9, Note 9 smartphones are expected to adopt neural network chips that aim to outdo Apple and Huawei

Apple’s first brick-and-mortar branch in Korea is finally set to open on Jan. 27, but the long-awaited store may have kept consumers waiting just a little too long.　“I‘m happy the Apple Store is coming to Korea, for sure. But I don’t really see the point of them coming now after all these years of ignoring Korean consumers’ requests for an offline store,” said 30-year-old Choi Soo-yeon, a longtime iPhone user in Seoul. An online announcement for Apple Garosugil on Apple Korea’s website (Apple Ko

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled its special Olympics edition of the Galaxy Note 8. The company will deliver over 4,000 devices to all Olympians as well as officials for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. The edition features shiny white glass at the back, with gold Olympic rings. (Samsung)

South Korea’s recent craze for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Ether has thrust to the spotlight blockchain -- the foundational technology behind the virtual currencies being traded in large numbers here every day.　　While bitcoin is the most widely known application of blockchain, there is more to the distributed ledger system than just digital currencies. It’s a game-changing technology with wide potential to transform how different industries work.　Blockchain is already in use today to impro

Apple Korea said Wednesday it will open its first full-fledged retail shop in South Korea this month to help customers buy, repair and experience iPhones and other Apple products.The first shop in South Korea will open on Garosugil in the affluent southern district of Gangnam in Seoul on Jan. 27, Apple said on its website. (AP)The store will open seven days a week from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.Consumers will be able to try out iPhones, Apple Watches, iPads, MacBooks and other Apple products, and

South Korea’s leading mobile carrier SK Telecom is on track to acquire the factory automation technology firm Toptec to seek synergy with its telecom and semiconductor businesses, according to the industry Tuesday. Despite a denial by Toptec in its regulatory filing early Tuesday, an official at SK Holdings -- the de facto control tower of new investment and business projects of all SK affiliates -- told The Korea Herald that the telecom firm is close to making a final decision on the acquisitio

Home to a tech-savvy population, South Korea is expected to see nearly one-third of its smartphone users making mobile payments this year, according to a report released Tuesday by global market analytics firm eMarketer.　According to the report, around 31.9 percent of smartphone users in South Korea will use their phones to pay for goods or services at a point of sale -- the “cash register” where a retail transaction is completed -- in 2018.A proximity mobile payment is defined as a transaction