Samsung SDI is reportedly to continue supplying its battery for Samsung Electronics‘ upcoming flagship smartphone Galaxy S8, according to local news reports on Wednesday.“Samsung Electronics has recently confirmed the battery supply for its premium smartphone Galaxy S8. Although it can diversify the supply channels in the future, it will use Samsung SDI’s batteries for the time being,” a local business newspaper Maeil Business reported, citing a source from a battery maker.  (Yonhap)When Samsung

Korea’s two tech giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are slated to show off their latest television technologies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opens Thursday. Samsung is touting its new quantum dot QLED TV series as the next big TV technology, ditching its super-ultra high-definition brand that it has used for the last two years.  (Samsung)The move was viewed by industry watchers to take aim at its rival LG increasing market share in the premium TV market with or

South Korean internet giant Naver said Wednesday that its mobile video messaging app Snow has attracted more than 100 million users worldwide as of December.Released in September 2015, Snow is a mobile messaging app that lets users exchange video messages and photos with other users. It offers a range of camera filters that add shining eyes, bunny ears, funny masks and other elements to selfies and videos.Snow surpassed the 100 million user mark as of mid-December 2016, just 15 months after its

SK Telecom Co. and SK C&C Co., both affiliates of SK Group, are likely to team up on developing computing systems that allow users to communicate with machines in natural conservation style, industry observers said Wednesday. In September last year, SK Telecom, the nation's top mobile carrier, launched an advanced voice-recognition butler service that enables users to control home appliances and listen to music using voice commands.The service, called NUGU, which means "who" in Korean, can incre

LG Electronics is being pegged for a turnaround in mobile business this year thanks to a major restructuring of the mobile unit last year and its first-mover advantage, rolling out its flagship smartphone G6 early this year, according to local analysts. LG’s mobile communications unit had a tough year as the G6’s predecessor G5 failed to excite consumers. The unit is expected to post around 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) in operating losses for 2016. Analysts predicted, however, LG could seize an

Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, opened Tuesday a new crowdfunding platform to support local content creators and their work.　　The new platform, called “People Funding,” is the latest in a series of crowdfunding projects introduced by Kakao over the past two years, including “Story Funding” and “Heart Funding.”　Story Funding, which was introduced in 2015, focuses on financing a particular story or project. However, People Funding aims to provide more support f

Samsung Electronics will unveil a cloud-based voice-recognizing refrigerator for the first time at the world’s largest electronics show this week, the company announced Tuesday. The South Korean tech giant will be introducing the latest home appliances, named Family Hub 2.0, to global customers at the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 in Las Vegas starting Thursday.The Family Hub 2.0 features a lineup of 10 refrigerator models with improved application integration and diverse new apps. Smart built-

LG Electronics Inc. unveiled Tuesday a line-up of ultra high-definition televisions featuring what the company calls the "most advanced color-enhancing LCD panel technology to date" or "nano cell" technology. LG said the technology offers highly nuanced and accurate colors while maintaining picture quality at wider viewing angles.The new premium TV line-up will be presented at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. LG Electronics Inc.'s premium TV featuring "nano cell" tech

Electric vehicles using the products of Korean battery makers Samsung SDI and LG Chem were left out from government subsidies in China, it was revealed Sunday, with South Korean industry watchers suspecting that the move could be part of Beijing’s retaliation against Korea’s deployment of a missile defense system. 　Both battery makers are maintaining a wait-and-see stance to the measure. Samsung said it is “grasping the situation through its Chinese arm,” while LG is hoping “things work out well

Samsung Electronics Co. and the South Korean government will soon release the outcome of their investigation into what caused Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to catch fire, industry sources said Monday.The South Korean tech giant has asked the US-based safety organization UL to find the root cause of phablets catching fire after the firm halted its sales over recurring battery problems. Kwon Oh-hyun, vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics Co., speaks to employees at the company's headquarters on

SK Telecom CEO Park Jung-ho, chief of South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, pledged to make SKT the country’s representative information and communication technology firm to lead the fourth industrial revolution.　“The fourth industrial revolution will eliminate borders and divisions between business sectors, ushering in global competition” Park said.“We must break out of the current paradigm and devise a new business model so that we can achieve growth on a global scale,” he said, vowing to expa

KT Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu has called for South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier to move beyond its flagship telecom business and become a platform company based on intelligent network technologies.“KT’s goal should not be to become Korea’s No. 1 telecom company but to become a platform company with intelligent network technologies,” Hwang said during his New Year’s speech.“We should not aim to become the No. 1 leader in the IPTV market, but become a strong media platform company that can

Over the past decade, South Koreans have come to a realization: Facebook is needed to stay connected.Novel advances in smartphones and faster connectivity speeds have made it easier for people living in rural and urban areas to communicate, create and share content -- particularly for Facebook users. Apart from being a nationwide social hub that connects people, the beloved digital platform is fast becoming a news source for the younger generation in Korea, where web portal giants like Naver dom

Since its introduction as a free mobile messenger in March 2010, KakaoTalk has sky-rocketed in popularity and near-instantly became the go-to messaging app in the technocrat society of Korea. Boasting a usership of more than 95 percent among the estimated 43 million smartphone owners in Korea, the internet-based messenger app quickly became synonymous with mobile messaging. Its success had even coined the term ‘KaTalk,’ a word that is now used interchangeably with texting. KakaoTalk’s penetratio

Photo sharing mobile platform Instagram is continuing to grow as it enters its seventh year. Instagram’s launch in October 2010 signaled a new era for photography. Pioneering the smartphone photo taking and sharing frontier, Instagram was one of the very first apps to introduce readymade photo filters that rendered Photoshop near outdated.Korea’s online giant Naver quickly followed up with homegrown Pholar, but it failed to catch on.With Instagram, casual snaps taken on mobile phones can be tran