Hundreds of K-pop fans showed up to catch a glimpse of their favorite idols

Tech giant holds first Galaxy Unpacked event in Seoul; innovative designs, functions to lure new customers

Samsung Biologics said Wednesday that the company’s earnings in the first half reached all-time highs, with 1.59 trillion won ($1.23 billion) in sales and an operating profit of 445.2 billion won, supported by a solid contract-winning spree. Compared with the first half of last year, Samsung Biologics' sales increased by 36 percent, while its operating profit climbed 29 percent. Samsung Biologics’ attributed its improved earnings this year to the large-scale contract manufacturi

World’s No. 2 memory chip maker predicts recovery with demand for AI-related chips such as HBM expected to rise

LG Electronics introduced the new and improved version of its home appliance brand Tuesday to offer "hyperpersonalized" user experiences, raising connectivity and offering new subscription services to make doing household chores easier. Presenting the enhanced plan for the brand UP Appliance 2.0 to expand its business portfolio into nonhardware services and subscription services in Korea, the tech giant said it will be launching the upgraded brand overseas from next year. "UP Appl

Market watchers say S. Korean tech giant holds edge in foundry biz as TSMC's Arizona production is put on hold

Korean startup’s space platform technology based on Voronoi diagram receives nod from US Air Force

South Korea’s artificial intelligence startup Upstage said Thursday it has secured the top position in the global evaluation of large language models. The company’s 30-billion-parameter LLM scored 67 points, ahead of Meta’s LLaMa-2 (66.8 points) on the Open LLM Leaderboard operated by the AI platform, Hugging Face, as of Wednesday. Hugging Face’s leaderboard evaluates LLMs with less than 100 billion parameters on four key indicators: model’s reasoning challenge,

In South Korea, 69 percent of adult smartphone users use a Samsung device, while only 23 percent use iPhones, a Gallup survey of 1,001 adults found. But the survey reveals a starkly different trend in one demographic: younger millennials and Gen Z. Among the younger generation, aged 18 to 29, iPhone’s share rises to 65 percent, double the Samsung's 32 percent, the survey found. This represents a 13 percent increase in iPhone use from last year and stands in sharp contrast to older coh

New robot in consideration for military use

South Korean budget air carrier Jeju Air on Wednesday unveiled a BTS-themed airplane as an official partner for the 2023 BTS Festa, a celebration of the K-pop group’s 10th anniversary. The airplane will fly passengers on Jeju Air’s international routes until the year-end.

Tech giant calls Exaone 2.0 'top 1% expert in understanding knowledge of the world'

Collectivistic culture combined with pursuit of information leads to Koreans' heavy reliance on KakaoTalk

From top envoys to presidential aides, ranking officials joining Korean conglomerates to add weight to their global affairs teams at home and abroad

War of nerves between Korean rivals already heating up in still nascent memory chip market