BOOK A TABLE WITH APP -- Mobile platform developer SK Planet said Monday its restaurant recommendation application Syrup Table, which has surpassed 12.5 million downloads so far, now offers a restaurant booking service for subscribers. (SK Planet)

MID-RANGE TWO-TUB WASHER — LG Electronics releases a mid-end variant of the Tromm Twin Wash, a front-load washer that features a top-load machine on the bottom. The new Twin Wash, priced at 2.3 million won ($1,960) -- 500,000 won less than the high-end version -- comes in white with a 16-kilogram front-loader and a 3.5 kg top-loader, which can run simultaneously or separately. (LGE)

The market for organic-light emitting diodes will likely gain more steam in the next couple years as more device-makers, including Apple, are forecast to roll out their next flagship smartphones and smartwatches fitted with the flexible display, according to sources.Even though handset manufacturers will not immediately drop the traditional liquid crystal displays from their devices, they will opt for OLEDs for products such as foldable tablets in two or three years, they forecast.California-bas

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CARING WITH KIMCHI – Samsung Electronics employees and residents in Gyeonggi Province together make kimchi at the company’s headquarters in Suwon on Saturday. The Korean tech giant plans to donate 120 tons of kimchi to underprivileged people in the area. (Samsung Electronics)

LG PRIZE FOR BASEBALL WINNER -- LG Electronics vice chairman Koo Bon-joon (left) offers prize money to Seoul CMS, the winner of the 2015 Korea Women’s Baseball League, at the closing ceremony in Icheon on Saturday. (LG Electronics)

Facebook launched a tool that checks the safety of Facebook users Friday night amid a deadly terrorist attack in Paris that have reportedly claimed lives of at least 100 people. The safety check tool allows users in the area notify their friends of their safety, and users outside of France to know if any of their friends are in the vicinity and whether they are safe. (The Korea Herald)Also, users can also notify their friends that someone in the affected area are OK by clicking “mark safe.” "Qui

SAMSUNG RECOGNIZED FOR GREEN PRODUCTS -- Samsung Electronics said Friday that its business monitor UE850 had received the TCO Display 7.0 environment certification from the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees, a trade union organization. (Samsung)

BUSAN -- Along with long-awaited blockbuster game titles, independent, or indie, games are also entertaining visitors at the annual G-Star game trade show being held in Busan.Indie games are created by individuals or a small team of developers without backing from big game publishers. The indie game segment is often said to serve as an important locomotive of the nation’s game industry as it is a hotbed of creativity born from pure passion and love for games. Aki Koseki (in yellow), president of

BUSAN -- Elves, monsters and supercars from popular online games became much more real at the annual G-Star game trade show, luring gaming aficionados to the event that opened Thursday in Busan.　From car exhibits to stage shows, companies took their characters out of their game worlds to reach out to players. Models pose at game developer Nexon`s exhibition booth during the G-Star game trade show on Thursday in Busan. (Kim Young-won/Korea Herald)　The four-day trade show is a venue for game devel

Samsung Electronics on Thursday unveiled its latest Exynos 8 Octa 8890 chipset that will be installed in its next Galaxy smartphone lineup, tentatively called the Galaxy S7, next year. The new chip is the company’s first premium one-chip solution that integrates modem and radio frequency technology into a single chip. Qualcomm is the market leader in such chips.  The one-chip solution boasts better performance at lower energy consumption than the alternatives. But few companies make chips of thi

Entrepreneur Rebekah Kang has a dream that one day, technology will make politicians obsolete.“It’s really hard to communicate and hard to raise your voice. That’s why you don’t trust (politicians) and … a lot of people are not voting anymore,” she said. “If we’re not happy about what they’re doing, why do we need them?”Just as Google Nest manages a smart home, citizens will use a service to scroll through the legislation that is important to their lifestyle, such as whether they have a kid, a c

TOKYO ― Google is rethinking everything with machine learning, an artificial intelligence technology that trains computers to think and learn from data. The U.S. Internet giant held an Asia-Pacific press conference, titled “The Magic in the Machine,” in Tokyo Tuesday to introduce its renewed commitment to the futuristic computing technology.“Machine learning has actually been around for a long time. But it has made huge achievements over the past three years,” Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of