KT, South Korea’s largest telecom carrier, said Monday it had started construction work on a solar power system in Vietnam’s Quang Binh Province. The project is part of a slew of infrastructure building projects in developing countries sponsored by the Korean government’s Economic Development Cooperation Fund.KT plans to complete the system by 2017 so that some 1,300 households and public organizations in the Vietnamese province are provided with a stable electricity supply. Quang Binh Province,

Daum Kakao, South Korea’s leading search engine, said Monday its taxi app KakaoTaxi had received more than 5 million calls since its introduction in March. According to the company, the nationwide service has 110,000 drivers and daily calls for taxis have hit 150,000 per day. The smartphone-based taxi-hailing app was launched on March 31 after its U.S. rival Uber suspended its budget services due to resistance from local governments and taxi drivers. Unlike Uber which uses unlicensed, crowd-sour

SK C&C, South Korea’s IT service provider, said Monday it recently completed Bangladesh’s online national network system, paving the way to expand the country’s e-government services. The company, an affiliate of SK Group, secured the 32 billion won ($29 million) project in 2012, which aims to connect 368 websites of the central government and public organizations through a single Internet-based network. In Bangladesh, public information used to be managed separately across local governments, bu

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics clashed in a Seoul court Friday over the latter’s alleged vandalism of washing machines.The legal representatives for LG denied the allegations that its CEO Cho Seong-jin and two other company officials broke the doors of three Samsung washers. But Samsung reiterated its position that the LG officials damaged its washing machines at the SATURN Berlin Europa-Center and SATURN Berlin Steglitz in Germany during the IFA trade show in September last year.Samsung

Samsung Group on Thursday unveiled a set of new measures to support farming households and the tourism industry, both hit hard by a record drought and the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome. The plans come after Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jay-yong, the de facto leader of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, apologized last week for mishandling the MERS outbreak at a group-affiliated hospital. As part of the new plans, Samsung will purchase merchandise coupons worth 30 billion

South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. saw its flagship smartphone, the G4, rank higher than rival flagship phones by Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. in terms of performance, a U.S. consumer agency said Thursday.  According to U.S.-based Consumer Reports, a non-profit organization that grades products for consumers' rights, LG's latest flagship G4 smartphone showcased in April and its predecessor the G3, both came in second in a performance evaluation with a grade of 78 out of 100.