A United Nations agency specializing in information and communication technologies will hold its top-level decision-making conference in South Korea in October, with ministerial-level representatives from 193 member states participating, organizers said Thursday.The 19th International Telecommunications Union plenipotentiary conference will be held in Busan, the country's largest port city 453 kilometers southwest of Seoul, from Oct. 20 through Nov. 7.The representatives will discuss and decide

SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest manufacturer of computer memory chips, said Wednesday that it enjoyed a 38 percent rise in its outbound shipments last year, reaching 13 trillion won $12.3 billion.The company said its exports reached 12.94 trillion won last year, rising 37.8 percent from the 9.39 trillion won posted in 2012, and its sales also surged to 14 trillion won from 10.16 trillion won over the cited period.SK hynix, formerly Hynix Semiconductor, was taken over in 2012 by SK Grou

The bandwidth allocated for mobile carriers will be nearly quadrupled by 2023 to meet sharply increasing data traffic, the telecom ministry said Tuesday.The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said it plans to add a bandwidth of 1,190MHz on top of the current 390MHz. The “Mobile Gwanggaeto Plan 2.0,” named after a famous Korean king who ruled the Goguryeo Kingdom, is meant to accommodate rapid growth of the so-called long-term evolution (LTE) network subscribers.The number of LTE servic

Mobile SMS scams, also known as “smishing,” are snowballing at year-end in South Korea as cyber crooks scurry to devise more convincing tricks to steal valuable personal information such as users’ bank accounts, often putting together both online and offline tools. According to the Korea Internet Security Agency, the number of new mobile scam apps stood at 2,278 as of Thursday, 150 times more than last year. The related financial damage soared tenfold to 54.5 billion won ($51.7 million) in a yea

Samsung Group announced last week that it would invest 600 billion won ($570 million) in Samsung BioLogics, a biopharmaceutical affiliate of the conglomerate, over the next two years. The move is part of Samsung’s efforts to find a new growth engine alongside its mobile and electronics businesses, market watchers said.According to the regulatory filing, the biopharmaceutical firm will issue new shares sequentially from February next year through August 2015. Samsung Electronics and Samsung Everl

SK hynix Inc., the world's No. 2 chipmaker, said Thursday it has developed the world's first memory chip equipped with the Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology, significantly improving speed and efficiency.The South Korean chipmaker said the high-bandwidth memory chip has a 128-gigabytes-per-second processing speed, which is four times faster than the GDDR5 chips, and can run on a relatively small power of 1.2 volts.The latest product by SK hynix will also consume 40 percent less power, the comp

LG Electronics is testing a prototype for its next flagship smartphone G3, equipped with fingerprint recognition technology, according to industry sources. “LG has recently made a decision to adopt the fingerprint scanner on the upcoming G3, the successor of the G2, and is conducting a series of tests for the product,” said an official close to the matter.The fingerprint recognition technology would likely come as a swipe fingerprint sensor, different from the area-type system utilized on Apple’

The total volume of phishing emails worldwide has eased this year, but offenders are coming up with more advanced, target-oriented tricks that take advantage of popular social media services such as LinkedIn, a report by a U.S online security firm showed. The report by Websense said that the proportion of phishing messages in the total email volume shrank to 0.5 percent in 2013, from 1.12 percent last year. But cyber criminals now tend to set specific targets rather than sending out a massive nu