SAMSUNG RECOGNIZED FOR EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN -- Samsung Electronics said Wednesday its high-end SUHD TV 82S9W lineup has won the highest presidential award at the Good Design Selection 2015, a design award in Korea. The tech firm’s eight other products got awards, including the Chef Collection fridge RV8000, and the smart UX apps and widgets for the Galaxy S6 Edge Avengers Special Edition. (Samsung) SAMSUNG RECOGNIZED FOR EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN -- Samsung Electronics said Wednesday its high-end SUH

Tony Seba, a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford University, paid a visit to the battery manufacturing campus of Samsung SDI in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province on Tuesday.The Stanford University lecturer who teaches entrepreneurship, disruption and clean energy is also the author of “Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation,” in which he claims that electric cars coupled with the advancement of energy technology will cause a paradigm shift in the automotive sector. Tony Seba, a lec

Battery-maker LG Chem said Wednesday that it has inked a deal with the world’s largest energy storage system company AES Energy to supply its lithium-ion battery modules. The ESS is considered a lucrative business and the battery units of Samsung and LG groups are fiercely seeking to gain an upper hand in the global market. LG Chem’s battery module for the energy storage system. (LG Chem)LG’s latest supply deal is the biggest of its kind in terms of its scale. The maximum battery capacity, accor

COLLABORATION FOR SMART HOME -- Cho Young-hoon (left), head of SK Telecom‘s smart home TF, and Kim Hyeog-pyo, vice president of Dongbu Daewoo Electronics, pose at the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding in Seoul on Tuesday. The mobile carrier and the electronics maker will work together to launch home appliances which can be remotely controlled by SKT’s smartphone apps. (SKT)

  cap-SKT Samsung GearSAMSUNG SMARTWATCH HITS SHELVES -- Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom said Monday it has exclusively launched Samsung Electronics’ Gear S2 Band Classic, a standalone smartwatch that enables users to send text messages and make calls without being paired to a handset. (SKT)

LG OVEN RANGE RECOGNIZED FOR INNOVATION --LG Electronics said Monday its premium oven range, dubbed the LG Studio, had been picked as the 2015 Product of the Year in the kitchen and bath category by leading U.S. monthly magazine Architectural Record. (LGE)

　The number of subscribers for Facebook-owned social-networking service Instagram in Korea grew at the fastest pace in the world this year, according to Facebook Korea on Monday. 　Benjamin Joe, the country manager of Facebook Korea, announced this during a press meeting at the firm’s head office in Seoul. 　Although he refused to reveal the exact number of users here, he said the entire number of users worldwide crossed 400 million and is on the rise. Facebook Korea country manager Benjamin Joe s

South and North Korea resumed high-level talks on Saturday after an adjournment as they are seeking to explore ways of mending ties following heightened cross-border tension in August. Officials from the two Koreas talk at a meeting held in Kaeseong, North Korea on Friday. (Yonhap)The two Koreas reopened vice-ministerial talks at a joint industrial complex in the North's border city of Kaesong Saturday morning as they failed to conclude the meeting a day earlier.The rival Koreas appeared to have

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected a catfish farm, calling it a "model and standard farm" for the country's pisciculture, the North's state media said Saturday.It was his first visit to the May 9 Catfish Farm since December last year, when he named it after the day his father and late leader Kim Jong-il visited the farm for the first time. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. (Yonhap)"Kim Jong-un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defense Comm

South Korean stocks are expected to enjoy a short-term rebound next week as uncertainty could be reduced after the Federal Reserve's rate-setting meeting, analysts said Saturday.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) closed at 1,948.62 on Friday, down 1.3 percent from a week earlier. This marked the second straight week of declines. (123rf)The heightened possibility of a U.S. rate hike and worries over the low crude oil prices weighed on investor sentiment. Foreign investors led

LG’S UNESCO CAMPAIGN -- Participants of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21 watch LG Electronics’ organic light-emitting display TV featuring royal penguins on Macquarie Island, Australia. The South Korean tech giant ran a campaign with UNESCO to raise awareness of natural assets and endangered species at the conference held from Nov. 30 to Friday.(LGE)

SKT OPENS LAB FOR VR -- SK Telecom launched a research and development center Thursday for virtual reality technology called the OpenNFV Lab together with network equipment firm Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province. In the photo, Park Jin-hyo (fifth from left), head of SKT’s network technology research and development center, poses with officials from both firms at the opening ceremony of the lab.(SKT)

SAMSUNG UHD TV SWEEPS AWARD -- Samsung Electronics’ ultrahigh-definition TV lineup, the JS9500, has received the Best of What’s New award, the tech giant said Thursday. U.S. science magazine Popular Science picks the greatest innovations every year in different industrial categories including aerospace, auto and entertainment for the accolade. (Samsung Electronics) SAMSUNG UHD TV SWEEPS AWARD -- Samsung Electronics’ ultrahigh-definition TV lineup, the JS9500, has received the Best of What’s New

Busan’s posh seaside district of Haeundae is getting a hi-tech makeover, with smart streetlamps, GPS trackers for kids, smart parking solutions and traffic lights, and smart energy controllers for buildings and shops. The transformation is being led by Korea’s mobile network operator SK Telecom, which is set to showcase its smart-city technologies and services already up and running in the southern port city on Friday.  Busan city government staffers work at a smart search center for missing chi