Facing saturation in the domestic wireless market, South Korean mobile carriers are turning their eyes to the business-to-business market in a bid to find a new growth engine.KT Corp., the country’s second largest wireless carrier, launched a Web portal that allows resellers of its cloud-based business management solution Ucloud Biz to efficiently manage their sales channels.The portal enables the dealers of Ucloud Biz to manage memberships, collect fees and adjust details of offerings on the cl

A senior executive of SK C&C, a leading system integration developer in South Korea, said that the company would open the nation’s first online-only Internet bank as early as next year.“SK C&C is currently considering participating in projects to set up Internet banks together with financial institutes, local governments and ICT firms,” said Lee Ki-yeol, executive vice president of the company in a press meeting Tuesday in Seoul.“The Korean market will likely see the first Internet bank next yea

Online comic strips, or webtoons, nowadays play a pivotal role in the creation of media content, serving as a reservoir of new ideas for TV shows and movies. Featuring gripping stories with twists and turns and witty, but satirical punchlines, they allow people of all ages and genders to let their hair down while reading.Stories and genres are diverse, ranging from office life and heart-wrenching stories of people having suffered under Japan’s colonial rule to the sweet romance of an elderly cou

A model poses with Samsung Electronics’ newly released SUHD TV, 82S9W, which features an 82-inch curved display with a 21:9 aspect ratio, in Seoul on Monday. The electronics giant teamed up with world-renowned industrial designer Yves Behar for the design and packaging of the TV. (Samsung Electronics)

Apple said Friday that it would launch its first wearable gadget, Apple Watch, in seven more countries including South Korea on June 26 after it began rolling out the smart watch last April in some global markets.According to the Cupertino, California-based tech giant, among the group of new markets where the Apple Watch will be additionally available are Italy, Mexico, Singapore, Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan.The digital timepiece was previously only available in nine nations including t

LG Display chief executive and president Han Sang-beom will take the stage at IFA 2015 ― the world’s largest electronics trade show to be held in Berlin from Sept. 4 to 9 ― to share his vision on future display technologies, according to the company Thursday.The CEO will deliver a keynote speech themed “How display technologies will change our lives” on the first day of the event, and talk about what comes next after current high-end displays such as 4K and curved screens.He will introduce cutti

South Korea’s three largest mobile carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus opened their joint mobile application market One Store on Wednesday in a bid to grow the local app market and join forces against Apple and Google, two dominant players in the global app market. With its launch, subscribers of the three mobile network operators can use all mobile applications and digital content, which were previously available only on each individual app store run by them, without a glitch. South Korea’s th

A legal battle between Software giant Microsoft and Korea Electric Power Corp. is looming large over the alleged violation of license agreements by the Korean public corporation.The nation’s largest power firm KEPCO has been revamping power supply systems with MS’ solutions since 1998.MS reportedly claimed that KEPCO illegally deployed a total of 80,000 MS SQL servers, which are a database management software, and related products for the state-run company’s power supply systems since it bought

South Korean tech giant LG Electronics released the 270-gram portable projector Mini Beam in the Korean market Wednesday. The handheld projector with 854-by-480-pixel resolution and 100 ANSI lumens is priced at 399,000 won ($360). (LGE)