삼성전자가 임인년 전략을 ‘TIGER’로 정했다. 호랑이처럼 매섭게 북미시장에서 애플을 공략하겠다는 취지다. 한종희 부회장 취임 후 더 공격적인 삼성의 스마트폰 행보가 예상된다. 한종희 DX부문장 부회장, 노태문 MX사업부장 사장, 박학규 세트부문 경영지원실장 사장을 비롯한 삼성전자 주요 임원 40여명은 현지시각 3일 미국 라스베이거스에서 국제전자제품박람회 (Consumer Electronics Show)를 이틀 앞두고 비공개 회동을 가지고 북미 MX 전략을 논의, 그 핵심으로 TIGER 전략을 수립했다. TIGER의 ‘T’는 모든 영역에서 최고가 되자는 ‘True No. 1 in all categories’를 뜻한다. ‘I’는 주요 시장에서 플래그십 모델의 점유율을 높이자는 ‘Improve flags...

South Korea's daily coronavirus cases stayed below 4,000 for the third straight day Tuesday amid tightened social distancing rules, but health authorities are on high alert after the first omicron-linked deaths were reported a day earlier. The country added 3,024 new COVID-19 infections, including 2,889 local infections, raising the total caseload to 645,226, according to the Korea Disease Contr...

With one month to go before the Beijing Winter Olympics, South Korean bobsleigh pilot Won Yun-jong seems to be finally hitting his stride. After a series of mediocre showings, Won and his brakeman, Kim Jin-su, posted their first top-10 finishes of this season in the two-man bobsleigh at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup in Sigulda, Latvia, over the weekend. On N...

The number of foreign tourists who visited South Korea last year is expected to have fallen below the 1 million mark due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. The data from the state-run Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) showed 877,000 foreigners visited the country from January to November, down 64.3 percent from a year earlier. Considering that only 94,000 foreigners visited the country in Novem...

Last month, a speeding car driven by an 80-something person rammed into another car and plowed into a grandmother and her granddaughter walking nearby in the southern port city of Busan, resulting in the death of the two pedestrians. Months earlier, multiple people were injured after a five-vehicle crash caused by a 73-year-old driver in the southeastern city of Changwon. Both drivers claimed t...

Home transactions in South Korea tumbled nearly 43 percent on-year in November amid lending curbs and rising interest rates, government data showed Tuesday. The number of homes changing hands nationwide stood at 67,159 in November, down 42.5 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Compared with the previous month, the November ...

Three out of 10 workers believe that workplace bullying is still serious, even though an anti-workplace harassment law has been in place for more than two years, a survey showed. According to the survey conducted on 1,000 office workers, 28.9 percent of respondents said they experienced workplace harassment as of September, down 16.5 percentage points from the corresponding rate of 45.4 percen...

A team of four doctors, experts in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, are sounding a warning about Americans who remain most vulnerable to COVID-19 -- those with existing health conditions or the immunosuppressed. They can harbor what the doctors call “evolving viral swarms” and could produce even more harmful variants of the coronavirus that would undermine the ...

In the news release, VINFAST ANNOUNCES COMMENCEMENT OF VF e35 & VF e36 RESERVATION AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION AT CES 2022, issued Jan. 4, 2022 by VinFast over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that there have been changes to the dollar amounts in the third paragraph. The complete, corrected release follows: VINFAST ANNOUNCES COMMENCEMENT OF VF e35 & VF e36 RESERVATION AND B...

SINGAPORE , Jan. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CHARLES & KEITH – the go-to label for footwear, handbags and accessories on the cutting edge of fashion – appoints actress and singer Krystal as its first-ever global brand ambassador, continuing its vision to empower women around the world to express themselves freely through fashion. Known for her keen sense of fashion, the multi-hyphenate who was a ...

Park So-dam, one of the stars of the Oscar-winning “Parasite,” is returning to the big screen as a driver in the upcoming car chase film “Special Cargo” directed by Park Dae-min. “Special Cargo” is a crime-action film that centers around a special professional delivery driver Eun-ha (Park So-dam). She delivers anything that cannot be delivered legally. One day, Eun-ha receives a mission to deliv...

WONJU, South Korea , Jan. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EVOSONICS (CEO Jason Choi ), a sound vibration-based healthcare company, announced on the 30th that it will submit sleep tech devices, rehabilitation devices and obesity management devices through CES2022 in Las Vegas , USA , from January 5, 2022 . EVOSONICS will launch 12 products including Sleep tech Sound pillows at CES 2022 EVO...