Google may be barred from operating an Android market place in South Korea, if it continues to circulate game contents without approval from the country’s regulating body, government officials said.
South Korea’s Games Ratings Board has …
South Korea’s recent decision to exempt Youtube, the world’s most-visited video portal, from the country’s controversial real-name verification law has resparked a debate about the relevance of current Web regulation amid an increasingly mobile Internet environment, industry sources here said Friday.
The country’s regulator said earlier this week that YouTube — run by U.S. search engine giant Google — which recently became available to local customers via many smartphones with a built-in YouTube application, is not compelled to abide by the domestic Internet law. The law, devised partly to stem defamation on the Web, requires users to input their full name and ID number before posting a comment or a video. Read the full story »
LG Display, the world’s second-largest maker of liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels, will spend 1.49 trillion won (US$1.32 billion) to expand its eighth-generation LCD plant to meet rising demand, the company said Friday.
LG’s board approved the …
A Swiss-based financial firm on Friday picked Samsung Electronics of South Korea as the chipmaker most likely to lead the memory market in the first half of this year.
UBS said in a report it preferred …
Hynix Semiconductor, the world’s second-largest computer memory chipmaker, said it will invest 465 billion won (US$410.41 million) to expand its plant facilities and research and development activities in March.
India will auction licenses for nationwide mobile phone services and next-generation mobile wireless services in April, South Korean officials said Thursday, as Korean companies are gearing up to tap Asia’s third-largest economy.
According to South Korea’s …
An international standards body has accepted a South Korean-made magnetic communications technology for consideration as a potential benchmark, a government agency here said Wednesday.
The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards said a committee of the …
LG Electronics introduced its first Android-based smartphone, “Andro-1(LG KH5200),” for KT customers. The Andro-1 is the local version of the GW620, which released last year in European markets.
The Andro-1, which runs the older Android 1.5, …
LG Electronics, the world’s second-largest maker of flat screen TVs, said Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its three-dimensional (3D) TVs to an Indian media and entertainment company, as it braces to expand its …
Monthly usage of wireless data among smartphone users in South Korea surged over 100-fold during the first two months following the iPhone’s launch here, a report from KT showed Monday.
KT, South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, …
