It took only four days for Apple to knock down Samsung Electronics, which controls more than half of the mobile phone market in Korea.
After KT, the only distributor of iPhone in the local market, …
Shareholders of Pantech approved Saturday the mobile phone maker’s merger with its affiliate Pantech&Curitel Communications to sharpen its competitive edge in the global market.
The two companies announced the merger plan last month, aiming to launch the new entity on Dec. 30.
The merged company will aim to post 5 trillion won (US$4.3 billion) in sales and to sell 25 million units of mobile phones in 2013, Patech officials said. Read the full story »
Prior to its official public announcement of “bada” on December 8 at Vinopolis in London, Samsung Electronics unveiled some details about its first mobile platform.
According to Samsung, bada is made up of four layers: kernel, …
Eager South Korean consumers lined up at midnight to be among the first in the country to get their hands on Apple’s popular iPhone Saturday.
Hundreds of people began to stand in line from midnight in …
Shareholders of LG Group’s three telecom affiliates approved Friday a merger of the companies next year to better compete with two local telecom powerhouses.
A majority of shareholders of the three — mobile carrier LG Telecom, …
South Korea’s national brand power ranked 10th in the world this year as measured in terms of products and services sold abroad, numbers of inbound tourists and familiarity polls taken by foreigners, a state-run think …
Hundreds of video game makers including star U.S. developer Activision Blizzard Inc. gathered Thursday to unveil their latest projects at South Korea’s largest electronic gaming expo.
The four-day event, G-Star 2009, kicked off in this southern …
Hynix Semiconductor, the world’s second largest chipmaker, said Thursday one of its chips has earned the South Korean government’s performance certificate on carbon emissions.
The performance certificate on carbon emissions places a mark on the product, …
The government has teamed up with the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers on a project to develop a next-generation memory chip, an effort to help the country maintain its lead in the industry, government officials said …
Nokia Siemens Networks and LG Electronics announced they have completed the first end-to-end LTE (Long-Term Evolution) interoperability tests in the 2100 MHz frequency band using Nokia Siemens’ LTE radio equipment and LG’s LTE USB datacard.
The …
