Artificial Intelligence (AI), deep partner collaboration, and building a strong ecosystem foundation were championed as next-level growth engines to new opportunities in industry digitisation at the recent Huawei Cloud APAC Partner Connection Summit 2024.Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific hosted approximatel
Align Partners Capital Management has raised the issue of overseas shareholders not being able to properly use a cumulative voting system ahead of JB Financial Group’s general shareholders meeting scheduled for March 28.“We have confirmed a number of cases where overseas shareholders have been unabl
This March, Four Seasons Hotel Seoul takes centre stage as an official partner of the prestigious Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024, which comes to the Korean capital for the first time. Securing its place as a gastronomic hotspot in the city’s thriving culinary scene, the contemporary Gwanghwamun hot
Patent applications originating from the Republic of Korea at the European Patent Office (EPO) grew by 21% last year, according to the EPO’s Patent Index 2023 published today. This was the highest growth rate among the 20 leading innovating countries, and more than five times the average growth at t
A huge wave that began with Chinese e-commerce platform AliExpress is now on the horizon, making it to more difficult to predict the future of the Korean e-commerce market.While Korean e-commerce players are competing fiercely for survival, the United States, China, and other Asian countries have jo
Attacks on Samsung Electronics by patent trolls are becoming increasingly cunning. These entities are focusing on purchasing patents with broad scopes that can be applied to various products and then targeting companies that release related products. Among global information technology (IT) companie
On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to ban TikTok, a Chinese video platform, from being downloaded in the United States due to security concerns. The bill was approved with an overwhelming majority of 352 votes in favor and 65 against. Europe is also engulfed in national sec
Chinese TV manufacturers are aggressively targeting the OLED market, dominated by Samsung and LG, with their large LCD products offered at breakthrough prices.During the “Korea Display Conference” hosted by Omdia in the Seocho district of Seoul on March 13, Park Kyung-sun, director at Omdia Korea, s
Korea and ASEAN member countries are meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 12 to assess the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and discuss measures for upgrading the agreement.The Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy announced that it will host the Korea-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement
The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) intends to initiate an investigation into Temu and Shein, following its inquiry into AliExpress, the leading online shopping platform in China, regarding potential consumer harm.This comes as the indiscriminate onslaught of Chinese online shopping malls, levera
Researchers in South Korea have developed the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor that operates at ultra-high speeds with minimal power consumption for processing large language models (LLMs), based on principles that mimic the structure and function of the human brain. The semi
The "0 Bit Watt" solution is equipped with Huawei's native-green technologies that were designed to ensure premium experience and high energy efficiency at the levels from equipment to networks. In zero-load hours, with a switch-off depth level of 99%, the RF equipment consumes less than 10 watts of
KT announced its vision to transform into an AICT company, combining its telecommunications capabilities with IT and AI, at MWC 2024, marking the start of its full-fledged leap into becoming a leading enterprise in global AI and ICT.At the recently concluded MWC 2024, KT received high praise for sho
Seed Group, a leading company under the Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, has taken a significant step towards revolutionising the travel industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through its strategic partnership with Seoul-based hospitality tech startup ONDA.Wit
Samsung Electronics and SK telecom have embarked on forming alliances with global operators to lead the development of 6G and integrate Large Language Models (LLM) into their services. While Samsung Electronics is co-establishing a consortium with big tech companies across various sectors such as te
By the end of 2023, more than 300 5G commercial networks had been launched worldwide, serving more than 1.6 billion users. 5G development is now well underway, with the growth rate of global 5G users reaching seven times higher than that of 4G users in the same period. Operators using Huawei solutio
Chinese direct purchase shopping app Temu is stirring controversy in South Korea by attracting new members with cash-like credit points and free gifts through fishing-like events. Consumers have criticized Temu’s ambiguous prize events as “consumer deception” and “multi-level personal information sc
The Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) opened the Korea-Germany Supply Chain Technology Cooperation Center at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden, Germany, on Feb. 20 to help stabilize global supply chains in key industries.The openin
Techtaka, a leading provider of software-centric fulfillment solutions, announced today that it has successfully secured a KRW12.6 billion won ($10 million) investment from Altos Ventures. The investment, led by Altos Ventures, marks a significant milestone in Techtaka's mission to revolutionize the
KT&G has been recognized as a leading company in the climate change response and water resource management sector by Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a global environmental information assessment organization, achieving the Leadership grade.Following last year, the company has once again attained to