The Korean currency deposits in the nation's four main cryptocurrency exchanges -- UPbit, Bithumb, Coinone and Korbit -- have increased more than 1,300 percent for the past 15 months.According to the Financial Supervisory Service, the deposits in the major local cryptocurrency exchanges increase
SK Broadband announced on Sept. 30 that it has filed a counterclaim against Netflix to collect fees from the U.S. company for using its telecommunications network.This lawsuit is a follow-up to the previous suit the telecom operator had filed to confirm the absence of its obligations to provide its
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport published the first version of its urban air mobility concept on Sept. 28.According to the publication, drone taxis are expected to be used for movement between Seoul and the Incheon and Gimpo Airports starting from 2025. These days, Hyundai Motor G
A new forecast of the energy transition from DNV has warned that even if all electricity was ‘green’ from this day forward, the world will still fall a long way short of achieving the 2050 net-zero emissions ambitions of the COP21 Paris Agreement.DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook, now in its fifth yea
Samsung Electronics announced on Aug. 30 that two Samsung researchers have been elected as the vice-chairs of two Working Groups at the respective 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project), during meetings held from Aug. 16-28. Following the election, the company now holds a total of seven officia
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at hwdoh@nhqv.com. -- Ed. For Tesla’s D1 processor, packaging technology will be the key process. We recommend paying attention to domestic back-end process players. EDA companies, such as Synopsys and Cadence, should also ben
The authors are analysts of NH Investment & Securities. They can be reached at minjae.lee@nhqv.com and ys.jung@nhqv.com, respectively. -- Ed. We view power generation via hydrogen gas turbines as offering a good opportunity to re-evaluate stranded assets by modifying and recycling old gas turbines.
Samsung Electronics announced its new wearable processor, the Exynos W920, on Aug. 10. The new processor integrates an LTE modem and is the first in the industry to be built with an advanced 5-nanometer (nm) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process node, offering powerful yet efficient performance demanded
More than a dozen employees of Samsung Electronics’ Mobile Research Center on Suwon Campus were found positive in COVID-19 tests. This is the first time that more than 10 employees have been infected at a single Samsung Electronics business site in Korea since the outbreak of the virus.The company s
Yanolja Cloud will enter the Turkish hospitality market in earnest. The company announced on July 27 that it has signed an agreement with CMH Solutions to form a strategic partnership for the digital transformation of the Turkish travel industry.The key point of this agreement is to expand the intro
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. She can be reached at hzl.lee@nhqv.com. -- Ed. 2Q21 review: Solid earnings growth across regions and segments- We maintain a Buy rating and TP of W31,000 on Cheil Worldwide. Despite ongoing uncertainties regarding Covid-19, advertisers both at
Samsung Electronics announced on July 26 a new partnership with CJ ENM, Asia’s leading entertainment and media group behind the Oscar-winning film "Parasite," to build a virtual production studio to spearhead the production of future video content.The company will combine its micro-LED technology wi
Ground was broken on July 21 for the construction of a large-scale nuclear research center that will focus on three areas -- small modular reactors (SMRs), nuclear power plant safety and nuclear power plant dismantling.The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (K
Hyundai Mobis announced on July 21 that it has succeeded in developing M.Brain, a new healthcare technology based on brainwave measurement.The company developed M.Brain after three years of R&D. It is drawing great attention by applying this brainwave measurement technology to the automotive industr
Nikkei Business recently reported that TSMC has decided to invest in Japan and the decision would have been impossible without Ibiden, the number one company in the global semiconductor packaging substrate industry.Competition is heating up in the semiconductor packaging industry as well as foundry
The KAIST Department of Biological Sciences announced on July 13 that its research team led by professor Han Jin-hee succeeded in figuring out the principle of selection of memory-encoding neurons in a neural network.In the field of neuroscience, how memory is formed in the brain is still a conundru
Samsung Electronics introduced on June 29 its One UI Watch user experience at Mobile World Congress (MWC), which kicked off in Barcelona this week.The new interface is designed to make the Galaxy Watch and smartphone experience more deeply connected. Samsung also confirmed that One UI Watch will be
Samsung Electronics announced on June 16 that the company has demonstrated the 6G Terahertz (THz) wireless communication prototype in collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).At the recent workshop on Terahertz communications at the IEEE International Conference on Commu
The Financial Services Commission announced on June 9 that it would look into every financial company to find out non-real-name accounts of cryptocurrency exchanges.At present, most minor cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea are doing business using cash concentration accounts such as honeycomb a
The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) has developed technology that improves both the speed and accuracy of disease diagnosis by combining medical imaging diagnostic equipment with the machine learning technology of mechanical equipment.Led by Park Jong-won, head of the Department of