KT Media Hub CEO Kim Ju-seong announces a plan to launch two funds worth a combined 100 billion won in order to foster the nation’s content industry at KT’s Olleh Square in downtown Seoul, on Jan. 31.KT announced on Jan. 30 that it will launch two funds worth a combined 100 billion won f…

KT Chairman Lee Suk-chae delivers a speech at a ceremony to kick off the 2013 business year on Jan. 2. “Even though its core business, wire/wireless businesses collapsed KT overcame the challenge with passion and sweat of employees without structural adjustment and any change of ownership…

Curved OLED TV, unveiled by Samsung Electronics at 2013 Int'l CES.Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a global leader in consumer electronics, highlighted its leadership in creating innovative, eco-conscious technology at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Jan. 10. In a…

A ceremony to celebrate the 12th anniversary of Machine Tool Day took place at the Renaissance Seoul Hotel on Dec. 6 with about 400 people from government, industry and academic circles in attendance.  In 2001, the government designed the first Thursday of December each year as “Machine Tool D…

Li Ki-joo, the new Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) president, took office as the third president of the agency on Sept. 25 shortly after he received a document of appointment from the Korea Communications Commission (KCC).Lee said in his inaugural speech that he will devote himself to ma…

SK Telecom announced on Nov. 7 that it successfully demonstrated Uplink Cooperative Multi-Point (or Uplink CoMP), a technology that can significantly improve LTE data upload speeds in base station boundary areas. Signal strength is weakened in base station boundary areas, which leads to custome…

KT showcased the Kibot 2, a smart robot focusing on educational services, at Robot World 2012, a world-class robot fair held from Oct. 25-28 at KINTEX, north of Seoul.Robot World 2012 attracted about 200 robot makers and research institute exhibitors from 10 countries, which displayed state-of-the-a…

T he Global Materials Technology Forum & World Premier Materials Marketing Session brought together about 500 Koreans, foreign materials experts and industry people at KINTEX in Ilsan, north of Seoul, from Oct. 31-Nov. 1 to share technology development trends along with the latest research outco…

Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) is striving to explore environmental R&D tasks to address pending and future environmental issues as their strategic projects, ramp up international networks for accelerating Korean firms’overseas market entry and make green produc…