Korea Times K-Culture Reporter
Baek Byung-yeul is a journalist at The Korea Times focused on cultural content, including films and cultural events in South Korea. You can contact him at baekby@koreatimes.co.kr to share your insights.
Samsung, Hyundai Motor, LG, POSCO and other Korean companies are rolling up their sleeves to offer better working environments to their employees juggling work and parenting, according to the companies, Wednesday.
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics took up 40 percent of the home appliance market in the United States last year, proving that their technological and product design prowess is more than enough to entice U.S. consumers — known for having some of the highest purchasing power in the world — according to industry data and companies, Wednesday.
The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) captured the moment of the diamond ring effect during the total solar eclipse that occurred across North America, the astronomy agency said Tuesday.
Samsung Electronics is expected to receive more than $6 billion in subsidies from the U.S. government for its semiconductor investments in the country, marking its entry into the heated competition for chip investments alongside Intel and TSMC, according to media reports on Tuesday.
Hyundai Motor and Kia will use battery cells produced by a local Indian company for their future EVs sold in the West Asian country, a move to increase their presence in the blossoming Indian EV market, the carmakers said Monday.
Naver and Kakao are bolstering their short-form video services, launching initiatives to compete with YouTube, which has dominated the domestic mobile platform market thanks to the popularity of its Shorts service, or videos with a maximum length of 60 seconds, according to industry officials Monday.
LG Innotek has developed high-performance light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors — an emerging piece of tech used by self-driving cars — as a way to improve its presence in the global advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) market, the company said Sunday.
Korean semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix stand to gain from the escalating demand to diversify global chip supply chains in response to the recent earthquake in Taiwan on April 3, according to industry experts, Sunday.
Participants in LG’s AI coding contest pose for a photo at LG Academy in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, Saturday. LG Corp, holding company of LG Group, said Sunday that it has been providing a computer software training program to nurture young AI professionals. Those who took part in the monthlong LG Aimers contest displayed their AI skills in the two-day final contest starting Saturday. Courtesy of LG Corp.
Krafton is set to introduce its new mobile game Dark and Darker Mobile internationally this year with an aim to diversify its portfolio, which currently relies heavily on its multiplayer online battle game PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the company said Friday.