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.
Lee Moo-hyung, executive vice president and head of the digital appliances customer experience team at Samsung Electronics, introduces the company’s new Bespoke AI Combo all-in-one washer-dryer at its office in Seoul, Monday. Samsung said the Bespoke AI Combo has been upgraded with AI features to reduce energy use and to detect the dirtiness of loads to add the right amount of detergent. Courtesy of Samsung Electronics
LG AI Research is set to develop an AI model to unlock the secrets of Alzheimer's disease and cancers with U.S. genomic medicine institution Jackson Laboratory, the AI arm of LG Group said Monday.
LG Energy Solution joined hands with the U.S. chip company Qualcomm to develop software for an advanced battery management system (BMS) to optimally manage the performance and life span of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), the battery arm of LG Group said Sunday.
Tving, an online streaming arm of CJ ENM, has been facing criticism from baseball fans for broadcasting the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) League games, one of the most popular professional sports here, with poor screen quality and broadcast delays, according to industry officials and baseball fans, Sunday.
Seen are Kia’s EV9 electric SUVs. The company said Sunday that its electric SUV was among seven models that won the UK Car of the Year 2024 award, given to the best new vehicle currently available to customers in Britain. The jury, which was comprised of 30 British journalists, gave the EV9 the award after recognizing its practicality of accommodating up to seven people, modern design and long driving range. Courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group
NCSOFT, Nexon, Krafton, Netmarble and other Korean game companies are actively introducing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to improve game quality, reduce game development time and even venture into new areas of business, according to company and industry officials, Thursday.
Hyundai Motor introduced a trade-in program that allows customers to purchase new electric vehicles (EVs) at a lower price in exchange for a used one as part of the carmaker’s efforts to reduce the burden for consumers looking to buy new eco-friendly cars and consequently expand its EV share, the company said Thursday.
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed an AI semiconductor capable of processing large language model (LLM) data at ultra-high speeds while significantly reducing power consumption, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.
LS Electric seeks to pioneer the global smart factory market in collaboration with LG Electronics, with both companies being globally recognized as "lighthouse factories" that have demonstrated leadership in the manufacturing industry by actively introducing digital technologies, the power equipment company said Wednesday.
Korea successfully explored a 3,500-meter thick glacier in Antarctica using a radar system developed by domestic technicians as part of its efforts to foster research capabilities on responding to climate change, the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) said Tuesday.