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Kakao launches renewed flight booking service

Kakao has upgraded its flight booking and payment service on the firm's search engine Daum Mobile, the firm said Wednesday. Kakao, which runs the nation's top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said it has completely overhauled the existing service provided by Daum to offer users more convenient and diverse functions.

IT | 2018-03-26 16:51

SK introduces 'open work space'

SK Group is shifting to an open office floor plan that will help boost collaboration and idea-sharing among employees. According to SK, Sunday, the business group plans to begin remodeling its headquarters in Jongno-gu, central Seoul, in July in accordance with its Chairman Chey Tae-won's management policy focusing on “deep change.” The remodeling plan will be committed to ma...

IT | 2018-03-25 18:17

Samsung separates board chairman and CEO roles

Samsung Electronics has decided to separate the roles of chairman of the board of directors and chief executive for the first time since its foundation in a bid to enhance board independence.

IT | 2018-03-23 17:02

KT commits to improving corporate governance

Corporate governance is the system of rules, practices and processes by which a company is directed and controlled.More specifically, it refers to the way a company is governed and for what purpose. Corporate governance also identifies who has the power and accountability, and who makes decisions.

IT | 2018-03-23 17:01

Samsung bypassing 80th anniversary

Samsung, the country's most-influential business conglomerate, has not held any official events to celebrate the business group's 80th anniversary amid a continuing power vacuum following the group's top family scion Lee Jae-yong's release from prison.

IT | 2018-03-22 16:31

Engineer helps fire prevention at traditional markets

Lee Hyeon-seok, an assistant research engineer at LS Cable & System, visits traditional markets every month to check electrical installations and cables for free as part of the firm's talent donation.

IT | 2018-03-22 16:03

KT to commercialize 5G network in March 2019

KT's preparations are in full swing to commercialize the fifth-generation (5G) wireless network by March next year, before any other telecommunications companies in the world, a head of the firm's network sector said Thursday.

IT | 2018-03-22 15:31

Korean users could be among Facebook data-breach victims

Korean Facebook users could be among the 50 million people whose personal information was swept up in a massive data-harvesting scandal. “It is possible that Koreans were included, but we do not know yet,” a Facebook Korea official told The Korea Times Thursday. “There is no data showing them (the victims) by countries.”

IT | 2018-03-22 14:35

Facebook fined $370,000 for limiting user access

Facebook was fined 396 million won ($369,400) in South Korea for illegally limiting user access to its services for nearly a year from late 2016. The American social media giant was also ordered to change its terms of use stipulating it cannot guarantee the quality of its services.

IT | 2018-03-22 14:29

Zuckerberg says Facebook 'made mistakes' on Cambridge Analytica

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that his company made mistakes in how it handled data belonging to 50 million of its users and promised tougher steps to restrict developers’ access to such information. The world’s largest social media network is facing growing government scrutiny in Europe and the United States about a whistleblower’s allegatio...

IT | 2018-03-22 09:29

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