[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook] Citibank Korea (CKI, CEO Ha, Yung-ku, http://www.citibank.co.kr) and JA Korea (CEO Kim Tae-joon, www.jakorea.org), an international non-profit organization, held a presentation session on “Citi-JA Hero Program” at Kyunghyang Arthill in Jeongdong, Seoul in the morning of Monday, Jul. 22, 2013. Citi-JA Hero Program is aimed at supporting teenagers from multi-cultural families, and a total of 200 people including multi-racial teenagers, undergraduate students who served as their study mentors, and the global bank’s executives and employees joined the session, and Ha, Yung-k
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korea took two more gold medals on the sixth day of the 2013 WTF World Taekwondo Championships at the jam-packed Exhibition Center in Puebla, Mexico on July 20, 2013.Korea's Dae-hoon Lee easily defeated host Mexico's Abel Mendoza 16-4 in the men's -63kg final match to earn his country the gold medal. With 28 seconds to go before the end of the third round, Kim won the match with a 12 point-gap victory.Lee, the silver medalist at the 2012 London Olympic Games, reached the final round as he beat Chinese Taipei's Chen Yang Wei 9-7 in a semifinal match. Spain's Joel Gonzalez,
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Cuba took home two gold medals and Gabon won one gold medal on the fifth day of the 2013 WTF World Taekwondo Championships at the Exhibition Center in Puebla, Mexico on July 19, 2013.Cuba's Glenhis Hernandez came from behind to beat Korea's In-jong Lee 5-1 in the women's -73kg final match for the gold medal.Hernandez made her way to the final round as she crushed Canada's Jasmine Vokey, the bronze winner at the 2012 Military World Championships, 7-1 in a semifinal match. Korea's Lee, the gold medal winner at the 2012 Asian Championships, reached the final match by defeati
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korea added two gold medals and Russia took home one gold medal on the fourth day of the 2013 WTF World Taekwondo Championships at the Exhibition Center in Puebla, Mexico on July 18, 2013.Korea's Tae-hun Kim crushed Chinese Taipei's Chia Lin Hsu 7-0 in the men's -54kg final match to earn his country the gold medal.Kim made his way to the final round by defeating his semifinal match opponent, Thailand's Jerranat Nakaviroj, 10-4. Chinese Taipei's Hsu advanced to the final round as he outpointed his semifinal match opponent, Egypt's Hussein Sherif, 5-3.In the women's -53kg f
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]PROFIT TECHNOLOGIES®, an international earnings enhancement firm, and First Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing, announced today they will work together to better service financial customers in the Asian Pacific market. Together they will provide solutions such as card pricing optimization, card scheme billing audits, more efficient card production and statement processing to increase profitability and lower costs. The new venture combines the strengths of two successful players in the global cards market; it will offer a broade
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook] PAYGATE made it clear that they would hold the conference for launching the international credit card personal identification service (Amount Authentication system, hereinafter, “AA”) on July 20 at its in-house caf ‘gokgwachae.’ The size of the market for international credit card personal identification is estimated at about 30 billion dollars this year, and PAYGATE is setting up its strategy for establishing a solid foothold as a forerunner in the international credit card personal identification market. PAYGATE, which has devoted itself to only the global online payme
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU) today announced the appointment of Warren East to the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. East served as CEO of ARM Holdings PLC from October 2001 to July 1, 2013. “We are extremely pleased to welcome Warren to our Board of Directors,” said Micron CEO Mark Durcan. “Warren transformed ARM during his tenure as CEO, and we are confident his contributions will strengthen our board.” East, who also serves as director of De La Rule PLC, joined ARM in 1994 and later became Vice President of Business Operations. Within three ye
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Telefnica, via its global operating business unit (Telefnica Global Resources), and ASSIA, Inc., a leading solutions company for broadband service providers, are pleased to announce an agreement to expand a global contract for DSL network management to improve network performance and customer care. The expansion of the existing contract, which was signed in 2010, covers more than eight million customer lines globally, and will initially focus on South American countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. ASSIA is also a portfolio company of Telefnica
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Arkadin, one of the world's largest and fastest growing Conferencing ServiceProviders, announced today that it received the 2013 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Conferencing Service Provider of the Year award. Recognizing outstanding performance by companies in the Enterprise, Telecom, and Service Provider segments of the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) industry, Arkadin was chosen for the exemplary growth of its products, spanning audio, web and video conferencing and unified communications (UC) technologies. “Arkadin has shown a remarkable 25% year-on-
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The next flagship device from LG Electronics (LG) will be officially known as G2 and will be the first smartphone from LG to be launched as part of the company’s new “G” premium brand. Future smartphones in the same series will carry only the G name while the branding of mobile devices that have already been in-troduced will continue unchanged. “Our vision is to make LG’s newest G devices synonymous with excellence, raising the bar even further for the ultimate in user experience,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of the LG Electronics Mobile Communications Comp