[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korea showed its supremacy in taekwondo as it took two gold medals on the opening day of the 2013 WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Puebla, Mexico on July 15, 2013.The seven-day event, which takes place at the Exhibition Center Puebla, drew 872 athletes from 134 countries on an entry basis. The daily competitions are divided into three sessions. In the women's -46kg weight category, Korea's So-hui Kim brushed aside a stiff challenge from Russia's Anastasia Valueva to win the final match 8-7. Kim, the gold medalist at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships, advanced to
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]On the 15st, LS Cable & System (President & CEO: Ja-Eun Koo) announced that the company had won a project to supply 230kV level extra high voltage underground cables and connectors worth $12.7 million (approx. KRW 14.5 billion) to SMECO (Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Inc.) located in the state of Maryland (U.S.A.). The cables and connectors will be used for implementing a new power transmission and distribution network being built to handle the increased power demand in the southern part of the state. It is noteworthy that this project is to establish an extra h
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Manchester, UK (June 25, 2013) - London 2012 Olympic gold medalist Jade Jones has welcomed a major new global taekwondo event coming to Britain at the end of this year. The Welsh star, Britain's first ever Olympic taekwondo champion, will be one of the stars at the inaugural WTF World Grand Prix when it is hosted in Manchester, the home of GB Taekwondo, from December 13 to 15. She will be joined by nearly 300 of the world’s top players across the eight Olympic weight categories, all competing for vital Olympic qualification points as the road to Rio 2016 commences The WTF
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The World Taekwondo Federation continues its efforts in promoting and sharing the Paralympic and Para-sport values of courage, determination, inspiration and equality. The sport has begun to expand its initiatives in developing its para-athlete programs. Just before a WTF Extraordinary Council meeting at the IOC Headquarters, the WTF signed MOUs with the Cerebral Palsy International Sport and Recreation Association (CPISRA) and the International Sport Federation for Para-Athletes with Intellectual Disability (INAS). Present at the signing ceremony were Dr. Chungwon Choue,
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., a leading independent designer, manufacturer and supplier of value added subsystems including memory modules, flash memory cards and other solid state storage products, today announced that the company has expanded its operations in Asia with the opening of a new research and development (R&D) facility in Taiwan. “SMART‘s Center for Advanced Memory Product Design in Asia leverages the high-tech and knowledgeable New Taipei City workforce to develop cutting-edge solutions for our customers worldwide,” said Alan Marten, Senior Vice Presiden
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Expanding on the strong interest surrounding its 84-inch ULTRA High Definition TV, LG Electronics (LG) today announced the addition of 55- and 65-inch ULTRA HD TV models in markets around the world, enabling even more consumers to enjoy the benefits of 4K technology. Initially introduced in South Korea last month, the two LA9700 series ULTRA HD TVs were rolled out in the United States this week and will be followed by introductions in overseas markets such as the U.K., Russia and Australia. “When we first unveiled our 84-inch ULTRA HD TV at CES last year, the reception we
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Sterling Trader, the Chicago-headquartered broker-neutral, independent service bureau, announced that Sterling Trader will offer the SMARTS Broker SaaS surveillance solution to buy-side customers to monitor trading activity for a variety of malicious trading behaviors—including layering, spoofing and insider trading—as well as to detect suspicious activity across trading venues and prevent market abuse. “Speed to market and SMARTS Broker‘s cross-market functionality was very important in our decision to partner with
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced that the company will offer DNSstuff, its online collection of DNS management tools for email, network, domain, and IP address lookup, for free. The free DNSstuff collection joins the comprehensive set of SolarWinds free solutions that address pain points in network, systems, SIEM, virtualization, storage, alerting, and more. “For years, SolarWinds has developed dozens of free tools as a meaningful way to give back to IT pros by addressing their specific IT manage
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that its VCS® Fabric technology was selected as the winner at this year's Computerworld Hong Kong Awards in the Ethernet Fabric Platform category of the overall Networking awards. All winners were determined by Computerworld Hong Kong readers through voting based on their experience with best-in-class vendors for product quality, service excellence and leading innovation. Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks were placed second and third respectively. “We are honored to be regarded as the leader in Ethernet fabrics by Computerworld Hong
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]GuestLogix Inc. (TSX:GXI), the leading global provider of onboard retail and payment technology solutions to airlines and the passenger travel industry, today announced an agreement to deploy its onboard retail technology platform including POS handheld devices to accept China UnionPay bank cards onboard China Southern Airlines. GuestLogix‘ solution will be deployed to enable the purchase of inflight seat upgrades using a secure, convenient solution onboard China Southern aircraft. This win marks the global introduction to China UnionPay card acceptance in an inflight env