[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The National University of Singapore (NUS) -- in collaboration with NCS, a leading ICT provider, and Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking and communications -- has successfully implemented a flexible, scalable and high-speed wireless network across its Kent Ridge and Bukit Timah campuses in Singapore. The wireless network across the NUS campuses will meet the growing mobility needs of its students and staff across two locations, as well as provide high levels of performance and scalability, while simplifying management. NUS' integrated approach towards providing perv
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]LS Cable & System (President & CEO: Jaeun Koo) announced on the 9th that the company has successfully developed for the first time in Korea an umbilical cable for operating deep sea ROVs (remotely operated vehicles). This cable is essential for deep sea resources development as it supplies both power and communication signals to ROVs to operate the robot arms, sensors, cameras and drive and steering systems. The umbilical cable is a composite cable consisting of a 4.5kV power cable to supply power to the drive system of an ROV, a 3.3kV cable to supply power to the ancilla
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea Inc.announced to launch ‘More Luck! More Mileage/Points!’ travel promotion offering up to 50% mileage or point accumulation, lucky draw gifts and discount on foreign exchange(FX) fee to all Citicard customers(Citi BC, check and corporate card excluded) from April 1st to June 30th. Customers who spend any amount from travel category(domestic/overseas hotels, domestic/ overseas flights, travel agency, DFS etc.) for at least once during the promotion period, register a 3-month incremental spending target from April 1st to end June(vs Nov.2012~Jan.2013) and mee
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The 2013 LG Innovative Festival (Innofest), held in Cancun, Mexico from April 4 to 6, provided an opportunity for LG’s business partners and other stakeholders from across South and Central America to see and experience a range of impressive products designed to deliver savings, convenience, performance and better health. With approximately 300 participants, the event highlighted LG’s efforts to strengthen its global position and become the number one home appliance brand by 2015. Major products featured in the lineup included LG’s Door-in-Door refrigerator, 6 Motion Dire
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]“Do you have Gangnam Style? Do you love K-Pop? Ever watched K-Drama?” If so, now is the time to get into K-MobileGame. This is a starting place to get involved with Korean mobile games via K-MobileGame services. Visit http://k-mobilegame.com. A ton of Korea mobile game information is updated at this site in real-time. Since 2004, Telecoms Korea has published telecom and mobile news in Korea online and offline in English. Telecoms Korea is now launching a new service, “K-MobileGame” (http://k-mobilegame.com)
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Glaston Corporation informed that it had initiated legal proceedings in China against Luoyang North Glass Technologies Co. Ltd. (“Northglass”) and Luoyang Land Glass Technologies Co. Ltd. (“Landglass”) regarding patent infringement cases. The Patent Reexamination Board in Beijing has now given decisions to invalidate Glaston‘s patents in question based on Land Glass’ and North Glass' invalidation claims filed after the infringement suits. Glaston is disappointed on the decisions and will take further actions. “Although the same patents are valid across the world the decis
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]WTF President Chungwon Choue has been appointed as an honorary consul of Honduras in Seoul. WTF President Choue received a certificate appointing him as an honorary consul of Honduras in Seoul from Jae-hyun Bae, deputy minister and chief of protocol of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of Foreign Affairs Minister Byung-se Yun, in a ceremony at the ministry on April 4, 2013. On hand at the ceremony were Honduran Amb. to Seoul Michel Idiaquez Baradat and Hye-hyeong Cho, chairman & CEO of Nara Holdings Corp. and dean of the Corps of Honoray Consuls in Korea.
[By NBC1TV H. J Yook]Quintiq, a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization (SCP&O), today announced the launch of a new business unit focused on meeting increasing demand from its rapidly growing customer base in the oil, gas and petrochemical industry. Quintiq's breakthrough SCP&O solutions are helping some of the largest oil and gas companies in the world to optimize their business planning and make fast, collaborative and well-informed decisions across their businesses. Quintiq can be applied to every part of the supply chain including production, processing and distribution an
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Following its successful launch in Korea, LG’s Optimus G Pro is now available in Japan through NTT DOCOMO. The 5-inch Optimus G Pro — with Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon™ 600 Quad-Core processor and Full HD IPS display — sports a smaller form-factor than the device that was launched in Korea last month, designed specifically for the Japanese market. The Optimus G Pro shows off its Full HD IPS Display with Zerogap Touch for the first time in the Japanese market. The large,5-inch (440ppi) display provides rich, crisp text, sharp images and wide viewing angles th
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korean venture capitalist Daniel Shin has been named a 2013 Yale World Fellow, announced Yale University President Richard C. Levin. Shin oversees global venture capital and a private equity investment program on behalf of Korea Telecom. In addition, he is a founding member and managing director of KingsBay Capital, a Korea-US cross-border venture capital firm with offices in Seoul and San Francisco. He has published several books and is a frequent speaker on subjects related to innovation and tech entrepreneurship. Shin is among 16 World Fellows selected this year, from