An employee at an LG U+ outlet explains clients about the “LTE8 (Long-term Evolution) Unlimited 80” package and others the telecom provider has introduced recently. (photo: courtesy of LG U+)  LG U+ Vice Chairman Lee Sang-chul LG U+ has become the first Korean telecom provider to …

Lee Sang-hak, head of the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-14 Busan) Preparatory Secretariat. (photos: courtesy of the ITU PP-14 Busan Preparatory Secretariat)As many as about 3,000 government delegates including 150 ministers and vice ministers from 193 countries will descend on the exh…

KT Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu (photo: courtesy of KT, article by S. Y. Kim)Hwang Chang-gyu, former president of Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business, took office as KT chairman on Jan. 27.  KT held an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting at its research and development center in Umyeon-d…

SK Telecom staff and their cooperative company employees demonstrate the “LTE-Advanced 3 Band Carrier Aggregation (CA)” technology the Korean telecom provider has successfully developed for the first time in the world. (photo: courtesy of SK Telecom, article by S. Y. Kim)SK Telecom, cele…

President Lee Sang-cheol of LGU+.(Photo:LGU+: article by SK Lee)LG U+ had a brilliant year last year with its operating profit rising 327 percent YoY to 542.1 billion won amid tough competition between the three major contenders in the industry — LG U+, KT and SK Telecom — a year that sa…

A scene from the New Year’s reception for all media people held at Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry building in the evening of Jan. 6 hosted by the Korea Communications Commission. The participants included Prime Minister Chung Hong-won and top executives of leading media compa…

An ad for LG U+ Mom Car Home CCTV which can monitor every nook and corner of a house including all electronic home appliances and can be remote controlled with smartphones. LG U+ has introduced a camera that will put the customer’s mind at ease, by monitoring every nook and corner of the hous…

Dir.-Gen. Choi Tae-hyun in charge of materials and component industries at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) has been implementing comprehensive policies to raise materials and components exports to $650 billion and chalk up $250 bil…

Chairman-designate Hwang Chang-kyu of Korea Telecom. Hwang Chang-kyu, former president of Samsung Electronics in charge of semiconductor chip production and professor at Sungkyunkwan University, has been tapped as the next Chairman of Korea Telecom as recommended by the CEO Recommendation Comm…