Models at SK Telecom booth show off the latest credit card “Smart Stamp” during the World Mobile Congress 2015.(Photo:SK Telecom) SK Telecom President Jang Dong-hyun said his company will explore new growth engines in the internet of things (IoT) field in cooperation with start-up companies and i…

KT Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu gives a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress 2015 being held in Barcelona, Spain on March 3.(Photo:KT) KT Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu said, “The introduction of 5G, the fifth generation of mobile network, will increase 1,000 times in transmission speed and volumes, …

President Chung Jae-hoon of the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology speaks at a ceremony to open the 2014 Technology Commercialization Convention kicked off at the K Seoul Hotel on July 2 to spur technology commercialization and share industrial technology.    The…

The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), the Ministry of Security and Public Administration (MSPA), and the National Intelligence Service (NIS) jointly sponsored a ceremony to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of Information Security Day at the Seoul Jamsil Lotte Hotel on July 9. Roughl…

KT Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu (photo: courtesy of KT) KT Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu convened a meeting with the CEOs of KT subsidiaries, the first such gathering since his inauguration, at the KT headquarters in Bundang, south of Seoul, on April 17 in which he stressed what he calls “Single KT” manag…

SK Telecom President Ha Sung-min speaks at a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of its foundation at the SK Telecom headquarters in Uljiro, downtown Seoul, on March 27.  (photo: courtesy of SK Telecom) SK Telecom President Ha Sung-min said his company will maintain leadership in a…

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…