Cho Mu-hyun is based in Seoul, South Korea and covers global tech conglomerates Samsung, LG and technology news in Asia. His English name is Joe and it rhymes with his last name.
Samsung co-CEO DJ Koh says the Galaxy S10 smartphone is selling well in China and will bring about a turnaround after two years of difficulty there.
KT will roll out its 5G-based UHD live broadcasting service with Seoul Broadcasting System's Morning Wide news program.
Galaxy S10 5G smartphone will eventually have data transfer speeds up to 2.7Gbps in South Korea, SK Telecom says, following its completion of 5G-LTE aggregation testing.
South Korean telco LG Uplus and Hanyang University successfully tested their 5G-connected autonomous vehicle on the streets of Seoul.
LG will run pre-orders for the G8 ThinQ smartphone from March 15 to 21 before sales begin the next day in South Korea -- with the smartphone having the lowest price tag ever for a flagship model from the company.
South Korea will likely delay the rollout of 5G networks that was initially planned for this month due to delays in setting the right pricing plan, and smartphone makers and telcos struggling to meet the schedule.
Samsung says its first commercial embedded magnetic random access memory (eMRAM) has writing speeds that are a thousand times faster than eFlash.
South Korean telco KT has built mobile edge computing telecom centres in 8 major cities in the country to bring out the max capacity of 5G's low latency.
Samsung moved 20 percent more units of the Galaxy S10 compared to the S9 on the first day in South Korea, the company announced.
1.2Gbps LTE is available on Samsung's Galaxy S10, with the South Korean telco vowing to offer faster connectivity with the upcoming 5G network.