Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z foldables: Slimmest, lightest yet smarter with AI features

Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z foldables: Slimmest, lightest yet smarter with AI features

NEW YORK – Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled its slimmest and most powerful foldable smartphones yet, loading them with artificial intellig...

K-style strikes back to win over China’s Gen Z with Musinsa at helm

K-style strikes back to win over China’s Gen Z with Musinsa at helm

Musinsa, South Korea’s fashion unicorn backed by KKR Co., is set to bring the K-style wave to China with Anta Sports Products Ltd., China's le...

Economic strain drives millennials, Gen Z into collectible craze

Economic strain drives millennials, Gen Z into collectible craze

SHANGHAI – Standing in the rain, lines of people snake along Nanjing Dong Lu, Shanghai’s bustling shopping street, outside a Miniso shop...

Samsung to thrash out strategy amid Trump, Middle East crisis

Samsung to thrash out strategy amid Trump, Middle East crisis

Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s most valuable company, is convening its most senior executives this week to plot its path back to the t...

Samsung teases new foldable phones with advanced AI

Samsung teases new foldable phones with advanced AI

Samsung Electronics Co. will empower its next Galaxy Z foldable smartphones with advanced artificial intelligence features as it seeks to extend its...

Samsung to equip Galaxy Z Flip7 with Exynos AP at home

Samsung to equip Galaxy Z Flip7 with Exynos AP at home

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to power its upcoming foldable smartphone with its new in-house application processor (AP), marking a significant step...

Former ADOR CEO Min unfollows NewJeans' SNS

Former ADOR CEO Min unfollows NewJeans' SNS

Min Hee-jin, the former CEO of ADOR, HYBE Co. 's label behind the K-pop girl group NewJeans, announced her resignation as the label's internal direc...

Korean choreography copyrights to be protected by Naver Z deal

Korean choreography copyrights to be protected by Naver Z deal

South Korean dance choreography copyrights will be protected through an agreement between Naver Z Corp., the operator of Asia’s largest metave...

Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to invest $5 mn in S.Korea’s Musicow  

Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to invest $5 mn in S.Korea’s Musicow  

US entertainment tycoon Jay-Z’s Roc Nation is expected to invest about $5 million in Musicow Inc., South Korea’s music copyright trading...

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition: slimmest, lightest of its kind

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition: slimmest, lightest of its kind

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday it is unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition (SE) — the thinnest and lightest among the company&rs...

Hankook Tire supplies tires to BMW

Hankook Tire supplies tires to BMW

South Korea's Hankook Tire & Technology said on Wednesday that it started to supply its Ventus S1 evo Z tires as original equipment for BMW's se...

Naver D2SF invests in two N.American AI startups

Naver D2SF invests in two N.American AI startups

South Korea's online giant Naver Corp.'s startup nurturing organization D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) invested in two North American AI startups founded...

NCSOFT develops new game Doguri Adventure

NCSOFT develops new game Doguri Adventure

South Korea’s major game developer and publisher NCSOFT Corp. has begun developing a casual game Doguri Adventure, featuring the character bra...

Samsung Galaxy Z foldable's pre-sales soars 40% rise in India

Samsung Galaxy Z foldable's pre-sales soars 40% rise in India

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest foldable phones showed strong sales potential in India, the world's most populous country, with pre-sales for the G...

Lotte Home Shopping's Bellygom debuts in Taiwan, Japan

Lotte Home Shopping's Bellygom debuts in Taiwan, Japan

South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Wednesday that its character Bellygom will enter the Taiwanese and Japanese content market,following ...

Galaxy Ring, new foldables set to steal the show at Samsung Unpacked Paris

Galaxy Ring, new foldables set to steal the show at Samsung Unpacked Paris

Now it’s official. Samsung Electronics Co. is hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked summer event in Paris on July 10.Samsung picked Paris as the ve...

Innocean produces Hyundai Motor ad using GenAI

Innocean produces Hyundai Motor ad using GenAI

Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday that it launched three new digital campaigns...

Lotte Home Shopping to unveil Bellygom game

Lotte Home Shopping to unveil Bellygom game

South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it will release a mobile game called Bellygom Match Land, leveraging the intellectual pro...

Korean botox sales gain momentum in US, China

Korean botox sales gain momentum in US, China

South Korea is ramping up exports of botulinum toxin to the US and China, the world’s two top consumers of the neurotoxin protein, with its pr...

Starfield launches 4th annual balloon festival with iconic character displays

Starfield launches 4th annual balloon festival with iconic character displays

Starfield, a chain of large shopping malls owned by Shinsegae, a South Korean retail company, announced on Friday that its 4th annual balloon festiv...

Korea leads global online shopping trend for used luxury goods

Korea leads global online shopping trend for used luxury goods

South Koreans are leading the trend of buying used luxury goods online with top-end products such as Rolex watches and Hermes bags among the hottest...

Samsung Display surrenders foldable screen throne to BOE

Samsung Display surrenders foldable screen throne to BOE

Chinese smartphone manufacturers’ aggressive push for foldable models has threatened the dominance of Samsung Electronics Co., the world&rsquo...

Krafton to introduce AI characters in PUBG

Krafton to introduce AI characters in PUBG

South Korea's game developing and publishing giant Krafton Inc. plans to introduce virtual characters using generative AI in the first-person shoote...

UAE, Korea’s Naver Z join hands for virtual reality tech

UAE, Korea’s Naver Z join hands for virtual reality tech

South Korea’s Naver Z Corp., the operator of virtual world platform Zepeto, said Monday it will join forces with the United Arab Emirates&rsqu...

Lotte Home Shopping showcases Bellygom in Bangkok

Lotte Home Shopping showcases Bellygom in Bangkok

South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Tuesday that it has displayed Bellygom Bellygom at Siam Discovery, the largest shopping mall in Bangk...

HYBE to showcase game voice AI tech at G-Star 2023

HYBE to showcase game voice AI tech at G-Star 2023

Supertone, HYBE Co.'s AI audio subsidiary, is set to participate in the international gaming exhibition G-Star 2023, taking place from Nov. 16 to 18...

Lotte Home Shopping, Thai TACC in Bellygom character licensing deal

Lotte Home Shopping, Thai TACC in Bellygom character licensing deal

Lotte Home Shopping Inc. has signed a character licensing agreement with Thailand’s TAC Consumer Public Co. (TACC), a lifestyle product and be...

Creator of Baby Shark, Pinkfong to launch music variety show

Creator of Baby Shark, Pinkfong to launch music variety show

The lovable children’s characters Pinkfong and Baby Shark will soon star in a music variety show for their legions of global fans.The Pinkfong...

Samsung releases Galaxy Z Fold5 Thom Browne edition

Samsung releases Galaxy Z Fold5 Thom Browne edition

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will unveil the Galaxy Z Fold5 Thom Browne edition, a foldable smartphone created in collabora...

Samsung Galaxy Z foldables set early sales record in Europe

Samsung Galaxy Z foldables set early sales record in Europe

Samsung Electronics Co. 's Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 smartphones have set early sales records in Europe, with annual sales of the company's folda...

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