Lauv releases Korean version of 'Love U Like That' using AI voice technology

SEOUL -- American singer-songwriter Lauv has released the Korean version of his hit song "Love U Like That" using artificial intelligence-based voice technology. The Korean version was created after the AI solution learned the voice of Kevin Woo, a former member of the South Korean boy group U-Kiss. The South Korean office of Universal Music Group, an American music corporation, said this is the first time for an American pop artist to roll out a non-English-based

November 8, 2023

POSCO Holdings partners with Canadian investment company to roll out oil field brine-based lithium businesses

SEOUL -- POSCO Holdings, the holdings company of South Korea's steelmaker POSCO, has partnered with a private investment company based in Alberta, Canada, to develop and commercialize businesses that include the extraction and processing of lithium from oil field brine. Oil field brine is salt water often found in and around underground oil wells. Although they are a typical byproduct of oil and natural gas, they were mainly thought useless due to impurities containing dissolved

November 8, 2023

CJ Feed & Care to develop AI-based monitoring technology for shrimp farms

SEOUL -- CJ Feed & Care, a livestock feed corporation affiliated with CJ CheilJedang, will develop an artificial intelligence-based monitoring technology that can manage shrimp farms using underwater sound waves. The solution can help shrimp farmers supply an appropriate amount of feed by estimating the number of shrimp underwater and their weight. The company will work with Tidepool, a domestic smart aquaculture solution startup. The smart monitoring technique is more efficient

November 8, 2023

GS Retail's operating profit increases by 44.6 percent on-year in 3Q 2023

SEOUL -- GS Retail, the retail wing of South Korea's GS Group, has seen its operating profit increase by 44.6 percent on-year in the third quarter of 2023 thanks to successful results of aggressive expansion in the number of supermarket stores and thriving hotel businesses. GS Retail operates various businesses including GS25, the country's second-largest convenience store chain with 16,448 stores across South Korea in 2022, GS Fresh, a mid-sized supermarket chain, and Parna

November 8, 2023

SK Telecom demonstrates AI behavior monitoring technology for people with developmental disabilities

SEOUL -- South Korea's major mobile carrier SK Telecom will demonstrate an artificial intelligence solution that can monitor challenging behaviors displayed by people with developmental disabilities at care centers in Seoul. The solution will help human specialists monitor for early symptoms of the disability and provide therapeutic services. Challenging behavior is exhibited by people who have severe learning disabilities when their needs are not met. The common examples of cha

November 8, 2023

Coupang marks highest-ever quarterly sales of some $6.2 bln in 3Q 2023

SEOUL -- Coupang, the South Korean counterpart of American ecommerce giant Amazon, has marked the company's highest-ever quarterly sales of $6,183,550,000 (about 8.2 trillion won) in the third quarter of 2023. The company succeeded in maintaining its sales momentum that had accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic when consumers used convenient quick online grocery delivery services instead of visiting offline shopping malls. The ecommerce company also known as the South Korean

November 8, 2023

Woowa Brothers to demonstrate food delivery robots on streets of Gangnam

SEOUL -- Woowa Brothers, the operator of the popular food delivery service app Bamin, will test the efficacy of five six-wheeled robots on the streets of Gangnam, a southern Seoul district famous for rapper Psy’s 2012 global hit song "Gangnam Style." Baemin first started the demonstration of its delivery robots by deploying "Dilly," the service robot, to a campus in eastern Seoul in late 2019. The company later developed delivery robots that can carry dri

November 7, 2023

Peru's symbolic artwork 'Pucará Bull' to be showcased with Korean legendary creature in Seoul

SEOUL -- The Peruvian Embassy in South Korea will showcase Pucará Bull, Peru's handcrafted artwork that symbolizes prosperity and peace, along with art pieces of Haechi, a Korean mythical animal regarded as a guardian against fire and other natural disasters. The exhibition will take place inside Seoul's city hall to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Peru. Pucará Bull is an art piece created in a town located in the Andes

November 7, 2023

95% of cattle vaccinated to prevent spread of lumpy skin disease

SEOUL -- About 95 percent of South Korea's cattle population was vaccinated against lumpy skin disease. The country had a total of 81 infected cases in about 18 days after the infectious cattle disease was reported for the first time. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a viral infection that spreads through blood-feeding insects like flies, mosquitoes, and ticks. A cow infected with the virus usually shows symptoms of high fever, skin nodules, enlarged superficial lymph nodes, and lump

November 7, 2023

Young S. Koreans leave hometowns to live in Seoul and nearby cities: data

SEOUL -- Some 600,000 young South Koreans in their 20s have left their hometowns to move to Seoul and its surrounding cities during the last decade, data released by the national statistics information service showed. In South Korea with a population of about 52 million, about 25.9 million people live in Seoul and its metropolitan area. It is mainly because major companies are located in the capital city area, as well as infrastructure for the culture, society, finance, healthcare

November 7, 2023