BROWSING: South Korea

Korea Times | March 14, 2011 | Kim Yoo-chul iPhone maker meddles in such details as disclosing preorders By Kim Yoo-chul SK Telecom is regarded as being at the top of the value chain in the wireless telephony industry. The Korean carrier has bossed around handset makers such...

There’s no need for Symbian developers to go nok, nok nokia-ing on heaven’s door just yet, because Samsung plans to lure them over to a Bada life.

Economic Times | March 8, 2011 KOLKATA: Homegrown handset maker Karbonn will buy a South Korean cellphone design house for about $40 million in an all-cash deal, an executive with the company said. The proposed acquisition is strategic to the company’s bid to market low-cost...

Korea Herald | March 4, 2011 | Shin Hyon-hee SK Telecom will begin selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone on March 16, it announced Sunday, ending the exclusive distribution here by its rival KT Corp. The country’s largest mobile carrier said it will take pre-orders starting Wednesday at its...

Korea JoongAng Daily | March 2, 2011   Korea’s antitrust watchdog said yesterday that it has slapped major digital music providers with a combined 18.8 billion won ($16.6 million) in fines for rigging prices of digital music content and online download services. Loen Entertainment and Mnet Media...

Korea IT Times | February 25, 2011 SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced today that SK China has established a KRW 19-billion joint venture called "SKMtek" in partnership with MtekVision, Korea's leading fables semiconductor company. Based in Shenzhen, China, the new joint venture marks a milestone for SK...

New York Times | February 21, 2011 | Mark McDonald SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea already claims the world’s fastest Internet connections — the fastest globally by far — but that is hardly good enough for the government here. By the end of 2012, South...

Reuters | February 22, 2011 | Hyunjoo Jin and Jonathan Hopfner * Incumbents face tariff cut pressures from new players, govt * Seoul to decide on a new entrant this week * SK Tel shares fall 10 pct this year; KT down 15 pct SEOUL, Feb 23 (Reuters)...

Wall Street Journal | February 21, 2011 | Jung-Ah Lee TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (6503.TO) said Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. (066570.SE) over an alleged infringement of the Japanese company's 3G mobile communication system patent. Mitsubishi said it...

Yonhap News Agency | February 11, 2011 SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the Dominican Republic signed a preliminary agreement on Friday to cooperate in the establishment of a commercial ground-based mobile broadband service in the Caribbean country. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) aims...

Yonhap News Agency | February 11, 2011 SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the Dominican Republic signed a preliminary agreement on Friday to cooperate in the establishment of a commercial ground-based mobile broadband service in the Caribbean country. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) aims...

Wall Street Journal | February 8, 2011 | Matt Jarzemsky International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE, SSNHY) have agreed to license their respective patent portfolios to each other. The companies said the sharing of their intellectual property "reinforces their ability to provide...

Wall Street Journal | February 8, 2011 | Matt Jarzemsky International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE, SSNHY) have agreed to license their respective patent portfolios to each other. The companies said the sharing of their intellectual property "reinforces their ability to provide...

Korea JoongAng Daily | February 10, 2011 | Kim Hyung-eun SK Telecom announced yesterday that it joined forces with two Japanese wireless operators to conduct a field test today on mobile payment based on near field communication (NFC) technology. If successful, people in Korea and Japan...

The nascent near field communication space received a much needed jolt today as Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM) announced an agreement with Korean operator KT Corp. (KT) to use the wireless technology to develop “cross-border services for mobile payments, mass-transit ticketing, promotional...

Fox Business News | February 9, 2011 | Rebecca Thurlow SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- Australia's plan to build a high-speed Internet network across the country will cost taxpayers 24 times more than South Korea's broadband plan but deliver services at one tenth the speed, according to a...

Fox Business News | February 9, 2011 | Rebecca Thurlow SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- Australia's plan to build a high-speed Internet network across the country will cost taxpayers 24 times more than South Korea's broadband plan but deliver services at one tenth the speed, according to a...

Bloomberg | January 27, 2011 | Jun Yang KT Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet company, reported fourth-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates after marketing and smartphone costs increased. Fourth-quarter net income was 105.1 billion won ($95 million), compared with a loss of 430.5 billion...

Wall Street Journal | January 25, 2011 | Jung-Ah Lee SEOUL (Dow Jones)--Brisk sales of smart phones and proceeds from a stake sale helped SK Telecom Co. (017670.SE) Tuesday post a 48% jump in its fourth-quarter net profit, but South Korea's largest mobile carrier still...

Korea Times | January 19, 2011 |  Yoon Ja-young KT, Korea’s telecommunication giant, is setting up a smart belt in Northeast Asia, lowering barriers for roaming services in the region. China Mobile and NTT Docomo, leading mobile operators from China and Japan, are joining KT...

Trading Markets | January 13, 2011 | Press Release TOKYO, Jan 13, 2011 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) - Japanese high-speed mobile internet company UQ Communications Inc. has forged a roaming agreement with South Korean communications giant KT Corp (KSE:030200). The agreement mainly targets the...

Trading Markets | January 13, 2011 | Press Release TOKYO, Jan 13, 2011 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) - Japanese high-speed mobile internet company UQ Communications Inc. has forged a roaming agreement with South Korean communications giant KT Corp (KSE:030200). The agreement mainly targets the...

SK Telecom | January 14, 2011 | Press Release SEOUL, Jan 14, 2011 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Thursday that it has offloaded its entire 29.3 percent stake in Mongolia's second-largest mobile carrier to Mongolian...

SK Telecom | January 7, 2011 | Press Release The launch of MelOn Indonesia marks the beginning of SK Telecom’s export of content distribution platform as part of its global expansion plans under the Industry Productivity Enhancement (IPE) strategy MelOn offers unlimited downloads and streaming of...