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SouthKorea is the latest governing body to restrict the Chinese company DeepSeek based on the company's data policies. South Korean officials on Saturday announced a temporary suspension of downloading the DeepSeek app until it complies with local data protection laws under the country's Personal Information Protection Act.
SouthKorea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and National Police Agency jointly announced that the "revised" Intelligent Robot Act is now in full effect. The Asian nation will soon start issuing licenses for "free-roaming" robots, even though they will still need a human operator walking beside them.
The rebrand comes just a few months after Korean Air officially completed merger negotiations with Asiana Airlines , SouthKoreas second-largest airline. Its set to debut across Korean Airs operations and on the livery of its aircraft in the coming weeks. The two companies will become one mega-airline.
According to a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday, SouthKorea plans to invest at least KRW 34 trillion ($23 billion) to help companies develop cutting-edge technologies in the fields of batteries and biotechnology. It also noted that technology from the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is considered a “fresh shock” to the market.
Now, a team of researchers from SouthKorea's Pusan National University has developed a new method around the same technology that is approximately 40 percent more energy-efficient than current techniques. Read Entire Article
A total of 22,883 EV9 models built at Kia's plant in Gwangmyeong, SouthKorea, between September 25, 2023, and October 15, 2024, may be missing mounting bolts for the second and/or third-row seats. This information comes from documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Read Entire Article
Co-hosted by the Netherlands and SouthKorea last week at The Hague, the REAIM conference was attended by representatives from over 60 countries, including China. Ministers, government delegates, think tanks, and industry/civil organizations participated in the talks. Russia was not invited to take part, while Ukraine did not attend.
A research team from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in SouthKorea has developed transparent solar cell technology capable of directly charging a battery from a glass surface. Read Entire Article
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SouthKorea has passed a bill written to prevent major platform owners like Google and Apple from restricting app developers to built-in payment systems, The Wall Street Journal reports. If tech companies fail to comply with the new law, they could face fines of up to 3 percent of their SouthKorea revenue.
Citizens from 14 nations, including Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and China — subject to a pending reciprocal agreement — will all be allowed entry for the first time since March as the EU attempts to rejuvenate the continent’s vital tourism industry. The EU is easing restrictions to rejuvenate tourism.
Respondents in six wealthier nations—the Netherlands, SouthKorea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Japan—fewer than half of respondents trusted NGOs. The media was trusted in nine nations and distrusted in 15, while government was trusted in eight nations and distrusted in 17.
The initial group of participating wallets includes Bank of China Hong Kongs BoC Pay, Octopus, PayMe by HSBC, and Tap & Go in Hong Kong; Bangkok Bank Mobile Banking and K PLUS in Thailand; NAVER Pay in SouthKorea; and ICBC Mobile Banking (ICBC Pay) in Malaysia.
Atommerce claims more than 1 million app users in SouthKorea and 100 enterprises clients, including Naver, NHN, Shinhan Investment, Neowiz and Seoul Metropolitan Government. The company’s AI chatbot RONI, which was launched in December, supports human professionals by providing recommended answers, Kim said. .
In a blog post , analysts Claire Zaboeva and Melissa Frydrych of IBM X-Force IRIS announced that the phishing campaign spans six regions: Germany, Italy, SouthKorea, Czech Republic, greater Europe, and Taiwan.
Mediwhale focuses on SouthKorea as a testbed before launching its service in the U.S. Just last week, Mediwhale’s Reti-CVD received a temporary reimbursement code for two years from the Korean national insurance government, Choi told TechCrunch. It expects to sell its product this summer in SouthKorea.
SouthKorea’s Samsung Venture Investment (SVIC) also participated, in addition to existing investors YL Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Liberty Mutual, Presidio Ventures, Glenrock, Paladin Group and Asgen. This round brings the company’s total funding to $27 million.
Japan is the biggest source of tourists for Guam, with growing numbers from other Asian nations like SouthKorea. The FSM, which is made up of four distinct island states (Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap) sent teams from each of their states as well as the national government. The presence is growing: the U.S.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a recall for 2019–2020 Hyundai Kona and 2020 Hyundai Ioniq electric vehicles after over a dozen battery fires were reported. The Kona’s battery is manufactured by LG Energy Solutions, which, like Hyundai, is also based in SouthKorea.
The inaugural cohort, which debuted last year at Disrupt 2022, included 14 startups from seven APAC/Oceania nations, including Australia, India, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, SouthKorea and the United Arab Emirates. SB 200 is the startup world’s preeminent competition, and it has a global reach.
EDITOR’S NOTE: In SouthKorea, callers can receive 24-hour counseling through the suicide prevention hotline 1577-0199, the “Life Line” service at 1588-9191, the “Hope Phone” at 129 and the “Youth Phone” at 1388.
Streaming will be available for anyone with Apple TV Plus in the US, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, SouthKorea, and the United Kingdom. In the US and Canada, that also includes access to a 24/7 livestream with replays, highlights, and other programming. Image: Apple.
China is, by far, the market leader for that category (an area once dominated by Western nations). Ships that arent built in China, which accounts for 51% of the shipbuilding industry, generally come from SouthKorea (26%) or Japan (14%). There really arent many commercial shipbuilders in the U.S.
In terms of nationality, China remained the largest contributor with 69,610 PCT patent applications in 2023, while the US ranked second with 55,678 applications. Japan (48,879), SouthKorea (22,288), and Germany (16,916) ranked third to fifth, respectively. Icsmart, in Chinese ]
Will Smith and Chris Hemsworth will star in series for National Geographic. Will Smith and Chris Hemsworth will each star in their own shows for National Geographic. It’s coming to Japan and SouthKorea “later in 2021.”. There’s no release date announced yet. Disney unveiled Star, its international replacement for Hulu.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued the same warning to owners late Wednesday, too. Update July 14th, 6:30PM ET: Added second paragraph with information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Facebook moves swiftly to deal with coordinated campaigns to sway politics in wealthy countries like the US, SouthKorea, and Taiwan, while it de-prioritizes or simply ignores reports of similar activity in poorer nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, and much of Latin America. Instead, we hold them responsible. (4/8)
The indictment cites 25 unnamed victim companies from the US, Europe, Australia, and SouthKorea. Last week, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre separately alleged that hackers linked to Russian intelligence services had targeted companies researching a coronavirus vaccine.
The popularity of electric two-wheelers is booming in China , and they’re starting to make big gains in other markets like Vietnam and SouthKorea. They don’t have a battery swapping infrastructure that has proven to be solid enough for India to to transform and electrify their nation.”.
an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 In 2018, a national proposal was floated for a “Bill of Rights for American Workers Building Support for Cooperatively-Owned Businesses that are Democratically-Owned and Governed.” There has been some movement in this direction.
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Flickr Photo by Chi King The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on how to draft America's national broadband plan. It also requires the FCC to begin drafting a national broadband plan. None of the nation’s largest telephone companies compete against one another. It's essential that they hear from us.
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The company was founded in 2017 by a team of six music and audio research scientists, including Han, who completed his PhD in music information retrieval at Seoul National University. will use its Series A on hiring over the next 18 months and to increase the dataset of sounds used to train its deep learning algorithms.
A law in SouthKorea might force the company to change how App Store payments work ; the company settled a Japanese case about the App Store recently , as well as a class-action lawsuit in this country. I think that it would be national news overnight, and employees would flip out. Yeah, it’s an interesting thought experiment.
because of a software error that may result in windshield defrosting problems, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Department of Transportation and Energy announced that nearly $5 billion will be made available under President Biden’s infrastructure plan to build a national EV charging network.
About 40% of all plastics are used in packaging, according to the United Nations. Globally, nations are creating a treaty to address plastic pollution. Leaders met for a week in SouthKorea late last year but didn’t reach an agreement. Every year, the world produces more than 400 million tons of new plastic.
In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtles nose sparked outrage worldwide and countries and cities started banning them, starting with the Pacific Island nation Vanuatu and Seattle in 2018. The United States changed its position heading into SouthKorea. Most plastic is made from fossil fuels.
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Called Yosemite — after the national park where Reed’s parents were wed — the firm has already closed its debut fund with $200 million from prominent individuals and institutions, including MIT, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and John Doerr.
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