Visitors experience KT’s ‘Olleh’ anytime, anywhere in Yeosu KT is pulling out all the stops to make sure visitors to the Yeosu Expo have access to high-speed Internet anywhere they go during the three-month event. The Korean mobile carrier, chosen as the international event’s main telecommunications service provider, has implemented the “3W plus LTE” strategy for the Expo. This refers to provi...

U.S. mobile app start-up opens local office in Seoul Evernote, a U.S. mobile app start-up, is diving into the Korean market to provide local support in Korean for local users and deepen relations with its developers, its chief executive said Wednesday. As an initial step, the California-based firm opened a Korean office in southern Seoul on Tuesday, following the establishment of a Beijing offi...

LG Display has joined a project to build a joint venture panel plant for emerging Chinese LCD television makers in Guangzhou in southern China. Committing to its MOU signed in 2009 with Guangzhou officials, the Korean display panel manufacturing giant said Tuesday that the plant, to be equipped with eighth-generation lines, will be in full production in the second half of 2014. In 2009, LG Disp...

A Florida university student who designed a Web site for men to pay women $5 to perform "girlfriend-like" tasks said he now has 1,600 users. Cody Krecicki, 22, a student at Edison State College in Fort Myers, said he was inspired by a girl in his class who was working multiple jobs to stay afloat while attending school and came up with Girlfriendforhire.com, the Naples (Fla.) Daily News reported...

Recent Facebook-related crimes are exposing a number of less-than-intelligent criminals who use the social networking service. Such was the case of two men in Colombia who recently robbed an Internet cafe. They waited until the time was ripe, held the owner at gunpoint, took the cash and made a clean getaway on a motorcycle. They did everything right except for one thing; forgetting to log out ...

Two U.S. patients paralyzed by stroke learned to make reach-and-grasp movements with a robotic arm, guided by their thoughts, researchers say. The trial’s lead investigator, Dr. Leigh Hochberg -- an associate professor of engineering at Brown University in Providence, R.I., and a critical care neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston -- said the trial is eva...