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  A new smart TV or a set-top box?
  2012/04/28, Source,
  Daum Communications' little black box set to spark new battle in digital arena as it promises to undercut rivals As Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics vie for leadership in terms of smart TV sales, Web portal Daum Communications has chosen to pursue a new niche market by supplying platforms for the latest highly-convergent goggle boxes. In front of dozens of reporters from Seoul at its newly established Daum Space. 1 building in Jeju Island, the Kosdaq-listed firm unveiled on Friday its new Daum TV, an Android-based operating system for smart TVs. Despite existing amid a fog of confusing definitions, smart TVs offer Internet connectivity without the need to link up to a separate computer. They also tend to function more like smartphones running on apps rather than regular flat-screens. Regular TVs can be upgraded using a set-top box,...More
• For Korea, Google supplements rules
  2012/04/08, Source,
  Google has accepted the Korean government's request to supplement some of the new privacy policies it rolled out on March 1. Korea is the first country in which the tech giant agreed to changes to make the policy jibe with local laws,...More

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  Clock Tic Toc-king for Kakao?
  2012/04/04, Source,
  Tic Toc has amassed 9 million users since its launch eight months ago. SK Planet, the mobile platform arm of SK Group, has acquired Mad Smart, the developer of Tic Toc, raising speculation that the mobile messenger service may gather enough strength to dislodge the No. 1 domestic player KakaoTalk. The SK subsidiary said on Monday it bought a 100 percent stake in the venture firm, which is estimated to be worth between 15 billion ($13.4 million) to 20 billion won. Mad Smart was established in March of last year by developers who had graduated from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kaist,...More

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  Fashion picks up speed with 8seconds
  2012/03/10, Source,
  Cheil Industries' new label is aiming to challenge global brands 8seconds, Cheil Industries' first fast fashion label, launched on Feb. 23. The fashion arm of Samsung aims to open a total of 10 stores nationwide by year's end. Provided by Cheil Industries Following in the footsteps of its local competitors LG Fashion and E-Land, Cheil Industries has recently launched its own fast fashion label, 8seconds. The company opened two stores in two major fashion districts in Seoul - one on Garosugil in southern Seoul on Feb. 23 and the other in Myeongdong in central Seoul the following day,...More