Author: Seoul Reporter

Samsung SDS will function and handle the IT infrastructure and purposes of refiner S-Oil beginning subsequent 12 months, the Samsung unit stated Monday.Samsung SDS CEO Lee June-hee and S-Oil President Ryu Yul signed an data know-how outsourcing (ITO) contract throughout a ceremony on the latter’s headquarters in Mapo District, Seoul, Friday.Underneath the contract, Samsung SDS will present operation and administration companies for everything of S-Oil’s IT infrastructure, together with its knowledge middle and purposes, from March subsequent 12 months to 2029. Samsung SDS stated it additionally plans to speed up S-Oil’s digital transformation by enhancing IT governance and offering personalized…

A Samsung Bioepis researcher conducts evaluation work within the laboratory. (Picture courtesy of Samsung Bioepis) Biosimilar firms together with Celltrion and Samsung Bioepis are turning their consideration to new drug growth to safe new development engines primarily based on their substantial monetary assets. The monetary energy these firms have secured by way of biosimilar gross sales in world pharmaceutical markets together with the US and Europe is assessed as adequate to endure the 10-15 yr interval required for brand spanking new drug growth. Accordingly, expectations are rising that revolutionary new medicine that might comply with within the…

Comic and TV persona Kim Soo-yong is recovering in intensive care after dropping consciousness throughout a YouTube shoot final week.“Kim Soo-yong collapsed throughout a YouTube content material shoot on Thursday and was taken to the emergency room. He has regained consciousness and is at the moment resting whereas present process checks and remedy. We’ll do our greatest to help his full restoration,” his company, Media Lab Siso, mentioned Sunday. Kim, 53, collapsed all of the sudden on Thursday afternoon whereas filming in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province. Emergency medical personnel carried out CPR earlier than transporting him to Hanyang College Guri Hospital.…

Lee Jun-hee (left), CEO of Samsung SDS, and Ryu Yeol, president of S-Oil, take a commemorative photograph after  signing an IT built-in operations contract on Nov. 14 at S-Oil headquarters in Mapo-gu, Seoul. (Photograph courtesy of Samsung SDS) Samsung SDS introduced on Nov. 17 that it has signed an data expertise (IT) built-in operations contract with S-Oil. Underneath this contract, signed on Nov. 14, Samsung SDS is scheduled to combine and handle S-Oil’s IT infrastructure, together with information facilities, and purposes comprehensively for 3 years from March subsequent yr till 2029. Samsung SDS will…

Velocity skater Kim Jun-ho has damaged the Korean nationwide report within the males’s 500 meters.Kim received the bronze medal within the males’s 500m on the first Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) Velocity Skating World Cup of the season at Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, on Sunday (native time), with a time of 33.78 seconds.Cha Min-kyu had the earlier Korean report with 34.03 seconds, set on the ISU Velocity Skating World Cup Closing in March 2019.Jenning De Boo of the Netherlands grabbed the gold in 33.63 seconds, and Yevgeniy Koshkin of Kazakhstan, who skated alongside Kim, took silver in…

The massive-scale buildup of U.S. army forces and property within the Caribbean means that the Trump administration could also be making ready to develop operations within the area, escalating tensions between Washington and Caracas and elevating the potential of the primary U.S. strikes on Venezuela.U.S. forces within the Caribbean embrace a few dozen Navy warships, a particular operations vessel and a nuclear-powered assault submarine. When the plane provider USS Gerald R. Ford arrives within the Caribbean subsequent week, it’ll convey with it three extra warships and greater than 4,000 extra troops.

Korea and the US kicked off a joint cybersecurity train Monday to strengthen their mixed readiness posture in opposition to potential cybersecurity threats from enemies.The Cyber Alliance drills, slated to run via Friday, will happen at a coaching facility in Maryland, geared toward higher bracing for future cyberwarfare, in line with the protection ministry.The coaching will contain swiftly sharing intelligence on a possible cybersecurity menace below a simulated cyberattack state of affairs.It marks the second such drills because it was performed in Korea’s Cyber Operation Command final yr.Seoul and Washington will proceed to increase cooperation in not solely cyber alliance…

Proven is a distribution oil-immersed transformer that LS Electrical is supplying to the North American area. (Picture courtesy of LS Electrical) LS Electrical has secured a further North American knowledge heart energy infrastructure mission.  The corporate introduced on Nov. 17 that it lately signed a 110 billion gained transformer provide contract for an infrastructure development mission to provide energy to a man-made intelligence (AI) knowledge heart in the USA. This mission is a large-scale enterprise to safe a steady energy provide community, which is the core basis of the quickly rising AI knowledge heart trade. LS…

The upcoming Disney+ authentic sequence “The Remarried Empress” has drawn criticism after promotional stills revealed actor Ju Ji-hoon carrying a medal resembling a Nazi-era ornament, prompting the manufacturing firm to problem a public apology.Disney+ unveiled first-look photographs of the sequence throughout the “Disney Plus Authentic Preview 2025” occasion on Thursday. Quickly after, on-line communities identified that the medal worn by Ju within the photographs intently resembled the Third-Class Gold Service Medal awarded by the Nazi Celebration, elevating considerations over historic insensitivity.On-line commenters shared side-by-side comparisons of the on-screen prop and the Nazi medal, questioning how such an emblem may slip…

President Lee Jae Myung departed Monday for the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Johannesburg, embarking on his four-nation swing to the Center East and Africa, as Korea seeks to diversify its diplomatic ties within the World South.The primary leg of his journey is the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Lee will arrive in Abu Dhabi later within the day for a three-day state go to, throughout which he’ll maintain summit talks with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to debate cooperation within the protection trade, synthetic intelligence and different strategic sectors.Lee will then journey to Cairo, Egypt, for a…