Samsung Electronics trolled Apple in a TikTok reel that teased the iPhone maker for its alarm issue.
Girl group NewJeans’ “ETA” (2023) music video was awarded bronze at this year’s Spikes Asia awards for successfully integrating the Apple brand into its music.
The contactless payment method became available nationwide on Wednesday.
Set in the heart of Hongdae — Seoul’s “epicenter of youth” known for its vibrant art scene and nightlife and as a bustling college hub neighboring some of Korea’s most prestigious universities — is Apple’s seventh retail store in Korea.
Apple surpassed Samsung as the top smartphone vendor for the first time in 2023 with 234.6 million units sold. The smartphone market shrank by 3.2 percent.
The Chinese government has reportedly expanded its ban on foreign smartphones to boost its local handset brands instead, barring Apple and Samsung devices from more public offices.
A Seoul court partially accepted a damages claim filed by Korean iPhone users for purposely slowing down the performance of their phones in a controversy known as “batterygate,” marking one of the first payout decisions outside of the United States.
Seoul High Court ordered Apple to compensate seven iPhone consumers who claimed that Apple had deliberately tampered with its iOS operating system to slow their phone's performance.
Cases of overheated iPhones billowing large amounts of smoke have been reported twice in a span of three months.
Apple is set to open its sixth retail store in Hanam next month, marking its first Korean outlet to be located outside of Seoul. The store will feature the latest iPhones, Apple Watches and M3 Mac computers.
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