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Samsung won't block iPhone 4S sales in South Korea

by Mike Schramm (Nov 14th, 2011)

Samsung will not reportedly block the iPhone 4S from a release in South Korea, according to a local paper there. The company has tried to block the release of the iPhone 4S elsewhere (without much success so far), but the 4S finally went on sale last Friday in South Korea, and Samsung opted not ...

Daily iPhone App: Gem Keeper

by Mike Schramm (Nov 3rd, 2011)

Gem Keeper is a relatively new game from developer NCSoft, which usually makes Korean MMO titles for the PC. The company has released a couple of apps for iOS, but this is the first full game made for North American audiences -- and it's a good one. It's a pretty basic tower defense title, but ...

Daily Update for November 2, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 2nd, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

South Korea repeals ban on iOS games

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 2nd, 2011)

South Korea has reversed a decision that banned games from the iOS App Store. For the past several years, the South Korean App Store has not included games due to concerns about objectionable content that could not be easily filtered. This decision to ban games was made by the Games Ratings ...

Samsung accuses Apple of 'free riding' its patent technologies

by Mike Schramm (Sep 23rd, 2011)

Samsung's head of global marketing has spoken with the AP recently, and says that he believes Apple is "free-riding" on the company's patents, building phones and touch devices that apparently are unduly influenced by Samsung's inventions. No more Mr. Nice Guy, though -- Lee Younghee, also a ...

Apple revised South Korea's iPhone warranty

by Dave Caolo (Sep 14th, 2011)

The South Korean Fair Trade Commission has said that customers who receive defective iPhones can exchange them for non-refurbished models, Bloomberg reports. This reflects a change to Apple's iPhone warranty in that country. Apple has given phones refurbished with new parts to customers in ...

27 thousand South Koreans sue Apple over privacy concerns

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 17th, 2011)

About 27,000 South Koreans are suing Apple over privacy violations related to Locationgate, the location-tracking scandal that hit Apple earlier this year. Apple revealed that a software bug was collecting location information from cell phone towers and Wi-Fi hotspots and storing it on the ...

South Korea to fine Apple over location tracking

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 3rd, 2011)

South Korea has fined Apple 3 million won (US$2,829) for the company's practice of tracking location information on the iPhone. The Korea Communications Commission investigated Apple after locationgate broke earlier this year. The agency found that Apple continued to collect user's location ...

Apple makes first 'locationgate' legal payout, less than $1,000

by Mike Schramm (Jul 14th, 2011)

Apple has made its first legal payout to an iPhone user after being accused of collecting and storing location data last year. A South Korean man is the recipient, apparently, of a settlement consisting of a whopping 1 million won, which only turns out to be about US$946 (as of this writing). ...

WiMAX case brings 4G speed to iPhone in South Korea

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 9th, 2011)

South Koreans with an iPhone 4 on wireless provider KT will be able to browse the mobile internet at 4G speeds thanks to KT's new KWF-B2500 WiMAX sleeve for the iPhone. Dubbed the Egg, the sleeve contains an extended battery to boost the iPhone's juice, providing up to five hours of 4G mobile ...

Korean carriers suspend iPad 2 online sales

by Steven Sande (May 3rd, 2011)

Korean mobile carriers SK Telecom and KT Corp have suspended online sales of the iPad 2 only a week after the product was launched. According to a report this morning, tight supplies of the tablet were responsible for the suspension. Reuters noted that the SK Telecom website is showing an ...

A roundup of today's "Locationgate" news

by Steven Sande (Apr 25th, 2011)

Last week's news that relatively imprecise cell phone tower location data from iPhones is stored in a file that is backed up onto your computer seems to be gathering a lot of attention. It was even the main topic of discussion on last night's TUAW Talkcast. "Locationgate" began when two ...

Korean rumor puts iPhone 5 release in June (updated)

by Steven Sande (Apr 5th, 2011)

Update: The Loop remains convinced this will not happen. TUAW has seen an uptick in the number of rumors making their way around the blogosphere lately, purporting to know when the iPhone 5 will finally arrive. The latest is from Korea, where ETNews is reporting that the fifth-generation ...

iPhone 4 officially coming to Korea's SK Telecom on March 16

by Chris Ward (Mar 9th, 2011)

SK Telecom has now set March 16 as the date for its launch of the iPhone 4 in Korea. After revealing earlier this year that it was to finally sell the iPhone 4 in addition to rival network KT corp, Korea's largest wireless carrier confirmed in a press release that pre-registrations opened ...

GDC 2011: Nexon goes kart riding on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Mar 7th, 2011)

Nexon is a South Korea-based publisher that's basically helped create and define the idea of free-to-play, microtransaction-based MMOs around the world. While microtransactions have become popular in all kinds of game genres in the last few years (including in quite a few apps on the iPhone), ...