Korea's high-tech economy threatened by Chinese catch-up

Korea will need to invest more to produce competitive products: think-tank

Thu, Apr 06, 2017 - 5:50 AM

Seoul

SOUTH Korea is famous as a high-tech powerhouse, from Samsung's smartphones, the world's fastest Internet connection speed to world-beating innovation.

And while presidential hopefuls are laying out plans to develop new technology to drive the economy over the next five years

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