Seoul, Korea, August 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Defense Acquisition Program Administration has established the ‘Defense Robot Project Team’ and the ‘Leading Technology Development Team’ on August 12 to support national programs and realize the goal of the ‘creative economy.’ These new teams were created to contribute to the national economy by reinvigorating the defense industry as a [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service will jointly promote their ‘Rainbow Bridge Project’ as part of their cultural diversity policy that aims for cohabitation among the different social and cultural actors living together in our society. Different from other cultural diversity programs, [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Making profit is a tricky problem for free-of-charge app developers. App users just hate seeing ads on their free apps. Some users plead for add-free versions and say they are willing to pay for it. Then do they really pay for it when they have other free apps providing desired service? [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 12 (Korea Bizwire) – In 2011 alone, the number of deaths from suicide in Seoul was 2,722. At least six members of the family per each suicide victim are affected with loss, which means about 16,000 more Seoul citizens are added every year. However, only 89 people of them have asked for help from the [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) announced that it received the Carbon Trust Standard certification. The certification ceremony was held on August 8 with a number of officials in attendance including Darran Messem, managing director of Carbon Trust Certification at Carbon Trust, and Jin Hong, chairman of the Korea Productivity Center. [...]
Daegu, Korea, August 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu city government has developed a radio technology that transmits closed-circuit TV images of inside passenger cars of monorails to the central control room in real time. As the installation of wireless antennas is impossible on monorail tracks on which a third Daegu railroad line will be built, engineers have [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – Career discontinuity is a major problem for women in Korea. According to a 2011 report by the Statistics Korea, 19.3 percent of married Korean women, about 190 million, were in a career break situation after marriage (47.0%), due to childrearing (28.7%), and during and after maternity (20.0%). The Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government took its first step to provide treatment to firefighters suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A total of 69 firefighters have participated in the ‘Open-air Healing Program’ at Yangpyeong in Kyunggi Province from July 25 to August 7. They have joined a program composed of several parts; [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – Like on the road, sea routes are important as they ensure the safety of ships, avoiding the rocks and icebergs hidden below the surface and the ever-changing currents that can prove deadly. Recently, the Northern Sea Route passing through the Arctic is receiving a lot of attention. Last year 46 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The city government of Seoul will promote a project to transform into ‘Environment-friendly LED Stores’ until 2014. The government plans to replace lightings of approximately 35,000 stores, or about 30 percent of all 114,000 stores in Seoul, focusing first on those that are open 24 hours a day and thus [...]