SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — YAP, Korea’s leading online to offline (O2O) commercial application, launched its app in Vietnam in collaboration with VNG, Vietnam’s largest technology company, on February 14. YAP is the first Korean app that commercialized ‘beacon’ devices using technology that it developed in-house. YAP has also partnered with Chinese, Japanese and American mobile [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) unveiled a prototype of the first Korean lunar exploring rover on February 16. The rover, which will be sent on Korea’s exploratory mission to the moon in 2020, is built to withstand the harsh terrain and hazardous temperature ranges found on the moon. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A music app to help dogs relax on road trips has been launched. Dogs can experience motion sickness just like humans do, and it can be a significant source of stress. CH Happy Dog, a broadcast company that airs programs for dogs, and DION, an IDTV bidirectional service firm, have partnered [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju city, one of the Korean government’s model cities for electric cars, will establish 1,700 electric car charging stations this year via the foundation of a SPC of public and private enterprises, said the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) on February 13 at the 13th National Energy Commission [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Male beauty and spa therapy certificate seekers are increasing in numbers these days, due to increasing demand for beauty and spa services from Korean men. The Korea Testing Institute of Technical Qualification (KTITQ) said that there has been increase in the number of male applicants seeking the KTITQ’s beauty and spa [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Since the beginning of 2015, the year of the sheep, there has been no end to Koreans’ enthusiasm for the woolly animals. Gyeongju National Museum is holding a special exhibition featuring sheep themed relics from February 17 to May 3. Several pieces of sheep themed art made with bronze and clay [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Las Vegas Sands Corp., one of the world’s leading casino and resort developers, officially announced on February 13 at the Busan Metropolitan City Office that it plans to develop an integrated resort at the Busan North Port urban renewal area. George Tanasijevich, CEO of Sands Corp.’s subsidiary Marina Bay Sands, revealed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team at the Korea Institute for Basic Science (KIBS) has developed a new type of supercapacitor that can store as much energy as typical commercialized lithium-ion batteries. Supercapacitors are high-capacity electrochemical capacitors, which can store 10 to 100 times more energy than electrolytic capacitors. The synthesis of supercapacitors is [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The 10th Korea Canicross Competion will be held at a site around Onemount, a sports complex in Ilsan, on April 19. Canicross is a stand-alone sport that features cross-country running with dogs. The human participant usually runs attached to one or two dogs with a cord or elastic line. The Korea [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao, a company formed by the merger of leading web portal Daum and mobile messenger service company Kakao Talk, saw increased growth in its mobile sector, which accounted for 53 percent of sales in Q4 of 2014 and 49 percent of sales in 2014. The figure in 2014 was [...]