SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have discovered a way to solve the problem of low reproduction rates of cloned dogs. Unlike cloned cows and pigs, cloned dogs were hard to cultivate with lack of proper cultivation media. On July 13, the Rural Development Administration (RDA) announced that its researchers succeeded in developing canine [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Baja SAE Korea, an intercollegiate engineering design competition for undergraduate and graduate engineering students, will be held at Yeungnam University from July 16 to 19. In this year’s competition, 38 teams from 26 universities including Hanyang University, Korea University of Technology and Education and others will compete to produce [...]
SEJONG, July 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea plans to transform Busan into the world’s No. 2 transshipment cargo port by 2020 by building up infrastructure and streamlining operations, the government said Tuesday. The move could enable the country’s largest sea port to outstrip Hong Kong for the second place slot among the world’s transshipment harbors and place [...]
SEJONG, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly two-thirds of South Korean healthcare workers are worried about hospital-acquired infections, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the survey, 65.3 percent of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other support personnel said there is a high chance of infections taking place in hospitals. It also showed that 81 percent of [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics has won a patent for analyzing body fat through smartphones, an intellectual property organization said Tuesday, which may mark another leap forward in enhancing health care-related features on smart devices. Under the title “Method and apparatus for measuring body fat using a mobile device,” the [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean mobile carriers have seen an increase in voice phone calls after they introduced data-oriented rate plans. However, the increased phone calls are not expected to affect their revenue negatively, industry watchers have said. According to telecom industry analysts, the top three mobile carriers including SK Telecom, KT and LG [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – In the past five years, income levels of the Korean middle class have increased steadily, but at half the rate of income growth for the upper class, leading to a deepening gap in the economic disparity between the classes. According to Oh Jae-sae, a lawmaker from the main opposition New [...]
OSAN, Korea, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Approximately 40 anti-war groups in Korea held a joint rally in front of the U.S. Air Force’s Osan Air Base on July 11, and denounced the shipment of live anthrax bacteria into Korea by American armed forces. A total of 1,000 activists joined the rally and asked the base [...]
Seoul, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Information Technology (IT) companies are getting busy before the second half of this year, when the issue of mobile payment systems is expected to come to a head. Samsung Electronics, Google and Naver, three industry powerhouses, are set to launch mobile payment systems that are expected to have widespread influence on [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Major banking group Hana Financial Group said Monday that it plans to complete a merger between its two banking units — Hana Bank and Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) — before October as KEB’s labor union has agreed on the proposed merger. Hana Financial has been pushing for the merger since its [...]