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Center for Disease Analysis Foundation Announces Receipt of an $8 Million Grant from Gilead Sciences to Relink Hepatitis B and C Patients to Care in the United States

LAFAYETTE, Colo., July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Center for Disease Analysis Foundation (CDA Foundation) announced today that it received an $8 million grant from Gilead Sciences (Nasdaq: GILD) as part of Gilead’s Relink grant program. CDA Foundation will disperse the grant to qualifying tax-exempt organizations to contact diagnosed but untreated patients with hepatitis C [...]

Gorilla Technology Enters Strategic Relationship with British Telecom for AI-Powered Innovative Smart Port Solution

LONDON, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Gorilla Technology Group Inc. (“Gorilla”) (NASDAQ: GRRR), a global provider of AI-based edge video analytics, IoT technologies, and cybersecurity, today announced a strategic relationship with British Telecom (BT) to deliver an innovative Container Identification and Container Damage Detection solution. This groundbreaking collaboration, which is being actively deployed and tested at the [...]

Samsung Struggles with Growing Preference for iPhones Among Korean Teens

SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans in their teens and 20s show a stronger preference for Apple Inc.’s iPhones, adding to the concern faced by Samsung Electronics Co. ahead of the Galaxy Unpacked event next week. Gallup Korea conducted a nationwide survey of 975 smartphone users over 18 years of age, in [...]

Arctic Phytoplankton Habitat to Shift Due to Climate Change

SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An increase in river water flowing into the Arctic Ocean can lead to alterations in the distribution of marine organisms and resources in the region, a local polar research institute said Wednesday. A joint research team from the Korea Polar Research Institute, Pukyong National University and the Pohang University [...]

S. Korea’s Whisky Imports Reach Record High: Data

SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s whisky imports have surged this year, reaching a new high, data showed Wednesday. The volume of imported whisky amounted to 16,900 tons, marking a 50.9 percent increase compared to last year, and setting a new record, according to the data from the Korea Customs Service. The value [...]

Taebaek Sunflower Festival Opens This Friday

TAEBAEK, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Taebaek Sunflower Festival is set to take place in the city of Taebaek, Gangwon Province, from Friday to August 15, the festival organizer said. Guwau Village in the city has annually hosted the festival in the nation’s largest sunflower patch spanning 100,000 square meters. During the summer season, [...]

S. Korea Designates 7 ‘Specialized Complexes’ for Strategic, Advanced Industries

SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced a decision Thursday to designate seven “specialized complexes” for the semiconductor, display and secondary battery industries in major cities across the country to offer a package of incentives for private investment in a bid to nurture the advanced sectors as a future growth engine. The country [...]

School Denies Speculation About a Young Teacher’s Apparent Suicide

SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — This week’s apparent suicide of a young elementary school teacher in Seoul has been roiling the local educational community, as the concerned school on Thursday denied numerous allegations surrounding her death. The teacher, known only as a 23-year-old woman in charge of first graders at Seoul Seoi Elementary School [...]

Contemporary History Museum Holds Exhibition on ‘Hallyu’

SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An exhibition is under way at a national history museum in Seoul providing a perspective into what has shaped today’s “hallyu,” the global boom of Korean pop culture. The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul opened the exhibition, titled “The Pop Culture We Loved, and Rise of [...]

Flash News: OKX Wallet is Now Integrated with Stacks, a Bitcoin Layer for Smart Contracts

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – OKX, a leading Web3 technology company, has issued updates for July 20, 2023. OKX Wallet is Now Integrated with Stacks, a Bitcoin Layer for Smart Contracts OKX Wallet is thrilled to announce its integration with Stacks, a Bitcoin layer that enables DeFi applications to benefit from the security of the [...]