SEOUL, Korea, Oct 27 (Korea Bizwire) – “Ondol,” is considered one of the three major traditional inventions representing Korea. Also called “gudeul,” the ondol heating system uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor, although today wood-fired heating was replaced by hot-water pipes. AOG System, a company specializing [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Hana Tour, the package tour operator, has launched a new tour package “Eco-friendly Jeju Tour” under which customers can rent an electric car. The offer includes an all-electric car and lodging in a luxury recreational vehicle or a resort hotel. The company offers this jointly with SK Networks [...]
GOYANG, Korea, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A city in Kazakhstan will replace all its street lights with LED lamps supplied by a Korean company. Save Semiconductor, a Korean manufacturer of environmentally friendly LED lighting devices, said on October 17 that it signed an agreement with HK E&E which in turn agreed to build an [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Representatives of major cities in Northeast Asia will meet in Seoul to discuss the issue of fine dust particles in the atmosphere and how to reduce them. The Seoul Metropolitan City Government said that it would host the 2013 Northeast Asia Air Quality Seminar on October 17 at [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 14 (Korea Bizwire) — “Jedori,” the dolphin that caused a stir last year about animal rights and animal welfare, has finally returned to his home off Jeju Island. His four-year travail on land from capture to final release will be made into a documentary and distributed in 50 countries around the world. [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education said on October 11 that it would begin the “solar school project” on an experimental basis in efforts to reduce the digital gap in African countries jointly with Samsung Electronics. The solar school project is an international development program to increase opportunities for children [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Oct 11 (Korea Bizwire) — This year to date, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government has installed fish shelters in an area of 1.64 square kilometers in six locations off Ansan and Hwaseong within its jurisdiction. A government official said on October 11 that the final project to sink artificial fish reefs near the Ippa [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Oct 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration said on October 9 that its agronomic scientists have developed a new rice variety naturally resistant to the rice water weevil, an insect pest that is known to attack stored rice and rice crops. Rice water weevils are difficult pests to eradicate as the [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 07 (Korea Bizwire) – LG, a leading global business group in Korea, is actively pushing forward its energy solutions business. The group is taking significant strides in developing new business opportunities in the clean energy market by presenting a total solutions package consisting of energy generation, storage and delivery. With an aim [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 06 (Korea Bizwire) – A National Assemblyman revealed the rain weather forecasts that the Korea Meteorological Administration made during the first half of this year have been wrong once in three times. According to Congressman Joo Young-Soon (New Frontier Party) on October 3 based on data submitted by the weather forecasting [...]