SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Floor-to-floor apartment noise has been a long-standing social problem in South Korea, and it is worsening as more people are spending longer hours at home. The Korea Environment Corporation reported 895 cases of complaints related to apartment noise last year, up by approximately 80 percent since 2019 (507 cases). [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co. announced that it had made a set of exclusive name tags using a dismantled aircraft, a first in South Korea. The country’s top flag carrier recently sold through its mileage mall the name tags made in April. The name tags were made using the skin [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s southeastern Songpa district said Thursday it will collect and sort cans and plastic bottles automatically using artificial intelligence (AI)-based resource circulation and collection robots. The district office will install a couple of such robots within its district. The AI-based robots will automatically sort, compress and store cans and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Wednesday that it will release a mobile app that offers a wide variety of information on public transport, including alerts that are issued when the user’s routes overlap with those of confirmed COVID-19 patients. The mobile app ‘My-T’ is scheduled to be released [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jung district office in the port city of Busan announced on Tuesday that it will re-launch a program that encourages participants to exchange disposable take-out cups for standard plastic garbage bags. This move is a part of efforts to promote recycling under circumstances in which the use of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A declining population is leading local authorities to come up with new policies as the plunging birth rate threatens to undermine the competitiveness of a number of cities, and could even lead to their dissolution. The southeastern city of Changwon is stepping up to offer special loans to stimulate the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed mobile negative pressure isolation rooms for critically ill COVID-19 patients, a top science university said Thursday. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said its team of researchers has tested a modular facility of negative pressure rooms, which are important for the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Taxi drivers across the country are being tasked with helping to track down criminal suspects and missing people. Kakao Mobility, the operator of South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app Kakao T, is scheduled to sign a memorandum of understanding with the National Police Agency (NPA) early next year to cooperate [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of the city’s vast subway system, said Wednesday it had replaced fixed-type safety doors (3,810 units) and advertising boards at the platforms of 132 subway stations encompassing its lines No. 1 to 8 with foldable models that can be used as emergency exits. In particular, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technology that can cure cerebral stroke without surgical operations. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) recently announced that they had developed a wireless low strength high intensity focused ultrasound brain stimulator that can cure cerebral strokes [...]