DAEJEON, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A joint research team from POSTECH and UNIST announced Sunday that it had developed a more efficient, nanometer-length (one-billionth of a meter) photocatalyst, a core technology for the development of artificial leaves. Artificial leaves are part of a man-made photosynthesis system that mimics the process occurring in natural plants. [...]
JEONJU, South Korea, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Park Jin-soo, a 21-year-old police sergeant, came up with an idea to brighten up his city while looking at Jeonju’s bus stops every time he was on traffic duty. According to Park, the sight of weary passengers waiting for the bus at the city’s generic, uninspiring bus [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration announced Wednesday the development of a new Bio 3D Silk-Printing System, which allows for the use of silk (protein) as a 3D printing material for medical equipment. The system was developed jointly by the RDA and Hallym University. Silk is a natural protein fiber obtained [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team from Kookmin University has developed an electronic device for semiconductors that can self-dissolve leaving no residue, a technology that would ultimately make Hollywood spy films come to reality. This transient electronics research was done using nitrocellulose paper, frequently used by magicians as their ‘magic’ flash papers. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Oksu Elementary School became the first in the country to establish a “virtual reality gym class”, allowing students to engage in sports activities using VR technology. According to a school official, the ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) helped remodel one of the classrooms at Oksu Elementary in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite being the most crowded city in Korea, Seoul is still home to 602 rice farms. In 2015, some 3.49 million square meters of land were devoted to rice farming in Korea’s capital, producing 1,805 tons of rice, which roughly equals the total daily consumption of the city’s population [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team from KAIST (the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has developed a self-sealing hemostatic needle that won’t make you bleed after it’s used, taking advantage of one of Korea’s most popular mariculture products – mussels. The team leveraged the exceptional ability of mussels to attach [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Potholes on asphalt pavement can not only be a hindrance but also a danger to drivers. But with a new system from the KICT (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology) that uses black box cameras to automatically detect and report potholes on roads, their detection and report [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In an effort to beautify its road facilities, the JinYoung National Territory Management Office (JNTMO) of the Busan Regional Construction Management Administration announced Wednesday that it will launch a program to renovate structures such as tunnels and bridges using a technique called “Story Doing”. Story doing is a concept [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A 24-year-old student at Konkuk University has become the first person to come up with the idea of a smartphone-charging cup holder after realizing the excessive number of disposable holders going to waste at cafes every day. Lee Bong-hak, a computer engineering major, has won two international awards for his [...]