SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – CU, a convenience store franchise operated by BGF Retail, has joined hands with luxury karaoke business Su Karaoke to launch Korea’s first ‘Karaoke Convenience Store’. Located in one of Seoul’s most vibrant and youth-driven areas, Hongdae Street of Youth, the karaoke building houses a CU store on its ground [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of neuropsychiatry scientists from Seoul National University Hospital in Bundang has developed a standard brain model for Korea’s elderly population, after analyzing the MRI results of 96 citizens over the age of 60 without brain-related illnesses. According to the team, the shape and size of an average [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of scientists from KIST (the Korea Institute of Science and Technology) has revealed prototype components of a new device that might ultimately be used to develop a contact lens-like diabetes sensor that would use teardrops to diagnose diabetes. The final product will measure the glucose concentration in [...]
ULSAN, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Walking through a rain storm is not a pleasant experience. Not only do you need to hold tight to the safe haven that is your umbrella, you also need to continuously adjust how you hold it to maximize protection against changing winds that gust from all directions. With this [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has decided to install a total of 80 new artificial reefs near the Yellow Sea border with North Korea to help thwart illegal fishing by Chinese boats, the finance ministry said Monday. Under the plan, approved in a Cabinet meeting, the vast underwater structures, weighing [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting next week, anyone with a low smartphone battery will be able to charge their phone in a taxi, if they get lucky. All they have to do is to watch a short advertisement. The Seoul Taxi Association (STA) announced on Thursday, June 30 that it will launch a pilot [...]
DAEJEON, South Korea, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – With the recent murder of a 23-year-old woman at a public restroom near the Gangnam subway station bringing concern over safety at public facilities to the forefront, police and local government bodies in Daejeon and Chungnam Province are making an effort to come up with safety countermeasures. Some [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of scientists from POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), led by mechanical engineering professor Kim Dong-sung, discovered a simple system that can measure the refractive index of a liquid by observing the shadow of light that passes through it. Light travels fastest in a vacuum and slower [...]
BUSAN, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, or simply finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), is one of seven porpoise species. These porpoises are mainly found around the Korean Peninsula, especially in Korea’s West Sea, and because of their long-lasting relationship with the Korean people, they’re often referred to as ‘native dolphins’, or sometimes ‘smiling [...]
BUSAN, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Have you ever missed your bus stop because you couldn’t get off the bus in time? This happens occasionally on Korean public buses, where people sometimes fail to get off at their stops on time. However, a recent idea from two college students may help put an end to [...]