SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Sometimes you just want to zone out and stay thoughtless for a while. But when some 70 people are sitting in one spot, all but spaced-out, there is something else going on. This is what happened Sunday by the Han River in Seoul. As it turned out, they were participants [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The market for plastic surgery prosthetic filler is soaring. The steady domestic market and exports to foreign markets such as China and Japan are enabling Korean biomedical companies to prosper. Hugel and Medytox both broke quarterly records in this year’s Q1, powered by an increase in filler sales. Both companies [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The SPC Group, a leading South Korean conglomerate that runs bakery brand Paris Baguette, is currently working to register the genome of its new yeast for bread (SPC-SNU 70-1) with the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database. The SPC Group jointly developed the yeast with Seoul National [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean legal service providers are trying to implement AI technology into their offerings. Although legal service was an area deemed irreplaceable by AI, there are simpler tasks in the industry that may be AI replaceable. Help-Me, a legal counseling platform, revealed that it is presenting a new service called [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Strong winds have the capability to take down any man-made structure. Maintaining a wind-resistant building structure has always been a conundrum for architects. However, Korean researchers have recently come up with a structure that can reduce the effect of wind by 20 percent, by using daffodil stems as an [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Silence is golden, a wise man once said. Mini electric vehicles (EV) that are both free from noise and air pollution will soon be delivering midnight snacks to your doorstep. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the city will put the Twizy, an ultra-mini EV from Renault Samsung, to [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – With the airborne concentration of yellow dust and other particulate matter worsening every year, Koreans are increasingly willing to open their wallets to get their hands on fresh oxygen. According to online shopping site Gmarket, sales of oxygen-related products from January to April 28 increased by a factor of [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – AlphaGo may have beat Lee Sedol, but that hasn’t discouraged Koreans. A private AI research institute called the Intelligence Information Technology Institute is expected to open by the end of the year. The Software Policy & Research Institute (SPRi), which is leading the effort, held a press conference Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A scientific research proved that a person’s life expectancy can be changed by simply sensing certain tastes and smells. On May 2, a research team at Postech (Pohang University of Science and Technology) led by Professor Seung Jae Lee and Ph.D. candidate Murat Artan reported that activating taste and [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A special 70-meter dash event will take place at the 2016 Motor & Leisure Sports Festival in Yeongam on May 5. It’s a man-versus-machine match featuring Kuk-young Kim, the South Korean record holder for the 100-meter dash, and Hyundai’s Avante (better known internationally as Elantra). Kim, who is preparing for the [...]