SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of obsolete public phone booths across the country are being transformed into charging stations for various electric vehicles, officials said Monday. The municipality of Jeonju, 240 kilometers south of Seoul, said it and KT Linkus, the operator of public pay phone networks, have agreed to convert [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Solutions Corp., a South Korean energy solutions company, will participate in a government project in tandem with Lotte Chemical Corp., a major petrochemical firm, to cut carbon emissions by recycling the waste heat at one of its plants. Hanwha Solutions announced that it will create 1 million tons [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart24 Inc. said Tuesday that it is joining hands with Art Together, a group buying platform for artwork, to sell shares of ownership for “Running Women,” an art piece created by British artist Julian Opie. The convenience store chain plans to divide ownership into 4,400 shares, and give out [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, smartphone apps that assist in child rearing are gaining popularity. The usage rate of Brush Monster, an augmented reality (AR)-based app for children developed by Kitten Planet to teach them how to brush their teeth, has quadrupled since the onset of [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO is taking active steps to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are having difficulty exporting their products due to a shortage of vessels and recent hikes in freight rates. On Monday, the company signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the state-run Korea [...]
DAEJEON, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly introduced technology can locate the source of sound more precisely and quickly, raising hopes that it might be used to find survivors in the mountains or in other emergency situations. A joint research team from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science and Pohang University of [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new service depicts the support rate of politicians as stock prices, allowing users to buy or sell them as they’d like. PoliGround, a local startup, said Thursday that it had launched a beta service of the same name. This service, a political stock exchange, lists politicians on a [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With the second summer vacation season since the outbreak of the coronavirus close at hand, major east coast beaches in Gangwon Province are engaged in an all-out war to prevent any possible COVID-19 infections by employing a variety of state-of-the-art equipment. The Samcheok city government plans to use drones [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A subscription-based tourism product, the first of its kind in South Korea, has been introduced by a state-run tourism promotion agency. The product was designed by combining the concept of travel with the recent subscription economy trend, in which consumers are provided a variety of products and services customized [...]
SUWON, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed an ‘e-tattoo’ that can produce electricity when affixed to human skin or a soft robot and then touched. The research team from Ajou University said Monday that it had developed an e-tattoo sticker by creating a nanofiber paper made of silk protein, [...]