SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Lockable refrigerators and special laundry cycles for local costumes, some of the unconventional product ideas tried by South Korea’s Dongbu Daewoo Electronics, have helped the company become a major hit in the Middle East, the firm’s officials said Sunday. The fridges with locks, launched in 1998, have sold 2 [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Among this month’s three “new architectural technologies” chosen by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport was a restroom design that can function as a shelter in case of fire. In the new design, a water barrier is created at the restroom’s entrance by sprinklers during an emergency, preventing [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Korea is killing two birds with one stone – improving sales by making customers happier. According to the coffeemaker Thursday, the number of participants on its mobile survey platform “My Starbucks Review” has exceeded one million. Surveys are offered to Starbucks members who use Siren Order – ordering [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials announced Wednesday that researchers have developed a new engraving technology, using lasers, to prevent counterfeit crimes of expensive goods such as high-end watches or gold. According to senior researcher Noh Ji-whan, by overlapping two separate laser beams, the team was able to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Three new government initiatives will make use of the latest smart devices to help improve the lives of elderly farmers and the disabled. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion, in partnership with the local governments of Andong, Jeonju, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – In a new addition to the list of unique convenience stores in South Korea, Shinsegae’s convenience store franchise With Me opened Monday a new outlet at the Seoul Arts Center with classical music as its main theme. The 79-square-meter store is With Me’s 1,830th outlet. It has a fan-shaped [...]
ULSAN, South Korea, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists are taking a new step forward in the research and development of seawater batteries. According to UNIST, the school is investing 5 billion won ($4.33 million) in partnership with the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and the Korea East-West Power Corporation (EWP) over the next [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Musterbag Smart Edition is a backpack that uses IoT sensors so parents can check if their children arrive safely at school, and then back home in the afternoon. The bag was first introduced in early December in a joint venture between telecommunications company SK Telecom and children’s bag [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of scientists from Changwon National University has developed an eco-friendly copper catalyst that can efficiently produce hydrogen from waste material like plastic and vinyl. According to the researchers, there has been active research on gasifying plastic and vinyl using higher temperatures to develop hydrogen. Although this is [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of cosmetic surgeons from Seoul National University Hospital announced Thursday that it has developed a microchip modeled after human skin. The chip is about 1 centimeter in diameter, and includes the epidermis (outer skin layer) and the derma (inner skin layer). It was developed by growing human [...]