SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Daelim is set to become the first local construction firm to make use of sound design in an apartment complex. Sound design refers to the process of specifying, manipulating, and producing sound elements to achieve a specific effect or mood. Although it is most associated with sound recording and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Recycling agricultural by-products, especially the peel of fruits and vegetables, is becoming extremely popular in Korea, allowing farms and businesses to make better use of the nutritious benefits of this type of waste, while saving on disposal costs. Jeollanamdo Agricultural Research & Extension Services recently transferred its latest technology [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The grand prize (Presidential Award) at the 2016 University Competition for Original Inventions went to a team from Cheongju University for their “bi-directional wheelchair”. The idea is to remove the inconvenience of conventional wheelchairs that only allowed patients to sit in a single direction, which made it uncomfortable or [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Pukyong National University announced Wednesday that graduate student Seonwoo In-young (26), recently succeeded in producing bioethanol using dead seaweed that washed ashore after a tropical storm. Seaweed plays an essential role as a food source, habitat, and spawning ground for marine organisms, but only when its alive underwater. Dead [...]
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 [...]