SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – KAIST (the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is measuring its students’ biosignals in an effort to prevent suicide. According to the university’s KI Health Science Research Institute, wearable devices that can measure biosignals were distributed to 350 students, starting in April. The institute is operating a pilot project that [...]
TAEAN, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Chungnam’s Taean County will soon recycle empty oyster shells to desulfurize poisonous sulfur from power plants. Taean County is a big producer of oyster, producing 30,000 tons of shells each year. According to county officials, oyster shells have strong alkali properties, containing over 98 percent calcium carbonate, and are [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government will establish what it is calling a ‘smart quarantine system’ in order to prevent the influx of foreign diseases. The government will coordinate with KT, a major phone service provider, and use international roaming information as part of its efforts. The Ministry of Science, ICT and [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Insects are considered an alternative source of nutrition for our future, in which we may suffer from lack of food resources. In general, 100g of insects such as mealworms, crickets, or grasshoppers, is known to provide 100kcal of calories. Compared to rice or beans, which provide 300 to 400kcal [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Photon and baryon therapies have been referred to as ‘dream cancer treatment’. Major Korean hospitals are implementing the therapies in their cancer treatment programs, bringing up hopes for domestic cancer patients. According to industry representatives, Samsung Hospital started its first photon treatments this month, and Severance Hospital recently decided to implement [...]
INCHEON, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Sierra Blair-Coyle is a professional rock climber and a two-time U.S. National Champion climber. But she decided to climb something extraordinary using devices that are more commonly used around the house. She conquered a 33-storey building (140m), using only the vacuuming power of LG’s latest CordZero vacuum cleaner. It [...]
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 [...]