SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee grounds are being reused to get rid of the stench at livestock farms. The Ministry of Environment signed an agreement with the city of Incheon, North Gyeongsang Province, the Korea Productivity Center, the Korea Green Foundation and Hyundai Steel Co. on Wednesday for the recycling of coffee grounds. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering Co., a plant engineering affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, is making a foray into the high-purity clean hydrogen production business using waste plastics as resources, as part of efforts to diversify its business towards eco-friendly energy production. The company announced on Tuesday that it will step into [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and a steelmaker have joined hands to make iron with livestock excrement. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs signed an agreement with the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation and Hyundai Steel Co. to produce solid fuel from cow excrement. They plan to use livestock excrements to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — New technology developed by Korean researchers can 3D-scan a livestock pig to measure its weight. The Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, and Forestry said Wednesday that Illuvation, an ICT startup sponsored by the institute, has developed the said technology. Traditionally, pigs had to be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A presidential candidate of the minor opposition party made a surprising appearance on Danggeun Market, a popular online secondhand marketplace. Ahn Cheol-soo, chief and the presidential candidate of the People’s Party, uploaded a post titled ‘Ahn Cheol-soo on sale’ after being authorized for transaction activity in Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul [...]
CHANGWON, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A new production facility will be set up to upcycle oyster shells into high-value resources. South Gyeongsang provincial office said Monday that the city of Tongyeong will invest 15 billion won (US$12.6 million) to build an oyster shell recycling facility in the Beopsong General Industrial Complex by 2023. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a drive to demonstrate wave power generation using the force of waves hitting a seawall. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on Tuesday held the completion ceremony for a 30-kilowatt-class demo plant designed to generate electricity using the force of waves hitting a seawall in [...]
BUCHEON, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Bucheon, a Gyeonggi Province city on the southwestern outskirts of Seoul, is moving forward with a project to produce electricity from the wind generated by the odor control system at a wastewater treatment facility. The project was designed to produce electricity using the wind generated by a deodorizer, which [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have succeeded in producing biodegradable plastic using radiated livestock excrement. The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute said Thursday it transferred the technology to a local eco-friendly plastic maker for 30 million (US$25,630) won and a royalty of 2.5 percent of sales. Amid a surge in plastic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Thursday that it had developed an internet-of-things (IoT)-based smart buoyancy band to help castaways float in sea water and send their location information when marine accidents such as shipwrecks occur. The smart buoyancy band is designed to help save lives when [...]