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, [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent days, the way corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities are performed is changing, as they are evolving towards embracing fun factors to encourage the voluntary participation of employees in small groups. This trend comes as the share of the MZ generation, referring to those born between 1980 and [...]
BUSAN, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A new device has been developed that can produce hydrogen using seawater batteries. The device is expected to contribute to the development of a hydrogen-fueled ship. The state-run Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology announced on Thursday that it had developed a seawater battery-based hydrogen production device by [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Interior and Safety will use big data on complaints related to mosquitoes, cockroaches and other pests to analyse them in tandem with Seoul’s Gwangjin District and reflect the results in pest control policies. The district office will offer the data on the number of pest-related complaints [...]
UIJEONGBU, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Gyeonggi Province is set to launch an on-site technology demonstration to introduce a ‘non-contact transit bus fare payment system’ that can minimize passengers’ risk of COVID-19 infection and prevent safety accidents on buses. In collaboration with local mobility firm LOCA Mobility Corp., the provincial government will [...]