SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Severance Hospital cardiologist Kang Seok-min and one of his former heart failure patients, Kim Soo-kyung, have developed a “smart recumbent bicycle” for rehabilitating patients with cardiopulmonary complications. Kang and Kim first came up with the idea two years ago. Kang provided his medical expertise while Kim, CEO of healthcare [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean telecom provider LG Uplus is launching a NarrowBand IoT-based smart waste collection system next month in Gyeonggi Province’s Goyang City, the company announced yesterday. The new project will see IoT sensors installed on the inside of the lid of trash cans on city’s main streets and in densely [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven Eleven Signature opened today at Lotte World Tower, the world’s very first unmanned convenience store where shoppers can pay with the swipe of their hand, thanks to a biometric verification system that scans palm vein patterns. The vein-scanning self-checkout terminal studies the size, color, and shape of each shopper’s [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean convenience store giant CU is continuing its efforts to ramp up employee safety with a newly introduced counter safety barrier that will help protect employees in case of an emergency, including violent crimes. The newly opened Yeoksam-dong branch in Gangnam District is the very first CU store [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – From Band-Aid bandages to sanitary pads and ointments, a new emergency kit service dubbed ‘Goodoc pharmacy’ is coming to a Seoul subway station near you, which any subway rider can use in case of an emergency. The Goodoc pharmacy service, which was introduced by the Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transport Corporation [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean minors who have yet to reach the legal voting age also chose Moon Jae-in as the new president in a mock election arranged by YMCA Korea. Of a total of 51,715 votes, President Moon received 39.14 percent of all ballots at 20,245, officials said Wednesday. Unlike the [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean civic group Writers is teaming up with KT Linkus, an affiliate of telecom provider KT, in giving a new role to old telephone booths near Gyeongbokgung station in Seoul’s Jongno District, by transforming them into mini studios in which audiobooks will be recorded for visually impaired people, [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A series of stories involving taxi drivers and convenience stores helping police in recent weeks is shedding light on how far collective efforts can go in improving community safety. Last Tuesday, a man from Daegu contacted the police an hour after his 82-year-old mother, who suffers from dementia, went [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom provider LG Uplus has teamed up with Novita, the bidet maker with the largest market share in the country, to release a new bidet that comes with IoT technology, the mobile network announced yesterday. The new bidet, scheduled to be released next month, is the first [...]
DAEJEON, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Patent applications for high-tech smart gloves are on the rise. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, the number of smart glove patent applications quadrupled over the past five years (2012 to 2016) to an average of 17.8 per year from what was 4.6 patents between 2007 and 2011. [...]