SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic groups representing people with disabilities are staging a series of protests at subway stations in Seoul, calling upon authorities to allocate sufficient funding for the promotion of disability rights, and amend legislation to improve access to public transportation. The Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) and other civic groups [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI)-based safety management system will be introduced at construction sites in Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Digital Foundation announced Thursday the launch of a trial project for introducing AI-based safety solutions at private construction sites in the city. The AI system conducts [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A plaza named after Seoul’s Mapo Ward will be established half way around the world in Costa Rica, officials said Friday. Yoo Dong-gyun, head of the Mapo Ward office, and Costa Rican Ambassador to South Korea Alejandro Rodriguez Zamora discussed the creation of Mapo Plaza in San Jose earlier [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military has successfully conducted a low-temperature flight test on a light-armed helicopter under a plan to complete its development by year’s end, the state arms procurement agency said Friday. The LAH helicopter went through a nine-week evaluation program ending earlier this month in Yellowknife, Canada where the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of 4 South Korean students think that unification with North Korea is unnecessary, a survey showed Friday. In the online survey of 72,524 elementary, middle and high school students conducted by the education ministry and the unification ministry from Nov. 1 to Dec. 10, 61.2 percent replied [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Braving subzero temperatures, 10 South Korean Army cadets slogged through this week’s U.S.-led field training designed to gear them up for an annual international military academy contest slated for April. The three-day training at Camp Humphreys, a sprawling U.S. base in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, centered on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. reportedly decided to use a lower than expected quantity of its own mobile application processor (AP) for its new Galaxy S22 smartphones amid concerns about low production yields at its foundry division. Instead of using its new processor, the Exynos 2200, the tech giant decided to [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Incheon Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will install large artificial fish reefs in its sea area as part of efforts to cultivate fishery resources as well as to protect the marine environment. After detailed design and consultation with authorities for use of the sea area, the city government [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — New mobile driver’s licenses, which launched via a trial service last month, are attracting a massive number of people, prompting the police to make improvements. The National Police Agency reported that a total of 16,940 people, or 1,200 people daily between Jan. 27 and this Monday had signed up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to improve the quality of its Arisu tap water using digital twin technology. The city government said Wednesday that it had developed a ‘digital twin-based water purification system improvement technology’ designed to improve the process of water purification treatment by setting up a 3D [...]