SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the deepening of economic and academic gaps resulting from the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the gap in reading competency is also widening, a local research institute said Monday. According to a survey conducted by the Books & Society Research Institute of 3,000 respondents over [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — As more electric vehicles (EVs), both new and old, are being sold locally, South Korea is seeing a higher number of EV recalls caused by various defects. Rep. Park Sang-hyuk of the ruling Democratic Party said that 90,746 EVs were recalled last year, according to a report from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A new program will be developed that will use big data to calculate ‘safe delivery time’, aimed at preventing food delivery riders from dangerous riding practices such as speeding to meet a tight delivery schedule. It has been pointed out that the current delivery schedule time calculated by food [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The members of K-pop supergroup BTS wore garments from a Korean eco-friendly fashion brand during their recent video performance at the UN headquarters. The septet wore suits by RE;CODE, an eco-friendly fashion brand run by South Korean company Kolon Industries FnC when they gave a speech at the opening of the Sustainable [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of high schoolers have been lauded for building a self-driving vehicle that is now being used to carry waste at school. A software club at Gwangdeok High School in the southwestern city of Gwangju, consisting of 18 student members from the 9th to 12th grades, recently built [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean startup Furiosa AI said Thursday that its first silicon chip Warboy has surpassed a similar Nvidia chip on the MLPerf’s inference benchmark scores. MLPerf is a global annual artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor benchmark event hosted by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other leading businesses and research institutions. Furiosa AI [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of convicted child sexual abusers has been growing steadily over the past few years in South Korea amid lenient penalties against such crimes, a judicial report showed Friday. According to the Supreme Court report submitted to Rep. Lee Tahney of the ruling Democratic Party, a total of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s fifth-largest automotive group, is speeding up the development of a variety of rescue vehicles that use hydrogen fuel cells and robotics to help save lives. At the Hydrogen Wave global online forum and the H2 Mobility+Energy Show events that were held this month, the [...]
YONGIN, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based elderly care service that a municipal government provided on a non-face-to-face basis turned out to have a positive impact on both the physical and mental health of older people. The Yongin city government in Gyeonggi province provided the ‘Touch Care Service’ for 111 people among [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A revision bill will take effect this week to allow a police officer to go undercover when investigating online sex crimes against minors, police said Thursday. The Korea National Police Agency (KNPA) said investigators can hide or disguise their identities to approach potential offenders to secure criminal evidence under [...]