SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, said Monday it will expand its technical center in India in the latest move to strengthen software development for autonomous vehicles. The second technical center, which will be set up near Hyundai Mobis’ first one in Hyderabad, will focus on [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Shin Hyeon-jung, a 35-year-old office worker, has refrained from meeting friends or having gatherings for months to practice social distancing to fight against the new coronavirus. But the virus scare will not prevent her from casting a ballot in this week’ parliamentary elections as she believes quarantine measures to [...]
ULSAN, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed an easier and safer way to register and manage pets. The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology said Sunday that its newly proposed multiple bio-recognition-based pet identification technology, jointly proposed by student startup Pireco with the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), has [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Saturday it will use electronic wristbands on people who violate self-isolation rules to better contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said the country will make self-isolation violators wear electronic wristbands since the number of cases of people breaching the self-quarantine in [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Kuwait has granted entry ban exemptions to over 100 employees of 25 South Korean companies after government and parliamentary leaders appealed to the Middle Eastern nation that bilateral economic cooperation must be kept up despite the coronavirus pandemic, an official said. It is the first time that Kuwait has [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries Group announced Thursday that it has successfully applied core technology for autonomous sailing to a large-sized vessel. The group installed Hyundai Intelligent Navigation Assistant System (HiNAS), a cutting-edge navigation aid system, on a 25-ton bulk carrier owned by local shipper SK Shipping [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Thursday that it will disburse subsidies for the purchase of 700 electric-powered cabs this year. Subsidies for purchasing electric taxis are set at a maximum of 18.2 million won (US$14,900), which is higher than the 12.7 million won offered to those buying electric cars [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Save the Children, a nongovernment organization for international relief and development, is conducting a “Save with Stories” challenge in which popular stars read fairy tales. The challenge was arranged with a number of South Korean celebrities reading children’s stories out loud to help kids who are home-bound during quarantine [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will suspend visa-free entry and visa waiver programs for 90 countries imposing entry bans on South Koreans from Monday next week as part of efforts to curb the coronavirus inflow from overseas, officials said Thursday. Along with the planned suspension of visa exemptions, all 90-day visas that [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a highly efficient artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor that can be used in high-end servers and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced Tuesday that a joint research team from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), SK Telecom Co. [...]