SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – What are the most in-demand scientific technologies for Koreans? The ICT ministry will develop technology according to the desires of the population through big data analysis on opinions found on the Internet, SNS and in news stories. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced on September 20 that its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - The Ministry of National Defense is planning to use big data to build a system that analyzes the characteristics of those who cause problems within the military and those who are at risk of committing suicide. It plans to use the system as a point of reference to weed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Statistics Korea and Naver, the top big data holders in the public and private sectors respectively, have joined hands to create public value based on big data. On September 2, Statistics Korea announced that it signed an MoU with Naver, Korea’s top Internet portal operator, to construct a society prediction [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that Hallyu fans in 200 countries around the world showed interest in KCON America 2015, which is the biggest Korean wave convention in North America. The LA office of the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) investigated Twitter messages related to KCON 2015 with USC professor Kim Sun-ho, a big [...]
SEOUL, August 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A map that shows what medical facilities people use according to age, gender and residence will be developed using big data. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport signed an MOU with the National Health Insurance Corporation to create a ‘Health Map’. The agreement between the two organizations was made [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C will build an intelligent transportation system (ITS) for the Hanoi-Haiphong Expressway, with aims to make further advances into the ITS market in the South Asian region. According to the system integration arm of SK Group, it received a license from Vietnam to build ITS infrastructure with a traffic [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Population and Housing Census that is held every five years will be conducted this year as a registration-based census for the first time, using big data such as resident registrations and family relation certificates. Statistics Korea will conduct the census on all Koreans and foreign residents in the [...]
Seoul, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Metropolitan Facilities Management Corporation and KAIST announced that they have succeeded in developing an automatic system to manage taxi dispatches for disabled people using big data. The team looked at 320,000,000 call taxi requests for the disabled accumulated over the past five years. After analyzing [...]
SUWON, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi-do is planning to provide big-data based analysis on commercial areas for individuals or companies planning to open new businesses in the province. The Gyeonggi Provincial Assembly has pre-announced legislation for an ordinance to develop a system for the analysis, said the assembly on June 25. The system will [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – From September or sooner, Korean financial institutions will be able to freely use personal credit information on the condition that individuals are not identified, giving them a way to offer financial products using big data collected from consumers. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) decided on June 3 to move forward [...]