SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display Co., a South Korean display maker, has added more Chinese tech firms to its client list to sell them smartphone AMOLEDs, a move seen as a strategy to rely less on its parent company, Samsung Electronics Co., which is suffering weak sales, industry sources said Tuesday. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group invested in an Israeli healthcare venture, Early Sense, which Samsung Electronics CEO Yoon Boo-geun mentioned in his keynote speech at the opening of CES 2015. According a venture investment business source, Samsung Venture Investment closed the fundraising worth US$20 million for Early Sense. Samsung invested US$10 million, and the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to develop military reconnaissance satellites and deploy five units by 2022 as part of efforts to beef up defense capabilities to better deter North Korea’s evolving security threats, military officers said Monday. The plan is part of the defense ministry’s policy goals for this year, which [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Group has recently completed construction of its 24MW solar power plant in Japan, cementing its leading position in the Japanese solar power market. Hanwha Q CELLS Japan had a completion ceremony for the Hanwha Solar Power plant in the city of Kitsuki on January 15. The Kitsuki plant is built [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has started mass production of 8-gigabit graphic memory chips that adopt 20-nanometer technology, completing the full 20-nano level lineup in mobiles, servers, PCs and graphics. The Graphics Double Data Rate 5 (GDDR5) is the advanced version of the preceding 4-gigabit GDDR5 that enables [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – China is ahead of the game compared to Korea in 13 out of 85 main areas of scientific research and technology, according to a report published by Hyundai Research Institute on January 11. According to the report, competition between Korea, China, Japan and Germany in areas of scientific technology is [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Government is producing a 3D animation to promote Dokdo. This project, expected to cost 1 billion won, will promote Dokdo’s history and some fun facts related to the islets. 3D based characters and theme songs will be also featured. Existing content regarding Dokdo has been centered on factual [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government will focus their efforts to promote 270 degree movies, thermoplastics, and fuel cells, according to an announcement from the third public-private meetings of the ‘Creative Economy.’ The meeting was held to draft a plan for a second flagship project. The flagship project concept was initiated by the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean satellite could come close to space debris, officials said Saturday, prompting officials and space experts to come up with measures to avoid a possible collision.The move came a day after the U.S. authorities warned of a possible collision between South Korea’s Science and Technology Satellite [...]
SEOUL, Dec 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Korean scientists succeeded in developing a breakthrough technology to administer an antibiotic susceptibility test in a faster, more precise way. Prof. Kwon Sung-hoon at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, said that his research team has developed a new antibiotic susceptibility test [...]