SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the worldwide race to develop new technologies surrounding “graphene,” the number of graphene-related patents applied by Korean scientists has surpassed that made by American counterparts. Graphene is pure carbon in the form of a very thin, nearly transparent sheet, one atom thick, with excellent mechanical, electrical properties, 100 [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s ‘Teen Astronauts’ succeeded in launching four space balloons, which are supposed to record the earth from the stratosphere. And a miniature Tayo bus, which looks like the characters of Korean popular 3D animation, “Tayo the Little Bus,” was on board the spaceship. The young enthusiastic space explorers [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18(Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to a newly devised positioning technology, people in a disaster situation can now have more chances to be rescued. Samsung Electronics and KT, Korea’s largest telecom corporation, announced on October 16 that they jointly developed a Device-to-device Discovery technology to rescue people in severe trouble. The brand-new positioning service enables [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced on October 15 that it has developed an indoor positioning system working in indoor environments such as shopping malls. The indoor navigation utilizes applications in smartphones to gather maps inside a building and process the information automatically to keep track of the user’s location. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — There is a special waterfall nearby the Bangchuk Stream in the Sejong metropolitan autonomous city, which is called a digital waterfall. Transparent display glasses stand along the road, on which a variety of images, texts and videos are shown to passers-by. The glass wall even senses the movement of [...]
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SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Group will invest more than 90 billion won (US$83.8 million) in the cities of Daejeon and Sejong to transform the areas into a Silicon Valley-like tech hotbed. The group announced its plan on October 10 in a ceremony to launch the Daejeon Creative Economy Innovation Center in which the President [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group said on October 9 that it has selected a total of 45 research projects for this year as part of its future technology fostering program that the company will invest 1.5 trillion won (US$1.4 billion) for the next ten years. The projects to be funded by the company [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gyeonggi provincial government said on October 7 that it would create a second high-tech industrial zone in Seongnam‘s Pangyo after the success of the Pangyo Techno Valley project. Dubbed “Next Pangyo,” the project will be built on a 460,000 square meter site, about two-thirds of the size of first [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Even as the government budget for research and development is rising while the number of patents from state-run R&D organizations reaching a record-high level, the qualitative level of overall government R&D output is getting lower. According to Congressman Lee Hyun-jae (New Frontier Party) on October 7 in a parliamentary [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Indonesia will accelerate their effort in cooperating in developing fighter jets. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration in South Korea signed an agreement with Indonesia’s Ministry of Defense to develop the “Boramae,” or KF-X, fighter jets. The agreement, a follow-up to a contract signed in July 2010, sets [...]