SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group decided to withdraw its solar energy business in a five promising business list and add up a mobile solution field to the list. The leading conglomerate announced on October 5 that it was underway to restructure its five prospective business plan – medical devices, light emitting diode solar [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will actively nurture four major high-tech industry areas combining bio and information technologies such as mobile cardiopulmonary diagnostic devices, smart wheelchair, diagnostic and preventive technologies for Internet and game addiction, and bio implants. Lee Jin-kyu, an official with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning in charge of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – An undulator that can generate radiation in a novel way has been developed to be used for lithographic light sources to manufacture next generation semiconductors. The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) announced on October 1 that researcher Mun Jung-ho at the WCI Center for Quantum-Beam-based Radiation Research (Director: Nikolay [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – NCSoft Cultural Foundation, a non-profit arm of the gaming giant NCSoft that develops and distributes augmentative and alternative communication(AAC) system to reduce communication disorder and improve communication ability for the disabled people, launched AAC website(www.myfirstaac.com) and began its service. The AAC webpage opened on Sept. 29 focuses on raising the [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — It is likely the next-generation submarine for the Republic of Korea Navy will be Jangbogo III (Batch I) based on homegrown technology. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said on September 29 that Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the shipbuilder to assemble two 3,000-ton class conventional submarines, has sufficient capabilities to build [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Visiting Canada from September 21 to 24, president and CEO Cho Hwan-ik of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PowerStream to collaboratively advance into the microgrid market in North America. A microgrid is a small-scale power grid that can operate independently or in [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG CNS announced that it won a tender for the supply of 330,000 units of Advanced Metering Infrastructure and the installation of its system at the price of 48 billion won, or about US$46 million, from Tauron Dystrybucja S.A., the largest electric utility in Poland. The infrastructure is a smart meter [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has succeeded in developing a new nanotechnology material to split water using solar energy. The research project, sponsored by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, was led by Prof. Park Jong-hyeok of SungKyunKwan University and Kim Jong-kyu of Postech as well as Xinjian Shi, and [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics held the Samsung Image Sensor Forum 2014 in China’s Shenzhen from September 22. This is part of the company’s effort to demonstrate a variety of state-of-the-art image sensor technologies while sharing next-generation technology trends among industry participants. At the day’s event, 300 or so developers from Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean-made energy storage system (ESS) has been installed in a substation in northern Germany. Samsung SDI said on September 17 that Wemag AG, a northern German utility, held on the 16th a completion ceremony for its battery park at a substation in Schwerin, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with dignitaries including [...]