SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan city government said on August 27 that it would make available smartphone recharging booths near Cheonggyecheon, or Cheonggye Stream in downtown Seoul, with the small amount of electricity generated from the flowing water in the stream. This is the first time for phone charging booths to be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean LED tech firm Seeluce gears up to advance into the value-added LED application market armed with patented technology producing the world’s largest flexible printed circuit boards (PCBs). Its flexible lighting module (FLM) technology is estimated as a next-generation technology overcoming the limitations of the existing rigid PCB and flexible [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A technology to prevent chain reaction crashes has been developed. The technology gives a vehicle behind a warning alert when a car ahead stops suddenly. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced on August 26 that the state-run institute and Ranix, a semiconductor chip developer, have successfully developed a core [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Dongbu HiTek, a Dongbu Group company specializing in the analog and mixed-signal foundry business, said on August 26 that it has developed a new touch screen chip that can run applications on a standby mode. The main difference between the existing touch screen chips and the one developed by Dongbu HiTek [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung SDS, the IT services affiliate of the leading conglomerate Samsung Group, reportedly applied for preliminary listing approval on the South Korean stock exchange. The company is now considered as a big shot in the initial public offering market this year. The IT company is planned to obtain fast-track [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A mid-sized Korean enterprise with an automation solution to collect and classify garbage has recently succeeded in signing a deal to install a large-scale system in China. Tongzhou District of Beijing is a site where the Chinese government is building a new residential “low-carbon” city. Envac said on August 25 that it [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration has set up a database of which plant on green roofs is most effective at reducing pollution and saving energy, based on which the administration created a system to measure the energy saving level for buildings. The administration has selected 100 species of vegetation for roof [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A sampling device to detect the movement of pests coming from China and elsewhere has been developed by a state-run agency. The Rural Development Administration said on August 24 that it has succeeded in developing the “Smart Air Sampling Device” that can collect pests and indicate the numbers in real time. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A technology to weave photovoltaic cells like the fabric has been developed by a research team in Korea. The Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute under the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said on August 21 that its research team led by Cha Seung-il and Lee Dong-yoon at the Nano Fusion Technology Research [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix employees are expected to receive the greatest pay raises ever as its performance hit the record this year. Acquired by SK Group, the company has gotten huge investment in production facilities and R&D under an adverse semiconductor market condition, which leads to its great performance. SK Hynix announced [...]