GOYANG, Korea, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A city in Kazakhstan will replace all its street lights with LED lamps supplied by a Korean company. Save Semiconductor, a Korean manufacturer of environmentally friendly LED lighting devices, said on October 17 that it signed an agreement with HK E&E which in turn agreed to build an [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Oct 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration said on October 9 that its agronomic scientists have developed a new rice variety naturally resistant to the rice water weevil, an insect pest that is known to attack stored rice and rice crops. Rice water weevils are difficult pests to eradicate as the [...]
DAEGU, South Korea, Oct 02 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu Metropolitan City Government, jointly with EM Korea, held on October 2 a completion ceremony for the nation’s largest hydrogen charging station within the city. The ceremony was attended by Daegu City deputy mayor for economic affairs Kim Yeon-chang, Daegu City Council president Lee Jae-sool, and other industry leaders. [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A second achievement of the twinning project, a crucial institution building instrument used today by nations for capability transfer, between Korea and Saudi Arabia will materialize very soon. The Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare said on September 24 that the Gachon University Medical School and Saudi [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – There is a dictum in the information technology industry that digital data never die once created. This is true because data, no matter how many times you press the “delete” button in your file explorer screen and send the file to the trash can, reside somewhere in your computer. [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Rural Development Administration has developed an agricultural technology of eliminating bad odor coming from food waste. A team of researchers at RDA came up with the new technology by combining pine cone leftover after pine nuts are extracted with bacillus, a type of microorganism cultured from [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning of Korea, a recently established government body aimed at putting the value of creative scientific imagination on the Korean industrial map, is launching five citizen-participating social labs in four cities across the country. The labs, named Infinite Imagination Labs, will [...]
Cheongwon, Korea, August 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation (NIFDS) at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) announced the release of the ‘Guidebook on the comparison of different responses to drugs for different races/people for the development of personalized medication.’ The guidebook was prepared to provide the public [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Defense Acquisition Program Administration has established the ‘Defense Robot Project Team’ and the ‘Leading Technology Development Team’ on August 12 to support national programs and realize the goal of the ‘creative economy.’ These new teams were created to contribute to the national economy by reinvigorating the defense industry as a [...]
Daegu, Korea, August 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu city government has developed a radio technology that transmits closed-circuit TV images of inside passenger cars of monorails to the central control room in real time. As the installation of wireless antennas is impossible on monorail tracks on which a third Daegu railroad line will be built, engineers have [...]