SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea boasts among the world’s fastest Internet connection speeds. A recent study added to the country’s pride, revealing that Korea also outranks major cities around the world when it comes to LTE. According to the study announced Wednesday by the Korea Telecommunications Operators Association, which looked at LTE connection [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The impeachment vote to bring down President Park Geun-hye is planned for Friday, but it’s not going to stop angry Koreans from once again gathering on Saturday for what will be the 7th nationwide rally, with protestors calling for Park to step down immediately. This weekend’s rally, however, will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Defense is teaming up with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning for a big data research project that will make use of the medical information of 600,000 South Korean military personnel. Dubbed the “Military Personnel Medical Information Big Data Study”, the three-year project taking [...]
JINJU, South Korea, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Three weeks have passed since the first detection of the H5N6 avian influenza virus in South Korea, but officials are still struggling to contain the outbreak. Over 4.4 million poultry had been culled as of Tuesday morning, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – After weeks of hopes and doubts, Gachon University’s Gil Hospital finally launched its AI-based super computer Watson for Oncology on Monday, and marked Korea’s first diagnosis of a cancer patient by a non-human expert. Watson, developed by IBM, sweeps through data of 290 medical journals, 200 medical text books, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – More cyber attacks on key government agencies and social infrastructure-related facilities, coupled with increased ransomware programs for mobile and desktop computers, are likely to take place next year, a state-run agency said Monday. According to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), a series of cyber attacks may occur [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced Thursday that a joint team of researchers from ETRI, Samsung Electronics, NextChip, and Unmanned Solution had developed Aldebaran, a gigahertz-scale processor that will serve as the brain of future self-driving vehicles. Such processors gather data from various sensors on an autonomous vehicle [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A total of 16 ideas were selected as finalists for the Second Idea Contest for Public Safety Science, hosted this year by the National Police Agency and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. The contest’s grand prize (general category) went to Yoon Hyung-ryul, who suggested using a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is developing a technology to bring down unmanned North Korean aircraft using electromagnetic pulse (EMP), military officials said Sunday. According to the officials, the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has developed a directional, high-powered EMP generator, and it’s trying to devise ways to use it against small [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – InssTek, a leading metal 3D printing company, said Thursday it signed an exports contract with a Russian university worth US$2.3 million. Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia will receive a customized MX Grande printing system that can produce structures with a dimension of up to 4 meters by 1 meter [...]